Meaning

Perceiving meaning in our world and in what we do is a natural step in the evolution of human expression in an individual, a step enroute to becoming a fully functioning human being.

Lazaris describes the process something like this.  

We experience a duality, which implies that there are masculine and feminine aspects to the psychic energies that we work with … these energies have nothing to do with gender - gender constraints arise due to the society’s cultural beliefs.  

The two “lowest” energy pairs are the pair Doing-Being, and the pair Will-Imagination.  Doing and Will are the masculine aspect (think football player) while Being and Imagination are the feminine aspect (think cheerleader).  When we are born we start with these two energies.  The problem is that in some cultures (like the one I was raised in) boys are encouraged to express masculine energies and girls are encouraged to express feminine energies; when in fact, a balanced person needs to find both those energies in themselves.  Many failed marriages arose because each person was trying to find the missing energies vicariously through their partner … when in fact, we are meant to awaken them in ourselves.

Once we awaken the “lower" two energy pairs in ourselves, then the sequence of awakening of the “upper” two energy pairs occurs as follows:

(1) meaning (masculine); 

(2) perception (feminine); 

(3) understanding (masculine); and finally, 

(4) conception (feminine).  

With these four energy pairs awakened and balanced within ourselves, then we can function in a state of wisdom and we can fulfill our potential to contribute productively to the fulfillment of the Self, Humanity, Gaia, and on up to All That Is.

”As you learn to trust your natural impulses, they introduce you to your individual sense of power, so that you realize that your own actions do have meaning, that you do affect events, and that you can see some definite signs that you are achieving good ends.  The idealized goal isn’t as remote, then, because it is being expressed.  Even if that expression is by means of steps, you can point toward it as an accomplishment.  Previously we distrusted our own impulses to such an extent that they often appeared in very distorted form.”

(The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, Session 855)