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• Only feeling brings a sense of value and worth
• People who have a finely differentiated feeling function bring grace and good feeling with them
• Eskimos have 30 words for snow because it is dire to their survival so they need exact information about the element they live intimately with
  • But we have only one word for love – our intimate connection to love is lacking, breeding loneliness
• Feminine wound referral: Here All Dwell Free by Gertrude Nelson
• Only myth or art can hold a matter as profound as feeling

The Fisher King

• Described as being too ill to live but unable to die – parallel with the lifelessness of current day human nature
• “Spirit can attain its divine heights only with the power of nature to provide the strength for its fulfillment”
• You can only move forward with your spiritual journey once you’ve accepted that opposites are constantly close to each other — balance
  • Cultural man kills his natural man and nature responds by making the cultural man impotent
• Stepping into consciousness, or experiencing god too much or too soon causes suffering in the masculine – why?
  • Guilt of self-consciousness?
  • One cannot go backward, only forward to heal the fisher king wound
• The masculine wound is a wound of the very capacity for feeling and cannot be cured on any other level
• As the myth suggests, the suffering fisher king within oneself offers the first directive for his own cure – be still and know
  • The instructions are: continue down the road you are going, turn left (turn toward the unconscious/fantasy/imagination), cross the bridge between outer consciousness and inner imagination, and that will lead to the place of healing
  • The Grail King, thinly disguised as the description of God, is just as near as the castle has been. In other words, God is just as close to the answer/healing/inner knowing

The Handless Maiden

• To heal the feminine wound, a woman must  go alone into the forest
• Feminine wounds are almost always cured by being still
• “When a woman is aware of her problem, the healing comes spontaneously and from the depths of her nature. Solitude is the feminine equivalent of masculine heroic action
• “Woman’s heroic way is based on an entirely different view of reality. When the feminine is faces with a conflict, it is her nature to search out the opposing forces that have collided and put an end to the illusory battle between them. A man wants to ensure the triumph of good over evil; a woman wants to diminish the opposition between the two. He fights; she reconciles. More accurately, these are the masculine and feminine ways whether they are found in a man or in a woman.”
• The handless maiden listens to her innermost wisdom, goes to the woods and is quiet
  • Immediate relief since it is less lonely to be alone than in false relationships
  • The native power of inner femininity is found in the forest alone
• “It is often the fate of a woman who is to be the consort of a king to have great difficulty in lesser relationships.”
  • One’s life may go badly on a personal level so that one is driven to a deeper level where the very best may occur
• Periods of nothingness can frighten anyone, but it can be the accumulation or storing of healing energy
• Feminine healing may be more than one thing but more than anything, it is a “marvel of interior evolution and the faith of a woman capable of following her own feminine way.”