Category Archives: Message From Elder George

Today’s essay will continue offering examples of the understanding of the indigenous people of the Americas, Africa, and the Pacific concerning gender and spirituality. To give yourself a measuring stick for the next several essays I ask that you refer to my essay Cubists, which I have linked HERE.

The emphasis of this essay focuses on American Indian opposition to ownership, especially ownership of land; a value structure opposite to that of Western and Asian thought.

Below are American Indian views on ownership.

Some of our chiefs make the claim that the land belongs to us. It is not what the Great Spirit told me. He told me that the lands belong to Him, that no people owns the land; that I was not to forget to tell this to the white people when I meet them in council.

Kanekuk Kickapoo

No tribe has the right to sell even to each other much less to stranger. Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Didn’t the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?

Tecumseh Shawnee

This is what was spoken by my great-grandfather at the house he made for us. These are the words that were given him by the Master of Life: “At some time there shall come among you a stranger, speaking a language that you do not understand. He will try to buy the land from you, but do not sell it.”

Aseenewub Red Lake Ojibwe

Look at me—I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

Red Cloud Sioux

Once I was in Victoria, and I saw a very large house. They told me it was a bank and that white men place their money there to be taken care of, and that by and by they get it back, with interest.

Maquinna Nootka Chief

One does not sell the earth upon which people walk.

Crazy Horse Lakota

The white man’s desire for possessions is like a disease.

Sitting Bull Sioux

My reason teaches me that land cannot be sold. The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon and cultivate as far as necessary for their subsistence and so long as they occupy and cultivate it they have the right to the soil, but if they voluntarily leave it then any other people have a right to settle on it. Nothing can be sold, except things that can be carried away.

Black Hawk Sauk

The greatest object of their (white people) lives seems to be to acquire possessions—to be rich. They desire to posses the whole world.

Santee Sioux

That last statement sums up the activities of the Western world. Not only does it have a desire to possess the whole world—it already owns it.

Every American grade school child learns that early European settlers bought the island of Manhattan from the Indians for $24 worth of trinkets. The inference is made that the Indians had no concept of value in letting the island go so cheaply. The Indians on the other hand wondered why the settlers would want to buy something that could be utilized freely.

European thinking obviously prevailed, and eventually Brooklyn, Queens, and all the other boroughs were purchased; then the states of New York and New Jersey. Eventually the whole country was purchased. The land of other countries was purchased as well. Now international financial interests own the entire world. Tecumseh’s question, “Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth?” has become a reality. Do you know of any free access to drinking water? All of the land and potable water of the world is now owned. The territorial control of the waters of the oceans includes 12 mile zones to 200 mile zones. Gifts from God have been taken from us by Euro-Asian thought and we have become indentured servants working for the right to get our daily sustenance of food and drink from those who own the world.

To all who read this essay regardless of where in this world you stand; realize that you toil more and more each day because the price of the world continues to rise. Each time world financial markets rise it means the value of the land and water has increased and you must work more in order to survive. The financial interests of this world have become your God. You must serve them or you will not eat.

We have accepted this way of life and adapted to it well. The major concern of the world is money, the economy, finances and ownership. The social and spiritual well-being of people has become irrelevant and does not garner mention in the media. Our interests focus on material matters; all other matters occupy a distant second place.

“What does it serve a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” The indigenous people of the Americas, Africa, and the Pacific understood the meaning of that message. They also understood the meaning of Paul’s message “There is no single gift that you have not received.” Too bad most of the Eurasian world can’t or won’t.

E.G.

Men’s Action will take a new direction. Part of the decision to alter course comes from the realization that in addition to my having written two books on gender this website has more than 100 of my essays, and more that six hours of streaming videos explaining and/or illustrating the principle of gender. If a person reads all the material that I have generated concerning gender, I doubt that adding a few more essays would alter his thinking on the subject. Therefore, this decision to move on with the knowledge at hand to expanded areas of understanding and application.

A shift in direction would not mean changing the message, but would instead alter its focus from an emphasis on the principle of gender to the practical application of this principle in our lives. Also, it would be beneficial to show the principle of gender in operation outside of the confines of Indo-European thought. By saying this I do not mean to denigrate in any way the positive spiritual teachings that have come from the East; however, peoples in Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific also had an understanding of gender, the need to respect mother earth and to worship God. I would like to touch on their social mores, traditions, and customs as part of an illustration of the universal understanding of gender and the respect that it develops for the earth and the power that created it.

