"One vision I see clear as life
before me, that the ancient mother has awakened once more, sitting on
her throne rejuvenated, more
glorious than ever. "
Vivekananda
Almost all the world we live in
today is intensely patriarchal. Some people need
definitions before they can understand
what this word means. Our daily lives give
us just the fact of patriarchy,
without pinpointing any of its characteristics. Like
birds raised in cages,
women raised in a patriarchal system usually come to think
of it as a normal way of human
beings to live.
Only women
who are enabled to sense a female divinity within their own spirit can
bring
about the
profound changes that need to be made if humanity is to last much longer
as one of
earth's
life forms. The survival of any species depends on the nurturing
behavior of it females,
not the
aggressive behavior of its males.
It seems
clear that the best hope for humanity is to return to its prepatriarchal
ethic of
male submission
to the Goddess spirit, not in the hierarchical sense that men understand
as power-over.
Deep in their hearts many women feel
that there is something terribly wrong with our system.
They yearn to be a tribe.
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