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“the whole process was considered, thought out, and organized by two arms of society that should’ve been trying to keep people safe: the state and the church. we must do our best to understand that these laws and beliefs were seen as rational and approved by the king and god”

the power of authority is actually terrifying

“what was the reasoning behind the swimming test? no water will accept those who’ve rejected the sacred water of baptism so if you maintained your baptism, you would be accepted by the water—you’d sink, if you’d signed your soul to the devil & therefore renounce your baptism, the water would refuse you entry & you’d float” genuinely one of the most absurd pieces of religious reasoning I’ve ever heard

“women had no legal power or professional standing. what we think this led to is men (with power) being desperately scared that those without power (women) would try to grasp it by any means possible.”

“sometimes it is necessary to limit or thin out certain relationships, for if a woman is outwardly surrounded by persons who are antagonistic two or careless about her deep life, her interior predator is fed by this and develops extra muscle within her psyche, and more aggression towards her.”

“scientists have assumed that the “weight” of the universe was in bright stars and speedy particles but now they have found enormous amounts of dark, cold matter circling the stars and all galactic bodies, and this matter is preponderant & responsible for the “weight” of the universe which functions as gravity “the structure of the whole universe appears to be shaped by the gravity of dark matter” (yin)

“yin & yang were not seen as hostile and irreconcilable opposites, vying for control over the universe. nor was one “good” and the other “evil” on the contrary, yin & yang constantly complement each other to maintain cosmic harmony. they are not fixed, static principles, but transform each other, & transmute into each other, in an ongoing process.”

“human male sexuality has not evolved radically beyond primal sexuality, while human females, through the shift from estrus to menstrual cycles, have evolved a nonreproductive sexual capacity that functions primarily for affectional bonding”

“while mother nature remains at work as a servant of this enterprise, her energies and resources used to realize his thought forms and achieve his goals. the earth, the body, the soul, and the imagination will be allowed to survive only as handmaiden’s of the great male mind up in the sky.”

“what has happened to us? our primordial and practical, maternal-magical perception of oneness between ourselves and the universe is the innate female state which, in this modern patriarchal world, we are all supposed to “grow out of” in order to become . . . men.”

“our history as a species is stored in our genes; and no matter how hard patriarchy tries to suppress our past matriarchal history, it keeps “bobbing to the surface” in worldwide archeological ruins, icons, and myths, as in our dreams.”

“the contemporary western world, ruled by an essentially white patriarchal elite, sees itself as the peak of human development; in its linear view, all past cultures were by nature “inferior” simply because they came earlier in time— and existed mainly, not on their own right or in their own terms, but as many steps on a grand staircase leading up to the “ supreme white western maledom” “