Spiritual Gender

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What is "gender" (in terms of spirit) anyways?

When I am in jhana and dwelling in consciousness (instead of the mind or body), my consciousness does not perceive of itself as having an innate, immutable gender. In fact, it has "characteristics" of both "gender poles", being both receptive and expansive, absorbing and giving, quiet and expressive, etc.

in classical taoism (which is the root of metaphysical taoism) the visible is the manifestation of the invisible, just as the visible universe, tai-ji, is a manifestation of the invisible cosmic mother, wu-ji. (tao te ching ch. 1.) from that paradigm, the visible person is also a reflection of some aspect of the inner person. hence, the invisible inner self must have a coding for the visible sexual form and also for gender behavior. duality is inherent in all things. (tao te ching ch. 42.) in practice, in any relationship, a person's behavior may be yang and then spontaneously turn to yin and vice versa, but the individual has a structural blueprint for the sexual form that is independent of behavior and changes slowly in a predetermined manner over time.

 

[Erebus]

after we let go of this life.....do we continue in gender as we are now?
are you expecting to meet others having some lean one gender or the other?

or is it all neutral in mind and heart....the body having perished?

I can see at least two ways of viewing this.

The first would be that the soul is a distinct entity unto itself that currently happens to inhabit a body. If this is the case then I don't really see why the soul would have a gender. For that matter, I don't imagine it would have much in common with our physical bodies at all, since so much of who we are is determined by our brain.

The second way of viewing it would be that the soul is essentially our ideal self. Looked at like this, our souls could be male, female, hermaphrodite, androgynous or prone to switching between two or more of those options. It all depends on precisely what your ideal self is.

 

[Midnight Rain]

after we let go of this life.....do we continue in gender as we are now?
are you expecting to meet others having some lean one gender or the other?

or is it all neutral in mind and heart....the body having perished?

In my beliefs the soul is a malleable piece. When we are born the soul can have one gender, both genders or neither. When we die and become reincarnated we could come back as a different gender.

 

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Aesthestics Apologetics

There's a nice contouring experience found in the realm of gender-themed pulp fiction and mainstream fashion trending.

Maybe the way we visualize the feminine is fundamentally changing in our new age of wired wish-fulfillment.