Gratitude Gardens or Corporate Food Coup D'Etat in the USA???

Jeremy all good points. I didn't say to not conflict, conflict is absolutely necessary. I perhaps, equate the fighting analogy more to direct physical confrontation---and I am adverse to that. Plus I have not noted that war ever solves anything. To the contrary, it increases the testosterone in men which exacerbates the energy imbalance between men and women. (Also, the only benefits of war that I've determined are to the bankers and those who manipulate our emotions in order to further enslave us.)

Yes absolutely we need a wh***, healthy masculine energy--but such is always by definition tempered by the feminine. In my research I have noted that the energies, metaphorically reside in different hemispheres ot the brain. As we've have generally, as a planet lived through a period of history that has elevated in importance the egoic left hemisphere, we have in effect created a world which displays an excessive yang energy. As a result, as we can see from the yin/yang symbol, energy is always in balance--so we might look for the excessive yin energy which has been counterbalancing the yang. It is also present, but not especially in women who have generally also accommodated the androcentric world. The excessive yin can be found is the 70,000 to 90,000 man-made chemicals which have evolved to inundate our world and which are threatening our sensitive endocrine systems and our fertility.

Panamericana shared the following video with me a while back which discusses the dire consequences of the extreme energies which are affecting all life on our planet: http://topdoc**entaryfilms.com/the-disappearing-male/

This highlights a major challenge which seems totally lacking from our awareness. I had been minimally aware of such, but before viewing this video, had found little about the topic except a paragraph or two. I'm now reading Our Stolen Future by Colburn, Dumanoski and Myers. This book was written in 1996, yet I'm not aware of the informations wide dissemination which must occur.

If there is a necessary fight that must occur on the planet, I think that fight takes place inside each one of us. I have struggled mightily to balance my own energies. This is extremely difficult work, and the information I shared above to Sarah's question has been learned from my own struggles to heal. Self-control, when one is outside of their comfort zone is very difficult. It is important to feel the discomfort but to learn not to react out of this discomfort. Action must only follow the wisdom which our over wrought emotions might uncover.

I have found that my conflict besides internal comes from others who seem to feel threatened by my choices to no longer accommodate the status quo. This means working to maintain my own center. This is how I internalized first hand the line from my article which you sited in my other post: "Our instincts are often inconvenient in the world as it has evolved throughout history. We’ve each developed various strategies to dull them—as any attempts to validate those impulses would place us in social and economic exclusion and jeopardy."

I have lived in both social and economic exclusion and jeopardy for the last 13 years, but I have remained true to my inner guidance. This is truly difficult as we as gregarious humans need our flock, but if we are to truly transform it seems clear to me that we can no longer continue to support the status quo. We chose to opt out of the system individually--I had no friends making the same choices--so it becomes impossible to really fight anyone, and besides that takes entirely too much energy--trying to convince anyone of anything. I learned that my time was better spent changing myself and doing what I've come to see is my life's work.

In my study of alternative medicines I once read that if we were truly intent on cleaning up our polluted world, we should begin with our own polluted bodies. We might begin by cleaning up our own rivers--our bloodstreams, which are so full of toxins, We can then dredge the sludge from our bodies (our physical representation of Earth energy), our thoughts must be cleansed (our air element). Often times, all of this occurs only by our very personal trials by fire. “Religion is for people who are frightened of going to Hell; Spiritualism is for those who have alreadybeen there.” Gary Busey

So if you're ready for a real fight, utilize the wisdom you shared about self-compassion and jump into the arena with yourself and spar away. It can lead you to your own mind-boggling, life-affirming, sustainable solutions that you may then share with the rest of us in our journeys toward wh***ness, healing and a new pristine world. Certainly the trajectory of history offers us no such sustainable solutions.

“You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her wh*** soul.” Mahatma Gandhi

We need not battle the system, only follow our own inner wisdom (which I came to understand is the quiet internal stirrings, which are impossible to connect with unless one learns to calm the internal emotional storms and listen), and don't allow other's to hinder us in our work.