I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.

It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.

A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed. It doesn’t move on its own. Sometimes it takes A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving.

There's a quality we could call vertical attention, which is an attention upward toward ancestors, spiritual states, angels, gods.

I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon.

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

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.'