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Can we ever find heaven on earth? We strive and seek, why do our visions fail us so? Could it be that the premises we hold, deep within ourselves, preclude the manifestation of the proclaimed vision? This work, The Community of Man and Woman, details a vsion and the premises that hold it securely in place. "We are sexual beings residing within a sexual universe. And thus lies our spirituality, our mentality, and our physicality. The creative balance between male and female is as spiritual, mental, and physical as things can get. There isn't anything more real or immediate than that one creative touch between a man and a woman. There isn't any greater love than the love from a man to a woman and from a woman to a man. All that is originates from this sexual love." The Community of Man and Woman

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Publié par	First Edition Design Publishing
Date de parution	02 octobre 2012
Nombre de lectures	3
EAN13	9781622871957
Langue	English

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The Community of Man and Woman
Christopher Alan Anderson

First Edition Design Publishing, Inc.
The Community of Man and Woman

Christopher Alan Anderson
The Community of Man and Woman
Copyright 2012 Christopher Alan Anderson
ISBN 978-1622871-95-7

Published and Distributed by
First Edition Design Publishing, Inc.
September 2012
www.firsteditiondesignpublishing.com

ALL R I G H T S R E S E R V E D. No p a r t o f t h i s b oo k pub li ca t i o n m a y b e r e p r o du ce d, s t o r e d i n a r e t r i e v a l s y s t e m , o r t r a n s mit t e d i n a ny f o r m o r by a ny m e a ns ─ e l e c t r o n i c , m e c h a n i c a l , p h o t o - c o p y , r ec o r d i n g, or a ny o t h e r ─ e x ce pt b r i e f qu ot a t i o n i n r e v i e w s , w i t h o ut t h e p r i o r p e r mi ss i on o f t h e a u t h o r or publisher .
Foundation of Man and Woman Balance
www.manandwomanbalance.com
Note to the Reader:
The Community of Man and Woman was written in 1991. Later it was combined with three other writings into Man, Woman, and God and published in 1994. The writing is a bit rough in places. I was only in my early forties at the time. But there are some real jewels to be found throughout as is often the case with original work. Also, the use of the masculine and feminine could be smoother. Sometimes I use man, mankind, him, his, etc., to mean both the man and woman. In any embodiment of text, that takes time to work out.
Those who succeed us may someday look back in awe, both at our ignorance and our possibilities. Indeed, it seems to me, we now have a choice as to what direction to proceed, at least with this vision of the Community of Man and Woman in hand. May it be included in the history of our times.

C.A.A.— November 1, 2009
Santa Rosa, California
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1—The Spiritual Community
The Immediacy of Community
The Discovery of Man and Woman
The Primary Origination of Adam and Eve
The Universality of Sexuality
The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Sexually Are
History as an Example of a “Third Force” in Creation
The Re-evaluation of Values
Metaphysical Guilt—The Root of All Evil
The Spiritual Task
Part 2—The Mental Community
Completing the Transformation of Consciousness
Sourcing Creativity
The Essential Truth
Volition and Vision
The Conceptual Trap and Insanity
Paradigm Shifts
Knowing and Sensing
Sexual Telepathy
Illusion and Reality
Part 3—The Physical Community
The Essential Community
Internal Authority
The Formation of Law
Church and State
Democracy and Money
Education and Health
Marriage and Family
A “One” World Community
Questions About the Community of Man and Woman
Conclusion: The Legend of the Truth
Introduction
Can we ever find heaven on earth? We strive and seek, why do our visions fail us so? Could it be that the premises we hold, deep within ourselves, preclude the manifestation of the proclaimed vision? This work, The Community of Man and Woman, details a vision and the premises that hold it securely in place. The work looks at community in three respects—the spiritual, the mental, and the physical. When you have completed it, it is hoped that your alignment to your own community of man and woman will be fully revealed.
Part 1
The Spiritual Community