As a person born in the United States I am particularly interested in the values, customs and mores that existed in this land before the arrival of the European. American education and media influence portrays the indigenous peoples of America—whom I shall refer to as Indians—as savages who attacked our wagon trains and in general tried to inhibit the natural progress of the Western world.

This essay and perhaps others to follow will contain some of the teachings, beliefs, and practices of those who roamed this land before us. As a basis from which to judge this material I recommend that you review my essay Cubists, which I have linked here.

The first selection is the words of George Copway (Kahgegagahbowh) of the Ojibwe.

I was born in Nature’s wild domain! The trees were all that sheltered my infant limbs, the blue heavens all that covered me. I am one of Nature’s children. I have always admired her. She shall be my glory: her features, her robes, and the wreath about her brow, the seasons, her stately oaks, and the evergreen—her hair, ringlets over the earth—all contribute to my enduring love of her.

The following is from Chief Santana of the Kiowa

I love the land of the buffalo and will not part with it.

Lastly we find the words of Wovoka of the Paiute

You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mothers bosom? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest.

These three selections show the love of the Indian for mother earth. They respect her and do not abuse her. Material accumulation is not a desire of theirs. They believe they live in an abundant world that has been given freely to them.

I hope you enjoyed reading the above. Subsequent essays will focus on the ethics and social etiquette of the American Indian.

E.G.

The media reported the following news in a 48-hour period this past week concerning health, government, and natural disasters:

1.A medical report indicated that the health of American women deteriorated on several fronts due to alcoholism, smoking, obesity, and stress.

2.France determined that 50% of its population is either overweight or obese.

3.Australia experienced severe flooding.

4.Civil disturbances took place in England.

5.Economic instability in Ireland reached a critical stage.

6.Elizabeth Edwards died of breast cancer.

These events while reported in the news media no longer seem newsworthy in the sense of creating an “oh my” response among viewers and readers; they have become routine.

Regarding the health report on American women, it indicated there are more cases of the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia, a rise in diabetes and high blood pressure, and an increase in binge drinking. The decling health of the American woman is only exceeded by the declining health of European women among whom the depression rate has reached 15%. Women all over the Western world have increased their alcohol consumption. Japanese women have quadrupled their alcohol consuption since the advent of the American occupation. Even though anti-smoking campaigns exist throughout the nation 18% of American women still indulge in that habit. There has been a tremendous rise in smoking by Asian women because more of them are entering the workforce, have disposable income and see smoking as “modern and liberated.” Remember the days when men prohibited their wives from drinking and smoking? Cyrrosis of the liver and lung cancer among women was rare at that time; so was depression. Venereal disease was a rarity among women except among prostitutes. Let’s remember the “modern and liberated” when we address Item 6.

Regarding French obesity and the sickness resulting from it, the United States also has a severe obesity problem with 39.8 million adults suffering from that malady and more than 57% of American adults classified as overweight. Diabetes and weight gain have increased in India, which now has 40 million diabetics. More than one-third of African women and a quarter of African men are estimated to be overweight, and the World Health Organization predicts that will rise to 41 percent and 30 percent respectively in the next 10 years. Close to 15% of the world population is now obese, and these rates are climbing everywhere as the Western way of living and eating spreads.

Regarding the flooding in Australia, every continent experienced severe flooding in 2010. North America had severe floods in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. In Europe severe flooding occurred in France, Romania, Serbia, Portugal, Poland and Hungary. Asia saw severe flooding in Singapore, China, and Indonesia. African countries Kenya, and Nigeria experienced devastating flooding. South and Central America saw severe flooding in Guatemala, Brazil, Argentina, Columbia, Brazil, and Peru. Severe flooding became routine throughout the world in 2010.

Severe civil disturbances have occurred in England. Civil disturbances have occurred with increased frequency throughout the world of Western style governments. In my last essay I indicated the following: Political turmoil is on the increase on every continent. Citizens are demonstrating in Thailand, Greece, France, Chechnya, Jakarta, India, and Venezuela to name the more noteworthy. I see no need to elaborate further here.

The critical state of the Irish economy exemplifies similar conditions in Portugal, Spain, Greece, Dubai, North Korea, Jamaica, Haiti, Brazil, The Sudan, and most of Africa. The United States has experienced the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. National economies are fragile at best and in a state of collapse at worse.

