From: Alexander McLin (amclin@mindspring.com)
Date: Fri Sep 17 1999 - 15:17:08 MDT
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert J. Bradbury <bradbury@www.aeiveos.com>
To: Kathryn Aegis <k_aegis@mindspring.com>
Cc: <extropians@extropy.com>
Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 7:31 AM
Subject: Re: Genderless societies [was Re: kathryn's comments]
>
>
> On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Kathryn Aegis wrote:
>
> > >Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> > >
> > >> Men should be in touch
> > >> with being a man, women should be in touch with being a woman.
> > >
> > >I want to do both somehow, while remaining hetero. spike
> > >
> >
> > Robert has an important point in saying that men and women should be 'in
> > touch' with their respective aspects, because that provides the key for
> > moving beyond what you were born with.
> >
>
> I am fond of reminding myself - "You must be willing to give up
> everything you are for what you might become".
>
> Whether we can experience the contrast of diverse characteristics
> (or postitions) simultaneously is open to question [since as other
> threads point out we may process experiences serially.] So we
> be stuck in the experience of one position, then another, then another
> ad infinitum. What is the song that goes "you don't know what
> you got till its gone..."? Maybe truer than we first think.
> Until we get *true* parallel consciousness we are stuck with
> perspective.
>
> Evolving, at 1/2 impulse power....
> R.
-when you're talking about parallel conciousness do you mean like multiple
lodes of conciousness stemming from a single, original mentality. Perhaps
the multiple conciousness will be of different personalities or sexuality or
whatever.
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