The Mother's Call for Peace, Volume III: A Global Peace

By Sarah RisingSun Lee

This is the 3rd of a 3-part series: "The Mother's Call to Peace."

Volume I.  A Greater Light ~ Volume II. A New Earth ~ Volume III.  A Global Peace

      When the world lies in darkness, experiencing death and destruction, it needs that voice crying in the wild

• Language: English
• Publisher: Casa Tra Noi LLC
• Release date: Jun 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9781737612056

Sarah RisingSun Lee

Sarah RisingSun Lee, author of "The Mother's Call for Peace," is Founder and President of "The Mother's Institute" and "Covenant Children's House," her long-term pilot program and unique model for family-centered child care and early education. She has an educational background in the liberal arts and sciences from Kansas State University and the University of Kansas; a B.S. in Elementary Education from the University of Missouri-Kansas City; lifetime teaching certification from the State of Missouri, including certification in Primary Montessori Education from the University of Saint Mary, and extensive experience in elementary and early childhood education. She also has an advanced diploma in Religious Studies from Unity Institute, together with coursework, workshops, and numerous counseling experiences in psychology. After teaching for many years in both private and public schools, RisingSun Lee created her 21st Century Global Peace Curriculum © for early education and common schools, beginning in early childhood and extending through the middle school years. In the 1980s, she helped to establish and then taught for Covenant Children's House as lead teacher, innovator, and director for over four decades, while also being a leader in her community. Her unique programs, models, curriculum, and educational materials are intentionally global and holistic, addressing both the developmental tasks and the fundamental needs in all dimensions of being human: body, mind, soul, and spirit.The values that still drive her life's work include: Transforming the world one child at a time, through community supported, family-centered early childhood care and peace education; Envisioning a Global School System designed to give all children access to a quality education; Inspiring and preparing dedicated, seasoned educators to teach for a Global Teaching Corps; Empowering women and insisting on and investing in girl's education, everywhere; Organizing communities to help mitigate climate change and create cultures of peace for Earth's children; Instituting an organizing center for a Women's Global Peace Movement; Encouraging all women to use their collective power-to move nations toward a just peace; and Advocating for sustainable, needs-based economies and democratic forms of government. A life-long educator, RisingSun Lee continues to learn and write.

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C O N T E N T S

VOLUME I. A Greater Light

Prologue: Into the Darkness

Chapter 1. Being Human and Female

Chapter 2.  Empowering Females

~ Dimensions of Being Human

~ General Psychology

~ Transformational Psychology

~ Female Roles That Can Impede

~ A New Agenda for Today’s Women

~ Blessing Children

~ An Inner Life

~ The Externalized Soul

~ Female Bitterness

~ Overcoming Past Bitterness

~ The Nature of Evil

Chapter 3.  What Adults Must Know (Part 1)

~ About This Chapter

~ The Big Picture & Steps to Empowerment

~ Human Psychology & Pathology

~ A Dark Side

VOLUME II. A New Earth

Chapter 3. What Adults Must Know (Part 2)

~ Becoming Encouraged

~ Metaphysics & Metaphor

~ Women in the Halls of Power

~ Female Empowerment

~ Collective Evil

~ Psychological & Spiritual Mutations

~ The Nature of the Mind & Soul

~ A Divine Nature & Spirit

~ Being Shaped by Family

~ Female Creative Powers

~ Power, Politics, & Feminism 

~ The Female Spiritual Nature

~ The Female Soul’s Nature

~ Evil & Its Effects

~ Overcoming Oppression

~ Building Feminine Structures

~ Feminine Spiritual Realms

~ The Teenage Girl   

~ The Insanity of Eve 

~ The Disabled, Distorted, Fallen Feminine

~ Generational Pain, Pathologies, & Healing

VOLUME III. A Global Peace

Chapter 3. What Adults Must Know (Part 3)

~ The Disabled, Distorted, Fallen Female (continued)

~ Dysfunctions in Families of Origin

~ Restoring the Women’s House

~ The Changing Female Image

~ Looking at & for Religion

~ Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil

~ Looking for the Center

~ Mental & Psychological Disorders

~ Chemical Addictions

~ Restoring the Men’s House

~ The Warping of Womanhood

~ The Predatory Instincts

~ The Disoriented Female

~ The Old Paradigms

~ The Power of Community

~ Using Female Empowerment

Chapter 4. The Whole Woman

~ Human Intelligences

~ Thinking Disorders

~ Soul Qualities

~ A Divine Nature

Chapter 5.  An Organizing Center

Chapter 6.  Spiritual Needs

Chapter 7.  Peace Education for Adults

Chapter 8.  Spiritual Communities

Chapter 9.  A Global Peace Movement

~ Pride & Priority

~ Why Feminine Leadership?

~ Local Communities for Peace

~ Regional Networks for Peace

~ Standards for Child Care & Education

~ A Vision & Mission

~ A Possible Future

Chapter 10. Peace Education for Children 

~ Optimal Child Development

~ About Boys (And Girls)

~ Inconsistent Parents

~ Long-Term Solutions

~ The Mother’s Institute

~ A Children’s House – Designed for the Future

~ Overview – Blueprint for Peace

Chapter 3.  What Adults Must Know (Part 3)

~ The Disabled, Distorted, Fallen Feminine (continued)

Females must not be blamed for the cultural warping of womanhood.  But it is time for calling out all of these distortions and resulting dysfunctions, so they can be corrected.  Persons that are oppressed will often be, in turn, inclined to oppress weaker ones.  Hurt people hurt other people.  When a poisoned cup that is only half-full has been the only thing available to her soul, no female must be ashamed, after she has been made sick by it.  Toxic shame will only keep a woman from finally getting well.  Women owe it to themselves, and to coming generations, to take back their own power.  They can reject male-dominated power structures without also losing their moral compasses.  Women do better, morally and ethically, when they listen to their hearts.  As stated in a different context, the idea that a real woman wants some male to tell her what to do is a part of the patriarchal and religious brainwashing of females that contributes to ‘the insanity of Eve.’