Of the six categories mentioned above, none received greater coverage than the news that Elizabeth Edwards died of cancer. She had battled breast cancer for many years but the cancer spread to her liver and she failed shortly thereafter. She had endured hardships such as losing a child, experiencing a divorce from a noted person, and battling an illness that became fatal. Other women have endured similar ordeals, but Elizabeth Edwards was wealthy and a nationally known figure.

The media treatment of Elisabeth Edwards symbolizes the perversion of values of Western thought. Of all the severe issues affecting society that took place in a 48-hour period the media focused on Elizabeth Edwards. Granted people like human-interest stories, especially about the rich and famous; Elizabeth Edwards was rich and famous and also had her breasts cut off. On the west coast senatorial candidate Carly Fiorina was rich and famous and also had her breasts cut off. The media did not comment on this un-natural condition of women whether poor or rich, known or not. Herein lie two major issues that contribute to the demise of the Western era.

The first issue is the un-natural lifestyle created by Western thought that results in physical, mental, and emotional conditions that are foreign to natural living. Societies exist in this world where women do not suffer from breast and cervical cancer and where mental depression and suicide are rarities. They also have no need for binge drinking and smoking. These societies raise children that do not require the drug Ritalin to function responsibly. Western thought considers these people to be primitive, third world, and ignorant.

The second issue has to do with the acceptance of Western society of all its ills. One of the female attributes is adaptability. The feminine principle will adapt to anything, and it is the responsibility of the masculine principle to see that it only adapts to what it best for itself and society. However, Western thought is feminine oriented; therefore, there are no limits as to what it will endure and adapt to. Items one through six of this essay address extreme and unnatural conditions that have received such widespread acceptance that they are only newsworthy for the day. Shouldn’t it be a major concern of society that weather conditions destroy an increasing segment of the world’s land area, that people suffer from increasingly poor health, that political instability continues to grow, as does economic instability? Lastly, women—the nurturers of the race—are in a state of mental, physical and emotional decline; shouldn’t this be a condition that would bring about major societal concern? Lets look at the term “modern and liberated” again and see why these conditions do not concern most of society.

Women are being indoctrinated and propagandized to believe that gender is a social construct rather than a metaphysical truth. They are told that they are “modern and liberated” and can do the same things that men can do. Their mental, physical, and spiritual deterioration gets blamed on other factors, which the great material god in Washington will supposedly take care of through the development of medical “cures” and enactment of political solutions. However, this god and the priesthood around it have created and fostered the very conditions that society in general and women in particular suffer from. Unfortunately Western thought accepts these conditions and continues to forge ahead with a self-centered materialistic lifestyle that continues to take its toll on all members of society.

Some people have awakened to the absurdity of the grossly materialistic lifestyle that Western thought has created and have begun to make change in their personal lives. They eat more natural diets, live a calmer and more spiritual life, enjoying the benefits of family, learn to live with less, and share what they have. These people represent a small but growing minority of people who hopefully will form the nucleus of a new age that will arise as the Western era implodes.

E.G.

Greetings everyone. It has been three months since I posted an essay and most of you probably wonder why. Our website was hacked into and Google put up a warning for people not to enter it as a precaution against a virus infection.

During that same period I lost the services of a devoted and highly competent web designer who moved on to other interests. I have since engaged the services of another competent designer who has repaired the damage from the hacking and has motivated google to lift their warnings. This essay will test the one remaining venue—the automatic sending of this essay to our subscribers. Let’s hope that all goes well.

During the period of quarantine on our website my second book A Gender Handbook for Western Man was published. It is not yet on the website; however you can order it just as if you were ordering Dear Brothers and Sisters: Gender and Its Responsibility and I will send you the new book. Postage and handling of $5 for shipments in the USA and $10 for overseas shipments is now required. You can add the postage by making a $5 or $10 donation as the case warrants.

This book contains 10 maxims of gender, and explains their functioning in the universe and in our daily lives. It includes 39 essays that I wrote over the last decade relating gender to various aspects of our societal activity. A Gender Handbook for Western Man clearly illustrates the Western lack of understanding of gender, the issues that arose from this lack, and the governmental activities created in its unsuccessful attempt to compensate for these issues.

After reading this book you will be armed with the knowledge needed to address the major problems concerning society, their cause, and remedy.

