It's just life

1. Many are terrified of any mention of things that are outside of their normal field of perception
   
2. Women are more naturally in tune with nature and more likely subjects of clairvoyance, intuitive capacities
   
3. Women are are not as afraid to speak out about extra-sensory phenomena
   
4. Men, in our hunt for control and rationality, are more scared of extra-sensory phenomena than women - ESPECIALLY when those phenomena are displayed by a woman
   
5. Materialists, that is those who deal with the rational functioning of the material world, whether engineers or economists, tend to be even MORE afraid of extra-sensory phenomena
   
6. A lot of "alternative" people speak of extra-sensory perception as if it is out of the ordinary, about which they are completely wrong. Most new-agers are narcissists who are proud of "being different" and having "broken free" of mainstream society
   
7. Said new-agers use a language that has lost its grounding, speaking of astral this and energy that. This annoys materialists (and frankly, me) no end and makes the gap between them even larger
   
8. Both materialists and new agers are both right and wrong
   
9. Speaking with horses really isn't the point
   

NOW, that being said, I have no idea what the princess' fundamental philosophy about these things are, but like any other person who ventures to open the extra-sensory field to those living in the merely mundane, she'd be well served to weigh her words carefully. Speaking with horses, even though my world-view allows for a level of communication between humans and animals, really isn't a good starting point for someone to be taken seriously. Most people are terrified at the mere idea of something existing outside their current worldview, and they come down on it with fierce vengeance as their very identity is under threat. A media-person like the princess should have known this.

Trygve Hegnar, a legend in the field of finances here in Norway and a man with his head screwed on so firmly that I've come to admire many of his perspectives in the past, came down on the princess extremely hard in today's editorial in FinansAvisen, a leading Norwegian financial newspaper. Now, the surprise here may not be that Trygve Hegnar feels threatened by this, he is after all a master of the merely rational world. No, the surprise is that angels are talked about in an editorial in a financial newspaper! For all his efforts, Trygve Hegnar's focus on this only strengthens its propulsion into the limelight of the public eye. And funnily enough, his fierce and yes - deeply fearful - response to these current events shows me with perfect ease that his mastery of finances has not given him peace of mind and happiness. Because as we all know, given those two, we never need to tear apart anyone's worldview. It's their worldview, and we're okay with that. It basically shows me that he CRAVES for the very thing he criticizes. With experience, reading people like this becomes painfully easy.

So angels and speaking with horses, eh? I discussed this with my lover yesterday. She works in a field where these things are nothing special. I have spoken with her on occassion about these or similar things and she's used a language that is unfamiliar to me, but I've come to accept it not only because I have a very expansive worldview, but because I love her and trust her judgement. And because I recognize that she's just using different words to describe the same realities I've come to know for myself. In this context, she's made it easier for me to stomach the fluffy language that the princess uses - language that I would normally throw aside as New Age poppycock, immature spirituality. Now, I see it as just another expression, a more feminine one, of the same longing to be free and merge with the fabric of reality.

But I DO recognize that there are levels of consciousness available to us that are outside of the field of the ordinary. These may take the form of an outside being or they may appear as dazzling lights or a dance of consciousness. They're all merely different manifestations of the same things - and different people have different preferences in the way they relate to the divine. I don't generally relate to the divine in personal terms, so I don't speak to angels. And if I did, I'd be very careful who I said that to. But I have little trouble with those who do, because I know they're just expressing a different personal prerefence in their relationship with the non-rational realms of being. Now, I know these very words make me a little cooky in the eyes of many, but I have been those eyes of the many myself, and experiences have taken this rational creature - me - to places where things just can't be denied anymore. So I now know that I am not only less cooky than these people, but also that I'm not anymore at all shaken by their disapproving response. I know these things for a fact, they're just as real to me as the taste of chocolate, and I can feel no resentment for these reactions, only compassion. Because they're displays of fear. Mainly fear of death.

But I'm not the princess. And I don't need to stand up straight in the public eye every second of the day. If I WERE the princess, however, I would've considered shifting my focus. Speaking with angels and horses is really not the point. Becoming a better person is. And EVERYONE, even materialists, will agree with that language, so why not use it? Instead of teaching speaking with horses, why not teach intimacy with nature? Instead of speaking with angels, why not teach becoming who you were meant to be? I recognize that this is merely her filter, her preferred way of relating to it, but I fear she will mainly attract strange, frilly women and little girls with that language (and maybe the occasional desexualized yoga flow boy).

As a final reflection, and one that I've come to understand more and more - women CRAVE this sort of energy in their life. The intuitive dance of emotion. They're like the open sea and they want their waves to crash into the Infinite (the Infinite being represented by the steadiness and penetrating, expansive consciousness of the man). Many women in our modern world have denied this desire in themselves on the surface, but they all crave it deep down. With our rational mind and our need to explain things, we men completely destroy our relationships with women. OR that is - they stay merely mundane and self-serving. The fact that so many men around me are reacting so strongly against this princess story only reminds me that we cannot truly be the man we want to be in relationship with a woman if we don't come to accept at least partly these things in life. She may SAY she's rational, but oh believe you me, she's really not! Even the most superficial interaction with a woman should show you loud and clear that she's a lot of things, but not that! No, she craves the intuitive, the divine. And as the masterful teacher of sexuality David Deida says: "Women really want to fuck God. But in His absence, you'll do." And that's why it's a prime directive for the Superior Man to come to understand these realms, while PLEASE keeping the language at a level that others can stomach, as it can take even the most rational woman into the realms that she always desired (she'll be kicking and screaming of course, but you're a man - deal with it).

At the end of the day though - and this one is for Trygve Hegnar - if you were to die today, would you rather place all eternity in the hands of angels, no matter how real, or on the promise of stable interest rates and financial security?