Ones sense of self? Yes basically, but where do we get that sense of self from?

Our subconscious? Ideally, but that’s tainted with a lot of twisted overlay. Ideas take natural feelings and do things like make us feel ashamed of having a feeling that just comes naturally from our being.

Social values and upbringing will sometimes cause feelings of wrongness, conflict? Conditioning can be a big damaging force, but can heal too if you own it.

Ok, some biology facts. We all, and I do mean all, start out the same gender. Can anyone guess what that is?

• Both male and female? Spiritually we are both male and female, yes. Biologically we start female.
• Female. Just like in Second Life, we are ‘Ruthed’. So Second Life had to follow suit and voila Ruth. Yes, it is even the basic avatar form.

Then hormones are applied as a part of the natural gender selection process, but nature doesn’t select things like we do. Thank goodness it does not, because honestly, what would we make of ourselves? There is an old Arab curse; May your every wish be immediately fulfilled.

The best part is that men tend to (during their midlife crisis) show their soft sensitive feminine side. They do, and it was always there. What’s wrong is that it takes intense psychological stress to make it integrate in any way.

Makes me love them more. You can indeed love someone for their foibles, we do all have them. This is just a fact. But another fact is that nature doesn’t make clear gender distinctions. Medicine just goes with what your functional traits are, but in human development masculine and feminine traits are pretty routinely mixed, even biologically.

If a male were to be without female traits, his flesh would be so unpliable his heart wouldn’t work. He would just be a dry husk of inert tissues or if alive maybe tree like, but generally he couldn’t survive. Likewise, if nature made a woman one hundred percent female, she would basically have zero metabolism, would survive off baby fat till that was gone, and would have no immune system. Nature tends to like things to be whole. It’s only human thinking that makes a big fuss about how things are balanced. There is even a species of frog that can change gender in its lifetime, and a species of lizard that has no male structure but hermaphroditic function, and one lizard plays the role of male for another.

Would that then imply that intersexed or hermaphrodite is a more perfect balance? No. It wouldn’t imply they are more perfect actually, because for material reality to be stable there have to be cycles. For there to be cycles, there has to be some degree of polarization, but polarization doesn’t require prejudice. That’s just a human view.

Philosophically, yes. Well, it’s more than philosophical. It is a basis in physics. Without cycles you get energy breaking down into a homogenous mass. No potential for any diversification and no propagation of energy, just universal heat death.

As it applies physically, I can assure you there are plenty of cycles that occur within the hermaphrodite including psychological swings between the male and female. Those psychological swings are vital to a whole mind, but what do we do to a soft man or an aggressive woman?

Lock them up and throw the key away. Call them both by a word that originally was just a reference to female canines, and yes, ostracise them. But the common view and thinking about identity, in this case gender identity, is the most fringe we can get short of suicidal psychopathic states.

Societal pressures do affect too. Societal pressures do have an impact, and to a degree that herd pressure is actually a good thing, or at least in humans it could be. Regrettably it isn’t, but we have two levels of awareness and we have these without trying. We have a sense of our own health, and we have a sense of the health of the herd. Yes, humans have it too, and if it weren’t for human prejudices it would just be a force for support of the herd, moving us toward acceptance or at least survival positive transcendence.

An example of this: Someone is on their death bed. Our natural instinct just tells us our family group is decreasing and that there might be more of a problem, but nothing more than that. If we accept this family/herd instinct, we attend to the situation without judgement, without insisting there is more than we know, or less, and we can have very appropriate responses. How does this natural healing instinct get twisted?

It is an insecurity of sorts. Fear? Yes, but only because like our opposable thumbs we often have no clue what to do with our minds.

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
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This often can get twisted into hostility toward the other genders, regrettably, but case in point. Jesus is often shown with large eyes, delicate cheek bones and fine skin. I really can’t think of any exceptions, even long hair. The Buddha is likewise shown with delicate facial features, large eyes, and in some images a hairstyle that would denote length. Even the derogatory “long haired hippy” is a reference to a spiritual person.

Buddhist deities generally have a male and female aspect? Hindu deities, but they were not rejected by Buddhism. Buddhism doesn’t really have a deity of any kind of its own.

I’ve heard that it’s not likely the case given his genetic heritage. Given his heritage Buddha would likely have had a very swarthy build, and Jesus. And neither of them fair skinned. In Native American spirituality they recognized this in people rather than icons. Some men gave off the feminine vibe so powerfully the tribe would just accept that is what they were. Not only that, but they often would have even more of an emphasis put on healing skills than the “normal” woman.

How did we get so polarized? Patriarchal bigotry? Species prejudice though our nervous systems can mirror animals too and for a biological reason? Ultimately ego.

