Tuesday, 26 February 2019
Friday, 22 February 2019
The Sisterhood is Powerful article
Back in the 1980s, feminists had the slogan, “the sisterhood
is powerful”. This seemed to be a good
idea and was used in the Greenham Common Campaign, when women surrounded the
Greenham Common military base in Britain to prevent it using cruise
missiles.
Yet women were not able to make the idea of sisterhood work
in their normal lives and the whole idea gradually faded away. So why not?
Perhaps the reason is that the whole patriarchal system has been
designed to break up the sisterhood.
Sisterhood works very well for the bonobo ape. The general public generally knows that the
closed related species to humans is the chimpanzee. But fewer people know that another ape, the
bonobo is also as closely related to us.
What is interesting in both species, is that the chimpanzee is a male
dominated and the bonobo is female dominated.
It seems the bonobo females dominate the males through sisterhood.
Like in humans and chimpanzees the male bonobos are larger
than the females. Yet if a male attempts
to use his larger size to bully or intimidate a female, every female bonobo
within hearing range will rush to her defence and drive the male away.
This is in total contrast to chimpanzees, where if a larger
male, bullies or beats up a female she is totally on her own and no other
female will dare intervene. So for this
reason it is easy for male chimpanzees to dominate females but with bonobos the
females have countered this through a powerful sisterhood.
So could this work for humans? It could, but a mentioned before the
patriarchal society has been designed to undermine the sisterhood through
marriage and taboos on sexual behaviour.
In most animals species, they only have sex when the female
is in season, but this is not true with bonobos, chimps, dolphins, humans and
some species of monkey. Bonobos seem to
have sex all the time because they use it to defuse tension. It seems that when bonobos have a dispute
they ease the tension by having sex together.
This includes not only sex between male and female but same sex as well. It seems all bonobos are bi-sexual. This is
why bonobos are called the, make love not war ape.
So it is patriarchal customs that prevent this. Most patriarchal societies advocate marriage
which means all females are encouraged to marry a man. So like with the chimpanzees in that
relationship in any dispute the man has the advantage of his greater size and
strength to get his own way. And as we
live in separate houses the woman cannot call on the help of her sisters if the
man was to use violence and intimidation.
In recent years many of the strict taboos about marriage
have eased and this has helped women. In
the past if a woman was married to an abusive man it was very difficult for her
to get out of the marriage. But now with
easy divorce and not a social stigma if a couple doesn’t get married, it means
that it is a lot easier for women to leave abusive men.
All patriarchal societies also have taboos about
sexuality. They do not encourage women
to have sex outside of marriage, and also up until recently all homosexuality
was made a criminal offense.
So what would happen if we were to follow the bonobo example
and have a far more liberal attitude towards sex? This was tried out in the 1960s in the hippy
movement with their love-ins and sex was freely available. Unfortunately, they were also liberal with
drugs and it was drug taking that destroyed the hippy movement because most
hippies ended up as drug addicts.
One of the ideas that come from the hippies and later the
New-Age movement was the idea of living in communes. What seems to happen was the in time the men
argued among themselves and left the communes and it end up with female only
communes.
So perhaps if women could live in communes and be bi-sexual
then they can come together in a powerful sisterhood.
Monday, 18 February 2019
What makes Men Evil
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Why are men Evil?
There is a case for claiming that most of the evil of the
world comes from men. After all it is
men who mostly fight wars, commit genocide as well as rape and murder. It is true that individual women also do all
these things, but for women it is unusual, whereas for men it is commonplace.
According to a study done by the Stockholm University ,
the difference in domestic violence between men and women is about 9 to 1. Nine men commit violence on women compared to
just one violent woman. But the figures
will be higher when talking about genocide and war. You can name a few women who fought in wars but
nothing compared with the millions of men who killed other people in combat and
genocide. The same is true for serial
killers.
So why is there such a big difference in the sexes? To understand this, we have to look to
nature.
When we study animals similar to humans, what we find is
that male animals fight and compete with each other for dominance and access to
females. In contrast to females who
rarely fight each other and devote their time in caring for their off-spring.
So we see that male animals are focused on aggression,
competition and fighting. Whereas, female
animals are more focused on loving, caring and nurturing their young and the
same is also true for human beings.
As children, boys like to play with toy guns while girls
like to play with dolls. Feminist mothers
have tried to challenge these stereotypes claiming it was caused by culture
conditioning. But their attempts to
change this in their children have failed.
