INTRODUCTION TO THE POLEMIC

In the ‘The Goddess Polarity’, I help uncover, for your benefit, a largely quiet and enduring polemic shift in culture that recognizes feminine instinctual interests and physical needs. Quietly embedded in our changing technologies, this shift has for the most part continued unnoticed. Science itself has become part of the shift. Everything we do every day, has become part of the shift. This book is about ‘The Goddess Polarity’ discovery, or vision, and potential benefits you can realize from the changing world we are experiencing.

‘The Goddess Polarity’ is based on the idea that there are two instinctual polemics between men and women that we are vaguely aware of. Both polemics are ‘built in’ to our unique hormonal responses to situations we encounter. It hasn’t been until recently that science has been able to see how this process works. Mostly, this scientific investigation goes on without any relation to people like us, who are not scientists. These scientific findings are so important to you and me, that they will completely change our thinking about men and women. Once you understand the scope of this shift, your past life choices will be given new meaning. Your future choices can be made more beneficial for you. And your day to day take on the ‘battle of the sexes’ won’t require as much negative energy from you as it does now.

I’ve simplified as much as I could the present science of how each gender is influenced by their respective instinctual differences. It’s allot more complicated, but I will give you an accurate general picture. These differences have evolved over millions of years. They are as absolute as the visible physical differences between men and women. Internal neurochemical differences between men and women were hidden up until fifty years ago. With the advancement of imaging medicine, genetics, and neurochemistry, we are now able to look at our basic instinctual differences in much the same way as we enjoy looking at our physical differences. The joy of it is that we are just as interesting and attractive to each other on the inside as we are on the outside. Follow me and take a look, it wasn’t an option fifty years ago.

To understand ‘The Goddess Polarity’ you will need to understand in basic terms, the neurochemical basis of ‘mood’ or ‘desire’. This neurochemical stew is different in men and women and has effects on your motivation, judgment, and emotional needs. I make the analogy that neurochemicals are like background software for the control of your moods motivations and desires. Each sex has their own software program. Science has determined that the gender differences in neurochemical makeup between men and women affect behavior and social interaction.

Much of the shift is hidden in the gender differences in our neurochemical response of music, rhythm, dance and sensuality. Music affects the instinctual needs of each gender. We will look at new science that shows that music was prelinguistic. That music evolved before language, proven for the most part by how music is perceived in the mind/body. ‘The Goddess Polarity’ big picture explains how technological advancements have made music a primary driver of the polemic shift into a world ruled by feminine instinctual needs and behaviors. Once these pieces of the puzzle are put together, then I can show you how major social and technological trends are continuing to reinforce the feminine biological dynamic of consciousness. There are four major ongoing trends within the polemic shift that will affect your life and the lives of your children.

They are:
1. The feminization of scientific theory.
2. The social breakdown in male control of linage systems, birthing strategies, birth control, and nurturing roles.
3. The cultural acceptance of the exposed female body, feminine sensual movement, and embedded cognition. These three changes tell us that there is general support for our cultural acceptance of feminine complex sensuality, needed to validate feminine hormonal ‘dynamic balance’.
4. The impact of the internet revolution on the feminine oriented social order.

For women, it’s a great opportunity to reshape their collective future. For guys, when they understand ‘The Goddess Polarity’, they will see that instead of grinding their behavioral gears with women, they can shift smoothly into their emotional space and needs. It’s a win-win for both genders.

Finally, I will give you some insight into future potential trends and impacts on the present world order due to the perceptual polemic shift. What you and I will see in the near future. This will help you understand in the polemic, and how to make choices that honor both your instinctual self while living within the present set cultural values.

We all remember recently when Janet Jackson's breast was bared when fellow performer Justin Timberlake ripped off her bodice during a half-time performance in front of almost 100 million television viewers. Though even more tame than National Geographic TV or kids watch, it inspired new federal legislation and a lot of posturing, and outrage. Digital recording company TiVo says it was also one of the most watched moments in US TV history - as subscribers paused and replayed the incident. Search engine Lycos says it has beaten the record for the most searched event over a one-day period - a position previously held by the September 11 attacks on America.