Yes, it’s all tied up in the power structures we’ve made. Which tie us up and will tear us down.

Let’s ground this in real life experience now. Can each of you think of the best male doctor you had? Care to describe their physical appearance?

• Feminine like, slender.
• Short, thin, dark curly hair, glasses.

Typical ectomorphic males. Skinny, with some exceptions of course. Let’s take a TV doctor. Can everyone envision House? He wouldn’t be mistaken for female, but he has an under pronounced brow, high delicate cheekbones and a narrow face with large eyes, does he not?

And not good by your bedside. Yes, little apparent empathy. This is the supposed biggest factor of my autism, lack of empathy, but that’s not the topic.

We instinctively recognize people by phenotype, general body image. But rather than trusting our instincts which tell us everyone has a place, they just serve as triggers to all manner of psychologically toxic and twisted dramatization of egos and other human prejudices. Nature betrays no one. Humanity does that well enough all by themselves while the rest of life goes about its business.

We archetype people falsely by how they look? The look isn’t completely false, but we generally have our perceptions too twisted to read the truth in the look.

We keep a too narrow view of it? We like to simplify? The biology is not nearly as limited as our thinking, and the actualized factors much more diverse than one simple idea.

When society became a “system” it narrowed things down. They lose the Tao, the actual virtue of anything as it is. We see the resulting toxicity, no? We don’t need “demons”, we make them all on our own, and they are far more twisted than the old forces of nature that people demonized. Your biggest demon isn’t lurking in the shadows. It’s your idea of who your neighbour is, or your idea of who you are. This is big enough an issue, I would say.

In the majority of cases today, do you think people are pushed to gender change procedures because of this intolerance in society? Could they be better served just accepting how they are, if society let them? Perhaps they would experience an easing of stress with hormone therapy, but they don’t gain from the gross physical changes. Their sensitivity if they are physically altered is not an actual replication of the new gender. It just leaves them with a neurological and psychological scar for no reason.

In many ways, the change subtracts more than it adds. Many regret it afterward. It tends to work better if done earlier in life. Cosmetic surgery, even if not gender change, often fails though they get exactly what they say they want.

Taking a knife to the body is a psychologically scaring rejection for most cosmetic purposes? Another case of be careful what you wish for.

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

Travis Saunders
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Think of which gender you find yourself working the most easily with, understanding easier in communication, and share if you choose.

Male. You are cognitively male.
Female. You are cognitively female.
What if you have problems with both, or it depends on the person? You can be neuter, or trans.

Cognitive gender neuters tend to have a complication when it comes to empathy. They have a neural “itch” when dealing with just about anyone, and this relates to animals as well. Cognitively, transgender individuals are either going through a psychological shift or are actually cognitively hermaphroditic. Generally the latter are high empathy and generally are very comfortable with any life form.

They don’t identify with anyone well, so they have a hard time with all to an extent? Yes, if your mirror nervous system can’t translate another, it can be a test of patience to just try simple reasoning.

When in mixed company, I always fall into conversation with men far easier. This of course has nothing to do with sexual preference, but it will shape your habits to some degree. You would be gratified most if you can allow that identification a full body role.

These types aren’t behavioural rules. If I’m not wasting your time, you will just notice feelings and inclinations that may have affected you some. It‘s a very abstract topic, funny perhaps. People take it very literally and there is no basis in fact for such a purist view.

Too literally. It is easy to distort. I counsel transgendered individuals and I see a pattern in the “purist view” so many adopt. They are struggling with a brainwashing that all people are subject to. It’s a virulent and toxic meme.

And it leads them into intense and confusing feelings they often misconstrue as sexual in nature. Yes. They feel they have to dramatize everything. It’s what most of us are taught. “It isn’t real if you won’t act it out“, or so common thinking goes and you supposedly have no choice. You have choice.

In the context of your individual biological facts, self affirmation is what I strongly recommend.

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I know this topic well because of my own genetic abnormalities. I will share my facts and how they manifest psychologically. The gene responsible for controlling cell reproduction is glitched in me, so it affected this whole developmental process since conception. My neurons and my hormonal levels and hormone sensitivities differ from the average male. I am less sensitive to many hormones and only normally sensitive to others, so the “male aggression” doesn’t show in me.

What does this mean for my sense of gender identity? Well, another aspect is necessary to explain. I have a nervous system that imitates other peoples behaviours too much. They used to think this system didn’t do anything, but now they realize that it allows for identification of behaviour in other people. If someone, say, frowns … this nervous system creates a phantom frown in you so you can recognize the meaning of frowning.