Getting back to the quarantine on our website for a moment, it did not unduly upset me as I have contemplated changing the direction of Men’s Action and saw no purpose in writing more essays and preparing additional videos until the clarification of this new direction.

Before elaborating further on the possible new direction, I will comment on my assessment of the Western world, which in essence is the entire world. Political turmoil is on the increase on every continent. Citizens are demonstrating in Thailand, Greece, France, Chechnya, Jakarta, India, and Venezuela to name the more noteworthy. Elections could not produce majorities in England and New Zealand. The prospect of a majority government in the United States is slim.

Governments can no longer afford the cost of services for activities people once provided for themselves. This is the major issue in England, France, and Greece and is becoming the major issue in America. The cost of government is breaking the backs of the governed. Eventually all Western governments will suffer economic failure, which in turn will result in political instability and then martial law.

The quality of life of the Western world is deteriorating as well. Prison populations continue to rise while depression and an assortment of mental illnesses continue to increase.

It’s over!

Men’s Action now needs to focus on how to live a more natural life outside of the system. What purpose does a philosophy, spiritual truth, or even theory have if it does not benefit humankind? It must benefit humankind not only in the conceptual sense but also in the sense of helping the individual to improve his lot.

Men’s Action planned for this activity more than a decade ago when it prepared its Mission Statement. The focus now needs to be on implementing the mission statement; in the process of serving the community it will build its membership.

Activities in that direction have already started. I have been given a slot on a Caribbean-American radio program in which I talk about family, proper nutrition and holistic healing. I have taken a course in pranic healing and have healed people and plan to offer these services along with others on a donation basis to those in need.

I have planned home economics programs and have roughed out marriage contracts to be used for those who want to start a family structure outside of the system.

The Men’s Action website contains 100 essays, six hours of videos, and offers two books. That information is more than adequate to explain the principle of gender the importance of family, and the patriarchal structure necessary to maintain it. The direction now must involve translating this information into practical help for the members of society.

Not everyone has the time to become fully involved in Men’s Action even if they believe in it fully as each person has their area of responsibility and obligation. I can appreciate this as I enjoy nature and believe in living in harmony with the environment, but my primary interests lie elsewhere. Nevertheless, each December I send financial contributions to a half dozen environmental organizations as part of my efforts to support the preservation of nature.

While I would like for each one of you to actively support of Men’s Action I know that you have other responsibilities. Perhaps you could show your support by investing in my books. As you read them you might be motivated to become more active and/or motivate others to become more active. If you cannot afford a book, perhaps you can handle making a donation.

Whatever you decide to do, decision time is at hand. You are in the midst of the collapse of a civilization that has lasted for 2,500 years. History is being made. Are you going to stand on the sidelines and watch it unfold and be sucked into the undertow of its departure or will you be a participant in the dawning of a new era? These are the only two options and they allow but one choice.

I look forward to your support.

E.G.

I greet you today with the Sanskrit word Namaste. Greetings are important, especially the thought that they convey. Hello conveys the thought that I recognize you or that I am here, but it is essentially free of any feeling; in many cases the friendlier Hi replaces it. I use Hi in most of my correspondence. However, Hi does not have deep meaning. Namaste on the other hand has depth; it means I bow to you.

That’s a beautiful thought to have in mind as we greet people. It has us defer to them and they in turn defer to us. The greeting imbues a sense of humbleness to all who say it.

For those who want the greeting of an organization to reflect power, then Namaste is ideal. Every saint, guru, prophet, and enlightened master in all religions preached and practiced humility. Humbleness is a requirement of the journey to the Godhead; it also enables a person to better serve his fellow man. Humbleness leads to spiritual power.

In a society where sports competitiveness has reached the level of wishing harm on one another, where competitors plot to injure each other outside of the event, and where the crowds cheer when an opponent is maimed in contact sport; an infusion of humbleness can do a lot to return a sorely needed sense of love and understanding for our fellow man.

Financial and professional competitiveness exhibit the same ruthlessness and wish for the undoing of others exhibited in sports. Businesses attempt to literally destroy the competition. Employees in their quest for promotion and advancement often deliberately work to denigrate those who appear to stand in their way of advancement.

