The challenges of the moment - and there are many who are meeting it, accepting it, and responding to it, in the way not of men, but of women - the challenge to flower as individuals, neither as biological archetypes nor as personalities initiative of the male. There are no models in our mythology for an individual female. We are in this thing together and have to work it out together, not with passion (which is always archetypal) but with COMPASSION, in patient fostering of each others growth. Everything is changing, even the law of the masculine jungle. It is a period of free fall into the future, and each has to make his or her own way. The old models are not working; the new have not yet appeared. In fact, it is we who are even now shaping our interesting lives. And that is the whole sense of the present challenge: We are the ANCESTORS of an age to come, the unwitting generators of its supporting myths, the mythic models that will inspire its lives. In a very real sense, therefore, this is a moment of CREATION; for, as has been said: No one puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the wine will burst the skins and the wine is lost, and so are the skins; but new wine is for fresh skins. WE ARE TO BECOME THE PREPARERS, OF THE FRESH WINESKINS FOR A NEW AND HEADY WINE - OF WHICH WE ARE ALREADY HAVING THE FIRST TASTE. (Joseph Campbell: Goddesses - Mysteries of the Feminine Divine)
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 14:16:15 +0000
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