If we look beyond the present social extremes that made so much of Janet Jackson’s personal artistic statement, into a million years of gender adaptation and neurophysiology, we can step back and see a much bigger picture. Many of our social systems are in dynamic period of change. Some of us are looking backward holding on to the past, some of us are looking ahead, some of us are just scratching our heads wondering what is happening. Most of us belong in the head scratcher’s club, wondering who do we side with and for what reasons. Well here’s my best take on some answers.

“The Goddess Polarity” suggests that we are entering a new era of female based culture which supports feminine instinctual polemic of ‘dynamic balance’. Dynamic balance is balance with a twist. Instead of imagining a balance beam with two weights equally balanced just sitting there static, you have to imagine a sea-saw with to people of equal weight going up and down. Dynamic balance is balance in motion. It is described by the regular rhythm of the sea-saw. All women know that this balance is an important feature in their lives. The natural world is a system of dynamic balance. Living things move and change.

Spurred on by technological advancements in communication, music, and science, a polemic shift in the cultural expression of dynamic balance is underway. It explains many moral inconsistencies, hypocrisies, and oversights that involve sensuality. It gives us a new way of looking at Janet Jackson’s self expression and the dynamic change in sexual lifestyles and morals we see around us.

Science has lot of new material on the subject. The problem with scientists is that they are xenophobic hermits with their information. The best science goes unnoticed. It’s part of the science priesthood. They really disdain any simplicity of language or clarity for normal people. They hide from sticking their necks out too far to avoid the scrutiny of their peers. All these beautiful little pieces of knowledge about ‘The Goddess Polarity’ got stuffed off in wordy little cubby holes. They avoid the big picture. They avoid appealing to the masses. Consequently the science and sociology supporting ‘The Goddess Polarity’ has gone on unnoticed. To understand how it was made became clear for me that ‘The Goddess Polarity was really happening; I’d like to let you in on a little bit of my unique personal history.

Because of my own unique life, I have always felt it was Ok to dabble in science and art. It was part of my upbringing. I’ve been pretty lucky to have really wonderful and different parents. My dad was a scholor of abstract mathematics, chairman of the Math Department, and Dean of the Physical sciences at UCLA. My mother an artist and homemaker. As a child I was surrounded by abstract thinkers, eccentric mathematicians, and famous scientists. I took it for granted.

We traveled as a family on sabbaticals or work/study programs. When I was six years old we were at the Institute Of Advanced Study in Princeton New Jersey. There was a basement at the institute that was used as rec. room. I can remember playing ping pong in that basement with an old man with funny frizzy hair; his name was Albert Einstein. I also can remember my dad stopping the car and asking Mr. Einstein as he was walking along the road if he wanted a ride to work. He always said no, even if it was snowing. Albert Einstein was a lowly accountant without a formal education. Like other dreamers at the institute, he made me feel that I was really around something special. My dad had a great deal of respect for him. I could feel it. I can remember my dad trying to explain his theory of relativity to me when I was in first grade. I remember trying to understand it.

As charmed as I was to be surrounded by so much lofty thinking little of it rubbed off on my report card. Where my older brother excelled in school, I struggled. While my dad was at Yale on sabbatical in 1955 writing a book on Abstract Jordanian Algebras, I flunked mathematics, got mononucleosis from kissing a girl at school, and fell madly in love with the girl who was bringing my homework home to me when I was laid up sick for a month. I couldn’t take my mind off of girls, even in the fourth grade. It made me a dismal student. Puppy love was my reason for living and downfall educationally.

My parents weren’t upset by my educational shortcomings and infatuations; they just considered me an emotionally overzealous underachiever. I scored very high in math and art but was dismal in anything else. I still felt that any idea could be understood and played with because of my intellectual surroundings. I was totally left handed in all my motor skills. My report cards were wild contradiction of A’s, D’s and F’s., with mostly A’s in science and art.

