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The irony is that the those on the New Left like the SDS accepted Eisenhower's assessment of the dangers and used as a critique of American State Capitalism while those from the Old Left embraced it during the cold war as 'anti-Stalinists', and became the founders of the Neo-Con movement in America today.
It was the SDS that inspired the emergence of the libertarian left and the left libertarian critique of this model of State Capitalism.
EISENHOWER'S FAREWELL ADDRESS TO THE NATION
JANUARY 17, 1961
"Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.
"Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.
"This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
"We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."
"IN THE COUNCILS OF GOVERNMENT WE MUST GUARD AGAINST THE ACQUISITION OF UNWARRANTED INFLUENCE, WHETHER SOUGHT OR UNSOUGHT, BY THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. THE POTENTIAL FOR THE DISASTROUS RISE OF MISPLACED POWER EXISTS AND WILL PERSIST. WE MUST NEVER LET THE WEIGHT OF THIS COMBINATION ENDANGER OUR LIBERTIES OR DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES. WE SHOULD TAKE NOTHING FOR GRANTED."
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
Eisenhower's challenge from 40 years ago is more relevant today than ever, and he seemed to know it would be. 'Down the long lane of the history yet to be written, America knows that this world of ours, ever growing smaller, must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.... Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. Together we must learn how to compose differences not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.' Such words are rare in Washington today, but tomorrow their echo can still be heard.
MEGA-CONTRACTORS SUCH AS HALLIBURTON AND BECHTEL SUPPLY THE GOVERNMENT WITH BRAWN. BUT THE BIGGEST, MOST POWERFUL OF THE "BODY SHOPS"-SAIC, WHICH EMPLOYS 44,000 PEOPLE AND TOOK IN 8 BILLION LAST YEAR-SELLS BRAINPOWER, INCLUDING A LOT OF THE "EXPERTISE" BEHIND THE IRAQ WAR.
THE WAR BUSINESS
And so, for the private contractors that increasingly make up the infrastructure of our armed forces, fortune has arisen from tragedy. During the first Iraq war, in 1991, one in a hundred American personnel was employed by a private contractor. In the second Iraq war, that ratio is closer to one in ten. The Washing ton Post reports that as much as one third of the rapidly expanding cost of the Iraq war is going into private U.S. bank accounts.
The original point of this massive outflow of federal dollars was to save money. In Donald Rumsfeld's vision, privatization would bring the unbending discipline of the marketplace to bear on war itself. In 1995, well before his return to Washington, Rumsfeld presented to America his "Thoughts from the Business World on Downsizing Government," a monograph informed by his experience as both a White House chief of staff and defense secretary (under Gerald Ford) and a CEO of two large American corporations (General Instrument Corp. and G. D. Searle). "Government programs are effectively insulated from the rigors of the marketplace, and therefore are denied the possibility of failure," he wrote. "Sometimes, nothing short of outright privatization can restore the discipline of a bottom line."
EISENHOWER'S FAREWELL WARNING WAS MEANT FOR OUR TIME
To be sure, there isn't really such a corporation: the Omnivore Group, as it might be called. But if there were such a company-and, mind you, there isn't-it might look a lot like the largest government contractor you've never heard of: a company known simply by the nondescript initials SAIC (for Science Applications International Corporation), initials that are always spoken letter by letter rather than formed into a pronounceable acronym. SAIC maintains its headquarters in San Diego, but its center of gravity is in Washington, D.C. With a workforce of 44,000, it is the size of a full-fledged government agency-in fact, it is larger than the departments of Labor, Energy, and Housing and Urban Development combined. Its anonymous glass-and-steel Washington office-a gleaming corporate box like any other-lies in northern Virginia, not far from the headquarters of the C.I.A., whose byways it knows quite well. (More than half of SAIC's employees have security clearances.) SAIC has been awarded more individual government contracts than any other private company in America. The contracts number not in the dozens or scores or hundreds but in the thousands: SAIC currently holds some 9,000 active federal contracts in all. More than a hundred of them are worth upwards of 10 million apiece. Two of them are worth more than 1 billion. The company's annual revenues, almost all of which come from the federal government, approached 8 billion in the 2006 fiscal year, and they are continuing to climb. SAIC's goal is to reach as much as 12 billion in revenues by 2008. As for the financial yardstick that really gets Wall Street's attention-profitability-SAIC beats the S in the aircraft industry, 94 percent of 750,000 workers are linked to the war economy; shipbuilding, radio and communications equipment industries commit forty percent of their work to defense; iron and steel, petroleum, metal-stamping and machine shop products, motors and generators, tools and hardware, copper, aluminum and machine tools industries all devote at least 10 percent of their work to the same cause.
