[UA] The Unknown Truth version 1

[Allen Smith]

On Apr 28,  5:55pm, Gareth Hanrahan wrote:
> >I'm having some problems with the Mystic Hermaphrodite, though. I
> >like the Freak, of course, right, but I don't see clearly how the
> >archtype fits in the collective unconscious. Seems too much
> >hermetic to me.
> 
> Probably made sense to Plato, or the alchemists or something.
> Transexuals keep aspects of the idea in the modern consciousness,

Don't forget various respects in which gender crossing is becoming
more common... as well as the rock stars I mentioned just now, there
are also the modern crossovers in gender roles, both societal (jobs,
clothing, et al) and physical. (Estrogen mimicking compounds are not
uncommon by any means, and appear to have differing effects on people
depending on how much estrogen the person has around "naturally"; they
are weakly estrogenic when they attach to the receptors, but can block 
natural estrogen from getting in and having a stronger effect. I
wouldn't describe this for males as a bad thing, BTW... it may be
helping keep male cholesterol levels lower than they would be otherwise,
for instance, and the (debatable) drops in sperm levels aren't a bad
thing when one considers overpopulation. For women, the effectively
estrogen-blocking effects of the estrogen mimicking compounds in soy
appear to be a large factor keeping breast cancer down in Japan, for
instance.)

	-Allen

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Allen Smith				easmith at beatrice.rutgers.edu
	

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