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		<title>By: Lu Martinez</title>
		<link>http://www.bodyandsoulreconnection.com/the-decline-of-womens-happiness-part-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-1163</link>
		<dc:creator>Lu Martinez</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Virginia - I hear you, thank you for taking the time to be so eloquent.  There are many reasons why the &quot;disappointments&quot; have occurred for women.  The old &quot;thought-forms&quot; under the masculine energy have prevailed for many centuries.  However, I want to share that I truly believe the shift from the old fear, control, greed, aggressive based &quot;thought-forms&quot; have begun their transformation.  I have come across many males and females with higher &quot;thought-forms&quot; and it both excites me and gives me much hope.

You shared - &quot;We shall have the world we want. It won’t be controlled by a illegitimate global government or a wealthy power elite. It will no longer be shaped by consensus building toward a collectivist hive. It will be founded on the freedom and wisdom of every individual, every couple, family, community, county, state and nation….in that order. Only in that way, can each of us, male or female transform into the wise and ethical beings that we know we can be.&quot;

I agree that transformation starts at the individual level and integrates into all other types of forms (couple, family, community...etc.).  The higher vibrational frequencies that we have and will be experiencing for some years will help in accelerating our &quot;individual&quot; transformations...within the next couple of decades I truly believe we will look back and say &quot;boy we never thought these changes would come along in my life time.&quot;

I have come across a great site called Sounds True which has audios (and transcripts) of wonderful interviews with people who I believe have made many transformations in their lives and will continue to do so as long as they allow it.  Link is www.soundstrue.com/podcast/?cat=9#bottom. 

I quote the following interview with Rick Jarow, PhD, alternative career counselor, an associate professor of religion at Vassar College, and author of Creating the Work You Love: Courage, Commitment, and Career; In Search of the Sacred; Alchemy of Abundance; and more. 

Rick Jarow: Another reason why people aren&#039;t getting what they want is because they don&#039;t know what they want. Most of the things that people say that they want are reactions to cultural propaganda. How many of us have really done the work and dug deep into ourselves and talked to our contemporaries, our families, and our friends and really come out with, what do we want? Because what I want has to be in relationship to you. In LA and everyplace else, one of the first things people learn in manifestation is to manifest parking spaces. But what if someone else needed that parking space more than you? What if someone really needed that space? So without some kind of ethical underpinning, without some kind of community connection, without some kind of we the I manifesting what I want is almost satanic. Sorry, but . . . I&#039;m getting dramatic. [laughs].

Tami Simon: It&#039;s okay, keep going, man, keep going.

Rick Jarow: My working definition of the devil is the private pursuit of happiness because it&#039;s going to lead to amazing misery. You&#039;ll be King Midas, you&#039;ll have everything you want. Everything will manifest in front of you like Tom Cruise in Vanilla Sky and there&#039;s no other. It&#039;s the ultimate loneliness. It&#039;s the ultimate opposite of being one with everything and everyone...

Peace, freedom, kindness, patience, and generosity are what I&#039;m looking for and it&#039;s interesting, I used to see it as my freedom is the absence of anxiety. Like I don&#039;t need money, I don&#039;t want money, I don&#039;t not want money. I want to be free with money. I don&#039;t want to be anxious about money. That would be my freedom—not how much I have. Likewise with a relationship. Likewise with my house or my car. And so one barometer for me is the absence of anxiety, but the other one is the ongoing feeling of the manifestation of kindness. Because kindness to me is the overflow. It means that I&#039;m full and to me the fullness is being the witness of the divine grace happening at every moment. Being the ongoing present witness of the unfolding of miraculous reality, and that I can be there whether you&#039;re in your penthouse in New York City or whether you&#039;re dying of cancer in the hospital. That I want to be there with you with an open heart. That&#039;s what I&#039;m going for. So the process for me is every day to be really conscious of what triggers me and what closes my heart. To understand that, to breathe through that and to understand that I can let it go because walking around this world with a closed heart didn&#039;t do me any good.