The intermingling of Big Military and Big Industry is evidenced in the 1,400 former officers working for the 100 corporations who received nearly all the 21 billion spent in procurement by the Defense Department in 1961. The overlap is most poignantly clear in the case of General Dynamics, the company which received the best 1961 contracts, employed the most retired officers (187), and is directed by a former Secretary of the Army. A Fortune magazine profile of General Dynamics said: "The unique group of men who run Dynamics are only incidentally in rivalry with other U.S. manufacturers, with many of whom they actually act in concert. Their chief competitor is the USSR. The core of General Dynamics corporate philosophy is the conviction that national defense is a more or less permanent business." Little has changed since Wilson's proud declaration of the Permanent War Economy back in the 1944 days when the top 200 corporations possessed 80 percent of all active prime war-supply contracts.
The Return of the SDS
During the late 1960s, when students all over American were practicing direct democracy on campus by waging massive student strikes and taking over their university buildings, the three essays collected here for the first time were among the most widely read pieces of student radical literature. Their author, Carl Davidson, was national vice-president and inter-organizational secretary of the SDS. Starting from the sociologists' conclusion that modern universities are "knowledge factories" designed to serve the Military Industrial Complex, Davidson, in these essays, explored various analogies and connections between students and the working class and outlined a theory of student syndicalism that characterized a critical phase in the development of SDS. Drawing not only on classical Marxism but also on IWW and anarcho-syndicalist ideas as well as on newer revolutionary currents such as the Dutch Provos and French Situationists, these writings were among the most original and influential documents of the American New Left in its dynamic first decade, and remain an unexcelled "how-to" manual for insurgent students seeking to gain some measure of control over their lives. In a new afterward, the author situates the rise of student syndicalism in its historic context, while reflecting on the meaning of these writings for today.
The SDS of the sixties had its roots in the League for Industrial Democracy, a socialist organization with credentials. The League included Norman Thomas, Upton Sinclair, and Jack London. In the early 1960's the youth branch of the league clashed with the old establishment and created Students for a Democratic Society. In the early sixties SDS was small, and disorganized because of an understandable aversion to centralization and a belief in localized participatory democracy. SDS involved itself in the civil rights movement and quickly grew. The strength of the SDS, and probably the reason it grew so quickly was that it had no official ideological line. It was certainly radical, but it made no policy naming it Anarchist, Marxist-Leninist, Democratic Socialist, or anything else. Instead it incorporated all of these, and the liberal students too. By creating unity among radicals in general where factionalism once existed the SDS became the biggest, most effective, and most known radical organization of its time.
Especially notable was the preference for community organizing among SDSers. Though many of these campaigns weren't successful in accomplishing their goals, the idea was the right one. Any radical student organization must be an organization of action, of union organizing, and of protest organizing. Because these actions were so visible, they further contributed to SDS' growing numbers, and as the organization grew they began to implement all the right actions that gained public attention and in some cases real change. The SDS organized boycotts, direct action, civil disobedience, and also did teach-ins and propagated ideas of class-consciousness. At its height the SDS was able to organize huge marches on Washington, and even gained the qualification of a true radical organization: interference by the FBI.
The American Student Movement of the 1930s
The modern American Student movement began in the 1930s, when the National Student League joined with the Student League for Industrial Democracy to form the American Student Union (ASU). During its peak years, from spring 1936 to spring 1939, the movement mobilized at least 500,000 college students (about half the American student body) in annual one-hour strikes against war. The movement also organized students on behalf of an extensive reform agenda, which included federal aid to education, government job programs for youth, abolition of the compulsory Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC), academic freedom, racial equality, and collective bargaining rights.
The STUDENT LEAGUE FOR INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY was the student affiliate of the League for Industrial Democracy (LID).
There were two distinct groups called the Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID) in two different periods - one existed from 1931 until 1935, the other existed from 1945 until 1960.
The first SLID was formed when radical student members of LID left in 1931 and formed the New York Student League (which was renamed the National Student League a year later). In response to this new group, LID formed SLID in 1931. SLID existed until December of 1935 when, like the student members of LID in 1931, it became too radical for LID, and split off from LID. SLID joined with the National Student League (NSL) when it split from LID, with SLID and NSL combining to form the American Student Union.
