A short interview/dialogue between Jack Canfield and Inga Canfield focused on the idea that a new way of being is being "birthed," framed as a feminine emergence. They discuss women's tendency to "yield" or surrender to what is emerging (rather than force outcomes), the role of women's groups in holding intention and curiosity, and cultural metaphors contrasting men's building with women's birthing. The tone is reflective and spiritual/transformational.
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When you're in that field, like you were last night, what emerges for you? There's a sense of uncertainty. And you've mentioned there's a lot of women who are experiencing the same sense of uncertainty.
Yes.
And yet you're starting to surrender to this emergent something wanting to be born, something birthing itself, which is a feminine concept that women give birth. And I think we are at a stage where we're birthing a new age or a new way of being in the world, and we're trying to understand what that is. And I think men want to build something, and I think women are more into birthing. And I think it's probably a metaphor that's more appropriate for the time we're in for what needs to happen in the world. Can you speak to that?
You just spoke so beautifully about it. You should come to our group.
We'll make you a. I'll put a wig on.
We'll make you the honorary, you know, the honorary.
Honorary woman feminine.
The new paradigm male. I really think that you represent that. I so appreciate that about you. Now, I got lost. I'm so kind of mesmerized by your.
That's okay. But this idea of birthing something new, which I think is so important and so needs to happen and needs to be a discovery. Taking the COVID off something, rather than.
Forcing something, well, it's allowing it to reveal itself. We just watch, we hold, we yield. That's talked about in the film. One of the ministers, she so beautifully talks about the women's ability to yield to what is emerging. And it's just. It's so inviting and it's so curious and full of wonder. And it's. It's a mystery we're not in charge. And it's just allowing ourselves to not have to be in charge. Let we just. With the group, when the women get together, they can relax themselves. Nobody needs to get anything done. It's doing. When we just put the intention, what is it we're supposed to be doing? And that's what all the women have been talking about. They don't really know. They feel this, you know, yearning, this calling towards something new, this birth. But they don't know what it looks like. You know, like we're all warriors. Everybody's doing deep personal growth work, knowing themselves, meditating. I mean, all the women that I talk to, they're doing a lot of personal work to be ready for what it is, where we're going.
So whatever it is, you're ready.
Yeah. I can't answer what it is. And Barbara Marx Hubbard, she's leading a large group and 500 women. And she was like, it's not about the answer. It's about holding the question, Living in the question. Living in the question.
