Anthology: Ken Wilber - The
Centauric Hero
We today face a new dragon fight, and we need a new Hero Myth. The dragon we
now must fight is simply the egoic structure itself, and the new "treasure
hard to attain" is centauric and psychic awareness (or simply level 5 in
general). And that attainment will take a new kind of Hero, a Hero that,
centuries from now, will be eulogized as I have done the solar ego. We need
today to develop intuition and alert but passive awareness, as we yesterday
needed so desperately to develop assertive logic and active mentality. The
new Hero will be centauric (which means mind and body united and not
dissociated), whole-bodied, mentally androgynous, psychic, intuitive and
rational, male and female - and the lead in this new development most
easily can come from the female, since our society is already
masculine-adapted. But until males stop killing themselves (and others) in
order to be strong and silent; until females stop encouraging just that
behavior as evidence of a "true man"; until chauvinists settle their
accounts with their own masculinity and stop defensively exploiting their
sisters; until angry feminists stop, on the one hand, reactivating chthonic
"female only" matriarchal obsessions and, on the other, trying to co-opt
patriarchal obnoxiousness; until feminist intellectuals stop asking what it
means to be truly female and start asking instead what it means to be
neither male nor female but whole and human - then the patriarchy, the
mental-ego, which has served its necessary, useful, but intermediate
function, and which, for that, we have much to be thankful, will
nevertheless soon prove, quite literally, to be the death of us all.
(Up from Eden p.270)
PIERS
Clement
Last updated 22 July 1999
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