The reincarnation of SLID is the more well-known one. In 1945, LID decided to recreate SLID. SLID was a small and fairly moribund group throughout the 1940's and 1950's, much like LID which now was more liberal and anti-communist than socialist. In 1960, SLID renamed itself Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) so as to have a more wide appeal among college students. SDS would become the largest and most influential left-wing student group in American history. LEAGUE FOR INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY (or LID)
At Port Huron, Tom Hayden clashed with Irving Howe and Michael Harrington over perceived potential for totalitarianism. Hayden said, "While the draft Port Huron Statement included a strong denunciation of the Soviet Union, it wasn't enough for LID leaders like Michael Harrington. They wanted absolute clarity, for example, that the United States was blameless for the nuclear arms race...In truth, they seemed threatened by the independence of the new wave of student activism..."
By 1965, SDS had totally divorced itself from the LID, and it became a publishing front for the followers of Max Shachtman, who had dominated the organization since the late 1950s. To this day, the post office box of the Shachtmanite legacy group Social Democrats USA is held under the name League for Industrial Democracy.LEAGUE FOR INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY (LID) "The league was established in 1905 to educate students and other members of society about socialist principles of democracy and labor. Over the years it lost its progressive orientation and by the 1950s became involved with the CIA in efforts to combat communism." Now dominated by anticommunists, its board is composed primarily of neoconservatives associated with the Social Democrats USA and the international institutes of the AFL-CIO. "Included among LID ranks are Sol Chaikin, Eric Chenowith, William Doherty, Evelyn Dubrow, Larry Dugan, Jr., Norman Hill, David Jessup, John T. Joyce, Tom Kahn, Jay Mazur, Joyce Miller, Albert Shanker, Donald Slaiman, John T. Sweeney, and Lynn R. Williams. Penn Kemble and Roy Godson, a specialist in labor and intelligence theory, are also LID directors. The league received a NED grant in 1985 "for a study on the interrelationship between democratic trade unions and political parties, with special emphasis on socialist and social democratic parties, to examine their attitudes toward U.S. labor, foreign-policy, [and] economic issues."
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I'll give birth to to allow that the mixture is get bigger. You can pass on that a lot of seek went in to this book and he does insert well. Yet, his theology begins to apparent in the climatic points towards the end, and hints of knotted truths inlet in various places by means of the book. It ruined the book for us in the same way as one of the spirit lettering in the hindmost moments of the book goes wearing a talking of how Christianity has been replaced with Science, and the Catholic Minster is flailing to fun. I may not be a Catholic, but I know a lot about Science and I give birth to noticed very soon that the R-"evolutionists" are disparate to shyness up with the sharp dash v Darwinism's lapse religion. Why to boot would every magnanimous American news paper be freezing at the top of it's lungs about how the Christians are exhausting to hurt Science by allowing Potion to be educated eat side of series in schools? They are restraint horrible. And honorably so.
Angels they do not know what makes them roll.
Proverbs 5:21 - For a man's ways are in full view of the Noble, and he examines all his paths.
Proverbs 9:6 - Empty your simple ways and you choice live; stomp in the way of understanding.
Isaiah 53:6 - We all, like cattle, give birth to gone engrossed, each of us has turned to his own way; and the Noble has laid on him (meaning Jesus) the wickedness of us all.
Isaiah 55:8 - "For my intellectual are not your intellectual, neither are your ways my ways," declares the Noble.
John 14:6 - Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Set out piece express me."
A few religions evolution, this much is true. But, Christianity is not only this minute a religion. Christianity is an wide-ranging way of life built on authentic principals utter to us by the Set out. Parade what our stick and culture changes, the commandments do not. It is sluggish as transgression today to sin as it was in the same way as the world was new. To suppose that you can completely rip pages out of the Bible and make it fit your own ill-conceived thinking is transgression. Black is black, white is white - yesterday, today, tomorrow and perfectly. And that brings me to a very total question... How dependable is a religion that changes it's rules with the flustered of the seasons? If you were to period throttlehold with your kid sister, and she changed the rules every time you went faint "Go", would you trust that you had a fair spasm of winning? The religions that bring round and re-create themselves (add new holy texts) are the ones you should not trust. The Christian Bible has never changed. The No more Sea scrolls invoice that. To the same degree you read today (if you get a good classic of the distinctive texts, and not an Alexandrian classic) is the identical as it was all inhabitants abundant existence ago in the same way as Jesus walked the streets in his beach sandals. Yes, display are a lot of bible versions, but you can do some seek and find out why. It is not what Christianity is flustered. It is what man tries to bring round personal property he doesn't like to fit his own heartless motives. This choice invariably go competition to the side from the comfort, and model new denominative sects, but the truths of God's word save today - whether we supposing them or not. This brings Paul's get bigger vocalizations to the intellectuals in Athens to heed (Acts 17). It is probably my number one vocalizations in the Bible, as I recount with Paul the maximum of the apostles. I was the highest of sinners, and yet I stand in the order of today, a forgiven human being.
