<Strange,>
Yes...as it usually is with anything beyond the circumspect of ordinary human experience. My own personal history, and what I know of the histories of people I have worked with or have otherwise become acquainted with, suggests that our belief systems often have a function that inhibits our imagination, precluding pure experience.
In this sense, the illusion is achieved that our personal identities are safe. We come to believe that we are our belief system, and so when that belief system, says, for example, there is male and female, or just like me and not like me, then any remarkable variance in another human being just might be too dissonant...too threatening to the illusion of safety. This variance, especially when encountered from within the framework of a rigid religious belief system, cannot be tolerated if the illusion of this safety of identity is to be upheld.
This is intolerance. Trouble is, not only is intolerance wrong from a moral and ethical perspective because it can be extremely harmful to others, it can kill the soul of the person harboring it, sometimes even the body of that person.
The only real safety is no safety. Only love provides what our egos seek in the rigidity and the illusion, and for there to be love there must be the freedom that only imagination can lead us to.
Yes...strange indeed. I have heard more than one transsexual person remark about the power to disrupt they seem to have simply because they themselves have chosen to lead a life of integrity based on their awareness of their true gender.
Best,
Charliss
PS...I have often thought that Jesus may have been transgendered. He was born male, physically, and yet what he demonstrated in the particulars of his life is so very feminine in its beauty and in its strength and responsiveness. |
