A Deeper Look at Patriarchy
March 8, 2019
By Steve Beckow
I’d like to leave memes behind for the moment and look more deeply at the worldview we call “patriarchy.”
Patriarchy is one of a number of perspectives that arise from egocentrism – the view that “I” am what’s most important in any one situation.
Ethnocentrism, temperocentrism, and anthropocentrism are examples of its extensions into ethnic group, era, and species.
These views result in service to self. They’re based on a false view of life – that life is by nature a competitive struggle for existence in which only the strongest survive. Turns out life is very different from that.
Whatever the case, when egocentrism is applied to men as a gender, it becomes androcentrism. We also call it “patriarchy.”
Laid bare, that philosophy is that men are better than women. Period. Full stop.
Of course, that mushrooms out in all directions – to deprive women of the vote, the right to dress as they please, choose the man they wish to marry, drive a car, have a bank account, earn as much as a man – on and on the list goes.
None of this will survive into the higher vibrations.
Perhaps think of it for a moment. A low-vibrating, dense philosophy leads to a low-vibrating, dense individual. As Sri Ramakrishna used to say, we belch what we eat.
Patriarchy doesn’t inspire us to the heights. In fact it degrades us.
I know for a fact, having visited the higher dimensions, (1) that this way of life will not exist there. Patriarchy cannot thrive or exist in the rarified vibrations of higher-dimensional love and bliss.
If people with an unloving attitude gained access to the higher realms, they’d feel as if they were discombobulated, with nothing registering clearly, in a setting of light too bright for them. (2)
In the end, those who insist on being patriarchal will have to stay behind. There’d be no other avenue possible.
A world free of patriarchy? Free of the other “isms” too?
In service to self – yes, to an appropriate degree – but also for the most part to others. Based on an accurate view of life, that we’re all One. That we’re all equal. That we have the right to realize the future of our dreams without being contained or restrained. A vision with a future.
I’d rather not turn it into an “ism.” That’s so confining. I simply want to say that to realize ourselves – which is what Ascension is all about – we have to keep expanding; controlling others is restrictive and contracting – as well degrading.
Bless the ego that served us so well when we were warring on each other throughout the ages. But this is an era of peace and inclusion, not of war and exclusion. There’s no inner circle. There’s only one large circle.
Love is universal – that is, inclusive – by its very nature, but it also allows us our free will. If we want to remain in a world of patriarchy, we can.
Moral of the story? To my patriarchial friends, I say, we’re betting on the wrong horse. Patriarchy has no future. From a man who’s famous for holding on to stuff? Perhaps consider letting it go.
Footnotes
(1) In a year of love and bliss, from the 4th-chakra heart opening on March 13, 2015 to its fade-out in Jan. 2016. Why not stay there? As Michael advises here:
Steve: Can you help me make sense of returning to my interdimensionality while not [leaving the group]?
Archangel Michael: It is very simple: Visit; don’t stay. (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, May 6, 2013.)
AAM: You know that enlightenment is right there in front of you. It is yours to access. But if you are in service, you will not choose to live there. (Ibid., Feb. 14, 2012.)
On spiritual experiences and the dimensions:
Steve: The space that I call transformative love, what dimension is that?
AAM: It is the Seventh Dimension.
Steve: Then what dimension is bliss?
AAM: It is between Eight and Nine.
Steve: And ecstasy?
AAM: Twelfth.
Steve: And what about exaltation?
AAM: Then you have moved beyond.
Steve: What is beyond? How many dimensions are there, Lord?
AAM: Twelve. (AAM, Jan. 20, 2016.)
I have a book that talks about the 21st Plane; hence my question about dimensions.
Most of my experiences have been truncated to allow me to continue to serve; for example:
Steve: The experience [of the Self] at Xenia, Mother, was that truncated?
Divine Mother: Slightly, yes. … It is to keep you in sync with your readers… But let me be very clear about that. If you had seen the light as it actually is, yes, a million, billion suns… You would have simply departed. …
We don’t mean die but you would have departed the life that you have designed – yes, with us, for yourself, for the service you are providing – you would have departed and simply said, ‘I do not need to do this. I will just simply sit in the bliss of love and good luck, everybody!’” (Divine Mother in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Oct. 26, 2018.)
(2) “Should a man try to live in that rarified spiritual air [of a higher plane than Col. Lawrence occupies] who carried still in his being the uncleansed stains of earth his sufferings would be terrible, as intense as the joy of which he would be capable when he is cleansed of them.” (T.E. Lawrence through Jane Sherwood, medium, Post-Mortem Journal. Communications from T.E. Lawrence.London: Spearman, 1964, 58-9.)
“The worlds above us are even richer in light and happiness. If I go up there (and I can) I find it too bright; the light hurts my eyes. And the vibrations are so refined that I can’t respond to them!
“So I reverse gear and return to this world – which suits me just fine!” (Mike Swain in Jasper Swain, From My World to Yours: A Young Man’s Account of the Afterlife. New York: Walker, 1977, 24.)
“One cannot rise much higher because one loses consciousness. Accompanied by someone of greater development, one can go farther afield; but, if one goes much higher than one’s own awareness, a dreamy state comes on and nothing registers clearly. I was taken traveling in this way so that I would understand it.” (Harry Dodd in Paul Beard, Living On. How Consciousness Continues and Evolves After Death. New York: Continuum, 1981, 128.)
