Part 1: Woman—The Inconvenient Path & Practice

We begin with the feminine mind, the one that women are born into: there is no self,
all is interconnected.

Masculine traditions, born of those born into masculine bodies must first dissolve the self. This is not the case for women. Or, if it is, it is rapid as any notion of self is not deeply rooted or fixed.

1. This stage is marked by a cognitive dissonance, a dawning that things aren’t what they appear to be.
2. There is a discomfort that can be neither named nor amended. She glimpses the state of things, that she has lived in an extra-ordinary state of dependency on external forces to define her, to validate her, to affirm her.
3. As she faces breaking a state addiction to feeling invisible, impotent, and dependent, she may “double down” on her powerlessness.
4. The pain of the exposure of her tendencies may cause her to withdraw, usually into sickness, mental illness, depression, or romance. Or she will return to prior methods with greater conviction.
5. Usually extreme efforts to become a masculine metric of good have been employed with diminishing returns. No matter how hard one tries, they are disillusioned.
6. From this, unexpressed energies form into a notion of  “self.” Because this self is made up only of congestion, the seed is pain—a sense of insufficiency, a sense of victimhood, and the belief that since the core of self is “victim,” the solution must therefore be found outside oneself.
7. The results have offered enough temporary relief to keep her in the wheel of greater effort, more submission to masculine forms be they spiritual or intellectual with an increasing underlying dissatisfaction and exhaustion.
8. She finds her way here not due to failure of effort or character, but due to extraordinary attempts to make fit what is not hers to wear.
9. She makes the most difficult admission a woman can make: What exists within me is what is being sought for, first by me then by the world.
10. She steps foot on new ground: her deep and inherent value.
11. Until she has the flash that “I am that,” seeing the exalted qualities of masculine traditions already within, she does not progress.
12. It is vital to allow her to find the key, to not teach her, save her, or tell her. You will not only prevent her from finding it, but she will no longer trust that you know who she really is.
13. We know that the key has been found when an inner renunciation of withdrawal arises.