A real woman is obedient to her own heart.  Counseling can be a first step for women to begin journeys leading to empowerment and freedom.  But few psychologists know how to direct the work described in this series.  Women must be aware that mental health professionals, with a limited understanding of the psyche, beyond mainly at the level of its ego states, emotions, and the personality, could unintentionally create an opening for the dark side in their client’s psyche, through guided meditation, hypnosis, or other practices.  ‘Fools that rush in where angels fear to tread’ actually serve the shadow side, even when that was never the intention.  Or, in a few cases, it might be a hidden agenda.  Clients that are ‘opened up,’ psychologically, are more likely to stay in therapy.  This is why having and checking in with the right spiritual counselor is also advised.

    A counselor or therapist could perhaps be recreating old, harmful dynamics from his or her own family, with certain clients.  It is never wise to give a voice or any power to, or to identify in any manner with, spiritually demented and otherwise harmful parental introjects or archetypes.  Women must trust their intuition.  Some mental health professionals were already concerned and sounding the alarm in the 1980s and 90s, when some of their own ranks were encouraging the integration of destructive or deviant parts of clients’ psyches with healthier parts—with dire consequences.  A psyche is inclined toward its healing and wholeness.  If it had been healthy to integrate some fragmented part, the psyche would already have done so.  Knowing everything possible about any fragmented parts of your psyche would be essential, before integrating them.  Any mental health professionals that advised otherwise would actually be guilty of malpractice.

It is always best to have spiritual protection and guidance in place, before moving forward with in-depth psychological work with a health care professional.  Small groups, organized and led by women, can provide places for women with similar challenged and goals to come together and report on or to share aspects of their own journeys toward wholeness and healing.  Support groups’ structures would have a set time period and a time for each member to speak, and then allow for loving, constructive feed-back from other members, like 12-step programs.  Those, who might share similar scripts, can provide an outsiders’ perspective and information in the context of their personal stories, without taking ownership of any other members’ problems or trauma. 

    A psychiatrist in Zimbabwe, Dr.  Dixon Chibanda, had a mission to narrow the treatment gap for mental illness in low-income countries, like his, by creating an informal system of therapists in communities.  Grandmothers are one of Africa’s most reliable resources, so his organization, Friendship Benches, trains hundreds of grandmothers in problem-solving therapy, role-playing, and behavior activation.  Sessions take place on wooden Friendship Benches.  Grandmothers are often the best equipped to provide care, because they listen and guide their charges toward their own solutions, unlike telling them what to do.  A study published in JAMA, in 2016, showed the positive benefits of this approach.  Dr.  Chibanda hopes to expand and to address depression, an escalating problem destroying lives and costing the global economy trillions of dollars.  No one should face mental illness alone.  With something simple, we make a difference in the world.  (Source: A humble solution to global depression by Eben Shapiro, Time, February 18-25, 2019.)

Nothing in a human body compares to the female’s womb, with its power to create and bring forth a new life; it is the strongest muscle in the body.  A human brain and mind has plasticity and can heal.  (Source: The Self-Healing Mind" by Dr.  Gregory Scott Brown.) But nothing is more miraculous than a female’s heart, which can heal and make room for more children of her own, and even for children not her own.  If a female can get her own basic needs met, then she has the capacity to heal herself, her family, tribe, and, collectively, even nations.  If these have not become warped and limited by male oppression, highly restrictive religions, or socio-economic systems, female maternal instincts are stronger than whatever threatens her.  Woman will fight to protect themselves, their families, their nations, and the earth, since their children depend on all of these. 

Training programs like Dr.  Chibanda’s could be online.  As more grandmothers do their own inner soul work, the more equipped they will be to help others.  This model is worth emulating in other places, not just Africa.  And nowhere do people feel more alone than in the richer, more developed countries.  According to Dr.  Scott Brown, 20% of Americans will suffer mental illness.  As David Brooks wrote, the roots of social-political dysfunction lie deep in a society.  For that to change, the social context, in which all politics is embedded, must change.  In a healthy society, people live their lives within a galaxy of warm places, as members of a family, a neighborhood, school, faith, civic organization, hobby groups, company, regional culture, nation, continent, and world.  Each layer is nestled in the others to form a varied but a coherent whole.  After World War II, the U.S.’s community and membership mindset gave way to a more individualistic and autonomy mindset.  By 2005, 47% of Americans knew none or just a few of their neighbors by their names.  Some reported having no close friends, in whom to confide, and civil life suffered.

Marc J.  Dunkelman observed, in The Vanishing Neighbor, that Americans are still good at tending their inner-ring relationships, their family and friends.  They are pretty good at tending outer-ring relationships, their Facebook acquaintances, fan clubs, and persons like them or who share a common interest.  They spend less time with middle-ring relationships, like the PTA or a neighborhood group, those places where people learn to deliberate and join cause with people that think or believe differently from them.  They are good at bonding with people, who are like themselves, but not at bridging with persons unlike themselves.  (Source: Fixing politics will require a cultural shift by David Brooks, The Kansas City Star, April 13, 2016.)  This can happen.