There are many more males and females that I believe are leaving the old way of being and thinking and wanting to create NEW communities, politics, medicine...etc.  

Wishing you well in your continued transformation.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Virginia &#8211; I hear you, thank you for taking the time to be so eloquent.  There are many reasons why the &#8220;disappointments&#8221; have occurred for women.  The old &#8220;thought-forms&#8221; under the masculine energy have prevailed for many centuries.  However, I want to share that I truly believe the shift from the old fear, control, greed, aggressive based &#8220;thought-forms&#8221; have begun their transformation.  I have come across many males and females with higher &#8220;thought-forms&#8221; and it both excites me and gives me much hope.</p>
<p>You shared &#8211; &#8220;We shall have the world we want. It won’t be controlled by a illegitimate global government or a wealthy power elite. It will no longer be shaped by consensus building toward a collectivist hive. It will be founded on the freedom and wisdom of every individual, every couple, family, community, county, state and nation….in that order. Only in that way, can each of us, male or female transform into the wise and ethical beings that we know we can be.&#8221;</p>
<p>I agree that transformation starts at the individual level and integrates into all other types of forms (couple, family, community&#8230;etc.).  The higher vibrational frequencies that we have and will be experiencing for some years will help in accelerating our &#8220;individual&#8221; transformations&#8230;within the next couple of decades I truly believe we will look back and say &#8220;boy we never thought these changes would come along in my life time.&#8221;</p>
<p>I have come across a great site called Sounds True which has audios (and transcripts) of wonderful interviews with people who I believe have made many transformations in their lives and will continue to do so as long as they allow it.  Link is <a href="http://www.soundstrue.com/podcast/?cat=9#bottom" rel="nofollow">http://www.soundstrue.com/podcast/?cat=9#bottom</a>. </p>
<p>I quote the following interview with Rick Jarow, PhD, alternative career counselor, an associate professor of religion at Vassar College, and author of Creating the Work You Love: Courage, Commitment, and Career; In Search of the Sacred; Alchemy of Abundance; and more. </p>
<p>Rick Jarow: Another reason why people aren&#8217;t getting what they want is because they don&#8217;t know what they want. Most of the things that people say that they want are reactions to cultural propaganda. How many of us have really done the work and dug deep into ourselves and talked to our contemporaries, our families, and our friends and really come out with, what do we want? Because what I want has to be in relationship to you. In LA and everyplace else, one of the first things people learn in manifestation is to manifest parking spaces. But what if someone else needed that parking space more than you? What if someone really needed that space? So without some kind of ethical underpinning, without some kind of community connection, without some kind of we the I manifesting what I want is almost satanic. Sorry, but . . . I&#8217;m getting dramatic. [laughs].</p>
<p>Tami Simon: It&#8217;s okay, keep going, man, keep going.</p>
<p>Rick Jarow: My working definition of the devil is the private pursuit of happiness because it&#8217;s going to lead to amazing misery. You&#8217;ll be King Midas, you&#8217;ll have everything you want. Everything will manifest in front of you like Tom Cruise in Vanilla Sky and there&#8217;s no other. It&#8217;s the ultimate loneliness. It&#8217;s the ultimate opposite of being one with everything and everyone&#8230;</p>
<p>Peace, freedom, kindness, patience, and generosity are what I&#8217;m looking for and it&#8217;s interesting, I used to see it as my freedom is the absence of anxiety. Like I don&#8217;t need money, I don&#8217;t want money, I don&#8217;t not want money. I want to be free with money. I don&#8217;t want to be anxious about money. That would be my freedom—not how much I have. Likewise with a relationship. Likewise with my house or my car. And so one barometer for me is the absence of anxiety, but the other one is the ongoing feeling of the manifestation of kindness. Because kindness to me is the overflow. It means that I&#8217;m full and to me the fullness is being the witness of the divine grace happening at every moment. Being the ongoing present witness of the unfolding of miraculous reality, and that I can be there whether you&#8217;re in your penthouse in New York City or whether you&#8217;re dying of cancer in the hospital. That I want to be there with you with an open heart. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m going for. So the process for me is every day to be really conscious of what triggers me and what closes my heart. To understand that, to breathe through that and to understand that I can let it go because walking around this world with a closed heart didn&#8217;t do me any good.</p>
<p>There are many more males and females that I believe are leaving the old way of being and thinking and wanting to create NEW communities, politics, medicine&#8230;etc.  </p>
<p>Wishing you well in your continued transformation.</p>
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		<title>By: Virginia</title>
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		<dc:creator>Virginia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am not surprised that a man would not understand the unhappiness levels of women. Nor am I surprised that the very premise of the question is framed from an unabashedly statistical rather than more holistic or dare I say, female point of view. Your question is a backlash against women, implying that we would be happier minding our own business and staying at home. It says &quot;I told you so&quot;, in no uncertain terms.

