For reasons biochemical, physical, what have you, most normal adults tend to manifest along two different states of consciousness: affiliative and achievement oriented. After reading the descriptions of these states in Wade’s book, it was easy for me to see that there may be a gender bias in manifestation of conscious states (shorter and far too glibly, women really are from Venus and men from Mars…).

Affiliatives tend to see connections, relationships between people, things, events; achievement-oriented find value in benchmarks, measures, goals. Granted, states of consciousness can be fluid and humans can migrate back and forth between them, but where does any human spend the bulk of their waking conscious hours? For example: my spouse, an engineer by education and a manager by profession, is a golf freak who can tell me that the 9th hole on a course he played 15 years ago in a different state is a par 3 dogleg right with two sand traps and a water hazard; what state do you think he lives in, in terms of consciousness?

So based on gender we may live in different states of consciousness, and one gender tends to be far more likely to waging linear war, the other, well…remember Albert Einstein’s famous quote, “No problem is ever solved by the same consciousness that created it” –?

Seems obvious to me, but then I live in a state of consciousness that can make the connection.