Laurens Buijs
Amsterdam Gender Theory Research Team
In my forthcoming book Androgynous Humanity (see AGTRT-BA20), I elaborate on the roots of our patriarchal culture, dating back to the Neolithic revolution and the rise of large-scale agriculture, starting some 12,800 years ago (see AGTRT-BA1, AGTRT-BA3, AGTRT-BA5 and AGTRT-BA9).
Read the latest update on Androgynous Humanity (February 2024):
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In it, I describe how patriarchy has been internalized by all of us through our socialization, how it has traumatized us, and how we can only heal from it by doing shadow work (see AGTRT-BA7). This is a term of Carl Jung, by which he describes the psychological process by which we can integrate our masculine and our feminine sides (which every human being now has) into the personality.
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Shadow work is dangerous, arduous and complicated. It requires enormous dedication and investment in terms of time and energy. There seems to be no end to shadow work, those involved in it describe.
But this only seems so. Shadow work is “finished” at some point, and then the person reaches a status of complete individuation. This is also called “enlightened” in Eastern philosophies. One might say that the personality is then developed to the point where the soul is fully “unfolded.”
Carl Jung showed that achieving individuation has everything to do with gender identity. According to him, the human psyche is androgynous: basically, all people have both male and female personality traits. But in patriarchy, it has been split by trauma.
Men therefore have a disturbed relationship with their inner femininity, and women with their inner masculinity. Individualized people have managed to re-integrate and balance these two sides of their personality. This is a very complicated and painful process in which doing shadow work is thus central.
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There are hardly any reliable testimonies of people who have become fully individuated. It is a particularly rare phenomenon at the present stage of human development. For most people living today, achieving individuation in their lives is no longer feasible. Even if they know exactly how to do it, they will not be able or willing to make the sacrifices required.
As people become individuated, they will naturally return to matriarchal ways. This is because man’s androgynous core is best expressed in matriarchy (see AGTRT-BA1, AGTRT-BA9 and AGTRT-BA10). Successful transition from high-tech patriarchy to high-tech matriarchy requires tens of thousands of people becoming individualized more or less simultaneously in the short term (the next year or year and a half).
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So there will have to be a breakthrough: a vanguard will have to complete the individuation process in the short term. They can then break out of patriarchy and begin to preside over a different way of living together. They will have to be more or less coordinated in resisting the corrupt patriarchal elite in the coming years, charting the route to matriarchy.
This matriarchal vanguard can be seen as a group of pathfinders. They can build the institutions that will guide the rest of humanity through this transition from patriarchal to matriarchal in the coming decades. They will have to lay the foundation for the new matriarchal world within about 10 to 15 years; much longer this “window of opportunity” to change systems will not remain open.
This is anything but an easy job. Human coexistence will have to be completely rethought and reshaped. In the process, all sorts of things must be fundamentally changed: love, sexuality, friendships, family relationships and communities, as well as science, technology, democracy, economics and religion (see AGTRT-BA15).
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Making this change is a major challenge for a planet like Earth. There are several routes to achieving high-tech matriarchy. The most obvious route seems to me to be a matriarchal culture that gradually becomes more advanced until it reaches “high-tech” status.
Patriarchy originated on Earth 12,800 years ago, and has now reached high-tech status. On earth, high-tech matriarchy will emerge abruptly, from the implosion of high-tech patriarchy. This seems to me an unusual and risky route. Such a turnaround can succeed only if great sacrifices are made. If the turnaround fails, the sacrifices to be made will be even greater.
Read more about the origins of patriarchy:
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If the change does succeed, the high-tech matriarchy on Earth may have some specific characteristics compared to hypothetical similar civilizations that have arisen on planets elsewhere.
I could so imagine terrestrial civilizations standing out in terms of diversity and bravado compared to hypothetical high-tech matriarchal civilizations on other planets. This will produce cultures and technologies that are “quintessentially terrestrial” and unique to our planet. This will no doubt be accompanied by much extraterrestrial interest, should it prove to exist.
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