It is impossible to communicate the anguish of impossibility, even though—or because—it is the central axis of what we quaintly, if unaquaintedly, refer to as reality. Coming to understand the nature of impossibility is the essence of education. This is no doubt why Freud said that education is one of the three impossible professions.
Recently in the Ken Wilber meetup group we talked about Jung and Ken Wilber
There are two paths to enlightenment, either transcend it all by saying, I am "not this, not this." - the "male" way. The "female" way is to embody all.
Ken Wilber calls this Freedom vs. Fullness.
At integral (see Don Beck and Ken Wilber), perhaps we do both.
I believe the expansion of psychology has opened the human mind to pharmacological dialogue as well as philosophical. Increasingly, we begin to apply the same types of Darwinian classification found in biology to the ever-deepening multiverse of the human mind.
I have a feeling that when I'm older and reflecting on my experience as a young man, there will be a vital point in the story when I exclaim, "And then I found The Feminine Mystique!" It's bewildering to consider that the work -- which launched the modern feminist movement almost 20 years before I was born -- could relate in any significant way to my own life.
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
