Patriarchy is the cause of most of our world's suffering

[Vladimir]

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Living in patriarchial society means we have not been given the whole truth about our humanity, we have been dosed instead with inhumanity with children learning about male domination, war, violence. We brainwash our kids about what history is - study of war, conquerors and pillaging male heroes and then we wonder why our society has become so violent. Kids learn about abuse and domination and we expect them not to get sick.

We have not been given the truth about history, mythology, religion and spirituality, evolution, the creation of civilization and culture, the arts, the sciences and whatever else we have been taught as "the truth". Women and women's culture have been essentially disregarded by those who tell history, "his story".

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In Scandinavian mythology one can see perfectly clearly how Hel, the Great Goddess of the Ancestors/the Dead who live on within Her magical realm within the mountains or under the lakes, was demoted over time. Ancient Northerners called themselves Hel's people. Her cauldron-womb was filled with creative and cleansing fires. Her Heaven-mountain was the source of all life-giving waters. During the time of Odin and his male priests, the time of warfare during the patriarchal Iron age, Hel's world became, however a gloomy and miserable place of cold and shadows. Hel was now an ugly Hag of the giant race. Only the conquered and enslaved indigenous peoples went to Her realm while the heroic dead, Odin's warriors, went to Valhalla where they feasted and fought. Christians named Purgatory "Hell." To be born of a mother was an abomination to celibate monks and priests of the "Father." The creative forces of Hel's womb/cauldron became the fires of the damned, Her world a place of eternal sorrow, torture and pain. Hel's light-filled magical realm of the Blessed dead within the mountains became known to Christians as "hell-hole!"

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Patriarchy originated some 5,000 years ago, when the people known as the Indo-Europeans, identified by Marija Gimbutas as the Kurgans, invaded the peaceful, matrifocaled cultures of Old Europe, introducing weapons of battle, male dominance and the concept of a sky god. From the first threat of the spear to the current threat of nuclear power, the paradigm remains the same - male superiority, in the name of "God", controlling and dominating nature, women and children.

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We have evidence from matrifocaled societies that people lived based on the belief in regeneration.

• Egg shaped graves found in Sardinia - resting place for the dead awaiting rebirth
• Death was not feared and was a part of life, not it's opposite ("energy is neither created nor destroyed), energy changes form, so we change form when we die.
• Ancients celebrated death and accepted it as a change of form rather than "the end"
• The first humans on this planet, felt, experienced and saw deiety as the great mother - a goddess.
• She gave birth to all form, all was birthed through Her.
• Three faced Goddess, the original trinity - Maiden, Mother and Crone (The cycle of the Mother's great round of life) -- later co-opted by Christianity.

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We need to reclaim the Crone in our death process. (demonized as a snaked medusa who turns "men" to stone and had to be killed)

The Crone is absolutely essential to the cycle of life. When we deny her - our experience becomes what it is now - a dissociated death urge - violence in many forms such as war and pornography pereptratred mostly by men towards women and children. We suffer from the tremendous denial of the Crone's power.

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The cave as the female womb; the mother as a pregnant earth; the magical fertile female as the mother of all animals; the Venus of Laussel standing with the horn of the moon upraised in her hand; the cave as the female tomb where life is buried, painted blood red, and awaiting rebirth.

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These tens of thousands of years of human culture were shaped and sustained by communities of creative, sexually and psychically active women— women who were inventors, producers, scientists, physicians, lawgivers, visionary shamans, artists. Women who were also the Mothers— receivers and transmitters of terrestrial and cosmic energy.

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The established patriarchal institutions all have a vested interest in keeping the individual mind disconnected from the experience of cosmic oneness, because this disconnection is patriarchy. The bulk of patriarchal industries— drugs, alcohol, entertainment media, fashion and cosmetics, pornography, the tourist business, polyester-suited politics, drive-in religious sermons, interstate freeway systems, you name it— exist and profit solely by selling momentary diversions to multitudes of “quietly desperate people,” seeking anesthetic escape from the pain of personal alienation.

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When we say that women created most of early human culture, we are not trying to sound radical. The evidence is there, quite tangible. When we realize how many basic life industries were the inventions of women— cooking, food processing and storage, ceramics, weaving, textiles and design, tanning and dyeing, everything related to fire (e.g., chemistry and metallurgy), the medicinal arts, language itself and the first scripts and glyphs, grain domestication, animal domestication, religious imagery and ritual, domestic and sacred architecture, the first calendars and the origins of astronomy, and on and on— then we don’t need to project our imaginations far back into the past to confirm these inventions. They are still all around us today, they constitute our world. Stolen and mechanized by several thousand years of patriarchal exploitation, most of these inventions have been turned into grossly alienated and profiteering mass-market industries.

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We have only to look around us, to see his vision for us: Robots. Computer hearts. Satellite missiles. Ground zero. Cruising nuclear penises targeting cities in barbed-wire bondage. Our flesh has never been good enough for him; his babies are all quite metalloid. And these are our new bodies and our new worlds. He has so abstracted himself from the female imagination and the cosmic-material “fetters” of Mother Nature that he is just about to blast himself entirely out of the picture. And everything with him.

