Grateful for WOTS and the community, but relentless male privilege is boring
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“I’ve been a listener and zoomer and community supporter of Wisdom of the Sages for over a year now and I’m grateful for the door that it opened into Bhakti yoga and the divine love of Radha/Krishna. Their requirement to chant at least one round of the astounding Maha Mantra for zoomers opened actual physical blocks around my heart and continues to deepen, in miraculous ways. I am truly grateful and hope my daily practice continues to deepen for the rest of my life. It may really save your life.
But a word of warning that reading and hearing ‘by men, for men, about men’ day after day will definitely require you to develop a strong stomach and steady mind. Patriarchy, the infrastructure of male supremacy, was instituted (according to anthropology, archeology, and now genetic analyses) about 5000 years ago, and put in place through violence and coercion, sustained through socialization since. The texts and purports are clearly part of the socializing vehicle. I have to keep moving through all this sexist and sometimes openly misogynistic nonsense to get to the actual divine teachings.
Deeper, in the more ‘confidential’ aspects we finally find the divine feminine in her glittering form; and it is clearly stated that to worship Krishna without Radha is a waste of time, they cannot exist apart. But these much more interesting teachings are not spoken of much at all. Krishna is reduced to ‘him’ to ‘lord’ and the divine feminine is made his aspect. It cannot be correct that unlike all else in the universe, god is one sided, has only one pole; this is an old trick we see repeated in other traditions to help keep the social order. Aren’t you tired of it yet? I am.
It is probably one of the best podcasts you will ever spend your time on, but I sincerely wish the increasingly boring eye of male supremacy could be challenged openly by the crew. It would be so interesting to know how the women of that time, who were stripped of power and rank to become appendages and property, sustained their faith and devotion, and what the female sages taught. We see some, like Sati, who chose to leave rather than stay, I’m afraid that may be the fate of others in this time too.”
Lisa Tuttle in Maine via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
09/21/22
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