Major Paradigms in Human Evolution

A Sunday Short Post

Good morning beloved reader,

Elise Loehnen

’s book, On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

features this brilliant chart:

Although, rather than naming this era ‘Androgynous,’ perhaps ‘Conscious Balancing’ may be more fitting?

Androgynous means to have an appearance that is not clearly male or female. Perhaps ‘Conscious Balancing’ recognizes the need to bring back the balance between honoring BOTH the divine feminine and the sacred masculine energies within all human beings — both men and women — rather than having an appearance that is not clearly male or female.

In any case, Elise’s description of this era resonates: how it’s about soul/spirit self, ecological, inner marriage, and interiorized spirituality. Power with nature and power as Love. And Interdependence — a concept written about extensively by the revered Vietnamese Buddhist monk, Thich Nhat Hahn.

I often wonder if we are already in this new era? Have we passed the tipping point? And does that mean the era of the patriarchy is now complete?

Whichever era we’re now in, my own personal dharma includes shining a light on all that involves the rising and re-claiming of the Divine Feminine and bringing back the balance.

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And I will leave you with this soulful poem from Wendell Berry

The Peace of Wild Things

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.