tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699701021609132279.post5626952770185858608..comments2024-01-27T20:14:55.379+00:00Comments on House of Inanna: some thoughts on masculinityIdrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06799921912795975330noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699701021609132279.post-67316225361078564432008-08-25T14:19:00.000+01:002008-08-25T14:19:00.000+01:00I've had so many conversations about including the...I've had so many conversations about including the god and remember so many occasions and so many discussions ....<BR/><BR/>Anyhow, you inspired an article! <BR/><BR/>Read it here:<BR/><BR/>http://lammas.notlong.com<BR/><BR/>GeraldineGeraldine Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08671689383688564178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699701021609132279.post-66721993431699018222008-08-12T18:48:00.000+01:002008-08-12T18:48:00.000+01:00thanks Andy for your comment. Yes it is good to r...thanks Andy for your comment. Yes it is good to reconnect. <BR/><BR/>I fully agree with you that the apparent conflict detracts and distracts from the healing that is so necessary. I hope also that nothing i have said is read as a criticism of those whose path is to honour both goddess and god. My starting point was those many who tried to insist that I should modify my own practice in order to include them and appealing to some sort of supposed gender loyalty in <BR/>order to do so. <BR/><BR/>I also agree with you about patriarchal attitudes within the goddess movement. Given the fact that we were all, both men and women, born within a deeply patriarchal culture it would be a true miracle if any of us, of whatever gender or sexuality, did not reproduce these assumptions in our dealings with others. I know I have and undoubtedly will again.<BR/><BR/>No-one has the monopoly of insight into the way forward. I have my opinions and can, at times, defend them long past the time of reason. But, in the end, I am only one voice and believe that the new paradigm will develop from the individual voices of many - flawed as we all are. In fact, i often believe that it is in our flaws rather than what we perceive as our virtues that we are valuable. I am not too sure how to express what I mean except that it is when we are most ourselves rather than trying to conform to some idea of what we "should" be that goddess, or god, is most present. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for the link - i have returned the compliment. it is also good to know that I am read <BR/><BR/>Love<BR/>BrianIdrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06799921912795975330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699701021609132279.post-81770747966631978432008-08-10T15:19:00.000+01:002008-08-10T15:19:00.000+01:00Hi BrianIt's good to have caught up with you here ...Hi Brian<BR/><BR/>It's good to have caught up with you here in blogland! I've added a link to your blog from mine.<BR/><BR/>You make some interesting and valid points, although part of me is sad that they need to be made at all. <BR/><BR/>In very simplistic terms, it is sad that this apparent battle, this tension still exists, because I feel that in many ways it holds us back from healing, from wholeness. I do embrace the God, and I have learned what it means to be a Sacred Male as much from pagan male Deity as I have from Goddess. Both have led me to healing, to wholeness and to power. As you know, I have spent time within the Goddess movement, yet in reality and truth, I found Patriarchy at work there as much as I did outside that movement. <BR/><BR/>I do not feel that Goddess needs God, I don't think it's so much about one having to have the other in order to be 'complete' - not at all. For me, it is more to do with relationship. Working with both Goddess and God has taught me a lot about my own inner relationship and my own spirituality in that it has helped me embrace and accept aspects of myself that perhaps I was reluctant to face. The God has shown me that it's okay to be me - yet at the same time has bought me in touch with me I was intended to be before name and form. It's been a dynamic, personal and real relationship and continues to be so.<BR/><BR/>As a gay man, this has been tough in many ways and many aspects, especially as my sexuality has been shunned by some in the pagan world, yet ultimately it's been a liberating experience.Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03474171962206192207noreply@blogger.com