What do we mean by Active? A misconception I hear about the Active Feminine – that a female athlete would represent her – tells me we need to amplify this concept. ‘Active’ in the context of the Sacred Feminine is not about how much one moves one’s body, or how actively we pursue the goals of…
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo A friend asked me if the character of Lisbeth in the Dragon Tattoo trilogy is an example of the Active Feminine. I hadn’t contemplated examples, and probably wouldn’t have thought of Lisbeth on my own, but when asked, I realized – yeah, she’s almost perfect. Especially the aspect of…
White Privilege is one predominant form of privilege in the U.S. , but the concept can be applied elsewhere as well. Such as: …
This list is based on Peggy McIntosh’s article on white privilege. These dynamics are but a few examples of the privilege which male people have. On a daily basis as a male person… 1. My odds of being hired for a job, when competing against female applicants, are probably skewed in my favor. The more…
Copied from http://resources.css.edu/DiversityServices/docs/parableupsanddowns.pdf (emphasis all mine) What makes an Up an Up and a Down a Down is that an Up can do more to a Down than a Down can do to an Up. That’s what keeps an Up up and a Down down. The Ups tend to talk to each other and study…
From the website: Meta History The Uses of the Erotic, by Audre Lorde (Extracted from Cool Beans) There are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise. The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or…
Leading from the Future as it Emerges Theory U is a change management method targeting leadership as a process of inner knowing and social innovation. It has been a valuable tool in organization development and social development. Developed in Europe in the 60’s, it has been elaborated upon by C. Otto Scharmer, in collaboration between…
[gs **] Who was “the sacred prostitute”? And what happened to the developing consciousness of humankind when people no longer venerated the goddess of love, passion and sex? So asks Jungian Psychologist Nancy Qualls-Corbett, early in her book The Sacred Prostitute. She goes on later: These questions bothered me. Much as I wanted to put…
Google ‘Sacred Feminine’ and you’ll find a mashup. A little of this, plastered over a little of that. Like all religious evolution, old forms given new meanings, meanings that serve ideological ends. Depending upon which ideology is wielding the plaster-brush, she may be utterly conventional or horribly shocking – from divinely maternal and cozy, to…