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Paleolithic people, like many aboriginal people today, did not know the connection between intercourse and pregnancy; the male role might have been seen as “opening” the womb, but the pregnancy itself was seen as resulting from a magical intercourse between the mother and the spirit world— or it was seen as a parthenogenetic act, the woman as spontaneous and autonomous creator of life.

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Death is the powerful dramatic mystery equal to Birth— and both are overarched and contained by the Great Mother. This concept of a female earth as the source of cyclic birth, life, death, and rebirth underlies all mythological and religious symbology; it is the source of all religious belief. It is important to grasp the time dimension involved: God was female for at least the first 200,000 years of human life on earth.

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From this, we can see the absurdity (and the political cooptation) of the notion of a male God-Father making human beings from clay, or dust. The biblical image is stolen without shame from the earlier Sumerian and Babylonian Goddess creation stories. Such a patriarchal version of creation is very recent; the facts of women’s experience of life are primordial. It is woman who goes through the sacred transformations in our own body and psyche— the mystery-changes of menstruation, pregnancy, birth, and the production of milk. It is woman who first shaped a seed into food, earth into pottery, fire into a tool, the struggle for survival into human culture. Woman as procreator and producer-creator. Women’s mysteries are blood-transformation mysteries: The experience of female bodily transformations magically fused with her conscious and willed transformations of matter. Matter: the mud: the Mother. She transforms herself

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In women’s brains there are unique neural links between the forebrain and the cerebellum, which allow sensations of physical pleasure to be directly integrated into the neocortex, or high brain center. This explains why some women experience orgasm so intense that they enter “religious” trance, or altered states of consciousness. And this ecstatic female orgasmic experience, in which the physical and the spiritual are fused and realized as one, is at the core of all mystical experience. This is why, in the original religion of the Great Mother, body and mind and spirit are always integrated.

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This is a Pelasgian creation myth:

In the beginning, Euronyme, the Goddess of All Things, rose naked from Chaos, but found nothing substantial for her feet to rest upon, and therefore divided the sea from the sky, dancing lonely upon its waves. She danced towards the south, and the wind set in motion behind her seemed as something new and apart with which to begin the work of creation. Wheeling about, She caught hold of this north wind, rubbed it between her hands and behold! the great serpent Ophion. Euronyme danced to warm herself, wildly and more wildly, until Ophion, grown lustful, coiled about those divine limbs and was moved to couple with her . . . so She was with child.

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Ancient people believed that power resided in images themselves— or rather in the resonance between the image and the thing imaged— and this belief still lives in all of us; symbols continue to have great power over the human mind and heart.

 

[Guest Quanty]

We actually live in a feminine world call patriarchy. 

The divine masculine as yet to be discovered in his full potential. 

[Hotaka]

We need to balance the right and the left of society within ourselves, that is kundalini awakening.

[Vladimir]

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We need to balance the right and the left of society within ourselves, that is kundalini awakening.

I agree, I just wanted to point out where we're out of balance.

[Vladimir]

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We actually live in a feminine world call patriarchy. 

The divine masculine as yet to be discovered in his full potential. 

Would be interesting to hear what you consider to be a "feminine world"

[Guest Quanty]

We are educated on the Right side of the body and the Mind. 

So focusing on the right side will bring to the surface the feminine, the strong will, etc.

So in conclusion, women have the upper hand being born of a woman they don't need much training in how to be a woman. 

 

On the other hand, men are educated on the same right side, but they learn how to be a man from foreign sources. So the majority of men in today's society, about 80% are not straight, even if they are married. Deep inside others built the man in them. 

Most very developed men in the right side are just pussyboys who want to fight and the majority are aggressive. 

The divine masculine is misunderstood in society, it is the stability, the side that does not need to prove himself because he already believes in himself, the calm, the balance, the fearless. The feminine is the side that always wants more and more, the strong, the point proving, the cowering, etc. 

 

 

[StephenK]

Ambiguous word A  causes ambiguous word  Y. Blame, blame, blame! Haha, am i right? 

[Vladimir]

Someday you will see that's it's the mother's love you have been so longing for all these years.

[Hotaka]

@Vladimir Why not, why not balanced, it still stands alone, it hasn't split apart, it isn't moving between frames. We need to weave them together like a basket, the male is the vine and the female is the math of the spiral of the basket. The male must bring the energy to bear to direct the resources correctly into the weave, and the female is already herself, and must be followed by men to be worthy of expression. She would be a feminist if she masculinized herself without recognising her need for a male, and so she needs the help.

Sorry that's just my poetry, yes you are right, I am a terrible reader and couldn't read the post above, I am probably needing self expression mostly, LOL.

[SgtPepper]

I am for balance.

Contemporary feminism sometimes can comes off as anti-man though and is only pro-feminine.

I prefer egalitarianism. Nobody discusses issues faced by males.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men's_rights_movement

 

[Faceless]

Thought seeking security in thought is the root of all the worlds suffering.