Continued — “The Anima in Chains and the Soulless Body of Modern Humanity”

What our world needs today is not feminism understood as making the feminine world still more masculine, but the cultivation of men who are not afraid of the feminine dimension and the anima within themselves. Every woman who becomes more masculine will, in the end, raise men and women more severed from their emotions, creativity and inner intuition, and in practice more complete embodiments of the domination of the animus. Yet today, more than ever, the world needs people who are more creative, deeper, more firmly connected to the generative sources of their inner world, and capable of greater inner balance, if global consciousness is to develop in a balanced way.

The world needs not a women’s equality movement alone but an inner revolt by men against their own unfinished selves: men who begin a historical movement to heal the wounded animus within and open the temple of the anima in the masculine world. A revolution for recovering the anima—the magician and psychotherapist of the wounded and unfinished psyche of our collective unconscious—in the thousand-and-one-night story of human history.

So long as the paradigm of human evolution is not centred on understanding the lost values of the anima in the evolution of consciousness, women seeking equality too will find nothing on the horizon of social equality within themselves but the same wounded and damaged animus.

Social equality will emerge, but the paradigm of power will not change, because women will pay for that bargain with their immense spiritual power and will find within themselves nothing but a wounded masculinity engaged, in the ruthless world of men, in an unending battle to become still more masculine.

May International Women’s Day and National Men’s Day be honoured.

Aydin Areta
March 2020