In the seventies, our view of the future was naively optimistic. We felt we would finally be recognized as individuals of intelligence and be valued for our logic and leadership capabilities. Our mates would share equally in raising our children and not find younger replacements for us as we grew older (something not mentioned in your statistics).  And we would be respected, whether our work was outside of the home, or in the home. We would not sell out to the ideology of the corporate structure, but would change the system to respect the individual and have a healthier planet to boot.

Women in politics would demand the end of wars as a tool of male domination and power. The blood of our brothers would not be shed by deceptions wrapped in a flag. Women who chose religious lives would become Ministers and Priests instead of more subservient sisters or nuns. And we were going to break away from the ever cheerful, amenable facades we wore which were necessary for keeping the peace in our male dominated households.

Despite the limited progress women have made in an entrenched male power structure, it has not brought about the egalitarian, ethical, life affirming change that we know is still necessary. The women who have succeeded in power have too often done so by playing by the established old boy rules instead of rewriting them. Now we are living with the consequences of our concessions to corruption and male power.

Making our way through the mine field of male culture has not meant that we have gained influence as much as we have traded it in for another version of societal conditioning. Male dominated group think transitioned into sociologically sophisticated, &quot;it takes a village&quot; group think where children were taught their values by state education, not by their overburdened parents. But we did not bear our children to have them taught values in school that contradict our own.

Nor, in our wildest dreams for a scientifically advanced, healthy world, did we bear our children to be crippled by toxins in vaccines that we were told would safeguard their health. We did not bear our children to have their bodies, and ours contaminated by the chemicals and pollutants in our air, our water, our food and everything that affects our daily lives. Our planet has been ravaged by the very progress that we were told would save the world, and by the very profiteers who now own the environmental movement and it&#039;s political muscle. And you wonder why we are unhappy?

We did not raise our children have no economic future except as soldiers whose job it would be to use civilians as guinea pigs for sound control weapons or depleted uranium or massive chemical exposure. Weapons which in turn would contaminate our soldiers as well. Nor did we raise them to lose their humanity for the creation of an effective killing force for corporate profit. Our soldiers are broken and may never meet the potentials they were born with. And no land contaminated by this kind of war will be productive for growing food, for raising healthy families or making peace.
 
We watch as countless wars and false flag engagements rob us of our wealth and of our sons and daughters and their future. And we are angry for our daughters who are raped in military service at a rate which exceeds one in three. Instead of serving as they had intended to establish peace (albeit ill defined), they are the victims again, of the entrenchment of male violence.
 
We have been betrayed and now see the truth of it. We played a part in letting our society descend into this quagmire and you want to know why we are sad.

We are not happy because our gains have come in what is still a male dominated world. We do not have equality. We are not happy because we witnessed the depth of corruption, in our (too soon to be global) culture, which is the antithesis of the ethics we require. We are sad that our daughters and sons are another generation of pawns on a chessboard. Our political system has fallen to a point almost unrecognizable as that of a free people and we are ashamed of the evil that our country has done in our name.