    Yet another expert on politics wrote that organizational structures in U.S.  government have broken down, resulting in chaos.  ‘Reforms’ allowed Donald Trump to be chosen by only 12% of Republican voters, in the 2016 primary elections, as their candidate for president.  Political chaos created Trump, and not the other way around.  For democratic politics to work, larger coalitions have to assemble—and the government was once organized that way.  It required transactional relationships, compromise, giving people incentives to work together, and working together, so each of the political parties got something.  Part of the problem now is that, whenever things are negotiated in public, the interest groups pile on, so legislation then dies, before it can get passed.  Both parties now also have obstructionists.  A series of reforms undermined their organizational system, so a small minority of activists now have more power within politics and will even vote against their own party.  The parties used to exclude these renegades.  The political problem in the U.S.  (in Washington, D.C.) is not only the leaders; it is also their lack of followers.  (Source: A review of the book: How American Politics Went Insane, PBS NewsHour, September, 19, 2016.)

After Donald Trump was elected president (not by a majority), American politics went more than just insane.  After he lost re-election in 2020, he sent his followers to attack the U.S.  Capitol on January 6th, not only to protest the election results, but to actually try to overturn an election that was fair and secure.  And this insurrection was not just an uprising against the government.  As video later showed, it was an attempted massacre.  No official can make excuses for a mob of would-be killers, who broke through windows and tore down doors in an attempt to murder the vice-president, the House speaker, and anyone they found.  These were not simply disheartened Americans, who felt betrayed by the electoral system.  None of them were, as Trump later said of them, very special people and great patriots who have been badly and unfairly treated.  All of them came there to instead overturn the election and destroy the U.S.  system of government.  Some of them also came to slaughter.  If the understaffed and unprepared U.S.  Capital police and Washington, D.C.  police had not bravely protected the elected officials, some would have been among those killed.  As it was, rioters were responsible for the injury of 140 police officers, the death of an officer, and three other persons.  (Source: We see now that Capitol riot was massacre attempt by Dahleen Glanton, The Chicago Tribune/The Kansas City Star, February 12, 2021.)

Many Republicans later decided to view this January 6th insurrection as a one-time event.  But dismissing it would be a huge mistake.  More than half of GOP members still voted to overturn the election results, even after an assault on the Capitol.  Rather than ending such a threat to U.S.  democracy, they continued to keep it alive.  Those that voted to impeach Trump were in political peril, within their own party.  Republicans at the state level, citing false concerns about election fraud, built on lies, introduced more than 100 bills to make it harder to vote, including voting by mail, all naked attempts to shrink their opposition’s electorate and make it easier to rig elections. 

Autocratic breakthroughs are enabled by the flawed view that such movements can always be contained.  But dissenting voices can eventually be removed, while the extreme elements take over the power structure.  This gives the insurgents their opportunity to capture the government and pursue anti-democratic aims that they justify as necessary to right a previous injustice.  Add in an intentional disinformation campaign and an ethnic nationalist call for a return to glory, which defines any opposing voices as a threat to the real nation itself, and you have a national disaster.  What the GOP and its support apparatus were doing was/is exactly the wrong thing for any democracy.  Two paths are now standing before the American people: to strengthen their republic (and voting laws) or risk its destruction.  (Source: Don’t think the fight is over once the mob is gone by Oren Jacobson, Tribune News Service/The Kansas City Star, February 11, 2011.)

    The so-called ‘injustice’ in the case of this attack on their democracy was based on a deliberate big lie by Donald Trump—that the 2020 election had been rigged and that he had actually won.  But lies were nothing new for Trump and, as Michael Gerson, an evangelical Christian, wrote, the context for Trump’s lies had been particularly damming.  When Trump had falsely asserted that Barack Obama was born in Africa, and illegitimate as U.S.  president, it was permission for racism.  When he said Muslims celebrated on Sept.  11, 2001, it was a vicious lie to feed a prejudice.  But Trump’s lie of a stolen election required his followers to affirm the existence of a nationwide plot against him and his supporters, a plot led by ruthless Democrats and traitorous Republicans, and ignored or endorsed by useless courts and by a complicit media.  Trump’s Attorney General and conservative judges he had appointed found no evidence of fraud, yet followers believed the lies. 

      Trump’s big lie might not be the moral equivalent of fascist propaganda, yet it serves the same political function.  How plausible was it in the 1930s and 40s that an international conspiracy of powerful Jews was controlling world events?  It was a founding lie, intended to remove voters from the messy world of facts or evidence.  It was/is designed to replace critical judgement with personal loyalty—to encourage distrust of every source of social authority opposed to a leader’s shifting will and lies.  Those rioters that stormed the U.S.  Capitol had believed this myth and the lies.  But, it was the elected Republicans, who kept lying, with open eyes, out of fear or cynicism, that will have the most to atone for.  With the health of U.S.  democracy at stake, their excuses are disgraceful.  (Source: Trump’s Big Lie and the liars who say they buy it by Michael Gerson, The Washington Post/The Kansas City Star, May 5, 2021.)  The January 6th Committee confirmed this.

    Another conservative, Kathleen Parker, wrote that, after this mob attack upon the Capitol, she wagers that millions regret voting for Trump in 2020.  Sometimes the extreme fringes of some political party can take over its main body, especially when encouraged by the president himself.  Jan.  6th will be imprinted on American brains for years; and the Republicans that enabled Trump will not easily shed being associated with it (nor should they), yet voters likely agree that the a nation needs two strong political parties.  When Parker declares the GOP dead, she means it in the Christian sense: Penance, forgiveness, and a re-birth are not just possible, but are necessary.  The GOP’s fall from grace began when it forgot its roots and accepted a demagogue (Trump) as commander-in-chief.  Conservatism is a philosophy based on collective wisdom and faith in the tried and true.  What was witnessed on Jan.  6th was not conservatism; it was bedlam (insanity).

