Per my last entry on this blog, Thought Cartoon: "Moonwalk", where I asked for comments on why Americans had gone to the Moon and never returned in 40 years, I got the following reply from Mr. David Hartman.

"I had an interesting insight that I wanted to share with you. I believe that modern day men (the males of the species) recognize that the females carry something unique and wholly separate from the male (masculine) experience. That the females are desired, lusted after, and domesticated not only for sexual satisfaction but also for psychic completion. Men (the masculine) need women (the feminine) to serve as a channel for access to the riches of the deep unconscious, the soulful inspirations and reverent whispers of the source of life. And it is that very dependence, which is of course almost always unconscious and unacknowledged, that motivates an apprehension and distrust for the feminine on the part of so many men.

This is where the Moon comes in. The Moon is an ancient symbol for the Great Feminine, in counterpoint to the Sun as a symbol for the Great Masculine. On a deeply unconscious and archaic level, man's pursuit of conquering the Moon was a humanity-wide expression of that desire and lust for the feminine (and it was most certainly men who pursued her). The indifference to continued contact with her that we have seen for these 40 years is an expression of the apprehension and distrust for her, and is akin to the way in which a man will sometimes discard relationship with a woman after "conquering her" in sexual conquest."

Thank you, David, for this insight. I open the discussion for further comments, but personally, I think you nailed it! (So to speak).