Once again I would like to welcome C.L.Talmadge to Fang-tastic Books. This time we are a stop on her virutal book tour to celebrate the release of, Outcast, book 4 in The Green Stone of Healing series.
Power: Men versus Women
By C.L. Talmadge
By C.L. Talmadge
To understand the dynamic of men’s power versus women’s power, think of the former as action and the latter as attraction. Another way to look at it is doing versus being. The yang and the yin. The light and the dark. The electric and the magnetic. The push and the pull.
The two forms of power complement each other, but this male-dominated world considers only the male/push form as legitimate. Female/pull power is derided as seduction or temptation, when it really is the basis for the experiences and people we all attract into our lives.
In other words, to act, we use the electric energy of the mental-spiritual half of self. To attract, we use the magnetic energy of the emotional-physical parts of our being. One side of self cannot do or be without the other, yet we venerate and elevate the mental-spiritual (the masculine) at the expense of the emotional-physical (the feminine).
We also need to understand what we mean by energy here. The energy we speak of is the energy of consciousness—of thoughts, feelings, beliefs—known as the aura in metaphysical terms. This consciousness-aura energy is called kura in the Green Stone of Healing® speculative epic. Whatever the name, this energy is the essence of who we are. Even our physical bodies are energy in a form that we are capable of perceiving with our physical eyes. Other names for this energy are chi or prana.
So where does romance fit into this gender-power equation? Interestingly, romance is where the two kinds of energies, masculine and feminine, collide and mingle. That’s what makes romance so compelling and essential, especially to women. During a romance, a woman finally elicits emotional attention from a man who otherwise would ignore his feelings about her or anyone else (himself included) to focus his energies on action, like competition, in business, sports, or elsewhere.
Men absolutely hate it that they are not immune to women’s attracting power. This is one of the fascinating dynamics of romance. But they cannot escape this attracting power because they also possess it, although not to the degree that women do, unless the man is gay or bisexual.
Moralizing aside, one of the reasons a non-hetero sexual orientation is so threatening to straight men is the extra degree to which attracting (feminine) energy is present in the aura of non-hetero males. Lesbians and bisexual women also possess a greater extent of push/male energy than straight females. This is not as threatening to straight men because they are familiar with this kind of energy and regard it as best anyway.
To be female in this world has long been associated with powerlessness. Nothing could be further from the truth. Attracting energy is extremely powerful, but can also be misused easily and degenerate into manipulation.
The Green Stone of Healing® saga explores how women’s power is the missing link for true healing at all levels of self and in the world. It also examines how women’s greatest challenge is to accept their own attracting nature as legitimate power and wield it to sustain their personal autonomy, and improve their own lives and the lives of those they love.
C.L. Talmadge is the author of the Green Stone of Healing® speculative epic. The fourth in the series, Outcast, will be published Oct. 1.
The two forms of power complement each other, but this male-dominated world considers only the male/push form as legitimate. Female/pull power is derided as seduction or temptation, when it really is the basis for the experiences and people we all attract into our lives.
In other words, to act, we use the electric energy of the mental-spiritual half of self. To attract, we use the magnetic energy of the emotional-physical parts of our being. One side of self cannot do or be without the other, yet we venerate and elevate the mental-spiritual (the masculine) at the expense of the emotional-physical (the feminine).
We also need to understand what we mean by energy here. The energy we speak of is the energy of consciousness—of thoughts, feelings, beliefs—known as the aura in metaphysical terms. This consciousness-aura energy is called kura in the Green Stone of Healing® speculative epic. Whatever the name, this energy is the essence of who we are. Even our physical bodies are energy in a form that we are capable of perceiving with our physical eyes. Other names for this energy are chi or prana.
So where does romance fit into this gender-power equation? Interestingly, romance is where the two kinds of energies, masculine and feminine, collide and mingle. That’s what makes romance so compelling and essential, especially to women. During a romance, a woman finally elicits emotional attention from a man who otherwise would ignore his feelings about her or anyone else (himself included) to focus his energies on action, like competition, in business, sports, or elsewhere.
Men absolutely hate it that they are not immune to women’s attracting power. This is one of the fascinating dynamics of romance. But they cannot escape this attracting power because they also possess it, although not to the degree that women do, unless the man is gay or bisexual.
Moralizing aside, one of the reasons a non-hetero sexual orientation is so threatening to straight men is the extra degree to which attracting (feminine) energy is present in the aura of non-hetero males. Lesbians and bisexual women also possess a greater extent of push/male energy than straight females. This is not as threatening to straight men because they are familiar with this kind of energy and regard it as best anyway.
To be female in this world has long been associated with powerlessness. Nothing could be further from the truth. Attracting energy is extremely powerful, but can also be misused easily and degenerate into manipulation.
The Green Stone of Healing® saga explores how women’s power is the missing link for true healing at all levels of self and in the world. It also examines how women’s greatest challenge is to accept their own attracting nature as legitimate power and wield it to sustain their personal autonomy, and improve their own lives and the lives of those they love.
C.L. Talmadge is the author of the Green Stone of Healing® speculative epic. The fourth in the series, Outcast, will be published Oct. 1.
Vote for the first book, The Vision, through Sept. 25 and get a free e-book on healing, love, and spirituality. Details at her blog: www.healingstonebooks.com/stonescribe
The series features four generations of strong-willed female characters who inherit a mysterious green gem ultimately revealed to mend broken bones and broken hearts, protect against missiles, and render its wearers undetectable.
For more information about each book, please visit http://www.greenstoneofhealing.com/
C.L. will be giving away an autographed set of the first three books in the series to one randomly drawn commenter from the tour as well as the tour host with the most comments, excluding duplicates or her responses.
So please leave a comment so you have a chance to win a whole set of these books-autographed by the author.
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12 comments:
Thanks, Roxanne, for being part of my tour! The topic you asked me to discuss today is one of the most ccompelling aspects of romantic fiction. We all know men and women are diferent physically and emotionally. But they also differ in their innate power essence, too. Please add your thoughts to this discussion.
Girl Power! This series sounds like it is full of great adventure and a powerful message. I will be watching for these. Great interview.
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I'm always looking for new authors and series, these sound good! tWarner419@aol.com
Great Interview, A gem that protect against missiles sold I must get your books.
cydneyjules@gmail.com
These books look wonderful.
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Interesting! These books sound so gooood :) Love to have the chance to read it.
Mariska
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Looks like a great series. Thanks so much for sharing and introducing it to us. I look forward to the chance to read it.
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This is a fascinating concept for a series of books! I really need to read Fallout.
I cant wait to read these books. They sound amazing!!!
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This series sounds very interesting. I can't wait to read the books.
Your books sound very interesting. Please enter me.
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I especially like the healing of broken hearts and of course, being undetectable.
Deidre
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