Epilogue To The Masculine Era

These are exciting times for the world. The character, feeling, and the mood of the world are changing. For perspective, imagine that you are on a small boat at sea. You see and feel the waves, even the big rollers, as you are tossed about in your little dinghy. Yet, the mighty and far more powerful influence of the moon and sun go unnoticed. Your boat raises and lowers with imperceptible movement. You are unaware of the awesome changes in elevation that are going on around you. What is occurring in the world on the spiritual plane is nearly the same.

There are many parallels between the growth and maturity of an individual's spirituality and that of this planet's civilizations. For individuals, there are ups and downs, setbacks and advances, growth and decay, decadence, and aspiring spirituality. It is not much different for civilizations. The hope for both is that each would mature at all levels over the years, decades, centuries, and millennia and come to develop and express their inherent potential. Eventually, consciously.

Going back in time thousands of years, man walked away from his Earth Mother to make his own home, his own life, choosing his occupations according to his needs. This was the beginning of The Masculine Era. The "time of man," not woman,…but that would change.

It has been the chore of man to wrest a living from Mother Earth, not by living in the trees but by felling the trees to make lumber to build shelters. It has taken the brute force of men to conquer the physical world, and hurl his population over the planet by the force and power of his physical body and by his assertive, aggressive will.

Billions of us are now witnessing and often personally experiencing the external and internal turmoil that grips individuals and cultures as The Masculine Era comes to an end. The turmoil is personal and cultural because it involves a loss of identity and a way of doing business that has been familiar to the world since the beginnings of civilization. Man, individually and as a class, is becoming aware that he is in transition in the world. But he, as yet, has not figured out to what extent this transition will affect him. Like drunken brawlers, man continues to compete in the world at the expense of the planet, crippling and maiming bystanders as he wrestles a living from the Earth. He is about to pull the actual roof of the world down upon himself.

What is next? Years of transition from the dominating influence of the masculine to the persuasive and persistently assertive influence of the feminine. The transition years will give way to The Feminine Era.

The transition years began with the Feminist Movement in the 1960's. It has made tremendous changes in social consciousness, values, and personal behaviors. How did this occur? Quite simply by individuals changing their concept about "the place" of women in the world. Slowly men and women are realizing that there are no polarized positions of "him and her,” but of "us."

Women must become more assertive to replace the competitive, driving need for power and authority of men. There must develop an assertive consciousness of the feminine in all individuals. The power and mystique of the feminine and masculine already exist in each of us often as an undeveloped potential, which if used would make each of us more whole and complete as a person.

The feminine character and perspective will be necessary for the management of businesses, nations, and the world. Those men who continue to maintain the bravado of the macho male and do not grasp and use their own inherent feminine qualities may easily find that they are being left out of the play of civilization, the business of governing, and commerce. Brash masculine behavior, whether by males or females, will soon be obviously unproductive, even counter-productive. Competition that is pandemic, the sin quo non of "real men,” will be replaced with cooperation and coordination, so that there will be no losers - all winners - in most situations.

"Man" and "woman" are used rather loosely in this Epilogue. There are millions of females behaving as males in man's world. Women who ride the career ladder of public office and business frequently "out man" their male peers. Men often call these women "ball busters," castrating females whose behavior would be reluctantly condoned if it were done by another male - considered as part of the competitive action that surrounds his seemingly instinctual need to vie for power, dominance, and control.

We are entering a time in the development of our civilization where it is time for woman to tame and conquer the unruly nature of civilization with its unruly societies, governments, businesses, and value systems. In the early millennia, the world was like a wild horse that needed to be broken by a physically strong person - man. Now, it is ready to be trained by a physically weaker, but determined woman to till the soil.