The Pandemic of Relinquishing Personal Responsibility
"Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone.” Regardless of your spiritual beliefs, the Bible in its original form holds key wisdom. While translations have changed over time, this statement still rings true. When I say “true,” I don’t mean how I feel about it. Feelings aren’t facts. Somewhere along the way, woke culture has deemed how you feel about something creates reality. No, when I say “true,” I mean there is a difference between fact and fiction. How you feel about something does NOT make something true and you cannot burn my house down when I disagree with you.
Somewhere along the way, we as a society, allowed injustice to be masked as GOOD. We have allowed prejudice to be disguised as fairness. We have allowed sexism into the fabric our consciousness under the facade of “equality.” News flash: you cannot judge a person’s innocence by their gender. The idea of believing all women is as illogical as believing all men. Why would you believe everything that everyone tells you? My mama didn’t raise no fool. There was a time when feminism had a purpose. It was to give women the opportunity to vote, to own property, to be educated, to work and to have CHOICE. In the present day culture, modern feminism has become the very thing that women fought so hard against: victimhood.
As a woman, I do NOT need a handout. I don’t require special treatment. I don’t need anyone’s sympathy. I’m an adult woman with CHOICE. Yes, please hold my door open. For that, I say, “Thank you.” Yes, please treat me with the RESPECT that I treat myself with and that I will treat YOU with. As women, we cannot simultaneously be empowered and be victims.
Trigger warning: the Force is NOT female. The future is NOT female. It’s about ALL of us. It’s ALL of us or NONE of us. We cannot reach the desired outcome of ending violence against women and exclude ending the violence against men.
What happens in the case of a false accusation? Don’t we care about all women? Well, what is the impact of false accusations on women that have actually been abused? Believing all women hurts other women. Believing all women hurts men, too.
What if someone you loved was innocent and wrongly accused? What if it was your brother, your husband, your son, your father? Not all men are bad. Not all women are good. You cannot judge someone’s character by their gender.
In the ancient spiritual teachings of Hermetics taught by the Modern Mystery School, women actually hold the power to lead change on the planet. We, as women, must the first ones to transform and men will follow. Not walk behind us, but BESIDE us. We need each other. No matter what your sexual disposition is, masculine AND feminine energy are required for creation. More trigger warnings: one cannot be gender neutral. You can express both aspects of masculine and feminine energy in varying degrees, but you cannot deny gender. It exists beyond the mind and feelings.
Somewhere along the way, responsibility has become a taboo. Once you are an adult, your life is created by your choices. In the current climate, someone else to blame when you aren’t happy with your life. Why would Mark Wilding, a writer for Vice, decide to write a bias article of the Modern Mystery School, not include over one hundred positive interviews with current and previous students, choosing to only use warped lies and half-truths based on a few disgruntled past students? Could it be that his past girlfriend attended trainings with the Modern Mystery School, became more empowered, understanding her own self-worth and decided she deserved better than him?
Isn’t this what we want for women? Don’t we want women to become more empowered, take responsibility for their lives and CHOOSE men or partners that will treat them well?
Why would we believe all women when some women damage and hurt other people? If you were to investigate Bernice Van Eck and Edie Koleszar, the named sources in the slander piece that I would be remiss to call journalism, I would invite you to find people that could speak to their quality of their character. Now I’m not saying that we should judge criminals and drug addicts, but I am saying… My mama didn’t raise no fool.
You would, however, be able to find hundreds of people that would speak to the honour and integrity of Founder Gudni Gudnason and Ipsissimus Dave Lanyon, two of the three lineage holders of the Modern Mystery School. Are these men perfect? No, but who is? Founder Gudni Gudnason and Ipsissimus Dave Lanyon are good men that take care of their families, respect women and are living examples of taking personal responsibility.
Let’s unpack the wolf in sheep’s clothing a bit more. When these not-so-humane human beings attack an entire organization and spirituality community, calling it and all its members a cult, what is really happening? Why does any of this matter?
For one, the vast majority of international (and local, for that matter) teachers in the Modern Mystery School are actually female. Many of the international leaders and instructors hold professional credentials as doctors, surgeons, lawyers, judges, scientists…the list goes on. Our community is made up diverse and educated women who own their own businesses, are entrepreneurs, and CEOs. So, all of these women are fools that allowed themselves to unknowingly join a cult? Isn’t that sexist? (Don’t worry, we let men into the Modern Mystery School, too.)
Including these important details just doesn’t fit the narrative of abusive men. Like much of the media today, Mark Wilding obscures facts, fitting a narrative to push an agenda. This Vice writer uses Bernice Van Eck and Edie Koleszar, attempting to destroy the reputations of Founder Gudni Gudnason and Ipsissimus Dave Lanyon of the Modern Mystery School, good men that made it their life’s work to empower people, including women. Wait, doesn’t this sound a bit predatory towards women? Using women to perpetuate a personal vendetta isn’t very feminist.
Believing all women isn’t feminist. It’s sexist. When you decide to train with the Modern Mystery School for years, using its teachings and tools to build businesses and make money off of, and then decide to burn it down, you aren’t taken any personal responsibility for choices you made to voluntarily come to classes and programs (which are held in public conference spaces in hotels). Instead, you would rather call all of us, men and women, cult members. In this age of blame and shame, who are the bullies in sheep’s clothing? Who is sexist wearing the veneer of feminism? Who is looking at the person in the mirror?
Willingly,
Christina Becerra, Certified Guide and Ritual Master in the Modern Mystery School