#43 | Gender Is A Lie, Gender Is a Truth - Zhenevere Sophia Dao (MogaDao Institute)
“Sensitivity is the mother of true power. Not power in a conventional sense, but the power to actually claim one’s life as one’s own. ”
My guest today is Zhenevere Sophia Dao, founder of the philosophy of Post-Daoism and the MogaDao practice tradition.
She has been a teacher and innovator of mythosomatic practices for nearly 30 years, and writes on wide variety of spiritual, philosophical, and cultural subjects. Zhenevere is also the founder of the organization, The Transgender Necessity, a platform to help educate individuals and institutions with regard to the cultural necessity of transgender people.
In our fantastic conversation today, we discuss how to weave the fabric of one’s mythopoetic life. We explore a post-Daoist gender theory, and the recognition and implication of recognizing masculinity as a theatrical spirit. We touch upon Robert Bly and the limited legacy of Iron John, and come to a surprising revelation of the ghost in the machine of Patriarchy.
And finally, Zhenevere touches upon the transgender experience as a necessary medicine for these times of traversing these uncertainty as we collectively reimagine culture.
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SHOW NOTES
Weaving the mythic fabric of one’s life
We are responsible to become attractive to the invisible world
I want to create a being that doesn’t offend eternity
You are almost as beautiful as a tree I once saw
A post-Daoist gender theory
Masculinity as a theatrical spirit
Surrendering to Justified Ontology
What you desire is leading you to who you’re supposed to become
Sensitivity is the mother of true power
Iron John and the passage of grief
The Inner Male Control Center
“My testosterone helps me cry”
A ghost in the machine of Patriarchy
”A man doesn’t have anything but his control”
He doesn’t have the imagination to cope with surrendering to experience
Between Dionysus and Apollo
Transgender complexity