In spite of the efforts of feminist mothers they found that boys still like
fighting and competing against each other, as well as enjoying violent films
and video games. Whereas, girls still
like to play with dolls and love cute animals.
So if that is the case, will we always live in a world of
war and violence? It would be true if
the world continues to be ruled by men. Unlike, most other animals who are dominated
by their instincts, we can choose to change our world if we want to.
In sociology there is a big debate on people’s behaviour
about how much does culture conditioning, influence our behaviour. As it is very clear that we are all very
strongly influenced by the culture we live in, but this is not the full story. We are also strongly influence by our basic
instincts. So in the nature V nurture
debate, both positions are true.
Yes, it is true that men’s basic instincts drive them to be
aggressive, competitive and even violent, but the degree men are like this, is
dictated by culture conditioning. The
military discovered this thousands of years ago.
In spite of what people might read about military history,
it is not natural for men to want to kill other people. This has caused a big problem for any
military commander because soldiers who are adverse to killing other people,
are useless in battle. There has been
many cases in military history where small armies of men have defeated armies
that were far larger
The reason for this is that a small army of psychopaths who
are so brutalised they can kill without any qualms. Will easy defeat a far larger army of
ordinary men who do not wish to harm or kill another human being. This is why; soldiers have to be conditioned
or trained to be killers. The trouble
with this is that solders conditioned to be like this will not only kill other
solders but can go on to kill women and children.
In the past military leaders trained their solders to kill,
by brutalising them and teaching them to hate.
New recruits were subjected to physical violence and then later
encouraged to do the same to other men.
They were also taught to hate the enemy they were fighting. In other words, the military had to train men
to hate and kill before they could become effective soldiers.
Nowadays, this conditioning has become more sophisticated by
the use of behaviourist psychology where killing becomes an automatic response
for solders. The problem is that these
soldiers don’t stay in the military and come back into civilian life, get
married, bring up children. So they end
up influencing their families and society as a whole, with what the military
has taught them.
Another thing that happens to solders who have fought in
wars is they become so traumatized by the experience that more solders who have
been involved in the horrors of war commit suicide afterwards, than die in the
conflict.
This then explains the big difference in violence between
the USA and Canada . Both countries are similar in their culture but
the levels of violence in the USA
are far greater. According to the Washington Post, there is: 1 death for every
28,000 people in the United States
vs. 1 death for every 215,000 people in Canada . That is about a 1 in 7 difference.
So why is there a big difference between the two
countries? The answer could be that the USA has a far larger military and use far more
solders to fight in wars, than Canada . The result is that the USA has far more men trained to
kill and are traumatised by war. Poverty
is also higher in the USA
and this also increases crime and violence.
So it is not surprising that the levels of violence in the USA are very
high.
It has been claimed that one of the most evil group of men
in the 20th century were the Nazi party in Germany , but few people ask why
they were like this. If we look at the
life of their leader Adolf Hitler, we find as a boy he was beaten frequently by
his step-father, who hated him. Then as
a young man he served in the trenches of the First World War which some historians
have claimed was the worse war men have experienced. As a soldier Hitler was treated for
shell-shock or what we now call, posttraumatic stress disorder.
Some people claimed that Adolf Hitler was mentally ill, and
looking at his early life, this is not surprising. Clearly his early
experiences had taught him how to deeply hate other people. This wasn’t a big issue while he was only a
common soldier but became a disaster when he ended up as leader of a powerful
nation.
Nearly all the leaders of the Nazi party fought in the First
World War and were trained to kill and were traumatised by this. They also experienced the humiliating, Treaty
of Versailles (1919) which condemned the German people to widespread poverty. The purpose of this Treaty was to punish the
German people for starting the war. But
not Germany ’s
leader, Kaiser Wilhelm II, who was the dictator who led the German people into
the war.
The Nazis who wanted revenge on the people whom they thought
wreaked their country. They started off
blaming the Jews but not the Kaiser.
Then they went on to have vengeance on the countries that defeated them
in World War One, which caused the Second World War. This showed that having ex-military men rule
a country was a really bad idea.
We didn’t get a popular Nazi party in Germany after the World War Two because the
Western countries became frightened of the Soviet Union . So they built up German industry because they
wanted the German people on their side against the Communist threat. So in the end of this war the allies
unwittingly got it right, and punished the leaders and not the people for
starting this war. The result has been
that since then Germany
has been a peaceful and prosperous democratic country that has never threatened
any other country with war.
So it is clear from this, is how cruel and brutal men became,
has a lot to do with how they are treated by other men. Warfare and poverty clearly brutalises men
and brings out the worst side of them. Then brutalised men go on to do the same to other
men including their own sons, creating a vicious cycle of hate and violence.
