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So what does it mean for this symbol to emerge from 00:00:01

- the feminine symbols let's say - 00:00:03

to emerge from chaos, well 00:00:05

this picture - this is a picture of venus, 00:00:07

the goddess of love 00:00:09

right 00:00:11

and so I cut this picture out of a larger picture 00:00:11

and it's venus manifesting herself in a transcendent space 00:00:14

in the sky 00:00:17

in the same way that christ did in the previous representation 00:00:18

and she has rays coming off her 00:00:21

and there's all these men who are knights 00:00:23

kneeling in front of the image 00:00:26

but what does that mean? 00:00:28

well it means that men use the image of female perfection 00:00:30

to motivate themselves 00:00:34

and that's exactly right 00:00:35

it's precisely what they do! 00:00:37

you see that in the Tom Sawyer story 00:00:38

so Tom Sawyer is about twelve years old 00:00:40

and he's still hanging around with his friends 00:00:42

Like Huck Finn 00:00:44

and this girl moves across the street, 00:00:45

Becky 00:00:47

and she comes out and he's struck by her 00:00:47

for the first time in his life something's changed 00:00:49

and the first thing he does is hop up on a picket fence 00:00:51

and show off and balance in front of her 00:00:54

and say well "Look at me! Look at me!" 00:00:57

He's like the male bowerbird 00:00:59

building something beautiful so the female will approve of it 00:01:01

it's motivation! 00:01:04

you know, and that's something that 00:01:05

I think modern women don't really understand 00:01:07

about men 00:01:10

they don't understand that... 00:01:11

at least to the degree that males are uncorrupted 00:01:13

and not bitter because of being rejected 00:01:16

they're doing everything they can to kneel before the eternal image of the feminine 00:01:18

and try to make themselves worthy 00:01:24

that's the chivalry story, right? 00:01:26

that's what you should encourage in your partner 00:01:29

and so out of chaos emerges this first form 00:01:32

it's the feminine form 00:01:35

it's partly the form that represents novelty as such 00:01:36

and on one hand it's promise and on the other hand it's threat 00:01:41

you wouldn't believe - and I don't know 00:01:45

I don't understand the situation with women 00:01:47

as well I understand the situation with men 00:01:50

obviously, being a man 00:01:52

but I cough 00:01:54

I don't know if women have any idea 00:01:55

how paralyzing they are to - especially - young men 00:01:57

cough 00:02:01

a large - very large - number of 00:02:03

my clinical clients, but also young men I've talked to in general 00:02:05

are absolutely terrified of women 00:02:08

because they're terrified of being rejected 00:02:11

and the terror exists in precise proportion to their attraction to the woman! 00:02:12

which is a horrible paradoxical situation to be in 00:02:18

it's often why men make such fools of themselves 00:02:21

in front of women that they're attracted to 00:02:24

it's because first of all they don't see the woman that they're attracted to 00:02:26

cause what the hell do they know about her? 00:02:29

they don't see her as an individual, 00:02:31

they see her as the manifestation of a judgemental ideal 00:02:33

and then it's only in establishing the relationship 00:02:36

with the actual woman 00:02:40

that they can start differentiating 00:02:41

between the judgemental ideal and the actual, individual woman 00:02:42

and that also requires a sacrifice 00:02:46

and the sacrifice is... 00:02:48

you never can have an ideal woman 00:02:51

so to have a relationship with any woman 00:02:54

you have to sacrifice the relationship with the ideal woman 00:02:57

and you have to see the individual woman... 00:03:00

and separate her from the ideal 00:03:03

and that's the same thing that happens to the hero in Sleeping Beauty 00:03:05

right, he sees the evil queen 00:03:09

who actually turns into the Dragon of Chaos 00:03:11

and it's not until he can 00:03:13

defeat her, that he 00:03:16

can establish a relationship with the actual princess 00:03:18

and that's exactly the case 00:03:20

I had a - one of my clients 00:03:22

who ran this men's group 00:03:25

which is quite interesting 00:03:26

one of the things they had initiates... 00:03:27

do, which was very intelligent, 00:03:31

was to go out and ask 50 women in one day for their phone numbers 00:03:33

why? 00:03:38

Politely! Properly! You know, 00:03:39

it wasn't a - it was a game but 00:03:41

it wasn't a stupid game! 00:03:42

and the idea was 00:03:44

Get over your fear of rejection! 00:03:45

and how do you do that? 00:03:47

by encountering it continually 00:03:49

and continually, and continually 00:03:51

so that you're no longer paralysed by this 00:03:53