Mirror nervous system. Mine does this too much so I mirror both genders to the same degree. In the company of women, I act feminine. In the company of men, I act masculine.

It’s like how someone’s laughter can trigger yours? That’s exactly how that’s possible, but as for gender identification, I identify with neither gender. I have no sense of myself as masculine or feminine. See how this stems from my biological data? In fact, I have no sense even of species identification, but that is not today’s topic.

Lower sensitivity to the hormonal factor and higher sensitivity to others states, so yes.

Ok, the biological gender differentiation process, like cell division itself is not perfect. It’s not uniform or mechanical. In fact, no one is purely one gender biologically nor in their neural development. There is a behaviour that manifests in all mammalian species where some males react to male pheromone in a “female” way. It is pacifying, soothing, and makes them seek emotional bonds. This does not mean they develop a sexual preference for males, but in biology they call this type the “gamma” male. It is actually very natural, but our society twists things around so a gamma male develops unnecessary psychological complications.

Gender development is so variable that they only look for functional development of one genders traits to classify this persons gender biologically. All other factors carry so much gender it is more like handedness than any reflection of your essence. A right handed person still has a left hand, and some people are very close to the middle. Women with high incidence of “male” traits, and males with high incidence of “female” traits. How many of you know at least one man who you could mistake for female on the phone?

Some women have such a low alto register it could be tenor, and some men so high a tenor it could be soprano. Young boys are very often literally sopranos, as are some men. Their voices are considered quite beautiful and they make a lot of money off of them. So even if we started selective treatment to “purify” ones developmental gender traits, we could not produce a pure male or pure female. It would actually be unhealthy if they engineered such a creature. A pure males tissues would lack so much flexibility that their heart just couldn’t work, and a pure female would have little resistance to injury as well as insufficient ability to generate body heat.

Now could someone be one gender and have a brain more like the opposite gender? The answer is yes. You could be a male and have an extensively lateral cerebral nerve architecture, and demonstrate many characteristics people judge as feminine. You can be a female and have a brain with reduced lateral connection and demonstrate the right brain / left brain style of cognitive switching.

Is there a case where there is a toxic conflict between the body traits and the other gender traits that’s it’s not healthy, or is the conflict more society induced? That is a good question and the answer is: It’s a mix. People often have to deal with psychological stresses that are toxic to their general health. In some cases there does seem to be a conflict between portions of the endocrine system, the brain toned one way and the body toned another. This would create an internal sense of frustration as your body wants and feels what your brain rejects.

I will add a third element here. I have noticed that there seems to be a third factor that pushes for coherency in awareness and that is unexplained by any biological process. I call this push for internal connection and synergy the “mind” as opposed to the brain. Your brain is in your head, mind behaviour is all throughout your body including your brain.

The mind seems to try to balance everything going on inside of you, keep it functional. The brain is just a synthesizing sense organ and what it senses it relays to the endocrine system. So if you hear a loud noise near by, you experience an adrenaline release. That’s really all the brain does. It’s an important organic computer, but it isn’t your mind.

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

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You likely have a sense of order though you don’t like human rules, and can sense when this order is off. When it seems something is making the world “unhappy”, and this connection is very important to you. It doesn’t really have anything to do with your personal “thinking”. It is more of a sense.

When you aren’t distracted do you get a feeling like the natural world loves you? Yes, I think so.

Ok, I mean no offence, but I conclude you are light oriented. I was not describing my own workings. Do you feel like this light oriented idea is something you could work with?

Yes, though I need to find a starting point. Actually your concern for the world, so basically this is the starting point. Realizing this is true about yourself and intentionally tuning in.

There is something you could do, but maybe didn’t know you could. You have a green thumb, yes? Good with plants? Notice you feel something whenever you interact with them?

I feel their energy for sure. Ok, it’s not just their energy. It’s a mix of theirs and yours, and it meshes really well, no?

I do talk to them. And feel an acknowledgment from them? Yes, though I am still learning about how to best care for them. Naturally, you are human and they plant, but this is my point. You sense signals from the world. You can feel and create that energy you have with the plants, and heal / take care of the place you sense the signal from. Make it stronger so the harm will be less.

If I put it this way, I feel cold in a space with no plants or grass or anything. Yes, and disoriented no? You can get confused?

But if you stick a pot of pansies on the ground I feel much more grounded myself. You read the light coming off those things. It guides or can guide you. Do you feel the truth of my words and see the use in these suggestions? Would want to claim this way as your own?

They are things I have had swimming around in my head for a long time. I think it already is my own. Perhaps I confirm a truth of yours then. Identifying it, you just have to choose to use it.

Soft light. Never harsh or forceful. This is light. Darkness mirrors it and operates the other side of creation.

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