Yet this happens far less with women. Over the years women have been treated far
worse than men by the patriarchal system.
Yet, few brutalised women become killers. Neither have they formed
themselves into Amazon armies and fought back against their oppressors. Or have tried to conquer the world, which
armies of men have tried to do. Instead
women are more likely to try to civilize men and teach them how to love and
care for others.
Many male dominated cultures have seen women’s attempt to
teach boys and men how to love as a threat and discouraged men from mixing with
women. Telling men they will become
‘soft’ and ‘weak’ if they listen to women.
So if we want to live in a peaceful and caring world then
the answer is obvious and that is to allow women to rule our world. This is because women have far less interest
in violence and warfare than men. Women
will be more strongly influenced by their maternal and nurturing instinct to
not only rule a peaceful world but also a world without poverty.
So a world ruled by women will not only benefit women but
men as well, as they will bring out the better side of men and not brutalise
men as what happens in male dominated societies.
Saturday, 9 February 2019
Tuesday, 22 January 2019
Why we need a Goddess of Love
Although many people read positive thinking books, most have
problems making it work for them. One of
the reasons is because they have doubts that thinking positive thoughts would
give them what they want. So, negative
feelings of doubt will slow down any positive momentum that they are trying to
create.
When people with a religious background have similar doubts
its because they don’t believe god will give them what they want and
desire. Some may have used prayer, and
haven’t got any results doing this and so don’t have any faith in any sort of
mind power.
One way to overcome this barrier is to change the way we see
God. The problem about our image of god,
is that religions have given him or her a bad name. Priests discovered long ago that if they
portray god as judgmental and punitive, they could frighten the people into obedience. While also gaining wealth and power for
themselves.
An example of this is the concept of absolution. The idea was that if the priest didn’t
absolve you from your sins before you passed away, you would go to hell. The priests expected to be paid to do this
and were able to extort large sums of money from dying people by frightening
them.
This was a very profitable racket for the priests but in
doing so they portrayed god as being unreasonable, cruel and vindictive. Priests also defame god’s character in other
ways. When there was plague and famine
the priests told the people it was a punishment from god because the people
were ‘sinful’. So the priest used
natural disasters to frighten the people into obeying the Church.
This works very well for the priests but not for the people
exploited by them. We all have the gift
of freewill but if we are deceived by priests to believe god is angry with us
and wants to punish us, then we are tricked into using our freewill against our
best interests. As these very negative
ideas have created for people, a very negative reality of pain and suffering.
In the past people learned to fear god to the degree that
people in the past called themselves, “god-fearing people”. And in those times people lived in dire
poverty because they had such a negative world-view. Nowadays most people have a more enlightened
view of god, but the fear of god remains.
The tragedy of this, is that this is not how Jesus portrayed
god in the New Testament as he talked about a loving Father God. But the later Christians priests realized you
couldn't extort very much money out of people if they said god was a loving and
caring deity. So they preferred to portray
god like what is written in the Old Testament.
So we have a choice of seeing god as a judgmental and
punitive god as like portrayed in the Old Testament or as a loving Father God
as portrayed as Jesus. This makes a
difference because if we think god will judge and punish us, we are very
unlikely to want to reach out to him, for help.
But we might do so if we see him as a loving Father God.
This is certainly how Jesus wanted us to see god, but male
priests saw this as a bad business model for making money. This is why the concept of a caring deity has
to be promoted by caring people, like a priesthood of maternal women. It is caring women who are more likely to
promote the concept of a loving and caring deity than male priests.
We are far more likely to see a goddess as a loving deity
than a god. Goddesses like Aphrodite,
Venus, Astarte and Eos were all Goddesses of love, a god of love wouldn't be
seen as appropriate. So a maternal
MotherGod served by a female priesthood is the best way to restore the name of
God so She can once again become the loving and caring deity She truly is.
At the dawn of history there were many myths about a Golden
Age in the past where people lived in peace, harmony and had everything they
wanted or desired. To quote from Ancient
Greek myths.-
"The first age was an age of innocence and
happiness. Truth and right prevailed,
though not enforced by law, nor was there any magistrate to threaten or
punish. The forest had not yet been
robbed of its trees to furnish timbers for vessels, nor had men built
fortifications around their towns. There
were no such thing as swords, spears, or helmets. The earth brought forth all things necessary
for man, without his labour in ploughing or sowing. Perpetual spring reigned, flower sprang up
without seed, the rivers flowed with milk and wine, and yellow honey distilled
from the oaks."
