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an excerpt from from the book See more about Ken here Talk about it:
"The fully developed World Traditions (such as Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, even aspects of Taoism) all arose in a climate of discourse that devalued the body, nature, and women. All three of these "Others" were, in fact, equated with evil, temptation, or illusion. How can women today develop any faith in the Great Traditions when every single aspect of those Traditions were developed exclusively by men? And is not the alienation of women precisely parallel to the alienation of the body (asceticism) and nature (samsara)? And is not global alienation what we now see in the environmental crisis? Far from "saving" us, aren't the Great Traditions the root of a crisis that very well might kill us all? These are absolutely crucial questions for any contemplative/transpersonal discipline, and they need to be faced squarely. The Great Traditions do indeed emphasize an Ascending and Transcendental current; but many of them also contain an equal emphasis on the Descending and Immanent nature of Spirit. The Tantric traditions, for example, emphasize a union of the Transcendental and Ascending God (Shiva) with the Immanent and Descending Goddess (Shakti), a union that is found in the nondual Heart and a union that emphasizes equally the masculine and feminine faces of Spirit. Nonetheless, I believe that the entire pantheon of the Great Traditions will, in the coming years, have to be scrutinized thoroughly and "scrubbed clean" of the universal alienation of the three "Others" - nature, body, woman - but in a way that does not throw out the baby with the bathwater. To simply reject everything the Traditions have to tell us would be catastrophic; we might as well refuse to use the wheel just because a man may have invented it. But this field, too, is virtually wide open, and will yield an enormous number of insights in the coming decade..." - an excerpt from Ken Wilber in Paths Beyond Ego Talk about it:
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