Seed vs. Egg Consciousness

Sperm consciousness is a consciousness of effort and movement. It heads off in every direction, running and straining, and there's no guarantee it'll get there either. Egg consciousness, by contrast, is a consciousness of receiving and quiet: everything comes to me, I'll sit here and wait. It has to do with which consciousness a person is connected to, not necessarily with their gender.

The word comes from the Greek word for womb. People used to believe that a woman's womb wandered to different places in the body, and that this wandering caused all kinds of ailments, like fainting, insomnia and swelling. Hysteria was considered the first mental illness described in the Western world, and it was linked only to women.

Doctors would give women a massage of the womb, which in today's language is called assisted masturbation. They understood that the moment a woman had an orgasm, the tension and the hysteria were released. Since the process took doctors a long time, the vibrator was later invented as a substitute. It was among the first and most widely sold electrical appliances for home use at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Anger is guarding yourself. You're telling the other person that they crossed a line, but you stay inside yourself, and by doing that you create intimacy and engagement. Aggression, by contrast, is going outside yourself to attack and hurt the other person, and that is what creates distance between people.

No. The speaker argues that nobody needs to build anybody up, because women are wondrous and wonderful from the day they're born. She is critical of the way the younger generation dismisses the women's empowerment movement, and offers an approach in which every woman remembers the power that was in her even before she created life.