The World Will Be Saved By the Western Woman
By Debbie L. Kasman
2010, the Dalai Lama proclaimed, "The world will be saved by the Western woman." He understands that women have a critical role to play in shaping the future, and he believes that when women come into power, it will catalyze a momentous shift in culture which will evolve our world.
We've been dominated by a masculine culture for millennia. In order to compete in the world, women and men alike had to master a logical and linear (left brain) power system. This power system gave us a great deal of protection and allowed us to create new technologies at an unprecedented rate. But we've been so busy developing our logical and linear masculine sides, we've forgotten to develop our feeling and compassionate feminine sides. Because of this imbalance, we are in a time of worldwide economic meltdown, our planet is ecologically imperiled, and violence and war are a way of life. We've convinced ourselves that we need to crush the competition, that only the strongest and the fittest will survive, and that killing others is not only justified but also necessary. (We've even convinced ourselves that killing nearly 300 innocent children while they play soccer on a beach, go to school, or shop in Gaza is necessary and justified, too.)
We are a world completely out of touch with its feminine side.
If we want to live in an enlightened world where we understand deep in our hearts that cooperation is necessary for our survival, that compassion, kindness and empathy are critical skills for the future, and that dropping bombs on others and killing children through acts of war are forms of insanity, we'll need to reintroduce the feminine to our world.
We have a long way to go but there's a great deal of hope. More and more men and women are becoming disillusioned with the world as it currently is and are beginning to recognize that our masculine culture is no longer meeting our needs. More and more men and women are beginning to see that we desperately need to re-balance the world by flooding our culture with the feminine because our masculine world is out-dated and even archaic. In fact, it's detrimental to our survival.
Women, along with men, have a critical role to play in shaping our future. When men and women work alongside each other in cooperative and balanced teams, each accessing their feminine sides more deeply, we'll catalyze a momentous shift in our culture and we'll completely evolve our world.
The feminine, viewed as a luxury in the traditional world, is now essential for our survival.
Debbie L. Kasman is author of the book Lotus of the Heart: Reshaping the Human and Collective Soul and she blogs weekly about topics that pertain to spirituality, education and women's interests. Visit Debbie on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/DebbieLKasman Subscribe to Debbie's blog to receive a free chapter from her book at http://www.debbielkasman.com.
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2010, the Dalai Lama proclaimed, "The world will be saved by the Western woman." He understands that women have a critical role to play in shaping the future, and he believes that when women come into power, it will catalyze a momentous shift in culture which will evolve our world.
We've been dominated by a masculine culture for millennia. In order to compete in the world, women and men alike had to master a logical and linear (left brain) power system. This power system gave us a great deal of protection and allowed us to create new technologies at an unprecedented rate. But we've been so busy developing our logical and linear masculine sides, we've forgotten to develop our feeling and compassionate feminine sides. Because of this imbalance, we are in a time of worldwide economic meltdown, our planet is ecologically imperiled, and violence and war are a way of life. We've convinced ourselves that we need to crush the competition, that only the strongest and the fittest will survive, and that killing others is not only justified but also necessary. (We've even convinced ourselves that killing nearly 300 innocent children while they play soccer on a beach, go to school, or shop in Gaza is necessary and justified, too.)
We are a world completely out of touch with its feminine side.
If we want to live in an enlightened world where we understand deep in our hearts that cooperation is necessary for our survival, that compassion, kindness and empathy are critical skills for the future, and that dropping bombs on others and killing children through acts of war are forms of insanity, we'll need to reintroduce the feminine to our world.
We have a long way to go but there's a great deal of hope. More and more men and women are becoming disillusioned with the world as it currently is and are beginning to recognize that our masculine culture is no longer meeting our needs. More and more men and women are beginning to see that we desperately need to re-balance the world by flooding our culture with the feminine because our masculine world is out-dated and even archaic. In fact, it's detrimental to our survival.
Women, along with men, have a critical role to play in shaping our future. When men and women work alongside each other in cooperative and balanced teams, each accessing their feminine sides more deeply, we'll catalyze a momentous shift in our culture and we'll completely evolve our world.
The feminine, viewed as a luxury in the traditional world, is now essential for our survival.
Debbie L. Kasman is author of the book Lotus of the Heart: Reshaping the Human and Collective Soul and she blogs weekly about topics that pertain to spirituality, education and women's interests. Visit Debbie on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/DebbieLKasman Subscribe to Debbie's blog to receive a free chapter from her book at http://www.debbielkasman.com.
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