The Grand Old Party (GOP) is dead; it is now only the old party, peopled largely by a fading generation and powered by stale ideas.  Missing are its big ideas and the easy going temperament of many former presidents.  In contrast, Donald Trump brought a scowl to the party.  His lack of intellectual curiosity was an insult to every American.  His coarse behavior and insistence on constant attention, frantically tweeting at all hours, like an adolescent whose brain had not fully developed, was ridiculous and dangerous.  He was unworthy of the office and everyone knew it.  Even if someone is saying this feels like an insult, it is not.  Trump was the insult.  His stubborn refusal to act like an adult and his demand for loyalty, as a prop to his improperly developed ego, were assaults to those who placed their faith in his potential to become something greater than himself.  He failed.  He failed Republicans and the nation and its allies, who count on the U.S.  as a model for ordered liberty and democratic freedom.  It is imperative that the GOP re-invent itself; divest from Trumpism; offer an alternative vision; disempower conspiracy propagators; offer fact-based truth and better ideas; stand for something that inspires and attracts people of good will.  A democracy functions best in diverse, big, balanced, and protected eco-systems.  (Source: How the GOP can be reborn by Kathleen Parker, The Washington Post, February 14, 2021.)

In a June 2, 2021 interview on Amanpour & Co., former Congressman Mickey Edwards noted that his party, the GOP, is still more of a cult, a system with a ‘strong’ leader, who takes a position, with which all members must agree, and then ‘toe the line,’ with no tolerance for any difference of opinion.  Elected members of the Republican Party are so terrified of losing the primaries that most will do anything to hold onto power.  What happened, under Donald Trump, was more than just lies and conspiracy nonsense.  It was all about power and winning back Congress and the White House, for their party.  They only care about winning, so structural changes are needed to re-build a belief in democracy.  All party processes must be removed from elections, as in California, so the best candidates cannot be eliminated in party primaries, using ‘sore loser’ laws.  Gerrymandering, so the party in power can re-draw the maps, for district lines that favor it, must also end.  This is not what the U.S.  founders had in mind.  Many Trump voters wanted to latch onto something, so their grievances must also be addressed.  A counter narrative is needed, to replace crazy conspiracy theories.  For Trump to say that he will be reinstated was dangerous.  Edwards also suggested reading True Believer and Escape from Freedom.  If elected officials of any party are willing to lie for its leaders, what else will they lie about?  Vote liars out of office.

      Having the same number of senators (2), from small states as from very big ones, is another structural change that is needed for ‘one person, one vote’ to be the reality in this 21st century.  Since the U.S.  Constitution is hard to amend, a way to address this imbalance might instead be to re-draw the state lines, consolidating states with small populations, while dividing those states with the larger populations.  Otherwise, the Senate can, and often does, override what a majority of citizens favor, particularly when this is some new law or change that their big donors oppose.  (Source: 4 ways to remake the nation’s map to bring balance to Senate by Kristin Eberhard, Tribune News Service/The Kansas City Star, February 10,2021.)  The U.S.  could also improve and expand social services like its public health system.  That the family of one young girl, seriously injured in a car accident, had to set up a Go Fund Me page, and that her single mother had no paid parental leave, was a national disgrace, pointing to the devaluing of women and children, when ‘old white men’ are the majority enacting laws, while also running Hollywood, the Sports Industry, Etc.  Males used to privilege do not want to lose it, so females must take it from them,  which is unlikely to happen, if women’s reality is so distorted that they instead re-elect such men.

Until Republican women of integrity and sound mind ‘take the reins’ in the party, the forecast for its future is grim, if not dire.  Men tend to look favorably upon ‘alpha male’ leadership, while women seem to be more focused on keeping their houses clean—so, for women, having Donald Trump in the White House was more like finding ‘a rat’ in ‘the people’s house.’  And what does a rat do?  It hides behind the walls and under the floors, and it usually only comes out at night.  It is destructive and it carries diseases.  If a rat and its spawn are living in any house, they must be removed—and then all of those places where they came in, or might be able to come back in, must be repaired or sealed up.  And all of those persons living in that house need to know, when there is an infestation.  If not, some members of their group might continue revolving around or feeding ‘at rat,’ even as it is chewing up the Constitution and soiling the floors.  (In Donald Trump, Americans had ‘a rat’ at night and ‘a wolf’ during the day, in the White House.)  How do the GOP’s women know that a rat was in the White House—and is still trying to get back in, by hook or by crook, and that ‘a pack of rats’ still remains in Congress?  Other Republicans—Gerson, Parker, Edwards—just told them.  It is now ‘do or die,’ as GOP leaders like Liz Chaney are  saying.  Trump showed he had no honor, by refusing to concede his loss of the 2020 election, which is what all honorable leaders do.  The Jan.  6th assault on the Capitol showed the end result of ‘Trumpism.’ The sooner that other Republicans reject it, the better for their entire country and for democracy. 

