When my little brother, who had been horribly abused, took his life, ( he was born because birth control sent you to...you guessed it.... "Hell Forever" ), everyone in the family sat around the kitchen table trying to help each other. We all considered the last "Hell Forever"....."If you commit suicide you go to "Hell Forever" and from that day on not one word of Catholicism ever sunk in ever again. ( After a deep rebellion I did come to realize that the core of all religions is the same and it is sacred no matter how corrupted the exterior of that religion is. I do not see anything wrong with being a Catholic. It just did not work for me. )-
These kinds of horror stories can make a person think. The nit picky, rigid rules of a patriarchal religion seem to lack half of what religion could be. The overarching grand principles can too easily get lost in hair-splitting ritual and dogma. I do not doubt that Jesus was a holy man, but humans have taken his basic, simple, as well as deep and profound, spiritual messages, and heaped on them centuries of corruption, so that much of this religion is badly obscured.
In this lopsided culture archetypal feminine thinking is missing. It is by nature very close to spirituality, so much so that religion should be run mostly by priestesses rather than exclusively by priests. If ever there is a time when macro-fuzzy thinking close to compassion and heartfelt feelings is needed, it is when somebody commits suicide. And to hear instead a patriarchal potentate in your own head, spouting its pompous proclamations, with all its micro-exact detail-oriented rigid thinking and judgments, did not seem right at all. Suddenly the fear and hell threats that Catholicism that instilled in my head gave way. It suddenly seemed a violation of all good sense. My whole family was at a very pivotal point. We could no longer accept the programming. -
A deep soundless sense rang through us. It rang through us in calm certainty and demanded to be heard. "We can no longer accept what we have been taught" it said. " We must take the helm and be the masters of our own ships. We must sail through life as God would want us to....to follow the inner quiet voice of the conscience and the soul. We must find our way as we ourselves see fit."
As I and my family all sat around the kitchen table contemplating together my brother's suicide we all knew in a deep intuitive way, that my brother was Ok, still existed, and was still loved by God, just as the spark of God in our hearts still loved him.-
One gets the same feeling of extreme inappropriateness and horror when one sees what international mega-corporations are doing to the people of earth and the planet today. Our patriarchal vertical power-mad system of pragmatic thinking divorced from holistic thinking has slowly created both patriarchal religious endeavor and a patriarchal science and both have their respective institutions. The one has already tightened its grip on spiritual thinking and the other is tightening its grip on our culture and economics as it relates to our physical survival. And they are together beginning to mean that the species human is slowly committing planetary suicide.-
Furthermore you can stick a biological human female in a male corporation and tell her to do male things and she is going to do it as best as she can. She is not going to be able to serve the Yin/feminine archetypal nature of thinking. That would take a revolution of a much wider and deeper nature. She would have to be holistic, which is close to holy, which means she would have to be ethical. And ethics and corporations do not seem to mix. So, I am asking, do we need an equal and opposite cultural equivalent to a mostly male corporation ( corporations which seem to dangle whole governments on strings these days ) and what would that be?
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