Fatherdom

Fatherdom was the inspiration of several very contrasting philosophical studies I was exploring. In a sense, it was a way for me to coup with the paradox of Eastern and Western theology. 

I couldn't help but see a reoccurring archetypal pattern in contemporary and religious mythology that mirrored my own inner world.

The Western religions focus largely on an external authority figure, a divine Patriarchal figure. Yet the Eastern religions seem to approach the concept of God with non-dualism. The real irony is that polytheism is just monotheism, and that God, sometimes has many incarnations. 

Without even realizing it, contemporary culture has retold the story of its religion in unsuspecting ways. Is it intentional reverence? Or is a psychic wound that manifests itself again and again? 

It's pretty hard to just walk away from a religious foundation without rupturing some elemental force of our own being. Look at Nietzsche, he was born the son of a priest, but deny the faith was a life long crisis for him. Instead of treating one as the absence of the other, the book focuses on the Alchemical Pattern as a road map of introducing contrasting theologies. 

(Spiritual) Alchemy— the idea of breaking and becoming, dissolving and coagulating— the psychological sciences of antiquity that mirrored the precursor to modern chemistry. With this philosophy of transformation in mind, Fatherdom evolves with contradiction, restricts, collapses, and integrates again and again, until it finally presents a theory in the end that attempts embrace the "other" while honoring the "origin." 

Fatherdom is an ambitious postulation that perhaps there is no real difference between East & West, but that we just need to name the cultural wound that has cast its weight on society for 2,000 years. Perhaps then, we can heal from it.