    One thing that Trump’s corruption did for the Republican Party was to separate out it ‘goats’ (or ‘wolves’) from its ‘sheep.’  (Or, as a political commentator said, he took off its lid and released its demons.) Only other ‘wolves’ will join in with any pack of wolves; the sheep try to keep their distance.  Every elected GOP candidate or elected official, who sided with Trump in his big lie, and helped him try to overturn the results of a secure election, knew that there was no election fraud.  Even Trump had been told in no uncertain terms, by his own campaign, that he had lost, so he knew, from the beginning, that his claim of having won was absolutely false.  Trump should never be allowed to run again and those Republicans that opted to go along with this lie must be replaced in coming elections.  If they are not, then how will Americans be able to trust their own elected officials and government?  GOP-controlled state legislatures that were passing laws or changing rules to also undercut that trust must likewise be voted out.  Democracy depends on it.

As the U.S.  Department of Justice investigated and pursued criminal charges against persons, who attacked the Capitol on Jan.  6th, in a violent attempt to overturn the results of a fair election and stop the peaceful transfer of power, Donald Trump and his GOP enablers falsely claimed that the Biden Administration had weaponized the Justice Department, to prevent Trump from being re-elected in 2024.  Alberto R.  Gonzales, a former GOP Attorney General appointed by President George W.  Bush, wrote, in his The Washington Post article, that  the Justice Department has many thousands of employees, mostly professionals, who would question any decisions that appear to be politically motivated.  They are doing their jobs, to serve the people and to keep America safe.  The DOJ did not conspire against Donald Trump.  The GOP has 8-9 other candidates in its primary elections, yet none of them are being investigated or indicted for federal crimes.  This is not about politics; it is about what is good for America.  The Attorney General appointed by Biden is a man of integrity, who must make hard decisions.  The DOJ cannot ignore wrongdoings.  GOP leaders must also speak out against what was wrong.  There is a lot at stake here, and it is dangerous to be silent and/or to be stoking violence.  Judges and the government must ensure the safety of all witnesses and jurors, as these criminal trials of Trump and his allies continue.  For the public to see the evidence, hear the facts, and see how the system works is vital.  (Source: PBS NewsHour.)

How did the U.S.  fall into this ‘rabbit hole?’ Part of the answer can perhaps be found in the case of two 12-year-old girls, who planned to murder one classmate and almost succeeded in stabbing her to death.  The professional that evaluated one of these girls found that she had a rare mental disorder, wherein one person becomes caught up in a shared interest and delusion, with another person, which, in this case, was a girl with a family history of mental illness.  (Her father said that he knew that the devil was not in the back seat, yet also knew that the devil was in the back seat.  It is likely that the dark side in this parent and family did play a role in attacking an innocent girl, as the wall between the healthy side and an unhealthy side of the psyche started to break down.) This girl had started writing that she wanted to kill someone, together with disturbing art and a belief in scary stories of some faceless ‘Slender Man,’ online.  The power of the Internet, together with a mental disorder, was a toxic combination that resulted in these two girls being sentenced, then sent, to a state mental institution.  (Source: The Wicked, 20/20, ABC, September 1, 2023.)

    A delusion goes beyond just believing a lie or a false narrative.  That Donald Trump won the 2020 election was ‘the big lie,’ which he knew to be false.  This lie was then fed by Fox News and his GOP enablers, who also knew it to be untrue.  But that Trump was somehow their champion was the delusion, shared by his base or supporters.  That Putin was fighting the Nazis in Ukraine was the lie in Russia.  But that he was somehow keeping Russians safe was their shared delusion, when, in fact, his unprovoked war against Ukraine had put them in danger.  Yet, they are like that young girl (the accomplice), who did not know that she was being put in danger by a ‘friend.’  For adults that do not want to be ‘tricked,’ as the victim in this case had been, then the test is whether or not one heard it on the Internet, or did one ask for a clearing and hear it in one’s prayer closet? The dark side deals in falsehoods and delusions; the Creators only deal in the realities and Truth.

Here is another thing that persons, who voted for Donald Trump or are still being taken in by his big con, need to know, not only about Trump, but also about Russia’s Putin: Why did Putin further invade and attack Ukraine in 2022, other than to set up a government controlled by him?  The world order and its balance of power, established by the Western democracies after World War II, changed after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but not enough to suit Putin, as Russia lost influence and power, globally.  As one result, Putin made a long-term plan to restore Russia and himself, as its leader, to its time of being a large empire and a world super power.  To do that, he set about to weaken all democracies, especially the U.S., by dividing and weakening them from within.  Weakened democracies in Europe would then be easier to overrun and eventually fall under Russia’s rule, much like the Greek and the Roman empires once controlled most of Europe.

    If U.S.  democracy fails, by ‘falling on its own sword,’ it can then be taken over by a leader like Trump.  The world would then have three autocratic or totalitarian super powers: Russia, China, and the U.S.  Three authoritarian leaders could then be the ‘3 Big Bad Wolves,’ letting each other take whatever land they wanted in Eurasia, Europe, East Asia, or the Americas, and do whatever they wanted—forget all laws.  The three powers would become more and more like North Korea, as Russia was already becoming, as Putin attacked Ukraine and cut-off all dissent and free press.  Do any Americans in their right minds really want to give Putin what he wants—more of Trump?  If not, than all voters that want to live in a genuine democracy must advocate for needed reforms.

    In setting up their U.S.  government, its earliest founders learned from a coalition of American Indian tribes on the eastern coast for part of their model.  But, due to their European patriarchal background, some egalitarian aspects were excluded; only white men owning land could vote or hold political offices.  In contrast, these Indian tribes had councils of elders who had to earn their position on their councils.  Any upstarts could be kept out or overruled.  But, more importantly, they had councils of women elders, who could remove any leader from the men’s council, if the women determined that he had become arrogant or was no longer in harmony with core values of the tribe.  Considering how dysfunctional, corrupt, and even broken, that today’s governments are, is it not past time for the world’s women to adopt this tribal model, to help restore a female balance in every government?  This could begin with the women’s communities advocated for, herein, even if they are not necessarily political.  Most women know how to be followers and can learn to be leaders, in the context of groups that can then be a springboards into political arenas.

