So, i have made up a term, 'the 'PATRIX'----see abovepost wherei talk about this. to reiterate, i qas going to use term 'matrix' but suddenly thoght of patrix. reason i dont want to use matrix for what i'm about to explore is tat, from the PAtriarchal perspective they view Nature as a trap, a seductice--always female--temptress enticing 'mle heroic spirit' away from his goal--the 'pure spirit'. so for example we have the
eastern terms/interpretations, 'MAya' and 'MAra' to mean 'illusion' and delusion'---ie., Nature-entanglement'engulfment' of th 'male mind'. 'matrix has definition, 'female womb'. so i have rather decided to use theterm 'PAtrix' to describe the patrirchal cage that oppresses, not just us, but all other species, and Nature itself. THAT is what i want to now explore:
where do we begin?
a really fascinating book called 'Shamanism: TheFoundations of Magic', by Ward Ruterford, argues that te male heroic fear of te female begins, or is prominent in male-heavy shamanism....!
The may surpise many people, because it's assumed that shamanism is our oldest spiritual primal beginnings. but not so. for shamanism came from Goddess stream.
According to Rutherford, male shamanism typically sawthe more open Goddess vegetative religious rituals here everyone becomes 'possessed' as a threat to his authority, and that his great enimies were female goddesses, usually 'underground' and at te bottom of the sea, etc.
Ruterford also stresses that shamanic revivals have always been with te well-off people, the middle classes, whilst Goddess orietned orgiastic rituals , with people of theland, women, slaves, dark-skinned people and so on.
let me explore difference between 'orgia' and shamanic ritual. in the former, ALL participants would eat a sacrament and have communal group ecstatic expression,in a celebratory way. where shamanic culture it is usually the shaman who performs the role as contacter of 'spirit world' or being 'possessed' etc
This not to say that in the Goddess steam there wouldn't have been shamns, usuall women. i am meaning when a RIVALRY happens between MALE-oriented shamanism and Goddess vegeatative religion. then happens a rift.
For when male authroritarianism happens in the rooe of te shaman 'middle-man' who claims only he can contact an 'invisible world', surely that is when this disenfranschises people from theirOWn ecstatic direct participatory freedoms. and this maybe the bluep-rint for patriarchal religions where we ALS have middlemen between us and actual sacramenal xperience....
more. mucx more to xplore about this PATRIX....later...
feel free to join in an get yer feet wet
eastern terms/interpretations, 'MAya' and 'MAra' to mean 'illusion' and delusion'---ie., Nature-entanglement'engulfment' of th 'male mind'. 'matrix has definition, 'female womb'. so i have rather decided to use theterm 'PAtrix' to describe the patrirchal cage that oppresses, not just us, but all other species, and Nature itself. THAT is what i want to now explore:
where do we begin?
a really fascinating book called 'Shamanism: TheFoundations of Magic', by Ward Ruterford, argues that te male heroic fear of te female begins, or is prominent in male-heavy shamanism....!
The may surpise many people, because it's assumed that shamanism is our oldest spiritual primal beginnings. but not so. for shamanism came from Goddess stream.
According to Rutherford, male shamanism typically sawthe more open Goddess vegetative religious rituals here everyone becomes 'possessed' as a threat to his authority, and that his great enimies were female goddesses, usually 'underground' and at te bottom of the sea, etc.
Ruterford also stresses that shamanic revivals have always been with te well-off people, the middle classes, whilst Goddess orietned orgiastic rituals , with people of theland, women, slaves, dark-skinned people and so on.
let me explore difference between 'orgia' and shamanic ritual. in the former, ALL participants would eat a sacrament and have communal group ecstatic expression,in a celebratory way. where shamanic culture it is usually the shaman who performs the role as contacter of 'spirit world' or being 'possessed' etc
This not to say that in the Goddess steam there wouldn't have been shamns, usuall women. i am meaning when a RIVALRY happens between MALE-oriented shamanism and Goddess vegeatative religion. then happens a rift.
For when male authroritarianism happens in the rooe of te shaman 'middle-man' who claims only he can contact an 'invisible world', surely that is when this disenfranschises people from theirOWn ecstatic direct participatory freedoms. and this maybe the bluep-rint for patriarchal religions where we ALS have middlemen between us and actual sacramenal xperience....
more. mucx more to xplore about this PATRIX....later...
feel free to join in an get yer feet wet