{"id":3093,"date":"2010-12-30T23:18:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T07:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=3093"},"modified":"2010-12-30T23:20:29","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T07:20:29","slug":"the-effect-of-the-feminine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/the-effect-of-the-feminine\/","title":{"rendered":"The effect of the feminine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI continue to learn about the effect of the feminine. \u00a0Today I was walking with friends by Bridal Falls on Bowen Island where I live and we stopped at the waterfall to reflect on the nature of flow. \u00a0This standing wave caught our attention and it immediately drew me into thoughts on the complementarity of the masculine and feminine.<\/p>\n

For a long time I have been a student of the Tao, understanding the relationship between yang and yin<\/a>. \u00a0In Taoist thought, these two conditions exist in everything and are in constant and dynamic relationship. \u00a0Yang is usually thought of as raw force, flow, life or energy, and yin is idenitfied with receptivity, structure, container. \u00a0The two are also associated with masculine and feminine but not in a gender way, more in an archetypal fashion.<\/p>\n

This video illustrates the power of having these two forces acheive some kind of balanace. \u00a0You have the strong yang of the water flowing over the strong yin of the rock and it is shaped by what it is flowing over. \u00a0We are looking at a remarkable thing here: a stable structure in which every element of its composition is changing in every minute. \u00a0This flow structure perfectly illustrates what happens when yin and yang meet in balance, when the strong masculine is shaped by the contours of the feminine. \u00a0We are seeing the effect of the feminine on the masculine, but we are looking at a structure that would not exist without a balance between the two.<\/p>\n

Think about this in terms of organizations. \u00a0We are surrounded in our social world by these kinds of flow structures, in which elements move through but the structure remains. \u00a0Traffic jams, cities, organizations, schools…Notice that the stability in these structures comes not from what is flowing though them – not the people – but by the underlying architecture that shapes people’s behaviour in those moments. \u00a0The flow of bodies and behaviours is influenced by the yin of the structure.<\/p>\n

This is one way the feminine works with power: by being the channel though which power works, influencing it’s outcome. \u00a0People who seek power with a strictly masculine perspective go for the flow itself: control of the money, people, water, oil. \u00a0People who seek to stabilize the effect of power know that the contours of the flow channels influence everything, so they run banks and financial systems, management consulting firms, hydro power projects and fossil fuel economics respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I continue to learn about the effect of the feminine. \u00a0Today I was walking with friends by Bridal Falls on Bowen Island where I live and we stopped at the waterfall to reflect on the nature of flow. \u00a0This standing wave caught our attention and it immediately drew me into thoughts on the complementarity of the masculine and feminine. For a long time I have been a student of the Tao, understanding the relationship between yang and yin. \u00a0In Taoist thought, these two conditions exist in everything and are in constant and dynamic relationship. \u00a0Yang is usually thought of as …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[18,34,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emergence","category-flow","category-organization"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-NT","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3093"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3096,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions\/3096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}