      Community members with more experience can mentor its newer members, so no woman feels as if she is alone in her journey toward greater wholeness.  Loneliness and isolation are still problems for many women.  Not surprisingly, women with breast cancer survive longer, it they become part of smaller support groups led by mental health professionals.  Black women have less breast cancer, but are more likely to be younger and die from it.  Black women are also more likely to be single mothers and low-paid caregivers, who cannot afford to miss work.  The value  of a community, in the healing process, is explored elsewhere, but every woman needs to belong to a genuine, inclusive community, which will, hopefully, include women from all ethnic groups, religions, and income levels.  Women can start by becoming fully involved and engaged in the life and work of local communities of support for women—ones that have the Goddess as their Center, a higher prayer consciousness, and a shared purpose of organizing for peace and working together so the needs of everyone can be met, within cultures of peace and social justice.  Women will, collectively, become the very heart of The Mother’s Global Peace Movement, envisioned and advocated for, herein, so it essential that communities do not revolve around any one person or a clique.  Once a clique takes over, the other group members do not feel as welcome and included.  Becoming empowered, within, is how to grow on up into becoming the right community leaders.

The Goddess is taking back what is Hers, from those that took it wrongly, so She is now seeking servants, not opportunists, to be steward of Her resources and work.  The work of the Queen will be powered by the hive and will never include carrying water for other organizations or causes.  Becoming involved with or taking sides in outside causes dilutes a movement’s core goals.  Do not be taken in by politicians, who claim that women are the heart of their campaigns.  Political campaigns revolve around candidates, usually men.  Do not be taken in by claims from a religious group that they share the same goals.  Never let this peace movement be used by any political party or outside groups.  Otherwise, it will no longer be as inclusive and open to all of the earth’s women, as was intended.  Keep the state/government and religion or other traditions separate, in meetings or otherwise.  Life and freedom—not any state—align with the core human values.

      The Goddess recognizes hidden agendas, even when a woman might not.  She will point out these agendas to those servants, who are closely attuned to Her  People tend to re-create their old family dynamics in groups, which must be avoided.  Leaders for The Mother’s Global Peace Movement must have done their inner soul work, so they are no longer dysfunctional, nor is their thinking or reality distorted, as if they are still ‘living down in a rabbit hole.’  Any woman, who is being guided by the Goddess, is not easily duped or manipulated by propaganda.  Women will join this movement for their own reasons; but once they have joined, they must follow its leaders—not undercut their ability to lead.  As in a democracy, elected positions must have term limits.  The more female members, who learn how to be effective leaders, within this movement and in other civic and political organizations, the better.  Also know that the Goddess can bend the Internet to Her will.  Women can find ways to use it to their advantage or for collective good.  Just be certain that you do not get what you want on someone else’s ‘dime’ or their disadvantage.

~ Dysfunctions in Families of Origin

According to one theory by Louise Kaplan, Ph.D., with the advent of large-scale industrial production, work, which had previously been at the center of family life, became wage labor and impersonal.  In response to the machine technology’s harsh impersonality, the family unit folded into itself.  It became the protective haven, which would shelter its members from the crushing indignities of industrial life.  The (almost) total domestication of women and their isolation from the work world of men were accomplished, so that mothers could nurture in their children those human values, which their society otherwise no longer fostered.  In the sheltered cocoon of the nuclear family, the individual would be foremost.  Values such as self-interest, self-expression, self-realization, personal fulfillment, and independence overshadowed any responsibilities or commitment to their society.  What had first started, as a tent pitched against a heartless world, became a fortress of confinement and constraints, as the rights of the individual family members were pitched against the rights of all the other family members.  (And some could be sacrificed.)

Dr.  Kaplan further theorized that, as the split between the good family realm and the outside world widened, the contradictions deepened between the family’s sponsorship of individuality and the emotionally crippling shackles that now bound the mother, the father, and children to each other.  Instead of the devotion and the loyalty these had been intended to foster, the intense intimacies or closeness within family life gradually began to breed more personal versions of isolation and aloneness in the world.  In the drama of war between the sexes, sexual oppression was even more personal and the humiliation and aloneness it breeds more individual—and mutual.  A man alienated from his labor, or who has become mainly a dominating manipulator of other men, is actually as powerless as is the woman.  She concluded, The godlike controller of other men and the men they control are as alienated from themselves and each other as they are from women and children. (Source: Oneness & Separateness by Louise Kaplan, Ph.D.  © 1978.)

Note: Dr.  Kaplan’s theory could account for unhealthy family structures, as discussed herein.  But it overlooked the fact that most families have a long history that may stretch back to ancient times, when the oppression and isolation of females first began.  Even those women that had lived in small cities in ancient Greece — as it was shifting to a culture of war, were confined to home, using just social norms.  Long before industrialization, many females had already been isolated on family farms and at home, not living in any way that would be normal for female members of a social, tribal species.  Dr.  Kaplan’s theory does not adequately explain why so many families breed jealousy, competition, and the other negative emotions and dynamics between family members.  But it does point out that human families are formed and function within the context of a larger society and that cultural materialism, how society harvests and distributes energy, shapes families.  One cannot ignore the larger social environments, in which all families were first formed and continue to exist.