Why this drive to outdo each other? Why the desire to win at al costs? Because the prize is money. Even fame takes second place to money; it becomes an instrument to earn even more money. Our grossly materialistic society makes the accumulation of money its highest goal. We live in a society that looks upon its fellow men and women as competition to be done away with instead of as brothers, sisters, sons and daughters to be loved, respected, and cared for.

It’s time to say, “I bow to you” to the man who has undertaken the responsibility of marriage and fatherhood. It is time to say, “I bow to you” to the wife and mother who devotes her life to nurturing the family. It is time to say, “I bow to you” to our elders. It is time to say, “I bow to you” to those who serve us and to those whom we serve.

An excellent start to negotiations with out “enemies” would be the greeting of Namaste.

The traditional way of giving the greeting is to hold your hands in front of the chest as in prayer, look in the eye of the person and bow slightly as you utter the word Namaste. If you can’t bring yourself to strike that pose then just say Namaste. If even uttering the word makes you feel self-conscious, then say Namaste silently to your self as you greet people.

In order to change the world we have to change ourselves, and a major step in that direction is to realize the divinity of all people and bow to it.

Namaste!

The feminine nature is responsive. It reacts to various influences to its senses and psyche and exists in a continuous state of responsive readiness. The female psyche in all species is responsive; a trait that enables it to provide the nurturing needed for survival. Since Western society has become increasingly female oriented it has naturally increased its focus on responsiveness.

Western governments are now judged by their level of responsiveness. In America the responses to 9/11, hurricane Katrina, the housing collapse, the machinations of the financial markets, and the BP Gulf oil spill significantly affect the evaluation of governmental effectiveness. Government activity down to its smallest levels such as cities and townships has become increasingly responsive. In addition to responding to fires, burglaries, and public safety matters, local governments now respond to domestic disputes, weather anomalies, academic performance, landlord tenant disputes and a host of day-to-day activities.

This increase in responsiveness does not seem to produce many positive results, but instead has created devastating negative conditions. By any measure, our responsive society is deteriorating. The incidence of divorce, adultery, incarceration, depression, and a plethora of physical maladies have increased. Academic performance, marriages, and morality have all declined. A closer look at the proper functioning of the responsive woman will indicate why society is experiencing these negative conditions.

A woman is designed to be responsive in order to enable her to provide the nurturing requirements of the race. She can only do this in a safe and secure environment that provides her with the wherewithal to function. The responsibility of the male is to provide the environment and means for women to bring forth life and nurture the race.

In the traditional home a woman would begin her nurturing when she awoke in the morning and continued it until she fell asleep at night. She emitted nurturing love to her entire environment. She did not worry about rent payments, matters financial, or her security. Men took care of these matters and many unseen matters such as developing the ethics that provide for the moral conduct that enabled women to live in a safe and secure environment. Manly responsibilities required planning, organization, structure and courage.

As the modern woman became “liberated” and had the opportunity to earn her own money, provide for her retirement, safety, and well-being she devoted less time to nurturing and more time to her own survival. This unnatural environment produced depression, the number one ailment of the Western woman.

Taking another look at our responsive governments we find that they lack planning. Six months appears to be a long-range plan for our government. It planned how to depose the Hussein government in Iraq but had little concept of what to do afterwards. This action is akin to a person desperately wanting a divorce but having no concept of what he or she will do afterwards. The present administration wants the government to do everything, which results in complete responsiveness and zero planning. A life of responsiveness is a life of happenstance, which will ultimately lead to its collapse.

The responsive woman who functions naturally and successfully is part of a team called a family, which is the fundamental unit of existence. In the mating ritual of all species of life the female indicates that she will provide the nurturing if the male will provide the environment and wherewithal for her to do it. That’s the deal. It’s very simple. That arrangement has provided for the propagation and preservation of the species since the beginning of time.

Western governments try to function without gender differences. They enact laws, which are an ineffective substitute for ethics. What we call primitive societies had very few laws. They did have ethics, which provided the basis for moral behavior and the mores and customs that held society together.

Western society not having extended family has created institutions for the care of people. Old age homes, orphanages, foster care, homes for unwed mothers, did not exist in most of the non-Western world. Even prisons were rare. Institutions cannot provide what the extended family does for human beings.

You have heard these arguments from me before and I won’t go into the details of the failure of each of our institutions. The point is that nurturing love can only be given by women living in a safe and secure environment that contains the wherewithal to adequately provided for the needs of the race. Only men can provide that environment.