There were similar myths all over the world in places like
South America and China .
One of these myths is the Garden of Eden
where Adam and Eve lived a life of harmony before it went wrong. This is an old story that pre-dates Judaism
and come from ancient Babylon .
The interesting thing about this, is that archaeologist have
discovered ancient Neolithic towns and cities that support these Golden Age
stories. The archaeologists Marija
Gimbutas has written a number of books about this. She points out that in the excavations of
Neolithic towns and cities archaeologists could find very little evidence of
conflict, war and violence. While at the
same time there were no big houses for the rulers or rich people as all the
houses were the same. Suggesting, that
people then lived in a very equal society.
At that time the people worshiped the Great Mother whom
gave birth to the world. Then, at the beginning
of the Bronze Age all this suddenly change when people began to worship gods
and then archaeologist discovered evidence of extreme violence and the start of
hierarchal societies in the Bronze Age layers. Where, defensive walls were
built around towns and cities and images of extreme brutality were found. Large palaces and temples were also built
with a minority living in large houses and the rest of the people living in
poverty.
So why would society live in peace, harmony and equality
when they worshipped the Great Mother but we had conflict and violence when people
began to worship male gods? The reason
is that when we worship God in the form of a Mother we easy imagine Her giving
us all unconditional love and everything we desire.
If we accept ideas like, “we create our own reality”. Then believing in a supreme and powerful
deity that loves us all unconditionally means we all have a very positive
altitude about the world we live in. This then makes it easy for us to create a
positive reality for ourselves without trying.
People then wouldn’t have to learn about positive thinking, because just
being taught about the Great Mother who loves them all unconditionally was
enough.
Then people decided to have sexual equality and worship male
gods as well. Unfortunately, male gods as we have seen throughout the
patriarchal age, create negative thinking.
This is because men are more conditional in their love as well as being
more aggressive and assertive. So people
began to introduce negativity in their lives when they worshiped male gods.
Other problems where that people no longer had faith in a
male’s god unconditional love. The
concept of a male god’s conditional love created negativity which would be made
worse when male priests exploited this.
By telling worshipers that god was angry because they didn't do what
the priests wanted.
So when the prayers to these male gods no longer worked,
because of negativity surrounding these gods, their priests make excuses and
blamed others including the Goddess worshipers.
So the blame-game would create even more negative thoughts
and feelings, and also hate and violence as the male priests encouraged their
followers to not only blame, the Goddess worshipers but hate them as well. This is because they were competitive and saw
the Goddess worshipers as the opposition. So the negative thoughts and ideas coming from
the god worshipers would also create negative feelings in the Goddess
worshipers when they encountered god worshipers.
Unfortunately, people then wouldn't have any concept of
positive and negative thought. All they
knew was that everything had suddenly gone wrong and no-one was sure why. The male priests would be sure whom to blame
for what was going wrong, and that would be everyone except themselves. While the holy women, would be confused and
uncertain because they never encountered a situation like this before.
So the male priests saw this as an opportunity in which to
exploit and used aggression, violence, deception and propaganda to get what
they want. Yet in spite of this Goddess
religions continued for thousands of years.
The reason was that the people who stayed with original religion of the
Great Mother, were still able to created a positive reality for themselves that
the priests could not touch.
This then makes sense of some of teaching of Jesus when he
said, “the meek shall inherit the Earth.”
Which so many people cannot understand and make the joke, “if that’s all
right by everyone else.”
This teaching by Jesus doesn't make sense in our patriarchal
world but does make sense if think about the limitless power of the Ancient
Great Mother.
What we have to understand with positive thinking is that
love and compassion are far higher vibrations than aggression, hatred, fear and
violence. So in spiritual terms the
unconditional love mothers have for children, animals and men, is a far more
positive than the aggressive and competitive nature of men.
This is why that before men can use aggression and violence
on women, he has to first drag down her from her higher loving vibration. Abusive men do this all the time. They start off being charming and
entertaining. Then the woman is
subjected to put-down jokes that slowly turn into verbal abuse that undermines
a woman’s confidence in herself.
Finally, when the abusive man has dragged her down so she feels
worthless, he can then subjected her to physical abuse.
This then means that a woman who can keep her vibration high
through her loving nature cannot be touched. This is because anyone who comes into contract
with her will be strongly influenced by the loving feelings she gives out.
Women can also be dragged down through sacrificial
love. It is natural for women to put the
needs of her children before herself, but both children and men can exploit
this maternal love to make a women feel guilty about not giving enough to them.
