Re-writing the masculine/feminine script

In the Monday mailbox . . .

There’s no way we can open up to all we have to learn, all we have to experience, unless we’re willing to let go of the idols of yesterday and the idols of today. The best protection from the next word of God is the last word of God. We take what we heard from God last year and we build a whole system around it, and then we sit there for the rest of our lives.

People who are not willing to change are not willing to turn away from themselves. What we’re in love with usually is not [the Universe, the Earth, the Mystery]. We’re in love with our way of thinking, our way of explaining, our way of doing. One of the greatest ways to protect ourselves from truth, is simply to buy into some kind of cheap conventionalism and call it tradition, while the great traditions always call people on a journey of faith to keep changing. – Fr. Richard Rohr (adapted and edited).

As our culture has quite correctly re-written the script for women from mother/ housewife to economic equanimity, the script for men has been ignored to their detriment . . .

The same issue is being explored by Sophie Strand in her fabulous book The Flowing Wand: Re-wilding the Sacred Masculine. From my perspective, Ms. Strand’s universal Weltanschauung is a long overdue view of an earth-grounded and purposeful masculine to the benefit, if not survival of us all.