It sometimes seems to me that the real conflict in America, the true polarization, isn’t occurring across all peoples and populations.

More and more, it seems to me to be a conflict between angry and aggrieved white men (and some women) and many other women, the young, and the new.

It is really a color war? White versus other colors? Maybe.

Some people see nothing but conflict and rage, but I feel and see something else. I believe this conflict is not only giving rise to a strong movement of ascending women, I believe it is also giving rise to a new kind of spiritual man.

And I like to think that I am one of those men. I want to be one of those men. I am always on the lookout for other Spiritual Men, and more and more, I am finding them, and they are finding me.

I don’t have any surveys or date to back up what I am saying, I have no numbers or polls to offer you, I just use my head and my heart.

I am a fan of Thoreau, I think it is okay to have undocumented opinions that are not stamped by the left or the right. Ideas deserve to live, even on social media in modern America.

I’m not on this earth to hate my President, and I don’t, but Donald Trump is one kind of man, one kind of strong, one kind of dominant man. He is a strong leader, and he is sparking all kinds of movements, some in support of him, some in opposition.

I think the time for such men is passing, they will set themselves on fire in the new world.

I don’t happen to think this is the end of democracy, I think this is the way democracy is supposed to work. Sometimes we get our way, sometimes we don’t, the wheel turns this way and that, and back again. Everything happens for a reason, we all need to be awakened in different ways.

I am a different kind of man, or so I want to believe, and I know and read and follow many other men who are smarter and stronger and more prescient than I am who feel as I do, that there is a great rise in Male Spirituality.

The New Spirituality Of men defines faith and power and greatness differently. We seek the power to do good, to nurture, to support and encourage the people we love.

We share power, we don’t seek to own all of it. We need money, but we don’t worship money. There are many things in life more important to us than money. We don’t dominate women, we seek to support them as  equals or superiors, whichever comes before us.

We are, I swear, nurturers at heart. We love Mother Earth, we care deeply for our children, we seek a life with animals, we seek partners in marriage and life, not dependents or slaves. We reject the sadly historic and traditional role of men –  conquest, domination, war, violence, pillage and rape.

We don’t do those things.

We do not understand why women cannot be priests, perhaps much better priests than many men have been.

We hope that rising women change the cruel and heartless ethic of the corporation. We hope that the remarkable Army of  new women coming to Washington will offer a more compassionate and collaborative kind of leadership. They say they will.

The spiritual male has perspective, I think.

I think of this every time the Catholic Church refuses to ordain women, more than half of the world’s population.

I know of very few cases where the female clergy have violated their sacred oaths by molesting children.

We seek a different kind of strength, the quiet and useful kind. We are strong in many ways, we seek to walk gently on the earth and speak softly. We do not cling to our positions, we gladly yield them to the young, to women, to different kinds of people.

We do not judge other people or force our idea of morality onto them, we do not tell others how to live their loves, who to love, when to have children, when to give birth.

We are supporters of freedom, not robbers of independence or enemies of liberation. We use our powers to protect the weak, the vulnerable, the poor and the needy. We are not the enemies of the helpless, we are their friends and partners.

We never tell anyone who to love or how. We know when to stand aside.

I am not a Christian, I am a believer in the teachings of the real Jesus, in a sense the First New Spiritual Man. We can do little wrong than by following his now forgotten teachings: be generous, be forgiving, love the poor and the helpless.

Those are, I believe, the tenets of the New Spiritual Man.

Perhaps I am delusional or naive, but I believe I am part of an ancient and historic movement – the Spiritual Man – one of the oldest and most uplifting movements in human history.

This is the time for us. This is the place for me, what I believe, and what gives me much hope.