This is why when women gives unconditional love it is
important they have the same love for themselves and not the sacrificial love
that patriarchy encourages women have.
Because unconditional love is extremely positive, this
positive feeling can be used to give a person wealth and power. To stop this happening, the priests put out
the teachings that saintly people have to renounce the world and live in
poverty. So nuns, not only in
Christianity but other religions like Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Taoism,
have to take a vow of poverty.
This is the exact opposite of what we want. To make our world a better place we need the
most loving and caring people in positions of power. This is in contrast to priests who have
become extremely wealthy, with enough wealth and power to match kings and
princes. So according to patriarchal
religion it is all right for corrupt and deceitful priests to become fabulously
wealthy but not caring and loving women.
The point is that a truly loving person cannot be corrupted
by wealth and power. Loving and caring
women who understand the power of love is the biggest threat to the patriarchal
society. This is why patriarchy has
belittled women for thousands of years but now it is changing and women are now
demanding respect and power.
Women have the choice of learning to be like men and try and
be as aggressive and assertive as men.
Or go down the path or positive thinking and through love learn to raise
their vibration high enough to be One with the ancient Great Mother and her
limitless power.
Monday, 21 January 2019
How women can gain power
According to The Wall Street Journal in 2011, “Women
represent 40% of the world's labour force but hold just 1% of the world's
wealth.” These figures have since been
disputed but however we juggle the statistics, we are still left with a huge
gender wealth gap.
This is not new, throughout history the vast majority of
wealth and power has always been in the hands of men. Patriarchal religions claim it is the “will
of god”, while more scientific men will claim it is just nature. Men are
naturally more competitive than women and so of course they will end up with
more of the wealth and power of our world.
Women are also the child-carers and patriarchy claims that
women should be looking after the children and home while the man earns a
living. Though this has changed nowadays
with women trying to hold down a part-time job and look after her children at
the same time.
So in our competitive patriarchal world, what can women do
to change this and gain wealth and power?
Feminists have encouraged women to learn to be more
competitive and some women are able to do this.
They have gained wealth and power by behaving like competitive men. But although we have had famous and
successful women throughout history they have always been a small minority.
One of the biggest obstacles for women is giving birth to
children. Successful career women either
have to decide not to have children. Or
marry a rich man so she can afford a nanny. Marry a man who is willing to be a
house-husband. Or become superwoman and
somehow manage a career and look after her children at the same time.
This all makes it very difficult for women to have
successful careers. There has to be a better way.
The way women can gain wealth and power without having to
compete directly against men is through positive thinking. The problem is that we that we are told that
this is all airy-fairy, and in the real world we have to work hard to gain
money. This would be wonderful if this
was true, but this is not what happens in reality.
Yes, it appeals to our sense of natural justice that the
people who work the hardest get the most money.
Yet if we look around the world we tend to see that the people who work
the hardest are the least rewarded.
There are billions of people who are working long hours every day and
hardly get enough money to live on. While we have billionaires who have loads of
leisure time and never done a hard day’s work in their lives.
So how do people make vast amounts of money? The most common way it is done is to, “to choose
your parents wisely”. In other words,
the people with the most wealth in the world inherited it from their parents. Most people born in poverty stay poor. Very few poor people ever end up as billionaires.
So whatever way we look at it, the only way ordinary women
can achieve great wealth and power is through positive thinking but how can
they make it work? Many people who buy
positive thinking books start doing affirmation ten minutes a day and give up
when nothing seems to change for the better.
The big problem with positive thinking is that we all have
both positive and negative thoughts all the time. So if we spend ten minutes a day using
positive affirmations, it is only ten minutes compared with about 16 hours a
normal person stays awake during the day.
As many positive thinking books tell us, “we create our own
reality” and we create our reality through every thought we think throughout
the day and not just the ten minutes we have doing affirmations.
So doubt in the whole process is the first hurdle we have to
cross. Positive thinking would be easy
if we felt sure it works, we would just repeat positive affirmations all the
time and patiently wait for the results.
But if we don’t have any faith in the process, we are looking for signs it
is working and think negatively if we cannot see any progress. So we end up stopping the progression with
too much negative thinking.
Another problem with many positive thinking books is they
don’t always agree with each other. Some
authors claim that positive thinking is only about motivation, to use
affirmations to motivate us to go out and get things done. Although this can help, it puts women back in
the situation of still competing against men for wealth and power. Fortunately
there are other books which completely disagree with this idea.
