Women are winning at evolution right now

Women are at the forefront of our evolution. Even though it may not seem that way with the recent backlash against diversity and inclusion.

But in the spirit of inclusion please hear me out — after all, as an old white man I am in the minority on this planet.

While some of the others with my demographics haven’t realized that yet, or do, and fiercely hold on to their privileges instead of using them to uplift others, the patriarchy is already rearing up in its final death throws.

We are in the midst of transformation, and have a choice now as to whether we want to destroy ourselves with the old systems, or heed the call of evolution and build a new world that works for all life.

And women are the key to that.

I define myself as life, as an individual with both masculine and feminine traits. Most esoteric systems around the world that I studied see the integration of masculine and feminine as the key to individuation.

In that, women are ahead in the game of evolution. They have fought their way into the masculine systems. They have mastered both empathy and Excel, and showed the boys that they too can succeed in school, academia, business, even the military while maintaining their feminine capacities such as caring for and nurturing each other, being adaptive and comfortable with ambiguity, cooperating and being in flow, pulling with magnetism rather than pushing.

Over the last week I met mostly with women and they have taught me so much again. My team at LUMAN is composed of kickass women who all use both sides of their brain, both their natural feminine capacities as well as the masculine capacities they had to learn to thrive in this world.

I am so grateful for them and all they keep teaching me about myself and the parts I don’t know that well yet, and for all the women in the world and for what they have done for us. The ones who came before who showed that they could succeed in the masculine systems and paved the way for women of my generation. The women of my generation who continued to prove that it doesn’t matter what body you are in to create meaningful outcomes and impact in the world, and to the younger generation, who is exploring gender on whole new levels again.

We are out of balance right now. Even our brains have slightly shifted to be more dominant in the left hemisphere, the masculine side of linearity, structure and reason. This has caused great harm, especially to our mother earth, to other species, and also to humanity.

We spend more resources on killing each other than on securing our future by educating our young ones. Our world and our societies are sick and we need to balance this again. Not go back to some imagined past or one afforded to our ancestors, denying all the progress men have created, but go forward into a world were we celebrate the individual, the integrated individual, who is using all of their capacities equally.

So women get to use the fact that they are ahead now. Have compassion with the little boys who still play silly children games and are stuck acting out their shadows, their unintegrated parts, and teach them how to be human.

In the coming years, this will make the difference between annihilation of our species and our continued survival — even the potential to thrive and become a planetary society where every individual is honored and respected and has the resources to unfold their highest potential no matter what kind of body they are in.

Women are the stewards of our future. They literally give birth to it. So let’s celebrate them today and every day, support them and nourish them — and first and foremost learn from them.

A society can be measured by how they treat women and children. Let’s build one we can be proud of.

Happy international women’s day!

Thank you for all you do to birth our future.