![]() Humanity no longer understands (or remembers?) that it is an essential integral part of the great wholeness of life. Our current commercialized material "modern" cultures reflect this sense of alienation and individualism represented by the separateness of a masculine god. In this way, humanity has succeeded in largely divorcing itself from the sacred interdependence of creation. From "up there," the dominance of a masculine god has made it permissible to develop a science that would "torture nature's secrets from her" and thus take control over our environment. The masculine consciousness is also behind the image of a divinity that belongs to the heavens. The over-bearing masculine mind has insisted that women mimic its attributes, play its games and thus suppress its own presence. It has pushed it into retreat, undermining the true expression of this much needed energy. Yet the insistence upon the masculine mind has intimidated the feminine consciousness. (3) For some, it was like trying to fit square shapes through a round hole - or through a circle where water should flow. (2) The feminine relational understanding was pushed aside to be replaced with the linear thinking patterns of the masculine mind. In other words, conditioned to manifest a masculine energy and consciousness. Our school curriculum were initially created by men so that young minds could be shaped to think in masculine ways. Our modern educational systems and institutions have also been in great denial of this integral energy and thus geared for the masculine mind. It was the fear of a "magical presence" within the female that fueled a deep repression over the centuries that has become a pattern - the denial of the subtle, the integral, the nurturing. Here we have the energy of hierarchical power against the energy of circular, relational flow. How did they gather? They gathered in witches' circles. (Others were purely innocent victims of gossip!) Yet one of the things they were accused of, amongst many, was of gathering and conspiring together. Many of these so-called "witches" were women who knew about herbs - how to heal and nurture people, and how to listen to nature. And the witches were yet another manifestation of female power that the ecclesiastical authorities could not tolerate. This was a masculine energy that for millennia had been parading and swinging its heavy paternal axe of hierarchical power. (1) The executioners were predominantly men who represented the church hierarchy. Realizing this reminds me of how during the 16th to 18th centuries, Europe witnessed the witch hunts that put to death tens of thousands of women accused of being witches. It no longer seeks one-to-one encounters - it flows like life itself. This energy no longer thrives through top-down power structures. It flows and works through organic, non-hierarchical systems, through networks and webs, through the threads that weave the wholeness of life together. That is, it does not thrive upon self-sufficiency but upon contact and receptivity through others. It tells us that the new energy is relational, not mechanical nor isolated. So what does this tell us about the new energy unfolding upon the Earth and permeating through humankind? Recently though I have been turning my focus upon the shift from the older values of competition, conflict, control and censorship, to the new values of connection, communication, consciousness and compassion. That is from hierarchical structures to networks and connectivity. For example, I have discussed how this unfolding energy is shifting human social systems - how we do things - from a vertical to a horizontal pattern. However, the focus so far has been largely upon the consequences of this new "energy consciousness," rather than on the qualities of the incoming energy itself. For a number of years I have been talking (amongst other people) about the new consciousness emerging - or rather unfolding - over these years. It's coming around again, as such cycles always do.
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