A Balance of Feminine and Masculine Traits

In a significant and powerful way, each one of us is both male and female. Even though outwardly, we’re either male or female, inwardly we’re capable of expressing and experiencing the full spectrum of masculine and feminine traits. Whether the expression of each of these traits is met with joy or horror, whether we delight in our potential or deny it and bury it in our bodies, each trait continues to have the power and energy to mold our life.

Although we may claim we never had a say in the nature of our identity, the truth is, as creative beings, we determined, desired, and espoused, our identification, our personality, our selfdom. The magical (or grim) game of choosing our own identity empowers and disempowers us in myriad and subtle ways … until we decide to revise our identity by choosing again.

Those attributes we embrace, whether labeled positive or negative, make up our ego identity; those we deny become the basis of hating and judging ourselves and hating and judging others through the mechanism of projection.

We create our consciousness by choosing what characteristics to grasp or entwine ourselves around and what to reject and disown. It’s all a creative game we willingly partake in although the consequences, as I’m sure you appreciate, are legion and inescapable, UNTIL the moment we elect to embrace an altered identity. Then the exterior world adjusts swiftly and irrevocably to our revised decision.

So given these life axioms about creating identity, let’s open our eyes to the world about us.

What then is the cause of what we see occurring in the world at the present moment. The financial abuses, the daily destruction by sophisticated, high-tech weapons, endless wars, coups, the canyonesque gap between the super rich and the impoverished, industrial farming poisoning those who eat mass- produced foods, supermarkets stuffed with genetically modified “food” products undermining health,. failed schools that produce graduates with no life skills, a health care system based on harmful drugs, heavily polluted air and water that sickens everyone that breathes and drinks, oceans that are becoming cesspools --- who is responsibility for this disaster of untold dimensions? This ever creeping calamity of the Industrial Age that has made Mother Earth toxic? Who or What has changed Paradise into Hell?

My answer: For the last five thousand years we (both males and females) have chosen to support the notion that males have the right to rule females. Most males have no problem with this idea; it becomes part of their identity that they are naturally or by God’s decree, or by brute force the superior gender. And women have bought into that notion and identify with those who must submit to male power over them, with some notable exceptions … until recent times.

Right now we are in a transition of switching from male to female dominion.

We have experienced five thousands of years of total domination of Planet Earth by an extreme form of Patriarchy, the systematic, conscious practice of awarding men power, wealth, property and the right to make crucial decisions for themselves and their family.

Patriarchy and hierarchy always go hand in glove. Where precisely does hierarchy reign? In the business world in general, in corporate board rooms and corporate offices in particular. In government at every level including our secret government (see National Security Act of 1947 for this horror); in schools from pre-schools to graduate schools; in churches, mosques, temples, synagogues, and ashrams; in corporations of all kinds (banks, chain stores, supermarkets), in insurance companies, in health care systems (public and private), in the financial markets, in the real estate markets; in non-profit corporations; in every branch of the military, etc. And patriarchy with its hierarchical prerogatives sleeps in the beds of many families as well.

What is the value system of unchecked patriarchy? Relentless Power Over others (Might makes right), the bottom line, aggression, violence, Fascism, Pure Capitalism, duplicity, spying, mafia-like intimidation (scare tactics), torture of enemies, relentless misinformation and propaganda, a penchant for retaliation and revenge, a perpetual deluge of public relations and advertising (continuous lying), and a breezy attitude that me or my buddy or my religion or my country are right even when we’re wrong and the fantasy or reality of f___ anything that moves!

Want to see it all played out. Turn on television! Its being acted out all day and all night.

Of course ingrained patriarchy instinctively pursues the systematic devaluation, degradation, and humiliation of feminine qualities and traits, so Unconditional Love, Honesty, Gentleness, Protection of the innocent, Nourishment of the dependent, Empathy, Compassion, Sharing, Crying and Grieving and Suffering, Art and Beauty, Intuition and Universal Truth are OUT! So they are ridiculed by macho men as traits of the weak and lowly, the feminine and effeminate.

