Touching The Wound
The social system of patriarchy began with the male warrior culture and its rights to own property; the more property you had, the more things you were able to loot during raids and war, the higher your standing in this stratified system. We still have this cruel system only now we call it by the more acceptable name, the free market, capitalism.
It was as early as 3000 BC that women became a commodity, goods owned by her male lord who had the right to do with these possessions as he pleased. Here I will refer you to watch the ground-breaking four-part documentary series on the missing and forbidden history of women Written and Presented by Dr Amanda Foreman. Link here; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1tVtEMKGAY&ab_channel=DrAmandaForeman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1tVtEMKGAY&ab_channel=DrAmandaForeman)
Right now in the return of populism in such countries as Turkey, Russia, Poland, Hungary or Iran and the US, and many more, under such slogans as family values, traditional values, religious values, women, once again, are being forced out of life in society to the good old days of women stuck at home, ‘…to be chaste, obedient, and utterly beholden to their husband,’ forcefully brought into line by men to hold onto power for men. Hence, I will say as I have said before, ‘…step out of line ladies, step out of line.’
— Marek Peter Kaziniec
Separation of mind from body is our attempt to rise above our animal nature, and has installed a wound in our human cultures across the earth. Masculine consciousness seems to feel most easily adjusted to this way of being, at least in our Western civilization, but that just means the wound is ignored. We learn to ignore it as children, forgetting how painful that is as we take on the conditioning of our particular family and society. I believe that feminine consciousness doesn’t quite ever achieve the mind/body dissociation that patriarchy demands, putting women at peril almost routinely in our culture.
Across our society the situation seems to be getting more dangerous for our children. Both boys and girls were safer in my years of growing up in the forties and fifties, or at least so I imagine. Not that there were no dangers, but the present times seem to pose problems and dangers for our grandchildren we couldn’t imagine then.
