The Masculine & Feminine: Approaching The Mystery
A new Voicecraft Series welcomes Adriana Forte and Guy Sengstock for its first episode.
To the mystery,
This conversation welcomes women’s mysteries teacher Adriana Forte and creator of Circling, Guy Sengstock, for a dialogue in response to themes of masculinity and femininity, as they relate to each other in the context of profound interaction about what matters.
The topic of the Feminine has been discussed in several sessions in different formats in the Voicecraft Network. In fact, Adriana played a leading role in bringing them to fruition.
This episode is the first in a public series that will feature many voices, though it’s preceded by years of effort made on the private facing side of the Voicecraft project to engage and understand these themes, and seeks to support that ongoing effort to engage broader participation in the coming to consciousness of respect for these energies, as embodied in ourselves and others.
These are really deep and difficult waters to navigate and name. It’s the kind of topic for conversation, and ultimately, living dynamic, which is never complete and endlessly attracting, repelling, clear and confusing.
Partly because each of us is comprised of a nature and set of tendencies that include both elements of feminine and masculine, yin and yang, which themselves twist, turn, and change over the course of our development, and take form in varied and concretely different physiological attributes and biological imperatives. While the psychological aspect, depending on one’s appreciation for this or that theory of the psyche — from Freud through Jung to name but two progenitors in the West—carry sometimes entirely different background assumptions about the nature of what is.
What are the connections between sexuality and spirituality? The human as animal…the human as reflective participant in orders of intelligibility that transcend and include animal… the human as evolved, participant expressions of organismic process unfolding over aeons that cosmically and comically outstrip our pop-cultural memes.
Maybe you don’t like this language and its connotations — preferring something a little more conceptually precise.
Well, good luck.
Across language sets and symbolic orders, from metaphysics and mythology; sociology, biology, politics, activism and culture war, history coloured with technological and environmental adaptation, laced in the concrete real of the struggle to exist, alongside eras of suppression and rigidity… and through to our moment now, not only are these concepts perennially featured, but chances are you’ll meet a man or a woman, and I heard sometimes they don’t communicate so good.
And if you think how we treat ourselves and each other is kind of important, then maybe the deep currents we’re already swimming in are worth taking time to understand—or at least relate to with a little more appreciation.
Find the show notes @ https://voicecraft.io/masculine-feminine-series-approaching-the-mystery/
For more on Adriana you can subscribe to her Substack here. (And find more in the show notes.)
And an additional reminder that Voicecraft’s Transformative Philosophy course is drawing near. If you are thinking of participating, it would be wonderful and very helpful to have you in the course space as soon as possible so you can familiarise yourself with the network and its affordances. I’ll also be able to factor your timezone much earlier in the organisation process.
If you missed the video introducing the course, here it is:
Discernment on the Way,
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