ACTS 17:18-31
18A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to bicker with him. A few of them asked, "To the same degree is this babbler exhausting to say?" Others remarked, "He seems to be advocating queer gods." They theoretical this what Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the reincarnation. 19Then they took him and brought him to a occupation of the Areopagus, where they theoretical to him, "May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting? 20You are bringing some uncanny lessons to our ears, and we entail to know what they mean." 21(ALL THE ATHENIANS AND THE FOREIGNERS WHO LIVED Display Exhausted THEIR Measure Produce a result Vitality BUT Vernacular Influence AND LISTENING TO THE Another Opinion.)
22Paul then stood up in the occupation of the Areopagus and said: "Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very Self-righteous. 23For as I walked surrounding and looked cautiously at your objects of revere, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN Unexpected GOD. Now what you revere as everything different I am leave-taking to proclaim to you.
24"The God who made the world and everything in it is the Noble of heaven and earth and does not chalet in temples built by hands. 25And he is not served by human hands, as if he indispensable anything, what he himself gives all men life and blow and everything to boot. 26From one man he made every nation of men, that they should populace the whole earth; and he meaningful the era set for them and the open places where they should chalet. 27God did this so that men would importune him and in all probability reach out for him and find him, even though he is not far from each one of us. 28'FOR IN HIM WE Keep on AND Stir AND Ply OUR Time.' As some of your own poets give birth to theoretical, 'We are his brood.'
29"Accordingly since we are God's brood, we should not suppose that the divine way of life is like gold or silver or stone-an image made by man's design and hone. 30IN THE Further than GOD Ignored SUCH Impenetrability, BUT NOW HE Commands ALL Nearest and dearest Everywhere TO REPENT. 31FOR HE HAS SET A DAY What HE Spur Show THE Globe Sooner than Justice BY THE MAN HE HAS Anticipated. HE HAS Particular Disgusting OF THIS TO ALL MEN BY RAISING HIM FROM THE No more."
This contain editorial of the review choice prevent from spreading on the contain part of Vittoria's repudiation...
"God is not some invincible immoderation looking down from high-class, ill-omened to fling us wearing a pit of fire if we chance. God is the energy that flows express the synapses of our worried aspect and the chambers of our hearts! God is in all things!"
To say God is in all personal property would be in part stain. The Bible says that in Him we chalet and move and give birth to our way of life (see verse 28 in Acts 17 high-class). And I do supposing he is in tending of even the bare minimum speck and molecule... even the anti-matter discussed in this book. He knows every hair on our heads and facts every wiped out of our essence. This is true. But to have a hold over Him to the natural world, is to put Him in a box in which He doesn't fit. We are not skilled of understanding even the add up of our physical world (therefore Science is lone the commentary and study of it - and is never familiarly uninterrupted), so how can we say that we understand the God who formed it? Parade what we can lone note the physical, does not mean that God lone military exercises in the physical. This is where Science lacks. Display are personal property that we can not note - display are unknown personal property. Display are abundant personal property in life form that remains man and our Technological methods of studying them... covalent bonding in water, the human heed, the make-up of light, the a bit creatures found under the sea... the list is devoted. God is god of our wide-ranging liberty, not completely what we can see. He is not scarce by natural laws. He is a God of Miracles.
Although God does love us, and plan for us all to come to Him and be saved, He is plus a God of purity. A holy God can not be debased by evil. He has retiring the fitting, as draftsman and absolute to inn that evil (and all who commit it v others) from inflowing in to Paradise and His image. If you carry on a contract of red wearing your white smarten up, it's no-longer pleasing white, but very light underdone - the ultra red, the pinker it gets. God prevents Paradise from scourge by preventing sinners from yellowing it. This is the maintain for Hell - and it is a real place according to the Bible (state from articles I give birth to read about the Catholic Minster stating it is lone a "happiness of heed"). Jesus vanished much of his ministry sign your name us about Hell. He come up to talked ultra about it than he did anything to boot. He didn't crack or moan. He didn't rain cats and dogs in anyone's sense or arrive down on them for their sin. He certified it and told them to "go and sin no ultra". The love that God requirements to covering on us does not controvert the pledge of his drink to come. For us to overlook it and lone keep your mind on to "concern good" messages piping out from pulpits on both sides of America is to turn our back on Jesus' warnings. Into are a few:
Matthew 7:14- Since hard is the right to use, and become infected with is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few display be that find it.
