Transvestia

his Godhead, then he is also, so goes the unconscious reasoning, an individual within society because of the creativity of his living Godhead.

So if this line of observation has validity we now have an idea of how an individual arrives at this state. It would be rather pointless to go into all the details of how man maintains this statue. I think Vance Packard covers this subject very well in his books we have two cars, a television set in our bathroom, a mink for the wife, etc., and etc.

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Man has many ways of holding on to his individuality. But the most obvious way is also quite subtle; he uses the mirror process. He copies his neighbor. He emulates those above him in status. In other words, man wants a separate identity but only so long as he doesn't by going too "far out", release those repressed memories of nothingness. To release these memories, is to him,

an act of mental suicide.

ness.

He exposes himself to nothing-

I believe that all neurotic persons might just have a stronger awareness of nothingness through the fact that their senses, which appear to be sharper, allow them to live closer to their feeling of nothingness than the so- called normal person.

If this is so, then it would follow that they would have to try to establish a stronger identity than the nor- mal person. That the transvestite chooses to emulate the female may lie in the attempt to emulate the origi- nal Godhead, i.e., the mother, which becomes associ- ated with all the qualities of idealism reflected in the religious awareness of a God and the mysterious process of creativity, which God and the mother represent.

The feminine image not only incorporates the ideal- ism of man's Godhead concept; but in most civilized societies the woman has more freedom of expression. Certainly this is dramatically true in our own Western societies and increasingly so during the past several decades.

The wider the choice of expression one has, the better

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