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    <title>Gaia: Transpersonal Dating - Lets talk about Gender... - Introduction</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:48:13 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Gaia: Transpersonal Dating - Lets talk about Gender... - Introduction</description>
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      <title>Re: Introduction</title>
      <author>http://MuzArte.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>firemusic</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:48:13 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;      loved it your way of &amp;quot;sensing&amp;quot; and explaining the contact... need of both different in social, culture, education, paterns of behaviour but close touching fluid&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; ?????????? questioning objects situations steps. i think i understand but do i? is it a quest? i should read more but with the little i read i might be able to do something in a favorable direction. to love with no reason personal anyway??action movement it&amp;#39;s me too............................................................................................................................................................... &lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>Re: Introduction</title>
      <author>http://WHITEWAVE.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>Whitewave</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2006:Gaia-53759</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Sep 2006 18:39:06 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://groups.gaia.com/transpersonal_dating/conversations/view/53657#53759</link>
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&lt;p&gt;      I bow in the general direction of Kenneth the Brave!&amp;nbsp; WOOT!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Right on, man!&amp;nbsp; You&amp;#39;re my first!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, yeah.&amp;nbsp; A working solution, indeed!&amp;nbsp; I wonder if that separation thing is really the &amp;quot;mental projection of the digital [personal] self&amp;quot;.&amp;nbsp; Splitting off into roles and modes.&amp;nbsp; I wonder if there is a way to mesh all that higher up.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the relationship I&amp;#39;m sortof in now, I really enjoy helping him with his work and he loves it when I&amp;#39;m there.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;#39;m the only person he allows to organize his tools in his automotive shop because I do it better than even he would, and he&amp;#39;s pretty anal about that.&amp;nbsp; That&amp;#39;s a source of fun for both of us.&amp;nbsp; I would love it if he helped me with my work, but that hasn&amp;#39;t really manifested.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I find something happening to him that I suspect is quite common.&amp;nbsp; He splits himself in half.&amp;nbsp; He wants to do only work with one part of himself, and save the other part of himself for me.&amp;nbsp; Expanding the portion that does work doesn&amp;#39;t really unite the two.&amp;nbsp; It only leaves me sitting on the shelf.&amp;nbsp; And when the work has really captured his imagination for survival (i.e. it isn&amp;#39;t bringing in enough money and the bills are piling up...), he goes into that mode where he&amp;#39;s always putting out fires.&amp;nbsp; He always needs my practical help, but is never available for more conscious relating.&amp;nbsp; There must be a better way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;m coming to the conclusion that where we put our consciousness is crucial here.&amp;nbsp; He seems to split his, to the point of disassociation.&amp;nbsp; While one is on, the other is off.&amp;nbsp; I have mine expanded to run two operating systems at once.&amp;nbsp; Neither one of those options gets the whole job done very well.&amp;nbsp; This is nutty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wonder if when our relationships begin, there is so little personal level time logged on the sheet, that we just don&amp;#39;t feel the weight of it so it &lt;em&gt;seems&lt;/em&gt; transpersonal - or maybe more specifically, impersonal.&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;They&amp;#39;re just a neat man/woman who is doing life with a sense of adventure and seems to want to give their love to me and receive my love.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; It&amp;#39;s so uncomplicated.&amp;nbsp; But I suspect that that&amp;#39;s really just pre-personal.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe the way to tell the difference would be when all the personal time starts getting laid down, does it make a big difference?&amp;nbsp; When the transference breaks because personal time disqualified them as a hook for my good projections (Shadow Work), how to we progress past that?&amp;nbsp; Does it cause big ripples or small ones?&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think that however many people are in this love/sex relationship is the number of consciousnesses that are available to see us.&amp;nbsp; The stuff that is hidden from ourselves is totally exposed - just like using a double mirror to see what your butt looks like in those pants.&amp;nbsp; And the more consciousness we can allow and invite into our space to see all that junk we&amp;#39;re hiding, the more ready we will be for the transpersonal leap.&amp;nbsp; Pre-personal gets irritated when our hidden stuff is seen and named, so it remains hidden and consciousness is reduced.&amp;nbsp; Where there is no consciousness, there is no love.&amp;nbsp; The personal mistakes ignorance of the hidden for love.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This makes sense to me.&amp;nbsp; But I am really thinking with my keyboard here...&amp;nbsp; I don&amp;#39;t have answers.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;#39;m just trying stuff on to see if it fits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does my butt look big in these pants?&amp;nbsp; &amp;lt;--[joke]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~Ww&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>Introduction</title>
      <author>#</author>
      <dc:creator>Kenneth</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2006:Gaia-53657</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Sep 2006 14:16:59 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://groups.gaia.com/transpersonal_dating/conversations/view/53657</link>
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&lt;p&gt;      Hi!

I like the new pod you are creating! Thank you, I bow in your general direction. 

It my take is right, it's about some of the basic ways people define themselves in the world: sexual relationships, and how they transform or translate into the some of the higher reaches of the transpersonal realms. Heady stuff!

How to handle the sex/love part of ourselves in a healthy way goes right to the root of co-creating social reality for ourselves and our lovers... which of course ripples outwards.

I admit I have not yet experienced a working solution for the cosmic love levels, though I have splashed around a bit. 

I've been in two long term monogamous relationships, the current one (of ten years) works very well for both of us. It began on what I think of as one of the lower  transpersonal levels. I believe it could return there, (and move into higher levels of the cosmic love you refer to in your posts) if I could spare the focus and energy from my current money/working situation.

For me the entire being-in-the-world needs to be working... all the ducks have to be in a row, and include a measure of financial independence. The more my buzz is involved in making my bread the happier I am on all fronts. In the past this has entailed self employment, business partnership, or living off an 'outside' source of income.

Blessings and good wishes,
Kenneth &lt;/p&gt;

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