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Your ideas of sexuality follow both your religions and your sciences, then, for you have created each. But you always know what you are doing, and there are cycles in the earth, and in your being and your soul. And so you are in the process of reuniting yourself, and discovering what the word “humanity” means. You are finding out the meaning of individuality, which is a far more important word than you realize, and when you understand that meaning, then your own individuality will express itself in its natural form. Regardless of what words are put upon your experience in terms of sexual roles, you will be a full human being. When the conscious and the unconscious minds are understood, you will have no more problems with sexuality.
Think of your ideas about your own sexuality in connection with those about your being and consciousness. Regroup your ideas so that you automatically think of sexuality in relationship to your religions and sciences. You have associated the word “female” with the unconscious, while you have been working toward what you now think of as an egotistically based consciousness. There is more in what I am saying than you presently realize. You cannot, each of you, consider the real meaning of your own sexuality unless you understand your own religious history. Follow through, in your own minds, with your memories. Try to be honest with yourselves as to those early experiences in which you forced yourselves to behave differently than you were, because adults told you that you must … You had better understand the beautiful, unique quality of your own individuality lest you project upon the other sex — whichever sex you are — those abilities and qualities that you are afraid are your own, or project upon them those abilities and qualities that you wish you possessed and fear you do not.
[...] The ancient mother-goddess concept became “unconscious”; the male, purposely forgetting the great natural aggressive thrust of birth, took physical aggression and force as his prerogative — for this came to represent the quality of ego consciousness in its need to physically manipulate its environment.