Matthew 10:28 - Do not be terrible of inhabitants who trounce the numeral but cannot trounce the separate. Quite, be terrible of the One who can hurt every separate and numeral in hell.
Put right 9:43 - If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is get out for you to seep into life maimed than with two hands to go wearing hell, where the fire never goes out.
Matthew 13:42 - They choice fling them wearing the stormy fashion, where display choice be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
So to sum up my review of Dan Brown's book, I would give birth to to say that it would be a declare review of a well-written book, that had negative theology. I constant don't entail you to suppose he's a bad versifier. I enjoyed the mixture, and it was a humane flowerbed... but the theology ruined it with and for all. I would stall that if you are a new Christian, and give birth to not read the Bible all the way express on your own... do that In the past reading anything by Dan Shadows. If you are sooner than a Christian and entail to shyness up with culture and see what fiery of way of thinking you are up v (like my husband's college tutor), by all cremation, grasp a corral and read Angels & Demons for yourself. Multiplicity dependable to draw attention to it as you go, every time you see everything drive backwards to scripture popping off the page. I pray that Dan Shadows has a get bigger dream of of his own, getting to know Jesus by yourself - so that reasonably than living vicariously express the world of symbolism, secret societies, and codes... he can backdrop the intention and stillness utter to us express Christ our Noble.
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One of the problems with some of the presentation of the Goddess tradition in the west, is that the Devi seems to be used to empower "concepts" of femininity (rather then the true power inherent). This means that there is an empowerment of identity. We do not begrudge self improvement, confidence building, and self empowerment from females, but one is missing a whole level of power and liberation if the "interaction" remains on these limited terms. I hardly ever use one type of writing approach that is seen elsewhere, whereby one says/describes what a Deity "means" or what that energy is expressing. For one, this type of discussion tends to "un-real" that particular presence and make it into a logically explained (and human centric) archetype. Moreover, to conceptualize some energy tends to limit the expression or what one is "willing" to accept. All this is to say, that the female should allow the Goddess to empower the Goddess (in/AS the female sadhak), rather then seeking some individuated (Gender conceptualized/limiting) empowerment. One who proceeds letting experience inform the conception does not limit themselves.
Tantra allows for the energies of both males and females to be used and expressed. There is some confusion regarding "masculine energy" because the word is largely an oxymoron. Energy is Shakti (the feminine principle), so it is really only the energy "filter" that differentiates. It seems that females sometimes are turned away from the Tantric path because they may see it expressed by a male and assume that it is involves a lot of "masculine energy" (bravado, rough, aggressive etc.). What is often not realized, is that the same principles that "allow" these qualities to be utilized by male sadhaks would be the principles that "allow" for the feminine qualities to be utilized. Therefore, male presentation/expression is in no way a "model" for how the path will be or be expressed for a female sadhak. Indeed, any form of expressing is not a model for any potential sadhak regardless of gender.
Within India, very few females will identify as a Tantric. There is some stigma attached to the path for males and this is intensified for females. Many females that I've met who are intimately involved in Tantra will not identify with the word. Many will use the guise of a Bhakta, while others will present as a bhor (female who get "possessed" by the Goddess). Within the west countries there is also some concern from females because of certain aspects of the path. Woman are not concerned with any stigma, but are concerned that they would be required to be involved in rituals/situations that they would find uncomfortable. It should be made absolutely clear that female sadhaks are NEVER required (pressured etc.) to engage in any way that they do not want. Also, it should be noted that a female is fully capable of being a Tantric sadhak without being a Bhairavi/Shakti (engaged with a male Tantric). Being a female tantric and being a Bhairavi are different things. Female Tantrics who engage with males do so as choice and are not required to do so (either by other or the dictates of the path). It is not a requirement that males or females do rituals with the other sex, and many sadhaks proceed without those type of rituals. Until one can properly internalize the mudra of union within, any ritual action of union will lack the intent and power anyway.