There are positive thinking books with titles like, “Life
Was Never Meant to Be a Struggle”, By Stuart Wilde and “The Lazy Man's Way To
Riches”, by Joe Karbo. Books like this
have a more laid-back attitude to positive thinking.
As mentioned before hard work and determination are not the
ways to gain wealth and power. Yes, it
is natural for us to assume that the people who work the hardest will receive
the most money, but this is not what happens in reality.
So if we don’t have rich parents, how can we make lots of
money? Most of the time it seems through
luck, being in the right place at the right time. Yet, many positive thinking authors will
claim it is not just luck but positive thoughts that make us lucky. But it is also more than just luck, positive
thinking can make us more likely to exploit any opportunity when they
arise.
Using positive thinking to create luck can be a trap,
because some people use positive thinking with gambling and that can be
disastrous. Doing this is not
recommended and should only be tried by people who have been previously
successful in making positive thinking work for them.
The point about, creating our own reality, is that we do
this whether we are practicing positive thinking or not. Our reality is created by the day-to-day by
all the habitual thoughts we have.
Religions teach us we must have faith and belief but don’t
tell us how to acquire it. What they
don’t explain is that a belief is a thought we keep on thinking. In other words
it is habitual thought.
Religions are very good at instilling beliefs into their
followers and they do this through indoctrination. That is to say, they repeat the same idea
over and over again until it became a habitual thought in their followers, and
that is how beliefs are created.
This of course works best in children. The Jesuit maxim is "Give me a child for
his first seven years and I'll give we the man". So if we can indoctrinate children at an
early age, this indoctrination will stay with them for the rest of their lives.
Religions are not the only organizations that do this. Political parties and advertisers do the same
thing.
Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi
Germany, once candidly admitted, "If we tell a lie big enough and keep on
repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it”. Unfortunately, all political parties do the
same thing, and the reason they do this, is because it works.
Mother will leave their children in front of a TV to watch
children’s programs thinking they are safe.
What they do not realise is that advertisers target children’s programs
and brainwash their children into desiring unhealthy junk food or useless and
expensive toys. So the children start
off life with unhealthy eating habits and an erroneous belief that expensive
material goods will make them happy.
So in our modern world there are religions, political
parties and advertisers all trying to brainwash us into beliefs that do not
benefit us. So wouldn't it be better if
we take charge of our own lives and brainwash ourselves into having the beliefs,
that will make our lives better?
So we can brainwash ourselves into have any belief we want
through affirmations. So what
affirmations should we use?
This is a matter of personal choice as people want different
things, but mostly people want money, good relationships and good health. Most positive thinking books focus on making
lots of money, because that is what people are most interest in and are more
likely to buy a book about this.
Some positive thinking books say that affirmations have to
be very positive and the most positive statement we can make about money is to
say to ourselves, “I am a millionaire”. (Or billionaire, depending on how ambitious
we are.)
The problem with this is that although it is a very positive
statement, most people will see it as being untrue and won’t use a statement
like this. So it is better to use
affirmations that we feel more comfortable with.
We can say, “I want to be a millionaire,” which is a true
statement. Yes, it is not as positive as
say “I am a millionaire”, but it is a statement we can’t argue with.
We can then build on this and say things like, “I desire to
be a millionaire”, “wouldn't it be wonderful to be a millionaire,” then
visualize and think about what we can buy as a millionaire and what it would do
for our lives. After awhile we can use
the affirmation, “I am millionaire,” but only when we feel comfortable with
saying it.
It helps to be playful with this and enjoy it as a fun thing
to do. Though this can be difficult if we
are heavily in debt and don’t have a job.
Then the true statement would probably be, “I desperately want to be a
millionaire”. But this can be a help if
it connects us to our desires.
Thoughts became more powerful if they are connected to a
strong emotion and desire. So if we desperately
need money, then we can connect with that powerful desire as we say our
affirmations. Though, this can be
difficult for many people, as these desires can not only be desperate, but
painful as well.
Desire is a powerful force and needs to be used in a
positive way. Desires that are
unfulfilled can easy turn into hopelessness, despair and depression. For this reason many people actively try not
to think too much about what they want.
It is easier to accept the life we have, rather than have unrealistic
dreams.
So yes, the sensible thing to do is to never desire more
than what we think we can achieve. But
if everyone was to do this then nothing would change. It is the unrealistic dreamers who bring
changes to our world.
Certainly it is the attitude of most women in the
world. Yes billions of women are being
oppressed by patriarchal religions and customs but most women feel completely
helpless when faced with masculine power.
