God Is Yo Daddy! (but relationships are your truth)

Have you ever noticed the obvious overabundance of ancient and modern MALE "enlightened masters"?

Of course, there are a few identified modern female teachers. But, clearly, males seem to dominate this career choice and, since it’s the students that determine who is "enlightened" and who is not, I suppose it logical that such a choice would conform to the status quo.

But can status quo choices lead to “awakening”? Can the status quo save the world?

I doubt it (at least, based on the last 2000 yrs).

I always find it surprising how attaining transcendent insight, supposedly not available through conventional means, is taught in strict conformance to conventional paradigms. Therefore, to attain your blissful self-transcendence, seek out the male teacher. Let's face it, yang has dominated yin for centuries and male truth transmission is the accepted method of 'awakening.' Who am I to suggest otherwise?

As everybody knows, God is yo Daddy!

Of course, there's Hicks and Katie and that Buddha lady, but every paradigm needs it deviants to further strengthen the paradigm.

But what about the ancients? There are loads more male truth transmitters than female. So, waz up widat?

Transrelational Truth

Several years ago there was a medical study that demonstrated that if you give group therapy to women diagnosed with terminal cancer, they will increase their longevity by statistically significant levels. Simply through a depth of engaging with each other they seemed to have slowed, and for some even halted, the progress of disease (samples consisted of chemo and group, chemo and no group).

Statistically, women have always lived longer than men and that has been determined to correlate with an ease of relating that many women seem trained to engage with, as well as the depth of engagement women seem to initiate, often spontaneously (whereas, statistically speaking, men engage around football). Such relational processing seems to increase longevity and women seem to have a better grasp of this therapeutic 'talking cure' for stress.

However, that gap seems to be closing as more women enter the male dominated work force, where depth of engagement is avoided unless an outcome is sought. In the world of male work, engagement is essentially manipulative and outcome, rather than process, oriented.

There is no proprietary truth that you must have transmitted from the male master (or any master, for that matter). There is only the truth of deep engagement and that will aid you in negotiating the world and in transcending the world.

In other words, "It's the relationship, stupid!"

Thanks,
mikeS