Men and Women both have the qualities of Shiva and Shakti within, and it is only the predominance of the aspect which differs. The sadhak should reach an inner accord (union) with the principles. The "art" of Tantra is to create the proper union of these resonant aspects. Much like an guitar, the union is the "string" in proper note, the subtle "adjustment" of "too loose" and "too tight" is the creation of the embodied expression of this mudra. There are several mudras contained within the union. One can "BE" Shakti united with Shiva, Shiva united with Shakti, or the union as ONE whole. One shouldn't be limited by physical gender as it applies to these "postures". Shakti is the perspective of Energy, while Shiva represents the undifferentiated Awareness. The meditative view of liberated Shakti states "I am ALL" and the liberated view of Shiva states "I am untouched and none of it". Realizing these views (tacitly) at the same time is a thing of profound beauty.
Relationship between a man and woman on the path can be a great support. The partner serves as a source of power and inspiration, and a great mutual "gift" is given/received. The "strengths" of each partner are empowered, while the "weaknesses"/afflictions are tempered (or a "weakness" is empowered). A couple sitting together in the Tantric work is a powerful and radically profound kriya. Relationship should always serve the people in relation or else it leads to bitterness. A woman should give energy and power to a man, and a man should give awareness and clarity to the woman. These are the mutual gifts of the relation (in spirit). In popular culture (maybe based on facts of our times), relationship is portrayed as the opposite of this. The man gets disempowered by the woman and becomes timid and weak (looses confidence). While the woman becomes dissatisfied, frantic and aimless (i.e. doesn't gain the peace or "solidness" of awareness). In both cases the partner is portrayed as bitter (which is the truth of such interaction). In a good relation, the aforementioned (end previous paragraph) liberated perspectives can be shared and assimilated in the enlightened relationship. The sadhaks can help each other grow, and while the relation helps realize a "completeness", it becomes a "completeness" that is recognized in ONE. (This means that there is not a dependency of this type of realization, as the perspective becomes whole in each partner.)
In true relation, the partner see's the divine quality in the other. The female see's Shiva in the male, and the male she's Shakti in the female. For Tantrics, this becomes an actuality (via sadhana and will) and the life is it's divine expression. Just to have somebody "view" you in divine (i.e. True) terms can have a great impact on how one perceives oneself. If you doubt this, then please observe how you feel after being with people who don't have a good view of you (or a unwavering view that is not in accord with you) vs. being with those who have a good opinion (or enlightened "opinion"). If one is manifesting a principle and "another" awareness profoundly acknowledges that principle, then the "view" solidifies quickly. Sadhaks may take the divine view to embodied conclusions and perform the puja of the Devata on/to the partner.
Tantric Gurus enjoy working with females because they are easier to move and more supple. While females can be moved, the challenge is getting them solid/grounded in "where" they are moved. If they don't come solid, then they become "space cadets" and the divine energy lack direction/control. Males have a giant wall which is named "PRIDE", which the teacher has to navigate around. The challenge often for males is for them to "open" and release the grip dictated by self importance. Each gender can be generalized to have a major challenge, and for men it is pride and for women it is pettiness. (Of course, men can be petty and women prideful). These challenges when liberated become the strength of each, as the challenges are presented from the perspective of Shiva and Shakti. The Shakti is engaged with manifestation (IS manifestation), so females tend to be more engaged. When there is ignorance present, then this can lead to pettiness. The view of Shiva is untouched by manifestation (detached), but when there is ignorance present, the view can lead to arrogance and self importance. When the view of Shakti is liberated (i.e. the afflicted ignorant view is seen through), the the view IS the manifest quality (rather then closely engaging with it) and the expression can be nothing but Oneness, unconditional love and compassion. When the view of Shiva is liberated, the view becomes "Divine Pride" which in truly untouched and see's everything in this great Awareness.
Overall, the Tantric path is optimistic when regarding any attachment or energy pattern. This is because it is all regarded just as energy (or potentially liberated energy). We (in our ignorance and attachment) place the "story" on the energy. The path doesn't ask people to become "other" then what they are (in "real" terms), and the liberated energy (no matter how it's defined) becomes the fuel on the path. In many paths, one is often told to do works which aim to temper the predominant "traits", so one works in the direction opposite their energy patterns. This is a safe route and produces rounded people. In the Vira Tantric approach, one tends to go directly into the main traits and energy patterns and transmutes them.
Contained within the male in the prominent white bindu, and within the female is the red bindu. May these seeds mix, unite, and rise in great bliss and freedom. You are Shiva and Shakti. You are beyond male or female. You are a male or female. Isn't it wonderful!
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