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Hi, you all!
It seems to me perhaps not to be too late to give here my humble contribution for this interesting discussion' theme.
I see the feminine / masculine human / divine faces (my first impulse was to write firstly masculine - somehow denouncing of my predominant face - but I realized that in the very title here it is in another sequence, that today I think it's more likely to be the “right” one) I see it as, so to say, a Yin | Yang polarity process of growing in development everywhere in universe, on all levels of it.
Just like in nature (on the infinitely little and big levels), so on the three human levels of body, soul and spirit, we are less or more feminine or masculine as human diversifying chips of our individual physical/psychical/spiritual ADN identity.
Like in a diapason reverberation, by a mutational musical tuning up of body/soul/spirit along our lifetime, we women and men (like modulation creatures in process) we are infinitely multiple appearing expressions and faces of this indistinctive whole feminine | masculine human being we are all of us.
So, this is not so much a question of differences but mostly of balance and equilibrium that is the most basilar element in us.
Regarding what Sean noted about himself and his lack of feminine models in his life, with me things were a little different.
I passed, all along my maturing last years since my adolescence, through quite different line paths for the inner growing of my soul (Zen Buddhism, Sri Aurobindo 's Integral Yoga, Rudolph Steiner's Philosophy of Freedom, Portuguese colective Myths and, finally, but not as an excluding arriving point, Christian Orthodoxy through hesicast prayer greek and russian masters and elders.
The fact is that only since my going through the ancient portuguese myths - like:
a) Rei Dom Pedro and Princess Dona Inês de Castro(King Peter and Princess Agnes) and their medieval tragical love, forerunner of a few later mythical lover's couples like Romeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde, and others;
b) the portuguese Discovery Epopey, seen a myth quest of manking itself for its deepest spiritual mysteries, like our greatest national poets Camões and Pessoa so marvelously song in their chants;
c) Rei Dom Sebastião (King Sebastian), tragically desapeared in a battlefield in Ceute, in North Africa, and afterwards expected to return like a messianic herald of a glorious apocaliptic future for Portugal and the entire world, as a final sequence of the portuguese discovering quest in Renaissance times),
d) finally, the myth of Saudade, that specifically portuguese feeling, a longing for the future based in something from the past, in some ways alike to the greek nostalgia, but mythifyed in a feminine figure, as a constitutive element of every portuguese soul, feminine or masculine.
e) and a few other mythical elements that go through all along the portuguese nine hundred years old independent history as a nation;
So, recovering the line point of my thinking above, in me it was after the inner influence of such myths - the majority of them mostly marked by the feminine expressive power -, that the “goddess”, (so to say it in a more understandable way by everyone here) the feminine archetipical divine principal arose in my soul and got a progressively proeminent importance as the driving force in my inner way.
Once more I say: eache one of us is a different (but equally wonderful) tuning up of the feminine | masculine whole we are a human living expression of.
Finally, I want to thank Sarah for this so important discussion issue, assuring her of my strongest inner support for her thesis labors and difficulties.
~ Regards of peace and love ~
Lapdrey,
pilgrim of me in others,
pilgrim of the others in me
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