The genderless society has substituted “care” for nurturing love and governmental institutions for manly responsibility. The result is a society yearning for love and security. It suffers from angst and is going mad.

To the men who read this essay, you can either decide to do nothing and be part of this responsive goalless society and suffer the consequences, or you can decide to step forward and become an instrument of change. Change is on the horizon, are you going to be in the forefront of this change or are you going to be one of the responders?

E.G.

Just a few days after the posting of my essay Changing Our Perspectives the results of a survey appeared on the internet indicating that a majority of Americans expect that by 2050 a cure for cancer will have been achieved and that bionic limbs will be developed that work better than natural ones. Our society has made a god of materialism and fully expects it to do things better than our creator can. The penchant for technological solutions is nothing more than a sophisticated extension of gross materialistic thought, which refuses to recognize that materialism and its extension technology have created the problems of modern society.

I am not going to address the folly of the belief in materialism, but will use this survey as a reminder that most people are not ready to change their perspectives. Only a small virile and dynamic group will bring about change. The last sentence of my essay read, “Only you can reverse this trend. It requires changing your perspective and having the courage to take appropriate action.”

I had intended to say only men can reverse this trend, but I know that change will include the supportive nurturing efforts of women, and I wanted to make my call to action all inclusive. However, women can only nurture and support something or someone that exits. They want to see the power and direction before they can support it. In my book, Dear Brothers and Sisters: Gender and Its Responsibility, I stated in Chapter 18 “Women and children go wading; men sit on the beach or go swimming.” When women go wading they can say they were in the water or stayed on the beach depending on the question. Women do not like to make decisions; they abhor them.

In every building that I have been in that contained elevators with doors that open out into the hallway I observed women holding the door open while they talked to the person on the elevator or in the hallway as the case might have been. They wanted to leave and they wanted to stay. They like wading. The feminized modern vocabulary has been developed to be free of commitment. It replaces Yes and No with “Maybe” and “I’ll think about it” at best.

This does not mean that women won’t support change; it means they don’t initiate change. Their natures are to be responsive and supportive. They need something positive to respond to.

More and more women recognize the positive nature of Men’s Action and have begun to support it. The month of June has not yet ended and I am posting the fourth letter from a woman under Men’s action News titled “A letter from New Zealand.” These four women join many others who write in to support our message. They see that Men’s Action consists of more than a blog site; they see that it has a mission statement, videos, a book, information materials and a consistent message. They want to see more.

They want to see a commitment and action from men; including their husbands, boyfriends, fathers, and brothers. Instead they see increasing numbers of men going wading with the women and children. They want to be in an environment in which the men let their yes me yes and their no be no. Instead increasing numbers of modern men say “maybe” and “I’ll think about it.”

Decisiveness and zeal have a spiritual foundation. In Revelations 3:15-16 we find the following: “I know all your ways; your are neither hot nor cold. How I wish you were either hot or cold! But because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I will spew you out of my mouth.” The word from headquarters is that lukewarm doesn’t accomplish anything.

It is time my sons to get up from the beach and make a commitment to dive into the surf of change. There is no power in this world other than the power within you. When you exercise that power you will begin to make change and it will receive the responsive nurturing support of women everywhere.

E.G.

Many people have become aware of the malfunctioning of society but few recognize the cause. Most feel that a little tampering of the basic system will “fix” things and then society will function properly. Reliance on the basic system and its various institutions becomes normal due to having been born into them, educated by them, and taught to rely upon them to care for us in one way or another. We come to regard any malfunction of society not a result of the system and its institutions, but a result of the system or its institutions not operating properly. Our efforts focus on fixing the system, rather than changing it.

Author Alberto Moravia expressed well the resistance to changing an established system with the following words, “There is no greater suffering for man than to feel his cultural foundation giving way beneath his feet.” The fear of the prospect of an established system failing greatly inhibits our ability to alter it or rid ourselves of it. To remedy our situation we must change our perspectives. We must change the thinking that caused the malfunctioning of our society; a prospect so difficult that none but the most enlightened, disenchanted, and/or suffering will have the courage to undertake.

