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Comment on Death of a Feminist by jill

jill — Sun, 15 May 2011 23:22:39 +0000

thanks jen! and yeah, I think you’re right!

Comment on The Seven Chakras by Lalita

Lalita — Wed, 04 May 2011 22:30:17 +0000

Thanks for posting and sharing/spreading this sacred and special knowledge. Wonderful and very blissful. I love Kundalini Gayatri & Meditation and Kundalini Yoga. Have been practicing and would love to share.

Thanks

Comment on Death of a Feminist by jenn

jenn — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 07:03:04 +0000

hi jill, i found this article through your etsy website as well, and ultimately, your blog, which is fabulous.

i think the “problem”, personally, is labels themselves. we must be feminists. we must be workers. we must be consumers. we must be this. we must be that.

what i got from your article is that we, as women, humans, whatever, have gone from trying to fit into box after box. so while some may not see the inherent, or even visible differences in men and women, i personally do not see the difference in one label over another. feminist/worker/man/woman/consumer…these are all labels, words that keep us from living from a real authentic place, being who we are at the centre of our beings.

i completely agree with you jill, on a very personal level. i have a driven, intrinsic need to care for my son, grow my own food, make my own potions, and generally live by the beat of my own drum.

i don’t think blaming consumers, feminists, capitalists, or you, for that matter, really addresses the issue at hand, which seems to be living truthfully, without recourse. i do find it ironic that you feel “judged” by feminists, and those present “defending” this particular view of feminism are judging you and your thoughts, to the point of abuse, in some cases.

bravo to you for sharing your thoughts, and bravely and eloquently choosing to share your personal story in a society where there is little compassion or empathy.

i choose to look past dogma and semantics, and feel blessed in knowing there is a kindred spirit out there in cyberspace…

Comment on The Seven Chakras by Arnulfo Laniba

Arnulfo Laniba — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 07:10:00 +0000

Oh, really Adrianne? I’m just a neophyte about this. I begin interested on chakras just some 2 years now but never have enough info about them. So can you please share your knowledge or techniques about them? My email address is: cocoy777@yahoo.com May God bless you.

Comment on Living Art by mb

mb — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:35:10 +0000

Jessica,

thanx again for your knowledge, energies of research based info. it is inspiring. i am trying to complete an art show and your info/enviromental art is very helpful in my goal!

peace, Beth

Comment on The Seven Chakras by mb

mb — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:26:55 +0000

Hi Jessica,

i want to thank you for your inspiring web site! i too am an artist who is reconnecting with my inner spirit. i intend to learn more about our spiritual centers so i can also educate other more fully.

i am very interested in learning the techniques you mentioned above. please correspond at your convenience.

from Raleigh, peace, Beth

Comment on The Seven Chakras by Adrianne Bilbro

Adrianne Bilbro — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:32:09 +0000

I’ve studied chakras for years and I never pass up an opportunity to read more about them. The illustrations and descriptions are both great. I have some great techniques for enhancing the strength of these, and I’m more than happy to share if you (or anyone) is interested!

Thanks for posting this, Jessica. :)
Love and Light

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Comment on Death of a Feminist by Zora

Zora — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:04:26 +0000

I can really understand what you were thinking when you wrote the
article. I had exactly the same thoughts – when I was about 16 years
old… Fortunately I had the opportunity to learn a lot and study
biology and psychology and sociology and I had the freedom to get to
know my self, my female part and my male part and my bisexual orientation.
First of all I see, that your arguments are not really thought through,
because as Lauren has noticed, you really get contradictory at some point.
As for the differences between men and women (and the funny left-brained
argument) I have to say: Mens and Womens brains don’t look or work that
different, people were trying to find differences to explain the
different behavior, but besides a slight different in size, no other
differences could ever be proven (and there is no such thing as a
reasonable left and a creative right hemisphere… there are differences
between left and right, but most of all the brain works as a network and
complicated functions need parts everywhere in the brain)
I would never say, that there are no differences between men and women,
but I don’t know if there really is such a strong biological base for
these differences. Sure, you can argue for example: the more
testosterone – the more aggressive > but thats true also for women. And
men have more muscles and therefore can do some work better than women
(and also misuse this power to suppress women) and here are thousands
and thousands of years of history, where these small differences lead to
a complex social structure with exactly defined role models. (f.
example: men probably had to suppress their emphatic parts because they
had to kill animals for food (which is a work, that needs a lot of
muscles)… On the other hand it’s much more important for a woman to be
emphatic and to act with responsibility, because she has to raise the
children if the man disappears after you got pregnant…
(It’s really interesting to see which role models develop among animals
with different social systems of raising offspring)
One difference between men and women that seems the most obvious to me
is mental flexibility. But there are also thousands of evolutionary
important reasons that made this difference occur.
I agree with you when you say, that there are a lot of women who have
this special sense for nature and family and “gaia” – but I don’t think
that this sense is unique to women. After all i think feminism and later
emancipation also lead to the possibility and freedom for men to
discover these powers in themselves. It lead to a general melting of
radical constraints.
I know the feminists you’re talking about, the ones that make you feel
bad for doing some gardening. (Where I live we have some politic parties
which fight for the changing of the painted bicycle on the
bicycle-routes into a unisex bicycle (because now it’s a mens) well,
don’t they have more important things to think about?)
All in all, I think the things I’ve learned during the past 10 years
lead me to the following conclusion:
Yes, there are male and female traits, but most of them have a social
and not a biological base. Each and everyone of us has some male and
some female parts and we all have these traits in different proportions.
I know many women who love to work with computers, do the mathematical
stuff, never played with dolls, hate to cook but really love children.
On the other hand I know men that are really flexible, love to do
creative things like music, painting, even sewing and millinery.
And actually it’s this freedom that feminism and emancipation brought to
us: We now have the permission to find out which proportions of what we
have in us, and we can try to live our lives the way that makes us
happy. This is the same for men and women. The happiest couples I know
are these where both partners work part-time and both have a lot of time
to spend with children and hobbies and whatever. The challenge is to
find out what’s best for oneself and to manage to live a life where no
part has to be suppressed.
I don’t think that only the women were unhappy before the emancipation,
but men too had their restrictions.
I think it’s important to look at everything and everyone with a lot of
differentiation and not fight against or for the extremes. Everyone has
to learn these things for him- or herself and if we let ourselves
manipulate by extremists of any kind, then we don’t know who we are and
what we are really worth or where we want to be going with our lives.