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is like trying to swim in a new element, an “alien” element.
further evolution of humankind, in being “worked” on. I have the sense that certain “faculties”—not just in me but in every border resident, colored or non-colored—and dormant areas of consciousness are being activated, awakened. Strange,
At some point, on our way to a new consciousness, we will have to leave the opposite bank, the split between the two mortal combatants somehow healed so that we are on both shores at once and, at once, see through serpent and eagle eyes.
These numerous possibilities leave la mestiza floundering in uncharted seas. In perceiving conflicting information and points of view, she is subjected to a swamping of her psychological borders.
La mestiza constantly has to shift out of habitual formations; from convergent thinking, analytical reasoning that tends to use rationality to move toward a single goal (a Western mode), to divergent thinking,4 characterized by movement away
She has a plural personality, she operates in a pluralistic mode—nothing is thrust out, the good the bad and the ugly, nothing rejected, nothing abandoned. Not only does she sustain contradictions, she turns the ambivalence into something else.
I have no country, my homeland cast me out; yet all countries are mine because I am every woman’s sister or potential lover.