Of course not all men identify with power, control, deception, and holding their cards close to the chest. But all men understand the macho stance and mask; probably most have practiced extreme patriarchy at some point in their lives.

And of course all women don’t identify with the positive, feminine qualities listed above either. Many have accepted a superficial relationship to themselves and others at the price of an authentic experience of themselves. Some, like some men, are overly emotional, overly jealous, overly possessive, overly controlling, or overly needy for approval.

But all of us have been forced to deal with or are privileged to benefit from the injustices and ruthlessness of patriarchy, and all of us have taken our particular stand concerning it in life.

Until now! In case you haven’t noticed, patriarchal tactics and gambits have been fully exposed for what they are, methods of intimidation designed to coerce others. The greed, the lies, the guile, the fraud, the hypocrisy of the suit-and-tie “professional” stance has been revealed, especially in the past decade.

In The Serpent of Light Drunvalo Melchizedek, who actively traced the journey, details how indigenous people recently followed the kundalini serpent energy from male-dominated Tibet, the power center of the earth for the last 13,000 years, to its new location between Chile and Peru the new home of feminine energy and power. This migration symbolizes the shift of power from male to female that has just begun.

Look at education. It is a telling development that females now outperform males in an educational system based on male values, especially in competition for grades and jobs in our patriarchal good-old-boys system.

You’ve no doubt noticed that our patriarchal, hierarchical system of education is fast dying, losing support as it fails to educate despite the enormous resources poured into it, the endless attempts at reform, experiments with magnet schools and charter schools. Despite the fact that the public is forced to pay more and more for compulsory, public, “free” education, its natural demise is part of the same transition from patriarchal, hierarchical, industrial, corporate power OVER system to the matriarchal, egalitarian, nature-based, power With, new paradigm that hopefully incorporates a balance of masculine and feminine traits in a new society.

For education it means a big change. It means harmonizing both masculine and feminine virtues by radically upgrading feminine values. Creativity rather than analytical, intellectual knowledge will become the basis for education, Nature instead of abstract Science will dominate the core curriculum, Communication and Cooperation, not “Keep Quiet!” and Competition will dictate operations, empowering Artistic, Creative Expression will replace Endless Testing, Intuition and Feeling and Joyful Movement will complement Thinking!

New Earth Institute is based largely on this switch to a balance of masculine and feminine traits within boys and girls, men and women, students and teachers. NEI’s values: Communion with Nature, Self-knowledge, Self-reliance, Self-expression, Cooperation and Compassion, Giving and Forgiving, Non-violent Communication, and Interpersonal Growth will form the basis of school activity.. Our education will be Holistic; it recognizes both feminine and masculine values and integrates and explores all the ways of obtaining valuable information: thoughts, feelings, intuition, and body movement.

We will have an outstanding academic program. Our studies will take an interdisciplinary approach and examine how the different branches of knowledge connect to form a holistic picture of the Holistic Universe. As all living things and the whole of Nature is connected in a cooperative, symbiotic way (the new sciences of Ecology and Quantum Physics are examples of new, holistic ways to study Nature), we will explore how people of all places, societies, and times are connected by a common psyche, common needs, and desires, and how different cultures and societies meet those needs and desires.

The beauty of mathematics will be used to enlighten nature, science, art, music, theater, and dance. Original scientific experiments will examine how Nature works. Art will reveal how different cultures interpret reality. Music will reveal not only its mathematical underpinnings, but how different cultures express their central values. Drama will teach us much about psychology, personality traits, personal relationships, human conflict and, in some cases, conflict resolution, as well as history, fantasy, and imagination. Dance will offer another way to express what is inexpressible with words. Beauty will shine forth in all areas and be created in all the arts.

With feminine values well represented in our curriculum, we will strive to let boys and girls, men and women flower fully and embrace the best of masculine and feminine traits.. Like Leonardo De Vinci, the model of Renaissance Man (multi-talented, multi-faceted), we will taste and sample all the academics and all the arts and bless our Mother Earth.