Mirena IUD gives a different sort of ride. It's not quite the roller coaster sensation of a typical hormonal cycle, so the kind of creative bipolarity that male shamans generally enjoy ( I include Nietzsche, Bataille and naturally, Marechera) is missing from my repertoire.
Where already existing creative talent is strong and the executive center of the mind remains in control, any highs and lows are effectively harnessed to look inside oneself and thereby gain insight into aspects of the world that may no be so evident in other cases. Nietzsche employs shamanic metaphor to speak precisely of this method
Not having highs and lows can in fact also be useful, albeit in a different way. One can withdraw more effectively from life and turn oneself into a stone -- a philosopher of a more conventional sort.
Mirena gives a softer ride --- extending pain and pleasure into very gradual slope. One need no longer grasp feverishly at life for one's pleasure with the sure knowledge that dire pain is just around the corner.
On the other hand, one is constantly in a little bit of pain, hence a little bit sober minded -- but much calmer, more composed.
Perhaps this is how men expect women to be in general? But it does take a form of forced menopause to achieve it, at least in my case, where the hormonal forces have been so strong.
Where already existing creative talent is strong and the executive center of the mind remains in control, any highs and lows are effectively harnessed to look inside oneself and thereby gain insight into aspects of the world that may no be so evident in other cases. Nietzsche employs shamanic metaphor to speak precisely of this method
Not having highs and lows can in fact also be useful, albeit in a different way. One can withdraw more effectively from life and turn oneself into a stone -- a philosopher of a more conventional sort.
Mirena gives a softer ride --- extending pain and pleasure into very gradual slope. One need no longer grasp feverishly at life for one's pleasure with the sure knowledge that dire pain is just around the corner.
On the other hand, one is constantly in a little bit of pain, hence a little bit sober minded -- but much calmer, more composed.
Perhaps this is how men expect women to be in general? But it does take a form of forced menopause to achieve it, at least in my case, where the hormonal forces have been so strong.
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