Vertical attention is not the same as, and doesn't evolve from nor imply, hierarchy. We could say that hierarchy is associated with power, and vertical attention with longing for the Divine Feminine, for the Divine Masculine, for what the Sufis call 'wine.'

The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?

I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.

Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison; they turn to poetry.

My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he will find himself guided along paths which will heal him, and this is more important, actually, than any of the poetry he writes.

Poetry keeps longing alive.

The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.