In every moment, we accept new conditions of that moment and our own condition alters in the face of this acceptance.

With every new idea we accept, we alter the context of other ideas we hold and thus alter the very fiber of our minds.

We feel every step we take along this road as both a little death and a greater opening to life. Whenever something is “held” it fills the space we need for life support, while at the same time it preserves some process that we were using to function. Perhaps one of the biggest paradoxes in life is that in order to LIVE we must be willing to sacrifice function. To have the liberty to embrace full expression, we must give up older landmarks, or definitions of our path, and sometimes whole paths all together.

The path to liberation is a path of little deaths that create the space in us to allow true fullfillment.

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
~science,mysticism,spirituality~

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The majority of plants are actually hermaphroditic though some are dual gender, and earth worms are hermaphrodites. Where is our wisdom greater than natures regarding gender? Hunting/gathering behaviour… Both genders do it in almost all species, and in a way they all do actually do it, just modified to suit the needs of the species. Bees can’t have their drones go wandering off and getting eaten, they don’t breed that many of them anyway.

The reproduction process is quite natural in nature kingdoms below human. Basically, animals eat and reproduce. I’m not making any judgements to humans who are conscious. Just commenting on nature and its basic drive. Is there any special mark that says our biology isn’t biology? Is there some way our bio-chemistry works differently than any other life forms? If so, how can we eat anything?

We are conscious. The current stance of animal behaviourists is that animals are conscious also. This is chemistry?

It’s different from animals. Our chemistry is different from animals? Not since last I read.

Our consciousness is different from animals. Ok. Something metaphysical makes us different, but is this metaphysical something disconnected from nature because humans are a special domain?

We can ask what is natural to humans. It’s different than what is natural to animals. Yes, but that’s a half truth. We are a special creature. The dominant species on the planet. The utmost apex predator even though we can survive as herbivores, and we have a range of communication that is unique in spanning ecosystems. We have the ability in theory, if not in actuality, to understand any other species, and yet how well do we understand those of our own kind?

Isn’t there something wrong when a man who does not seek what “real men” seek is attacked? How does that serve the species common good? Isn’t there something wrong when a woman who has the strength and initiative to guide the people is sidelined because she isn’t a “real woman”? Are these traits I described, the circumspect man and the driven woman, unnatural? I’m perhaps unnatural, but nature seems to accept mutation also, seems to like it, so in that sense natural.

The word natural is not good. Human evolution is different to me. Humans evolved in a closed system? Nothing guides or guided it?

It is the evolution of consciousness, not animal form. And humans are conscious of nothing but self? I cannot take cognizance of a dog, and in my thinking on the dogs way my own way cannot be changed?

Depends if we think humans only as intelligent animals or more. Perhaps more should be thought of animals? Our ancestors certainly did, the Egyptians, all the Shamanic cultures, perhaps even the elements too, or why would our body composed of those very elements be capable of consciousness?

Animals are guided in their evolution differently. I think we are “souls” and we take one gender and change so we have experiences of both genders. Why does anything exist if not for having a soul? What makes the rock endure? If it’s just mindless energy, then why and how can it keep any form? If there was no mind before man, how did mans mind ever come to be?

Gorillas can ask for the company of a female when taught to sign, but if you talk to them about being better than that female they will give you an empty stare. Chimpanzees can be taught to use the sign for boy and girl and use it appropriately, but they do not understand phrases for gender prejudice and react to any gender the same socially.

They can even express favour of one handler over another, but their favour of the one over the other is behaviour based. Often because one handler will play a game they like or is more generous with a favoured treat. Chimps have even been proven to have better short term memories than us. We are morally superior to these chimps?

I think our conclusion is the same, but our process of achieving it is different. That I would agree with, but our path lies on the surface of this planet. We walk on this earth. We can learn from it and what it can tell us about our bodies, including gender identity, or trust our thinking to figure it out.

Morality should not be based on animal behaviour. What should morality be based on? If not on life and the way life works, then what? Reason? Many dark acts were done fully under the auspices of well developed rationalization. Does nature work on subjectivity? Does it seem to honour any special cases? Or do humans just wish it would?

Moral rules are always based on society. And society is not composed of living things? If we argue the moral correctness of situational ethics and widely varying subjective behavioural guidelines, where will that get us?

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

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Every time someone does something “crazy”, we get a little glimpse of what we really are. When someone does something destructive, we are reminded, at least briefly, how much like a tiger in a cage human ideas make us, including ideas of gender identity. And honestly, the range of biological characteristics and psychological traits is so great I have to ask: What is man and why are the separate from woman? What is woman and why are they different than man in our minds?

The species wants to go on so it needs males and females. Woman gives birth. It needs these forms, male and female forms. This is truth, and it actually needs the diversity of females. In a beehive there is a majority of non-reproductive females, and it needs the diversity of males. Many species survive on the wandering habits and impulses of their males, but what is human nature?

What of our rules have any real substance? I can say the man who feels drawn to pair bonding with another man, he is not unnatural. The man who beds many women, he is not unnatural. The woman who leads her community and pair bonds with no one, she is not unnatural. The woman who feels that special bond with another woman, she is not unnatural.

Human hormonal response is not homogenous. This is a biological fact and it isn’t even about sexual preference. I am male, but due to a genetic condition my bodies sensitivity to testosterone is reduced. I don’t have much of a libido as compared to other men, but I am healthy.

If we think natural is the system by which the species reproduces itself, homosexuality is not natural? What is natural is that not all members of a species reproduce. This is a fact. Even in mammals a male may never successfully mate.

If you look to nature, all variations of sexual identity occur in nature. Yes, so it gets more complex in humans.

Is pair bonding dependant on hormonal response? Or you are pair bonded despite hormonal issues, so that bonding is more of a spiritual thing? Pair bonding is spiritual, yes.

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
~science,mysticism,spirituality~

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
~science,mysticism,spirituality~

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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.

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
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