The Immediacy of Community
When I think of community, I think of a child in the womb of his mother. In the womb, a child is surrounded and supported by the liquid of life. This fluid not only envelops the child but also is the environment from which the child can generate and grow. Community can be likened to a womb. In a life-supportive community we, as individuals, are also able to grow, and the community as a whole is able to perpetuate life. Community is organic in this sense. It is a living entity.
A real problem we face is that, oftentimes, when we leave the womb, we leave the closest thing to community we will ever know. Unfortunately, in the womb, we aren’t altogether conscious and, then, when we leave that protected environment, we find community to be so fragmented that there is little support for our growth. As a result, we are hardly able to consciously develop and our true sense of “I” gets lost in the shuffle.
One of the themes of this work is that community is essential to the development of consciousness. It can be viewed as the other in our own self-other relationship from which we differentiate in the act of consciousness. Consciousness of self and other is held through that exact distinction.
In religious or spiritual terms, we may refer to this fundamental relationship as I-Thou. The difficulty is that we have not known what to base our I-Thou relationship upon whereby it forms the essence of community as an organic, living process. Community will not form by itself. We must know its arrangement in nature which, if adhered to, will result in a living community. What then is the essential arrangement in nature through which we may function as a community?
As I see it, there are three essential questions that we can ask to better ascertain this question of community.
What is the basis or foundation of community?
What is the purpose (or value) of community?
How does community function, its arrangement, given its alignment to its purpose?
Without some answers to these questions, the understanding of community will never come about. Yet, for survival’s sake, we must touch upon its essence, something that is not being done today. We take community for granted as if it will always be there for us no matter what we do. Or else we look for its essence, not in itself but in the label we give to it. For example, we may classify a community as religious and then proceed to look for its essence within the framework of the religious view being offered rather than within community itself. Is community dependent upon its label/type or is it independent? Good question. Besides religious communities there are political, national, racial, and even sexual communities. But what is community? If we truly understood the essence of community, maybe we would find that a community could stand on its own without further distinction as to a type, that labeling by itself actually precludes community. We may further find that we can easily hold a consciousness of ourselves without these excluding labels. This is not to suggest that we will not need to identify (differentiate) self and other. We will, but maybe on another foundation that intrinsically and inclusively holds to the life of community.
Sometimes the terms community and society are used synonymously. I view them differently. Community, to me, is a living process that springs internally from those comprising the community who, in reaching out for each other, touch its essence. We might say that community is driven by the power of human need or desire. This is why I say it is living. This is also why it is immediate. We exist face-to-face with it. There isn’t any space between it and ourselves. We can know it in knowing ourselves.
In contrast, society, to me, does not develop from within people but is actually after the fact. It is more of a label we place on a group of people from without. Society is external and, therefore, I think exclusive. Community is internal and inclusive. Community is a living process. Society is non-living. We cannot stand on a society whereas a community can hold firm.
Today, there is a desperate need for a rediscovery of community. “Society” is falling apart all around us. We aren’t able to correct it or connect with ourselves or each other. We don’t know who we are or the nature of our relationship to each other. We don’t know how to successfully live. Very basic stuff. Today’s visions or paradigms will no longer help us. We will need to go deeper within ourselves to come to a meeting with community that we, You and I , may comprise together.
The Discovery of Man and Woman
In the last section, I mentioned the importance of relationship to the understanding of community. Relationship, understanding its nature, is essential to community for, in its simplest terms, community is a relationship. So that you, the reader, will have a frame of reference as to where we are headed, let me say that the recognition of relationship as metaphysical reality allows us to make an even deeper distinction about the essence of relationship and community. We are about to engage in the discovery of man and woman.
My discovery of relationship is not unlike Descartes’ discovery of his “Cogito, ergo sum,” translated as, “I think, therefore I am.” Descartes was looking for something concrete that he could base a certainty upon. My own thinking went something like this, “Wherever I find myself to be, I always seem to be in a relationship.” I could simplify this and give it some of Descartes’ certainty by saying, “I am, therefore You are.” Or, “You are, therefore I am.” Both of these claims can be reduced to say we exist —not you, not me, but we. Relationship actually circumscribes Descartes’ Cogito. Descartes falls into the mispremise of viewing himself singularly, as if he is the sole source of his individuality. Yet, he can only pronounce an “I” due to the relationship of self-other that is subsumed in any pronouncement of an “I.” The self-other, or spiritual I-Thou, relationship rests at the bottom of any singular pronouncement of an “I” or a “You.”
Descartes came to be known as the father of modern philosophy and the school of rationalism (or reason). It is interesting to note that the foregoing conception of rationalism, of what is considered reasonable, is premised on the non-relational foundation of the singular “I.” I realized that any foundation we give to our existence and rationality must be premised on a foundation that is inclusive to the whole of the relationship that encompasses one’s individuality, otherwise our sense