We are saddened but wiser and our anger will transform into loving determination. We shall have the world we want. It won&#039;t be controlled by a illegitimate global government or a wealthy power elite. It will no longer be shaped by consensus building toward a collectivist hive. It will be founded on the freedom and wisdom of every individual, every couple, family, community, county, state and nation....in that order. Only in that way, can each of us, male or female transform into the wise and ethical beings that we know we can be.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am not surprised that a man would not understand the unhappiness levels of women. Nor am I surprised that the very premise of the question is framed from an unabashedly statistical rather than more holistic or dare I say, female point of view. Your question is a backlash against women, implying that we would be happier minding our own business and staying at home. It says &#8220;I told you so&#8221;, in no uncertain terms.</p>
<p>In the seventies, our view of the future was naively optimistic. We felt we would finally be recognized as individuals of intelligence and be valued for our logic and leadership capabilities. Our mates would share equally in raising our children and not find younger replacements for us as we grew older (something not mentioned in your statistics).  And we would be respected, whether our work was outside of the home, or in the home. We would not sell out to the ideology of the corporate structure, but would change the system to respect the individual and have a healthier planet to boot.</p>
<p>Women in politics would demand the end of wars as a tool of male domination and power. The blood of our brothers would not be shed by deceptions wrapped in a flag. Women who chose religious lives would become Ministers and Priests instead of more subservient sisters or nuns. And we were going to break away from the ever cheerful, amenable facades we wore which were necessary for keeping the peace in our male dominated households.</p>
<p>Despite the limited progress women have made in an entrenched male power structure, it has not brought about the egalitarian, ethical, life affirming change that we know is still necessary. The women who have succeeded in power have too often done so by playing by the established old boy rules instead of rewriting them. Now we are living with the consequences of our concessions to corruption and male power.</p>
<p>Making our way through the mine field of male culture has not meant that we have gained influence as much as we have traded it in for another version of societal conditioning. Male dominated group think transitioned into sociologically sophisticated, &#8220;it takes a village&#8221; group think where children were taught their values by state education, not by their overburdened parents. But we did not bear our children to have them taught values in school that contradict our own.</p>
<p>Nor, in our wildest dreams for a scientifically advanced, healthy world, did we bear our children to be crippled by toxins in vaccines that we were told would safeguard their health. We did not bear our children to have their bodies, and ours contaminated by the chemicals and pollutants in our air, our water, our food and everything that affects our daily lives. Our planet has been ravaged by the very progress that we were told would save the world, and by the very profiteers who now own the environmental movement and it&#8217;s political muscle. And you wonder why we are unhappy?</p>
<p>We did not raise our children have no economic future except as soldiers whose job it would be to use civilians as guinea pigs for sound control weapons or depleted uranium or massive chemical exposure. Weapons which in turn would contaminate our soldiers as well. Nor did we raise them to lose their humanity for the creation of an effective killing force for corporate profit. Our soldiers are broken and may never meet the potentials they were born with. And no land contaminated by this kind of war will be productive for growing food, for raising healthy families or making peace.</p>
<p>We watch as countless wars and false flag engagements rob us of our wealth and of our sons and daughters and their future. And we are angry for our daughters who are raped in military service at a rate which exceeds one in three. Instead of serving as they had intended to establish peace (albeit ill defined), they are the victims again, of the entrenchment of male violence.</p>
<p>We have been betrayed and now see the truth of it. We played a part in letting our society descend into this quagmire and you want to know why we are sad.</p>
<p>We are not happy because our gains have come in what is still a male dominated world. We do not have equality. We are not happy because we witnessed the depth of corruption, in our (too soon to be global) culture, which is the antithesis of the ethics we require. We are sad that our daughters and sons are another generation of pawns on a chessboard. Our political system has fallen to a point almost unrecognizable as that of a free people and we are ashamed of the evil that our country has done in our name.</p>
<p>We are saddened but wiser and our anger will transform into loving determination. We shall have the world we want. It won&#8217;t be controlled by a illegitimate global government or a wealthy power elite. It will no longer be shaped by consensus building toward a collectivist hive. It will be founded on the freedom and wisdom of every individual, every couple, family, community, county, state and nation&#8230;.in that order. Only in that way, can each of us, male or female transform into the wise and ethical beings that we know we can be.</p>
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