Furthermore, some of the current approaches to family therapy are based upon the concept of the authentic self as the person being aware of and able to express his or her thoughts or ideas, as well as the full range of his or her emotions.  In this paradigm, the self as a social construct, which was forged within the family of origin, is replaced with the self-aware, emotional self.  But there is much more to the authentic self than just thinking and feelings, even if these are important to know about oneself.  It also sets a very low bar, which can still be primarily a false or therapy-generated self.  To use a metaphor, if a person is venting and screaming out how very angry, hurt, and discounted that he or she felt, or might still feel, while living down in some ‘rabbit hole,’ how is that a true self?  Solid  family therapy may begin with uncovering old roles and helping members to step out of them, but, if it does not eventually address the old ‘rabbit hole’ in which they grew up (the old pathologies and scripts, which either passed down or set up during their lifetimes) it is not helping them to climb out of that hole, which is far deeper and influential than their mental activities and emotional life.  If God and their own Spirit is not ‘pushing the river’ to fill up that hole with water, until they have little choice but to reach up for spiritual help, out of it, how will they ever become their whole self?

In dysfunctional, but stable, families, the core or what is actually at its center is often hidden behind a façade of We’re just one big, loving and happy family. What is on its front porch may be quite different from what is in its closets and basement.  However, a rift or tear in the fabric of the family will weaken it, as a whole, whether it is acknowledged or not.  Hostility or resentment toward some member of the family would be an example.  And a rift between members in certain positions or roles may be passed from one generation to the next—as is the nature of a script and its roles.  Conflict between a mother and daughter is one example.  A newer member of an extended family might re-create a rift, which mirrors the one in his or her family of origin.  The hostility and animosity will already be present, within, from that person’s childhood, even if a member of the new, extended family’s way of being and relating brings it to the surface.  This rift will exist, whether the members live close by or far from each other, but it will more likely be tamped down, if the target of the hostility has resources for the new member to use.  In that case, the animosity may go deep underground, even though younger children are usually aware of it. 

As a result of these kinds of scripted rifts, some members are separated from parts of the family or marginalized—while those that caused the rift expect all members to be loyal to them, to support and defend them, even as they are creating it.  Everyone else in their extended family will be expected to reach out across any rifts—and continue to deny, rather than to search out and acknowledge the deeper roots of the animosity, which real repair or reconciliation requires.  A healthy family system is based in trust; all of its members can be trusted to help other members through difficult times—not through the self-sacrifice of a few, but through the collective efforts of the entire group.  All members contribute, so the burden is not too heavy for any one member. 

Children intuitively take their cues from parents, as for whom to trust or not trust, so they will not bond as deeply—if at all, with any members of the family, if they sense animosity within their primary caregiver(s) toward that member.  This robs the children of any unique gifts that the other family member might have to offer.  It also creates an emotional hierarchy, wherein an adult is ranked below the children.  And, even if fathers are fully involved as co-parent and the children clearly belong to both parents, children will belong even more to their mothers, when they are young, so younger children, especially girls, take more of their cues from their mothers. 

Realizing that a close relative has been ranked below them, the children will then feel freer to disrespect, disobey, and challenge that family member, even if he or she is an elder.  A woman that negates the feminine, within her own psyche, and/or disdains, discounts, undermines, or attacks others, especially women, forfeits the blessing of the Goddess.  As pointed out, in Volume II, a woman, who ‘brings out her claws’ and attacks another woman cannot also connect to the Divine Feminine or Mother Ship.  She cannot have it both ways.  And, because a mother’s children first belong to her, not to the Goddess, she forfeits this great blessing for them.  Her children then have no connection to the Goddess—except possibly through their father, if he is connected to and protected by the Goddess, either personally or through the females on his side of the family.  Even then, any child’s connection to the Divine Mother will be the strongest through its mother. 

As emphasized by Madeline Albright, a former U.S.  Secretary of State, the 21st Century must become one of global reconciliation.  And reconciliation begins in families.  Women must search out and begin acknowledging and laying their legitimate rage, resentment, and bitterness to rest, so as to love fully and freely, again.  In many societies and families, this will require radical acts of forgiveness.  But how can adults forgive what they do not acknowledge? Even if their primary caregivers usually did the best that they could, in the past, based upon their own parenting and family system model, it probably was not good enough for most children—now its adult children.  Many families were like ‘rabbit holes,’ in which all of the children just breathed in the pathology like they breathe in air—which then became a part of their own twisted, internal reality.  It is too late for adults to change their initial upbringing, but they can leave all old ‘rabbit holes’ and take responsibility for communicating with and helping provide the care their young selves still need.  Anger can be used, initially, to help put boundaries in place, but it must eventually be resolved.  Just blaming their parents or family of origin, indefinitely, will not meet their inner child’s needs and it will not get them out of any old ‘rabbit hole.’  Unless it is left behind, they just carry it with them, into any family they then create—much like a crab carries another’s shell, as if it is its own, even if that shell is not right for the crab’s shape (or, for a human, not right for a divine nature). 

Whenever a family has very little or no room for a child’s spirit, the souls of the children still bond with a human matrix, yet little or no bonding will take place at the deeper level of spirit—through the higher soul realms.  When any members are in denial, loyalty to the system remains more important than relationships.  How can any family be truly peace-centered, with a vein of hostility running just below its surface? How open can other members be with a member that judges and/or feels hostile toward them? Families like this may spread the love around on the outer surface, but they also spread around discord, which can then carry over into their society.  Does any healthy adult want to be up close to or intimate with someone else’s homicidal rage? 

