The result of patriarchy and misogyny is that BOTH women and men suffer.
For a long time, researchers couldn’t find a matriarchal society anywhere in history.
Patriarchy is OVER 5,000 years old…
They realized later that this was because they were looking for a society that was the opposite of patriarchy, where women in power oppressed and suppressed men.
But what they discovered is that MEN THRIVED in every society they found where women were empowered sexually, economically and politically.
The oppression and suppression of a gender, a race, ANY demographic of people is a REFLECTION of the oppression and suppression happening within the psyche of the individual human being. When we oppress another person, we fall victim to our own inner oppression. When we are the oppressed, we learn to play out both roles internally – creating contexts inside where our known reality of “victim” intrinsically requires the presence of an inner oppressor… it becomes the frame through which we relate with ourselves and the world.
THIS is a suppression of NOT ONLY a gender, race or demographic, but a suppression of an ESSENTIAL part of the human soul and experience.
We don’t have any real examples of what a human being would be like without the context and conditioning of patriarchy as our global reality.
But as we learn self-relationship, we can begin to tease open the feeling body as a gateway to unlock who we really are underneath all the history and conditioning.
This means we gradually cease to live the reality of oppression and suppression within our own bodies & minds…
And it starts with how we relate with the whole wild creature of our soul: our bodies, our cyclical nature, our inborn genius, our humanness, our divinity.