So it is easier to just complain about it and nothing else.
This then is the big advantage of positive thinking for
women. They don’t have to go out on the
street to demonstrate and be beaten up by men.
They don’t have to get involved in the, “dog eat dog” world of
patriarchal politics and business. They
can simply use their minds to get what they want.
Positive thinking doesn't even need faith or belief to make
it work, all that is needed is persistence.
It can just be statements about the things we most desire said every day
as often as possible. As mentioned
before, beliefs are only habitual thoughts, so by just repeating affirmations
often, will create new beliefs.
Another hurdle is that if a person is willing make
affirmations about their desires, then what also comes to mind, is how they can
be achieved. This is another trap.
There is a saying that the, “Devil in the detail” and
thinking about how to achieve what we desire, can bring up a lot of negative
thoughts. So if we use affirmations
about becoming a millionaire, but only have a low-paid job, then the whole thing
becomes unrealistic when we think about how to achieve this. This then creates a negative feeling of
hopelessness.
But if we look at the lives of people who have gone from,
“rags to riches,” we find a lot of luck involved in the way they became
rich. Luck plays a huge role for any
poor person in becoming wealthy, and luck can be created through positive
thinking.
So positive thinking is a whole new way of thinking about
the world. It doesn’t require force or
struggle, all it requires is persistence and patience and the ability to
receive what we have created through our thoughts and desires.
Thursday, 10 January 2019
Rasa Von Werder reads a new article by William Bond
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Reclaiming Matriarchal Power
The foundation of patriarchal power comes from two
concepts. The first is the idea that the
world was created by a male god as we see in patriarchal religions. The second is that we live in a materialistic
world where the most aggressive, competitive, ruthless and deceitful people are
the most powerful and successful. This
is promoted by patriarchal science which talks about, “the survival of the
fittest.”
The foundation of Matriarchal power is the concept that the
world is created by a Feminine deity who is the ONE, the one mind and
spirit. Because She is the ONE She is
the supreme power and women can connect to this ultimate power through love and
Oneness. People have called her the
Great Mother, Mother Goddess or MotherGod.
In our patriarchal world we are of course taught all about
patriarchal power and never about Matriarchal power and while women are unaware
of their connection to the Feminine One they remain powerless. They are taught the only way to gain power is
to be as aggressive and competitive as men and most women find this very
difficult.
In our patriarchal world some women try to connect to the
Feminine One through patriarchal religions and find themselves worshipping a
male god and being advised by a male priesthood. For this reason they find it difficult to see
through this patriarchal filter to connect to the Feminine One.
So if a woman can find her true connection to the Feminine
One how does it make her powerful? To
understand this we have to challenge two patriarchal beliefs. The first one is that we live in a
materialistic world. The second is that
love is a weakness.
The reason why patriarchy promotes the idea we live in a
materialistic world is because in the physical world the masculine is more
powerful than the feminine. Men are
physically bigger and stronger than women as well as being more aggressive,
competitive and ruthless than women.
Feminine power comes through Oneness and Oneness is found
through love. Back in the 1980s feminists
had the slogan, “the sisterhood is powerful.” This never caught on because
feminist tried to be like men and became more competitive. As the result they also became competitive
with each other and the sisterhood broke up through internal disputes.
An example of a powerful sisterhood is the bonobo ape. Female bonobos are able to dominate the larger
males through a strong and powerful sisterhood.
But a sisterhood is only possible if women love and care for each other.
This is why the bonobo is called the
“make love not war” ape as bonobos defuse aggression through sex. http://motherhoodinpointoffact.com/bonobo-animal-mother/
In our masculine world, love is seen as a weakness when
people are competing against each other for power. Competitive men talk about the, “killer
instinct”, and claim, “nice guys come last” when explaining how to achieve
success in our brutal patriarchal world.
Women are then told, they have to try and learn to be like this, if they
want to succeed.
But if women learn from the bonobo ape then a powerful
sisterhood become possible. So instead
of trying to be like men, they can connect to other women through love and the
sisterhood can be powerful in practise.
Love can also be a powerful political force. It should be obvious that the people would
vote for politicians who genuinely loved and care for the people they
represent. Instead, too many female
politicians have taken the masculine route and allowed themselves to become
corrupt. As the result they have taken
money from wealthy bankers and businessmen and have served their interests and
not the people.
Women want to care for all the children of the world, as
well as the sick, disabled and all the animals.
But women are very limited in what they can do to help others, if they
are second class citizens and so are poor and powerless in our patriarchal
world.
