God’s Plan
What’s God’s Plan?
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How do we help Patriarchy to stand down?
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We are witnessing the end of Patriarchy
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Transcript: What’s God’s Plan?
We are the expression of God taking form on earth, and we are intermediate beings. Our evolution—both genetic and cultural—is not complete, and someday we will be a harmonious single macroorganism who fulfills the will of God in the physical plane.
Currently, the will of God is always true in the heavenly realms: the space where there is no time, no matter, and only God. There are no particular points of view or duality. Someday that will be equally true on this planet. It will be true on earth as it is in heaven.
Right now, we are dealing with the largest shift in our species, which is the shift from patriarchy to the way of the mother and ecology. We were once apes, and I believe that God, through principles, is guiding evolution to create His essence on the planet. That began with very primitive forms, but we can start with the apes as an example.
Apes are highly patriarchal beings. In the ape world, might makes right. As we developed from apes to cave people and beyond, the patriarchal principle was still necessary. Might needed to make right. There was no guarantee that our species was going to survive and not go extinct. We were up against saber-tooth tigers, the elements, and the struggle of trying to develop in incredibly difficult circumstances.
Transcript: How do we help Patriarchy to stand down?
Patriarchy is not a gender issue. By and large, patriarchy is a mindset that is promoted in both genders almost equally today. The way to deal with patriarchy is something I think about a lot, and it’s difficult for me to understand the best way we could interact with it. It is incredibly defensive. Any criticism, anything perceived even remotely as an attack, is responded to with extreme force. That’s the patriarchy’s way—it’s a fighter. It says, “Might makes right. I’m right because I’m stronger.” It overpowers anything that assails it. Attacking it only makes it stronger, and generally, the person who attacks it becomes it. What you resist persists. I’ve seen it time and time again—when you resist it, in fighting it you actually become it.
This makes it incredibly important to be careful in how we engage with patriarchy, because the goal right now is that it stands down and becomes more dormant in our species. Should a time come when the patriarchal principle is appropriate again, I’m glad the seed of it exists. But this time is a time for love, healing, and connecting. Right now, patriarchy is putting the planet through a meat grinder. It is incredibly destructive. Deep down inside, it knows it is time to stand down, that it needs to step aside for the good of what it fathered. Yet it has no way to conceive of how we would survive without the patriarchal principle of fighting and forcing people to do what needs to be done.
The patriarchy is very conflicted. It does not know how to surrender. Laying down its weapons is not in its vocabulary; it’s not part of its way of approaching things. What I am grateful for is that it’s not my business. I don’t have to make the patriarchy stand down—it’s part of the plan, and it will happen. It’s happening culturally and genetically. I suspect that a moment will come in the future when the futility of patriarchy’s approach will be obvious to everyone. Its approach to civilization can only end in tragedy and horror. The patriarchy is insane when it suggests we can reach peace through war. That idea is absurd. Yet patriarchy literally believes that through violence it will achieve peace and harmony.
It will never happen. It can only lead to more violence and greater tragedy. I don’t know if it will take a massive thermonuclear war or an out-of-control bioweapon, but eventually the insanity of patriarchy’s approach will be revealed. That might be the moment we collectively realize patriarchy cannot serve us going forward. Still, it is important to honor patriarchy and thank it for its service. Our species would not be here today without the principle of fighting and survival of the strongest. We would not have survived saber-tooth tigers or the elements.
But patriarchy struggles to face what it has wrought. It sublimates its sins—the genocides, the raping of cultures, the decimation of native populations, the forcing of religion upon people whose indigenous spirituality was far superior. The shame of this is completely denied and misunderstood. This suppression makes people volatile and extremely sensitive, which makes it difficult to talk about these issues. I’m not completely clear on what the solution is, but I know patriarchy must be approached delicately, and praised whenever it is willing to step down and allow a new way forward to emerge.
Transcript: We are witnessing the end of Patriarchy
So we are witnessing the end of patriarchy. It's in its death throes now. The last generations who hold strong to the principles of patriarchy are aging, and the younger generations don’t want it.
And I want to talk about what’s replacing it. What is the inverse of patriarchy? What is the yin to that yang? I have my own definition of it. I say it’s the way of the Mother.
The Mother is connected first and foremost to every member of the family. The Mother is concerned more about how we do things than what we do. She understands that governance happens where things touch each other, at the edges, and that governance is around needs—emotional needs on top of physical needs.
Mothers create flat organizations. They’re not hierarchical. People self-organize. People learn to connect inside to deeper principles and then operate according to those. We don’t have stovepipe organizations in the Mother’s approach to things.
The Mother doesn’t have a lot of hard edges. She is able to make what’s available work. Right now on the planet there is plenty of food, plenty of nice places to live, plenty of medical care, and most importantly, plenty of love and people to connect with each other. And yet, none of that is happening. The food is misdistributed, the healthcare is misdistributed, and most tragically, the love is misdistributed.
We have children overcrowded into various child-rearing establishments while unemployed adults sit at home watching television, essentially letting their lives slip by. We have an environment that needs care and people who need care. But because everything has to run through money, only things the market decrees profitable are considered viable. Capitalism, which is a manifestation of patriarchy—the patriarchy of things and services—perpetuates this imbalance.
The Mother understands that everybody’s needs are valid, and that relationships are governed by boundaries and needs. She tends her family like a gardener tends a garden. You do not over-reward a particular aspect at the expense of others. Instead, you create a cohesive ecology in which everything thrives and finds its own purpose.
This is the way forward. This is how we will operate as humans as the patriarchal principle dissolves out of our species. You can see this all over the place—it is leaving us both genetically and culturally. What we are witnessing on the other side are simply the death throes of patriarchy. There will be some booms, and that’s part of what we’re going through right now.