1. The Nature of Women: Transpersonal and Existential underpinnings of a new Paradigm of Development through the Lens of the Matriarchal Society
- Author
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Beach, Julie
- Subjects
Sex roles -- Analysis ,Matriarchy -- Analysis ,Patriarchy ,Archaeology ,Natural language processing ,Female identity ,Human development ,Women ,Health - Abstract
Authors note: This paper discusses male and female physical identity as a polarity. The author would like to recognize that gender occurs on a spectrum with individual functioning falling in areas that cannot be defined in terms of purely male or female. The author also wishes to make known her own disbelief in gender roles, acknowledging the trauma inherent in providing an established expectation of role based on any form of exterior physical attributes. Women have held the reins of leadership throughout most of antiquity. Women-led cultures were peaceful, communal and valued men as equals. The replacement of the Goddesses with the singular male God; the misinterpretation of archeology and the misrepresented role of the feminine through modern male-dominated sciences has skewed what has been delivered as human history. Industrialization and supporting the goals aligned with male control might just be the downfall of the modern world. Left-brain dominance in doing, linear thinking, ownership, power, and if-then logic versus right-brain being, all-at-once processing, community, sharing, and authentic knowing become the shadows perpetuating struggle between the male/female structures both inside the psyche and out. Humanistic and existential practices reflect a feminine model of presence, spoken language, intimacy-in-relationship and promote egalitarian values reflective of matriarchal societies of the past. Models of human development that hold sacred the entire lifespan, as well as, examples for attaining a natural acceptance between genders, ethnicities and nations can be attained through transpersonal and existential practice. This paper explores a matriarchal development strategy to counter the subjugative role of patriarchy and proposes that the root of human suffering stems from the loss of the divine feminine in modern humans., Women led cultures of the past Women led cultures are referred to as matriarchies: By standard definition, a matriarchy is a 'family, group or state governed by a matriarch (a [...]
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- 2019