Man Whisperer – Women bring forth life but God is a man

This post is an exploration of a question to which I have no easy answer.

When did matriarchal control of the family shift to the patriarchal societies that are common today and why?

I picture the people who I have been referring to in this whisperer series were female or mother dominated for the sake of baby survival. What mama wants mama gets – not for herself but for the children.

If mama ain’t happy - ain’t nobody happy has the same instinctual origin for the time when life was toughest. Dominant males had fewer children because he couldn’t know the babies needs better than she and his decisions would not be as healthy for the family.

Male domination must have begun at the same time people began living in groups, larger than 100 individuals since infant survival sharply rises above that number.

Then women got together began working together the males would have been somewhat freed from hunting because they would have efficiently hunted in groups and more importantly the women would have helped each other sharing baby care and then the women were freed up for other acitivities including hunting. The men had less to do.

Now, men are bred to hunt and therefore approach all issues from the hunter psychology: aggressiveness, specifically goal directed. The good hunter dominates his prey and cannot relax from that instinctive posture any more than the nurturing bred women cannot relax her vigilance.

Incidentally, my theory of warfare comes from my belief that the men who were less needed for hunting food, hunted each other. War is instinctively driven and based on the characteristics of the best providers of earlier generations.

The idle men also incorporated themselves into domestic affairs and because the women who were bred for nurturing let them take over.

For the sake of our existence the women allowed the men to gain their way into positions of power within the family. The women have always been occupied with the children who needs 24 -7 care from the beginning of human time to now. As long as the women are barefoot and pregnant the men are not in danger of losing power.

The answer to my question was easier han I thought.

Thank you for listening.

Affirmations — Chew on these

When I read a good book for the second or third time the freshness and novelty smiles on me each time

I am not afraid of the unknown when I sincerely fulfill my obligations

I am more effective when I differentiate between knowledge and understnding

When I work alone I have the opportunity know myself

When I don’t entirely depend on the effect of my performance I am likely to have an effective performance

When I gape to future things I gape to folly

When I try to live everywhere I live nowhere

When I speak one truth at a time my speech carries greater weight

I have better judgment when I am slow and more deliberate

When I avoid the truth I have to chose between a hundred thousand forms

Altar of Thought

This post is dedicated to Buddhist concepts which I will share as I understand them. The many aspects of the Dharma are complicated and simple at the same time and the process of sharing information with you is a process of discovery for me.

Tibetan teachings are detailed, scholarly, and fiercely adhere to logic with an absence of dogma yet provides real answers to real questions about our existence which is my focus.

Of the four traditions within Tibetan Buddhism the Gelupka Prasingika philosophy is the most sophisticated and superior to any other worldwide.

Since childhood I was an observer of existence as changeable and interpretable phenomenon but not until studying Buddhist philosophy was I more than an out side observer of a system that made sense. The mother father and child heavenly family seemed to be a simple projection of the human family and any amount of faith could not hide the illogical.

Knowing of no other cosmology I became devoutly atheist immediately after college for close to twenty-five years while basically wandering in a spiritual desert. Humanism furnished the motive to make this world better if I wanted heaven, heaven had to be now because there was nothing afterward.

This is the beginning of a journey that is not to long but not short either but is very very very important.