DUALISM & A WOMAN'S AUTHORITY


THE PATTERN OF OUR THOUGHTS
Patriarchy created not just a social structure for the human race, but a thinking structure becoming the one and dominant way by which ideas and thoughts would develop for the next 4000 years.  These ideas and thoughts were eventually written into law and taught through education over and over again until they became part of our human DNA.  Patriarchy was firmly established enough BEFORE the creation of Western Civilization began in Greece and the Ancient Near East (Israel, Modern day Turkey, Iraq, Etc)…which eventually was the thoughts and ideas passed down to us here in the USA.
Patriarchy was not created over night.  It was a process that took around 2500 years.  The important concept to note with this is that there were two ways in which our society was changing during the formation of what we call patriarchy: external structure of the human race as well as internal structure of the human psyche or what some would call soul.
The System of Patriarchy was created for many reasons, with the full consequences not being seen nor understood by our ancestors. Yet, once this wheel was set in motion, it gained momentum as the outward structure started to play with our inward identity of the soul. Patriarchal thought, or you could think of it as Inner Patriarchy – that which became the dominant structure of the “inside” of whatever it is that makes up a person, did not happen over night, but took thousand of years to get imbedded into our DNA.  Yet, imbed itself it did.
A RADICALLY DIFFERENT WAY OF THINKING

What our ancestors once saw as One, the Soul found in ALL on the Earth and with Earth Her/Himself – probably seen much like the two intertwine-able strands of DNA- had now been separated into two, creating a duality that had not existed before.

The Dance of Life

NOTE: It is important here to note how our ancestors most likely thought, before Patriarchy was formed and thus informing their thought process.  They most likely did not look at the world and see two distinct sides, but just the interconnectedness of all of life.  This is so foreign to our Western thought process and one I believe we can and must practice at getting outside of…and the reason I am doing a series on the reality of duality.  Because until we can get back to the fact that there is a duality in life, we cannot see how that duality is really the path to the Oneness of all on the Earth.  

The issue we run into with looking back at history is that we “look” at history and assume they must have thought with our thought processes.  We try to fit their methods and thinking into our modern day lens, which has taught us these people were primitive, naive and uneducated.  Instead, I have had to challenge myself to step outside of my training about our ancestors and let them speak to me from their own stories, trying to meet them in their world and their world view. This is not an easy task, but one that can be done.  Now, back to our post for the day.

The creation of this duality allowed the One to be divided into two parts.  And what is divided into two parts can either be reunited in unity or It can be divided against Itself.  Unfortunately for the human race, we chose the second method.