Roger B. Burt's Blog, page 40
June 1, 2016
The Search for Matriarchy
What does matriarchy mean to you?
We Seem To Be Having a Debate.
Was there a time in human history when matriarchal (matriarchy meaning female rulership) societies dominated and then were replaced with serial patriarchy which is where we are now? There seems to be real passion involved and terms such as matriarchalism, matrifocal and matrilineal swirl through the debate.
Notable in the debate is the book The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory: Why An Invented Past Will Not Give Women a Future b...
May 25, 2016
The Women of the Andromeda
What are your views about women and power?
Powerful Women
In the Gaia’s Majesty Trilogy women are prominent. Especially prominent are the women who compose the defense force of the Tethyan people. The term Andromeda has several meanings, with one of them being Ruler of Men. I operate intuitively and seized on the name. Primarily my attraction to it had to do with power, not my belief that either men or women should rule the other.
The story is about the future of humankind and preservation...
May 23, 2016
Critical Mass and the Influence of Women
Influence of Women
Justine sent me a fascinating YouTube video with a talk by Jay Newton-Small at the Commonwealth Club of California. She is a journalist working for Time and has written the book Broad Influence: How Women Are Changing the Way America Works. In the book she outlines the growing influence of women in our country. Following is the link to the video:
How Women Are Changing the Way America Works
In her talk, we learn women are gaining significant influence and numbers in gover...
May 18, 2016
Finding Realistic Health Care
How is your health care going?
As soon as I wrote this title I questioned the use of the words “health care”. What pulled me up short is that I’m not so sure it’s a matter of health as much as it is a matter of finding reliable and realistic information. Perhaps a better term is self management. I don’t know that any diagnosis is needed as much as a realistic relationship to how we are and what we need.
Another Personal Example
As a child I always had a handkerchief in my back pocket becaus...
May 16, 2016
Addiction Realities
A New Mission
How successful do you think the response to opiate addiction will be?
Congress has gotten religion in the form of dealing with the national opiate addiction problem. I listen to their concerns and it is touching. Reality will be far different and we will see how far the compassionate concerns go.
Heroin addiction was an issue when I went to work in the inner city of Baltimore. But it was not our job to deal with it because we were doing community mental health. Drug programs w...
May 11, 2016
The Image of Woman
If you were to construct one essential image of a woman, what would you choose?
Broadening Our views
This is such an interesting time in human history. There are so many possibilities. I’ll try to focus.
Our image of ourselves is changing and diverging. When I was a kid, Leave It To Beaver was on television and a show called Father Knows Best. These were all-American families with a central male character and the woman was the housewife. What else was there? We were to find out.
Gradually o...
May 9, 2016
Some Interesting Health Alternatives
Have you heard of grounding?
Below is a page from NaturalOn Natural Health News & Discoveries sent in by Sis. The first item is about grounding which relates to the benefits of walking outside in your bare feet.Links are in a different color to go to the page. I had not heard of this previously but believe it makes perfect sense. Humans are energy systems and we underestimate such fundamental possibilities. By the way, Tea Tree Oil is a fabulous alternative to some of the expensive Big Pharma...
May 4, 2016
Freud Versus Jung
Two Forms of Reality
What do these names mean to you?
Once again we encounter the question of what is reality. These two names represent very different views and relationships to the larger elements of society and culture.
Anyone in the mental health field will inevitably come in contact with the writings of Sigmund Freud. Not necessarily Carl Jung. Freud was important in advancing the field of mental health and forming it into a system used to treat what were called mental disorders. He ma...
May 2, 2016
Health Alternatives and Reality
Do you think this guy believes everything you say? Do you believe everything you’re told?
To what school of health do you belong?
Okay. You got me. Recently I posted about my experience with vitamin D deficiency and it produced obvious resonance. It made me think about what else you might find of interest. I can’t say I come from a specific school as it relates to health except maybe the School of the Doubting Thomas. So, I looked back and found the roots of my position.
In My Father’s Car
M...
April 27, 2016
The Enigma of the Movement to Empower Women
What do you think is the significance of the movement to empower women?
The Centrality of Struggle
Time and again we see the centrality of struggle in the existence of all living beings. And humankind is definitely not excluded from the process. Recently our hopes were dashed as we descended deeper and deeper into conflict across the globe. Whether it is the broad distress of the Arab world or the appalling malaise of our national politics, we are challenged beyond what we had recently hop...