I continuously considered my lack of interest in competition and school in general as something missing in myself. What I didn’t understand was that it was part of my unique thinking process. I was much more interested learning about things that were holistic and non-competitive. By the time I was starting High School I had read All of Aldus Huxley’s books and ‘Siddartha’ by Herman Hesse.

Allen Watts’s book: Nature, Man and Woman was my favorite book at 15. Alan Watts (1915-1973) who held both a master's degree in theology and a doctorate of divinity, is best known as an interpreter of Zen Buddhism in particular, and Indian and Chinese philosophy in general. He wrote over 20 books. His book about the depth of transformation available through love was pivotal to my thinking. It was during that time that I had my first sexual experiences with my friend, singer, and guitar teacher, a girl who was older than me. We had a wonderful summer together before she went off to San Francisco State.

This began my thirty five year journey into trying to understand the feminine mystique. Through several marriages and a several long affairs, my unique and creative thinking about women, science, music and religion opened and closed doors for me. Much of the chaos between the sexes was both an inspiration and enigma to me. I wore my heart on my sleeve and dived blindly into ‘connecting’ with and supporting my lovers. I have ceaselessly been interested in grounding my exotic and deep relationship experiences in a gestalt that worked for me. I stumbled across an answer years ago but was unable to articulate it until recently.

In 1985 I started seriously studying percussion for African Dance. For six years I threw myself into African drumming culture, and the devotion for my second wife, one of the dancers. The music, dance, and emotional trials I found myself involved in left my second marriage in total disarray. What I was left with was a keen sensibility of African Drumming Culture. I was left with a honed understanding of the importance of strict drumming discipline, the subtlety of micro-timing, and the potent force of rhythm in relationships. I was struggling to communicate my personal inner experiences within music, dance and sensuality.

I have been trying to communicate my unique understanding for the last fifteen years. I have been a presenter for the National Sound Healers Association on the meditative qualities of rhythm. I wrote one book on the subject of sensuality and music; Titled ‘Sex, Drums, And Rock and Roll’, I have built several popular and award winning web domains on the subject of music and sensuality, with the latest being www.musicalsensuality.org. I feel the book and web helped me move towards ”The Goddess Polarity” but at the time of publication I was still only seeing pieces of the puzzle.

Then in the summer of 2004, this last summer, I spent the whole summer alone reading research and communicating on the internet. I collected many papers on neurology, neurotransmission, mind/body physiology, and the effect of music on physiology. Then I started scribbling flow charts of interrelationships. Every Sunday I taught Samba right on the estuary where I live to a great group of enthusiastic beginners. Then one evening I came home from playing Samba for two hours, sat down and Just out of nowhere came ‘The Goddess Polarity’ gestalt. With internet assistance from cutting edge thinkers telling me where to look, conferring with news groups, friends and other mind/body researchers, “The Goddess Polarity started really coming into focus.

I feel my own unique life leads me to the overall picture that we are experiencing a polemic shift in technologically advanced cultures towards socially confirming feminine instinctual drives. This is a very basic shift in the behavioral polemic between men and women induced by technology, communication, and scientific study. The polemic is broadly affected by music and dance which are just different forms of what is called in science speak- ‘socially relativistic embedded cognition’. In terms you and I can understand, that means, we’re getting in the groove for each other.

While my different thinking, emotional empathy and interest in women pushed me out of academia, it did make it possible to deeply relate to my feminine companions. I have always lived with women, never choosing male companionship or male interests. I hated sports and avoided war by serving two years as a conscensious objector. I have always longed to communicate with women close to me in a special way. I have always desired a doorway to see into their world. I’ve ended up finding much more than I expected. I hope by your understanding ‘The Goddess Polarity’, you will be able to make more positive choices about relationships and improve your understanding about sensuality. It’s been my life interest. And at my age of fifty six, I feel blessed to be given the opportunity to see my elusive goal fulfilled about understanding the feminine mystique. As simple as I can make it, we still have to start with an explanation of the basic building blocks of perception.