One example of the malfunctioning of our society is what we refer to as the “sexual revolution” of the 20th century. This revolution entails the promotion and acceptance of non-marital sexual activity and all its deleterious consequences. It ignores the primary purpose of sexual activity, which is to mate and propagate the species; instead it promotes a life of self-centered sensation devoid of the ethics necessary for moral behavior. The system that developed the sexual revolution is as we shall see, fundamentally unsound, but first let’s look at the negative consequences of the sexual revolution and the attempt of society to “fix’ the results.

Women are designed to become pregnant. To attempt to alter the natural function of the female body so that it does not become pregnant by introducing chemicals into it can only lead to injury to the body. To use condoms and diaphragms denies a woman the benefit of the absorption into her body the natural relaxant contained in the sperm. Studies have shown that women whose partners use condoms during sexual intercourse are more prone to depression than those whose partners do not use condoms.

When birth control has not worked there is always the option of abortion and the almost infinite number of negative effects on the body, mind, and psyche of women.

When the option of abortion is not exercised the next step is to become an unwed mother; a practice that produces children with high educational dropout rates, poor academic performance, high levels of teenage pregnancies, undisciplined women, weak men, and candidates for street gangs and the prison system. It also produces stressed out women who frequently can’t cope with full time employment and the demands of motherhood resulting in the loss of their children to the foster care system.

A woman’s nature is to mate for life, and the supposed independence of non-marital sex and a life alone leads to debilitating depression—the number one illness of Western women.

For other articles pertaining to the negative effects of our materialistic society see: The Need for Nurturing, Depression of Western Women, Devastation of Western Women, and Destruction of Ethics in Western society.

Western governments have on their payroll legions of psychiatrists, psychologists, physicians, social workers, truant officers, judges, parole officers, and members of other disciplines from various institutions whose whole lives are spent teaching women and society to cope with the ravages to the female body, mind, and psyche caused by the “sexual revolution” and the destruction of the family. At least 90% of the 2.4 million men in prison come from broken homes, as do 95% of our youth in street gangs.

Instead of focusing on improved methods of birth control, more extensive use of psychological counseling, an increase in after school programs, and a more compassionate criminal justice system, wouldn’t it be easier to live in a manner that does not entail the need for these services?

To live in that manner would require a change in our perspectives.

The unsound system that caused the sexual revolution was a fixation on materialism, which is an antonym for spirituality. We cannot live a happy, peaceful, and spiritual life when we focus on material acquisition and gain. The very definition of focus indicates that it cannot be in two places; we either focus on matters material or on matters spiritual. Paul’s statement that the love of money is the root of all evil indicates that a materialistic focus leads to all forms of decadence. A present and very visible form of the decadence created by materialistic thought is the sexual revolution.

The entire foundation for the sexual revolution and feminist thought is gross materialism. The concept of sexual equality is based on the equal opportunity to earn money and acquire things. The destruction of men’s clubs was to rid them of any competitive advantage in employment and business. This thinking received little argument from a society focused on making money and amassing stuff. The propagation and preservation of the species receives no focus in the entire socio-educational system, whereas efforts to avoid and eliminate pregnancies are part of the national sex-education program.

Ethics do not exist in a society focused on materialism. Without ethics there is no basis for moral behavior. Materialistic societies attempt to compensate for the lack of ethics by the enactment of laws. There can never be enough laws to compensate for the lack of understanding provided by ethics and the subsequent moral behavior. The greed of financial markets, carelessness of deep sea oil drilling, increase in the rate of adultery and divorce, and general lack of concern for one’s neighbors evidence the lack of ethics in our genderless society.

There is another way to live; it requires a change in perspective and a focus on spirituality and the realization that the purpose of humankind is to propagate and preserve the species as part of its spiritual growth. To accomplish this requires strong families and the development of ethics that support the well being of all members of society, respect for all people and all life, and an understanding of matters spiritual. This is a natural way of life and its called patriarchy.

This essay will be posted on Father’s Day 2010. Perhaps as you witness the decreased observance of this date it will help you to realize the decreasing influence of men and fathers in our society and all the negativity that it entails. Only you can reverse this trend. It requires changing your perspective and having the courage to take appropriate action.

E.G.

Most elementary schools begin with kindergarten. It provides children with the opportunity to play while it instills in them confidence in the school environment and prepares them for first grade and its more disciplined behavior. Blocks serve as one of the primary toys used to engage the thinking and imagination of children.

