TITLE:
Discovering Our Full Potential: Resuscitating the Female Principle
AUTHORS:
Tina Lindhard
KEYWORDS:
Intuition, Evolution, Self, Heart, Mind, Emotion, Feeling, Female Principle, Male Principle, Rational, Full Potential, Epistemology, Meditation
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.7 No.8,
August
20,
2019
ABSTRACT: For a new evolutionary step forward, this study suggests humans
need to learn to live from the heart and not only the mind. Here I associate the
mind with the Masculine Principle and thinking which with learning, develops
into intellect. This is contrasted with intuition which I associate with the
Female Principle and the deeper heart-mind. They are different epistemological
ways of knowing which reflect different levels of consciousness of the Self
where each way of knowing has a different origin, the surface mind and the
deeper heart-mind. Each gender can tap into both ways of knowing but most
mothers have easier access to intuitive knowing, especially when obtaining
information about the wellbeing of their children and loved ones. Connecting
with the deeper Self using heart-based meditation methods, leads to insights
about the different levels of consciousness and awakens one’s intuitive
abilities. Although intuition is attracting attention in different scientific
fields, the connection between the deeper Self and intuition still needs to be
recognized and explored by modern-day science. Different reasons why intuition
linked to the female principle has been systemically depreciated for over two
thousand years is also explored including questioning the origin on which the
Western Intellectual Tradition is said to stand. To create a more caring,
creative society, I propose that we need to resuscitate the female principle
linked to intuition by reconnecting with our feeling heart-mind. Nevertheless,
I advocate that we need both ways of knowing to unfold our full potential. This
analysis has multiple implications which I address in the discussion.