religion is the anchoring of symbolic systems in the psyche. Symbolic orders represent political arrangements, such as relationships between individuals and groups. This anchoring in the psyche of a man stabilized these orders and binds it to them. Same time shows the individual a place in the order in a hierarchy as a place further up or down. Systems can form linear, hierarchical or networked model.
The patriarchal religions such as form from hierarchical orders to fathers at the top. Sons be sacrificed in this order from the fathers. A possible effect of this order is the soldier's heroism, the sacrifice of sons in the war to maintain power and to increase the power range of the fathers.
The patriarchal hierarchies have a role to mothers than fathers possession of what is to enable them to control their offspring. One consequence of this order is the cleavage of female model in the sexually active women without children and the way marie aseptic asexual mother.
The anchoring of the symbolic order is through myths, images and rituals that the children be brought home as early as the early education, for example, in modern society Television programs that in previous tales, stories, songs and poems. The subtlest and most important gleichzeitigt anchoring effect, the language itself This is how relationships can be made invisible groups are made invisible ("man") and alternatives to existing systems are made invisible by being silent dead.
If we want to establish other conditions, such as cross-linked structures in flat hierarchies are cooperating, we can not avoid this and to formulate symbolic orders to name and describe. Examples are found in so-called matriarchal cultures, such as she has collected here Hannah and described.
Importantly, appropriate language patterns, images, myths, rituals ... to find that enable us to integrate our psyche in these systems. A fairly non-technical approach to the term "symbolic order" found in Antje find here , texts on religious aspect, in Jutta Voss or Gerda Weiler .
With the means of rebellion ("war") or ignorance ("atheism"), we shall not question the existing order, but strengthening them indirectly, because we recognize their symbolic structures in our psyche and not replace it with ours.
We desire now the paradigm shift. We will achieve it if we religion, if we make our symbolic systems, according to our goals. Effect is the union of our psychic energies in a focused force for change towards a new political order.
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