So if women do want to care for children, the sick and
animals then they have to obtain for themselves the power in which to do
this. Some women have tried to do this
through the patriarchal route believing that, “the ends justify the
means”. So they have either married rich
men or have learnt to be as competitive and ruthless as male politicians or
businessmen and obtained wealth and power this way. Some women can make this work, but mostly by
doing this, their power is still limited.
When a woman marries a wealthy man she can only influence
him, he still retains the real power. If
she becomes a politician and accepts bribes to further her career, she finds
she has to serve the interests of those who pay her and not interests of the
people she represents. If she becomes a
successful businesswoman she finds that if she gives away too much of her
wealth to help others, she loses her power and influence.
Rich and powerful women find themselves only giving money to
charities which only have a limited power in which to help others and even less
if they are run by corrupt administrators.
So women who take the patriarchal path to power always find themselves
alone and isolated and limited in how much they can do.
So Matriarchal power can only come about when all women are
empowered. But more than this, women can use the power of the mind. There are many positive thinking books that
teach us that a positive frame of mind can give us everything we want and
desire.
Many scientists claim we live in a total materialistic
world, where there is no god and positive thinking is nonsense, because our
thoughts have no influence on the material world. But science holds a dark secret and that is
quantum physics and the double-slit experiment.
The foundation of science is that they are rational and
impartial observers of nature and through this, the truth of anything can be
obtained by research and testing. This
is not what happened when the double-slit experiment was performed.
It would take a long time to explain what the double-slit
experiment is about, but you can find out on the internet if you are
interested. Double slit experiment explained,
The point is that it showed clearly that the thoughts and
expectations of the scientists running the experiment can change its whole
nature.
This means that positive thinking does have a scientific
foundation, our thoughts, expectations and beliefs do influence our physical
world. If we accept this, then this
nullifies the physical advantage that men have over women.
Yet again, positive thinking is framed in a masculine
mindset. So we have sportsmen and
businessmen promoting and using these ideas to beat their opponents, but it
doesn’t have to be like this. Positive
thinking doesn’t have to be competitive.
Women can use it a total loving and caring way and use it to benefit
everyone.
Positive thinking also makes sense of our world. Atheist when arguing against religions put
forward the point. “If we were created
by a loving god, why do we live in a world of suffering?”
The answer to this, is that the loving deity that created
our world also gave us the gift of freewill and through this freewill we create
our own reality. This is why patriarchal
religion create great suffering in our world because they never tell us
this. They keep it to themselves. So even though there are hints about positive
thinking in the Bible and other religious teachings, the priests don’t talk
about it.
Recently there has been a best-selling book by Rhonda Byrne
called, “The Secret” which is all about positive thinking, but why is positive
thinking a secret? In the competitive
patriarchal world, “you never give a sucker and even break.” So the people who are unaware they create
there own reality through the thoughts they think are powerless compared to
those who know this. So the rich and
powerful have kept this knowledge a secret to keep the common people and women
powerless.
Knowledge that our thoughts create our own reality began to
seep out in the 18th century in Austria
through the work of Dr Franz Anton Mesmer.
Who was able to perform miracle cures on his patients. He was very controversial and other doctors
stop him continuing his practise but his work was continued in the form of
Mesmerism which later became Hypnosis, when they took the healing aspect out of
it.
Mesmerism became popular in the USA in the 19th century and from it
evolved the New Thought movement. The
most well-known and controversial member of this was Mary Baker Eddy who was
the founder of the Christian Science Church.
Then in the 20th century the New Thought movement was changed
into positive thinking. The difference
between the two is that New Thought focused more on healing people while
positive thinking is more about how to make lots of money.
If we are able to accept the concept that, we create our own
reality, through the thoughts we think.
Then this is a big help to women in general, because positive thinking
doesn’t depend on physical size, strength or aggression to make it work.
This is why a Matriarchal religion would be a great help to
women, because it can worship a feminine deity and teach positive thinking to
empower women. It can also give a powerful message of love and Oneness.
Concepts like, “we create our own reality,” can overcome
masculine power completely. The argument
against matriarchy is that won’t be able to defend itself against violent and
aggressive men. But if we accept we live
in a world of mind, then women can defend themselves again masculine physical
force by not accepting it into their reality.
More than this, men will make themselves weaker if they
continue to use physical force, because mental and spiritual power is far
stronger than material power.
It is far easier for women to tune into the loving power of
the Feminine Creator because you find Oneness through love and harmony and in
spite of what patriarchal teaches, love is the most powerful and unifying force
in the universe.
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