Children attempt to create with blocks objects that see outside of school. They build houses, bridges, walls, fortifications, vehicles, steps, tables, and a multitude of other things they have seen. The children also experiment with the characteristics of different shapes such as triangles, squares, rectangles, cubes, and cylinders. They experiment with balance, stability, rigidity, and utility of the different blocks and the structures that can be made with them. All children given the opportunity, at one time or another become block players.

Eventually kindergarten comes to and end and the children are promoted to first grade. Some instinctively look forward to this advancement in learning, some are motivated by their teachers to move on to greater learning, others are cajoled by their parents through a system of rewards and punishments to move on but some refuse to let go of their toys, especially their blocks. The blocks were their environment, which they fell in love with and did not want to leave behind. They would only leave kicking and screaming as they went.

Our creator has given us a material world or blocks to play with as part of our development. We build houses, bridges, walls, fortifications, and tables just as the children did. Our thinking being more developed that that of the children enables us to build much more. We build automobiles, ships, and airplanes. We build a host of material things, and only material things, because nothing else can be built with blocks.

Like the children, we fall in love with these material things, but unlike the kindergarten children who were taught to share their blocks with others, we are told to amass as many blocks as we can. The term frequently used to motivate children and young adults in the school system is: “Go to school, get and an education, make some money (a lot of blocks), so that you can be somebody (have a lot of blocks).”

There are institutions whose fulltime activities consist of motivating people to retain and increase the number of blocks they earned. They influence people to exchange their blocks for gold, silver, gems, artwork, real estate, stocks, bonds, and other blocks. Insurance and retirement plans serve as other vehicles for preserving blocks and protecting against the loss of blocks.

Most of the problems and illnesses of society relate to concern over its blocks. Anxiety, depression, loneliness, and fear all result from thinking about the amount of blocks we have, need, or want. Even generous people can only think in terms of blocks in helping others. They offer food, shelter, and clothing—all block materials. They do not understand that there is an unseen aspect to existence and that people might want love, appreciation, recognition, consideration, nurturing, security, belongingness, constancy, and stability, which cannot long be supplied by blocks if at all.

Block people—most of who were raised in a cubicle—have little awareness of the world that God created because they are so focused on the world that they created. Spiritual texts warn us about the preoccupation with the material world. The Bible states, “What does it suffer a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” In the Koran we find the words, “Your worldly riches are transitory.”

Various enlightened personages from the beginning of time have become ascetics as a result of their realization of the insignificance of wealth. Ramakrishna, the famous Hindu guru used to mix money with dirt and throw it into the river; it was not permitted to mention money in his ashram. The famous woman Muslim ascetic Rabia Al Basra’s only possessions were a torn mat to sleep on, a brick for a pillow and a chipped water jug. Hillel, the great teacher of the Talmud was so poor that he could not afford to attend the basic teachings of the Torah. The disciples of Jesus were penniless.

The block players are not deterred by these examples. They do not even see them, let alone understand them, so engrossed are they in the amassing of blocks. A block value is placed on every type of work and activity. Sports, entertainment, information, medicine, health, and recreation all have a block value.

Some block players have gained great power. They control the use of blocks throughout the world; they even control governments. They exploit the environment for the purpose of amassing blocks. They have polluted the air, water, and food chain all in the name of making it more efficient to produce and amass blocks.

The block players have suppressed the natural differences between men and women necessary for the proper propagation and preservation of the species while on its spiritual journey. They are not interested in any spiritual journey or condition of the human race. They have reduced men and women to work digits—they are even referred to as human resources—necessary in the calculation of the cost of production of blocks.

The world of the block players is deteriorating. People are developing respiratory problems from the polluted air, intestinal problems from the polluted water, a breakdown of bodily functions due to the polluted food, and mental breakdown do to the electronic media coupled with the materialistic value system that they are subjected to, which is unnatural to the human psyche.

Kindergarten will soon be over.

Like the children leaving kindergarten some people will intuitively know that blocks are transitory and that there are steps ahead to greater unfoldment. Others follow the teachings of enlightened masters, gurus, saints, and godmen who are advanced spiritually and can explain the reason to leave things behind. Still others will be cajoled by various religious influences through fear and punishment to let go of the blocks and move on. And still others will remain behind screaming and kicking fighting amongst themselves for more blocks.

We are living at the end of an era. Are we going to hang onto the blocks or let go and prepare ourselves for the growth that lies ahead? Are we ready to work together to foster a more natural way of life for humankind?

E.G.