Source: Golden Age of Gaia
March 8, 2019
By Steve Beckow
I’d like to leave memes behind for the moment and look more deeply at the worldview we call “patriarchy.”
Patriarchy is one of a number of perspectives that arise from egocentrism – the view that “I” am what’s most important in any one situation.
Ethnocentrism, temperocentrism, and anthropocentrism are examples of its extensions into ethnic group, era, and species.
These views result in service to self. They’re based on a false view of life – that life is by nature a competitive struggle for existence in which only the strongest survive. Turns out life is very different from that.
Whatever the case, when egocentrism is applied to men as a gender, it becomes androcentrism. We also call it “patriarchy.”
Laid bare, that philosophy is that men are better than women. Period. Full stop.
Of course, that mushrooms out in all directions – to deprive women of the vote, the right to dress as they please, choose the man they wish to marry, drive a car, have a bank account, earn as much as a man – on and on the list goes.
None of this will survive into the higher vibrations.
Perhaps think of it for a moment. A low-vibrating, dense philosophy leads to a low-vibrating, dense individual. As Sri Ramakrishna used to say, we belch what we eat.
Patriarchy doesn’t inspire us to the heights. In fact it degrades us.
I know for a fact, having visited the higher dimensions, (1) that this way of life will not exist there. Patriarchy cannot thrive or exist in the rarified vibrations of higher-dimensional love and bliss.
If people with an unloving attitude gained access to the higher realms, they’d feel as if they were discombobulated, with nothing registering clearly, in a setting of light too bright for them. (2)
In the end, those who insist on being patriarchal will have to stay behind. There’d be no other avenue possible.
A world free of patriarchy? Free of the other “isms” too?
In service to self – yes, to an appropriate degree – but also for the most part to others. Based on an accurate view of life, that we’re all One. That we’re all equal. That we have the right to realize the future of our dreams without being contained or restrained. A vision with a future.
I’d rather not turn it into an “ism.” That’s so confining. I simply want to say that to realize ourselves – which is what Ascension is all about – we have to keep expanding; controlling others is restrictive and contracting – as well degrading.
Bless the ego that served us so well when we were warring on each other throughout the ages. But this is an era of peace and inclusion, not of war and exclusion. There’s no inner circle. There’s only one large circle.
Love is universal – that is, inclusive – by its very nature, but it also allows us our free will. If we want to remain in a world of patriarchy, we can.
Moral of the story? To my patriarchial friends, I say, we’re betting on the wrong horse. Patriarchy has no future. From a man who’s famous for holding on to stuff? Perhaps consider letting it go.
Footnotes
(1) In a year of love and bliss, from the 4th-chakra heart opening on March 13, 2015 to its fade-out in Jan. 2016. Why not stay there? As Michael advises here:
Steve: Can you help me make sense of returning to my interdimensionality while not [leaving the group]?
Archangel Michael: It is very simple: Visit; don’t stay. (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, May 6, 2013.)
AAM: You know that enlightenment is right there in front of you. It is yours to access. But if you are in service, you will not choose to live there. (Ibid., Feb. 14, 2012.)
On spiritual experiences and the dimensions:
Steve: The space that I call transformative love, what dimension is that?
AAM: It is the Seventh Dimension.
Steve: Then what dimension is bliss?
AAM: It is between Eight and Nine.
Steve: And ecstasy?
AAM: Twelfth.
Steve: And what about exaltation?
AAM: Then you have moved beyond.
Steve: What is beyond? How many dimensions are there, Lord?
AAM: Twelve. (AAM, Jan. 20, 2016.)
I have a book that talks about the 21st Plane; hence my question about dimensions.
Most of my experiences have been truncated to allow me to continue to serve; for example:
Steve: The experience [of the Self] at Xenia, Mother, was that truncated?
Divine Mother: Slightly, yes. … It is to keep you in sync with your readers… But let me be very clear about that. If you had seen the light as it actually is, yes, a million, billion suns… You would have simply departed. …
We don’t mean die but you would have departed the life that you have designed – yes, with us, for yourself, for the service you are providing – you would have departed and simply said, ‘I do not need to do this. I will just simply sit in the bliss of love and good luck, everybody!’” (Divine Mother in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Oct. 26, 2018.)
(2) “Should a man try to live in that rarified spiritual air [of a higher plane than Col. Lawrence occupies] who carried still in his being the uncleansed stains of earth his sufferings would be terrible, as intense as the joy of which he would be capable when he is cleansed of them.” (T.E. Lawrence through Jane Sherwood, medium, Post-Mortem Journal. Communications from T.E. Lawrence.London: Spearman, 1964, 58-9.)
“The worlds above us are even richer in light and happiness. If I go up there (and I can) I find it too bright; the light hurts my eyes. And the vibrations are so refined that I can’t respond to them!
“So I reverse gear and return to this world – which suits me just fine!” (Mike Swain in Jasper Swain, From My World to Yours: A Young Man’s Account of the Afterlife. New York: Walker, 1977, 24.)
“One cannot rise much higher because one loses consciousness. Accompanied by someone of greater development, one can go farther afield; but, if one goes much higher than one’s own awareness, a dreamy state comes on and nothing registers clearly. I was taken traveling in this way so that I would understand it.” (Harry Dodd in Paul Beard, Living On. How Consciousness Continues and Evolves After Death. New York: Continuum, 1981, 128.)
Source: Golden Age of Gaia
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