Masculine & Feminine Spirituality
drawing on two sides of the brain
One of my viewers coined the term socio-spirituality to describe what I’m doing: taking a hard look at the reality in the world while questioning the reality of the world.
Both of these require a combination of masculine and feminine, like two feet of a body. Without alternating, you go in circles.
In socio-economics, the masculine alone is superiority, ego, competition. The feminine alone is guilt, self-sacrifice, self-negation. Neither is productive.
The feminine desire for inclusion leads to a low tolerance of conflict, making ideas equal rather than people, promoting unity and everyone getting along. The masculine impetus to action leads to a low tolerance of tension, demanding solutions now!
The most popular message is “I’m superior and so are you.” It’s the hook in politics, patriotism, religion, group membership. It made one form of ‘tonic masculinity’ catchy. It’s why ‘mass formation’ is appealing: “I’m too smart to have fallen for this and so are you. But those people …”
Psyops mixes truth with lies. The masculine recognizes the lie and throws out the truth. They win. The feminine recognizes the truth and swallows the lie. They win.
Religions combine superiority and guilt. The false feminine of humility accepts that God wants us dead for our sin. But the false masculine of exceptionalism says, “Not us. God likes us best.”
Religion pictures our bodies following us after death, in the form of a soul. My daughter says what scares her about death is the idea she’d still have a body, stuck for eternity as a separate self. It seems so lonely, floating in space.
False religions pervert forgiveness by mixing it with obedience. The false feminine accepts obedience and extends forgiveness. They win. The false masculine rejects obedience and forgiveness. They win.
A Course in Miracles: If pain is real, then God is not. If God is real, then pain is not.
To go further, if pain is real, then pain is God. Torture is the most powerful force on earth, more fearsome than death, if pain is real. Pain conquers God, who is helpless before it. If pain is real.
These are logical, masculine statements. But the method of questioning is feminine, indirect. It’s removing fear, guilt and blame—the unholy trinity—from your mind. The objective isn’t to end pain for you, but for everyone.
Course: Only forgiveness can relieve the Mind of thinking that the body is its home.
A Course in Miracles is the foundation of my spiritual thinking, but not the last word. It uses the Christian terminology of God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit—all male. If we’re collectively the Son, how can you have a Son without a Mother? Instead I think we’re collectively God the Mother, God’s creativity not creation, the feminine side of the divine Brain that allows for delight, surprise, joy, inspiration. Because One is the loneliest number.
The feminine without the masculine is impotent, lacking action.
The masculine without the feminine is ignorant, lacking knowledge.
To be purely feminine or purely masculine is to be incomplete.
An experiment: question the ways in which you allow fear, guilt and blame into your life. See whether it makes a difference in how you perceive things. To be realistic doesn’t mean facing up to the worst. Things might be better than we dare to dream.
To follow this, here is Imagination Seeks Attention:
In this far-ranging video, I look at whether AI art is Art, an article by M T Xen on Imaginal Hygiene, and a TED talk by Jill Bolte Taylor on My Stroke of Insight. Rob Brezsny looks at imagination as the magic wand that shapes your future and Caroline Casey says, "Imagination lays the tracks for the reality train to follow." The right side of the brain is what A Course in Miracles describes as revelation, with the linear left side describing miracles. I posit imagination as the corpus callosum between the two, passing love notes.
and one of my earliest YT videos: Kali & Ultimate Reality:
Using Kali as a prop, I question objective vs. subjective reality and whether the world represents our collective death wish. In Russell Brand's interview of Bradley Garrett, Prepare for the Apocalypse, I ask why surviving annihilation seems easier than the idea of inconveniencing some bankers and saving us all. The Greek meaning of apocalypse and crisis are explained from the perspective of the recent Greek revolt of Yanis Varoufakis against the economic troika. A spiritual view of social change is considered within an alternate possibility for ultimate reality.
*Woof*
For those who don’t speak golden retriever, it translates to: “I love how you alchemize investigation, mythology, spirituality, psychology, philosophy and humour in your videos, Tereza. Also, listening to your videos early in the morning is the right time to set you on the course for a good day. :)”
*woof woof* (My bestie has been recommending I read A Course in Miracles for like a decade and says I already practice what it teaches but, stupidly, as many books that pass through my fingers, I still haven’t picked that one up. Could your message finally nudge me to do it? I think so, I think so.”
The thing I could never figure out was how Christianity replaced Olympia. Judea-Christianity based on guilt, shame, asceticism, repentance, and redemption. Yuk! Meanwhile, the gods cavort on Olympus in a kind of Bronze Age version of the 80s TV series, Dallas. I'll bet Sunday school was a LOT more fun in the Roman era than later Christian indoctrination :)
Why would the Mediterranean world go Christian? What's In It For Me - WIIFM, the station everyone listens to.