The Yin-Yang of Ascension

Do males and females have different mental imagery of what ascension means? The soul is without gender. We have all been males and females throughout our journeys. One of the keys to ascension, to an awakened consciousness, is balancing the polarities between masculine and feminine. Yet as we look around at the imagery of how to achieve higher consciousness, do we see a difference in the way people perceive -- not what it means or where they are going necessarily, but HOW they are going to get there? Some people think of going UP a ladder, others may see a doorway deep under the sea... And what about novels of the soul's journey such as Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge, where the hero was a man and the woman he loved stayed at home, or Roman Polanski's film, The Nine Gates, where two men were searching, and the woman was the Devil? There are plenty of characters in literature and film and myth and legend of the male journey, the hero's journey, but what of the female journey? How is hers different, or the same? And then there is Carolyn Myss who has said that "In our Western world we have invited / invoked the Divine into our world, but we refuse to let the soul come out. We want the interior benefits, but we do not want the journey -- because we don't have the courage." Join us as we look at these questions and try to come us with some answers! Bring your own questions and answers too!