André Hofer - Heaven and Earth - 1 - Now

You see, it always takes two to tango: the antagonist of a powerful man is the man without power. The powerful man can admit his powerlessness to the same degree as your accepting your own power again.

Well then, let’s get going, men! We shall meet in the middle!

And thanks be to God, we still have our Sisters around!

It is high time to conquer the ancient games of power and powerlessness, demolition and self-destruction, self-importance and self-denial, excessive demands and comfort, control and resistance. The key-words here are courage, truth and integrity!

They are all available, all we have to do is to use them.

At this point you may want to tackle some more Releasing -sentences, if you feel like it.

I release/I let go of…

- all ramifications pertaining to the fact that nobody ever told me that I am a “Living Soul”, preventing me from identifying myself as my true Ego and person

- all ramifications pertaining to the fact that I have exclusively pursued profane goals so far and that I have put achievements above everything else

- my old one-sided reasoning logic and the over-activity of the left side of my brain

- my (bad) habit to express and convert the value of all living things in monitary terms and statistics

- excusing my masculine attitude with the fact that testosterone flows through my blood vessels

- all decisions not to fully accept my masculine power because I did not want to turn out like my father or my fellow males

- all ramifications pertaining to the fact that my life’s energy has gone to my head

- all decisions to withdraw myself and my masculine energy from life, to avoid conflicts and to amuse or side-track myself instead

- my ancient doubts whether or not I truly am a man

- all ramifications pertaining to the fact that I have sought to find my true identity in joining groups, clubs or other status symbols

IT IS TIME FOR HUMILITY NOW

Brothers, when we look at our world and its present situation, it should be quite obvious that we certainly do not have everything under our control. The events of the oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico (2010) and the nuclear disaster following the earthquake in Japan (2011) should suffice to illustrate this. Despite all technical knowledge available, it was not possible to plug the bore hole in the ground of the ocean for months respectively to get the reactor in Fukushima under control. And even before any solution was in sight, the discussions had already begun to find the ones responsible for those disasters, and who would have to pay out the financial compensation for damage and loss suffered. Hence, the questions were of economical and judicial nature, while the environmental contamination was in full swing. We could say in a figurative sense: while our Mother Earth, the Feminine, lay bleeding, politics and economy and the Masculine kept on fighting over monitary-, liability- and power-questions. This then puts more urgency on the following question:

How long more must the Feminine keep on bleeding before all these activities cease?

We may, perhaps, have to go far back in time, even as far as the beginning of human history, in order to understand the deep-psychological roots that are at the bottom of great imbalance which is today topical. In the Christian Book of Genesis stands written how God created mankind. We are told that God first created man, known as “Adam”. And because God did not want Adam to be alone, God thought to create another human being, namely “Eve”, made from one of Adam’s ribs; she was to be Adam’s subject. And God breathed life into both.

These few sentences contain important points, which we should try to analyse:

- firstly, the Creative Maker (God) is depicted as being masculine,

- secondly, God created man first (Adam),

- thirdly, God relised that Adam was lonely and

- lastly, God did not shape Eve from the same ‘material’ he had used to create Adam, but he used one of Adam’s ribs instead.

This story tells us that the universe was created by a masculine Deity, that Man as a masculine has a primary position in the world and was created directly from God or, figuratively speaking, “from one Man to another”. The Woman, the feminine, was originally not even planned; only after realising Adam’s loneliness God got the idea to put a playmate at Adam’s side, one could be tempted to think it was just for the purpose of ‘mere amusement’; and because God could not find the necessary material quickly enough, he had to improvise, and so a masculine rib had to serve in creating the feminine being. To recapitulate: Eve did not come directly from God, she was supposed to amuse Adam in his loneliness, and she had to be eternally grateful to him, for after all he had sacrificed his rib so that she could come into being, and so she has that deep-rooted desire to always be at the service of her Adam, her God . Yes, that is how it was, supposedly so, and how it was passed on over centuries and millennia, and thus, the interrelation between the sexes and their mutual Creator was clarified.

Dear Brothers, may I tell you what I believe? I am convinced that this story has been concocted by our Brothers a long time ago. And why? The simple and plausible answer would be that they wanted to have power and they wanted to control “in the name of God” both life and the feminine beings. Therefore, this creation-mythos was best suited for their aim; and so it has coined the masculine and feminine self-conception to an extremely high degree ever since. This is true not only for the individual human psyche, but also for collective ecclesiastical and social institutions, as well as for any basic normative structure.

That is why many male species still believe that they have a natural entitlement to women, that the women should ‘kou-tow’ to them, to adapt themselves to the male, and to be there, first and foremost, to guarantee that their male companion has a good time, to make a nice home for him and, of course, to bear him children, preferably male species, naturally! For women doing all these tasks is for most men without question just a matter of course and need not be appreciated or valued highly; after all, women have no place in the greater world affairs because men, from the outset, were always No. 1. Likewise, men have a direct hotline to God, the Father, and have been chosen by God’s grace to put order to the course of human history in matters of church politics, and to forgive sins of those who did not follow the Word of God.

While writing these sentences I am well aware that we meanwhile have come to live in a world, in which – thanks be to God! - more and more women are filling leadership positions, and more and more men abandon their “Pasha”-mentality (at least most of it). I realise this, and hence, we should not waste any more time on the topic.

Excursion

Eastern proverbs and philosophy look at mankind as a holistic Being.

There is some ancient knowledge about the correlation between spiritually-etheric and physically-materialistic matters. One is aware that every corporeal matter originates in the spiritual realm, e.g. the highest skyscraper exists first as an idea in the architect’s spirit. Something likewise is the case with us human beings: everything we experience physically has its origin in our spiritual-psychological realm, it turns into a physical shape, originating from the spiritually-etheric realm.

Yoga, as well as buddhistic and many other Eastern traditions, know a tenet called ‘Chakra-Doctrine’, according to which every human being has an energy system comprising various transformers. These energy-converters are directly connected to the physical gland system. Hence, one chakra is directly connected with the thyroid gland, another one with the pancreas and a further one with the thymus gland, etc.