Can this be what grown-ups in any family really want? Would not a whole, Creator-Centered family that is fully functional and truly loving offer a better way of living? A truly abundant life is rich in relationships.  At the same time, wholesome relationships are impossible in lethal family systems.  And any family in which some members have been or are being abused is toxic.  For its members, their birth family is not, nor was it ever, genuinely love-based.  For some, their family of origin can be like alcohol is to the alcoholic, which adults must then avoid or be ‘sucked into’ whatever is still unhealthy about that family.  Adults lower in their family’s hierarchy can even feel traumatized after reunions or spending extended periods of time with its ‘higher up’ family members, as if they are trapped again in an old system that has dynamics intent on discounting them.  Only spending time with a ‘lesser’ member, when it is convenient for them, is an example. 

Discounted members cannot change other members.  But individual members can change this, within, until they can, if needed, be around ‘their’ family without ‘drinking their Kool-Aid.’ Or, if they are still a part of or a party to discounting someone else, especially another member of the family, they will have to live in a toxic intra-psychic environment that supports discounting or being hostile toward each other.  Inner psychological work and change will very often go hand in hand with dynamics that challenge outer relationships, usually within one’s marriage, family system, and occupation.  Like stress, the abuse of a sibling and the resulting trauma for even one member spreads throughout the family, especially to those other children that are witnesses to it—and even if they were quite young at the time.  When the abuse is sexual, the toxic shame can also spread out to all members, and victims will likely suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. 

But exposure to the trauma will be imprinted in the psyches of other children in the family, especially those that were alive at the time.  One or more of the members that heard or witnessed the abuse, even if non-verbal at the time, may become mentally ill or ‘off,’’ at some point in time, during their adult lives.  Their reality will be distorted, as if they first fell into and now live ‘down in a rabbit hole.’ But, in such families, even large ones, all of its members are alone, deep within.  Those members that became a target or its scapegoat might appear to have taken on or carried the sin of the abusive member(s) out of their family.  But their family system and all of the other members are still marked and marred by it.  It then becomes one of the dark, hidden things within their psyches and in the family closet, which they will need to acknowledge and heal, if they do not want to pass it on to their children.  Once it has been brought to light, it must then be healed, within living family members.  When inner children remember abuse of a sibling, these memories must be healed.  Abuse of children, verbal and otherwise, also weakens the parent-child bond.  And it weakens the sexual bond and potential for deep intimacy, between the two parents.  When abuse becomes a norm, close relatives are reluctant to confront and/or report it.  If the abuse is only mental or psychological, some might not even recognize it as being abusive.

A family curse can be more than just a superstition or irrational belief.  It usually carries some kinds of negative and destructive energies with it.  This harmful energy then goes somewhere, within that family system—whether assigned to or taken on by a certain member or members.  Its so-called ‘curse’ is a script, which started with the death or a severe injury of one individual family member or some traumatic event.  It will then become part of the intra-psychic life of the family and be passed down to those generations that follow, especially if there is a great deal of inter-generational pain within a family.  When a ‘curse’ becomes part of the child’s belief system, it is even more dangerous.  The shared belief, even if unconscious, that someone is ‘cursed’ and must die, or re-enact the grief, pain, horror, or trauma in some way, will not be true.  But the lie has power in the family.  Unless resolved, it can pit family members against each other—keeping all of them alone or in unhealthy, unholy alliances that keep some other members on the outside. 

Some family members cope by projecting these painful, collective memories and energies within their subconscious out onto other tragic events or an emotional drama lived by others.  A book by Amy Tan, The Bonesetter’s Daughter, is Tan’s true story of how a curse that set up in one place/China was then passed down to other family members, in a different location and culture.  In Tan’s story, an aging Chinese-American woman, whose own mother had experienced far more pain than she could continue to endure in China, insisted she was a witness to a highly publicized double murder in America, even though she could not possibly have been anywhere near it.  Past memories are also often recycled during the elder years.  However, so as to not recall certain things, some elders seem to find it easier to lose nearly all memories.  Brains can decline with age.  But the body also reads the soul, and it acts or reacts, accordingly.  (Additional Source: Journey of the Bonesetter’s Daughter on PBS, in May, 2011.)  More recently, an elder woman, adversely affected by Putin’s war against Ukraine, kept remembering when Stalin starved the peasants of Ukraine, to bring them under Russian control.  Her memories of starving children on the road that had died trying to get into the city in search of food, had been suppressed, until her old memory and trauma had surfaced out, as she was once again traumatized by Russian crimes.

It is harder to keep negative emotions and old ways of reacting and coping tamped down in any situation that feels familiar or if one is stressed, frustrated, and tired.  Diane Stafford, in her column on careers, reported on one presentation, in the spring of 2011, by John Schuster at the ‘Central Exchange,’ a Kansas City business education and networking organization.  Schuster defined one element of success as being: Not what happens to you, but how you deal with what happens to you. He noted that each of us has a collection of personal memories—some bad and some good.  It isn’t the factual events that most influence us; it’s how we remember those events.  Subjective memories are part and parcel of who we are.  In his book, The Power of Your Past: The Art of Recalling, Reclaiming and Recasting, this expert trainer of executives said that too many people ignore, avoid or numb themselves to their memories.  Too many others draw from memories to sentimentalize their past, demonize others, or victimize themselves.  Speaking of emotional prisons, he said, If people tell you that your past is irrevocable, do not believe them.  The imagination can transcend them. (Finding Me by Viola Davis is written by a Black woman.)

It is far better to recognize and work to overcome past difficulties than to be self-delusional or to project past anger out at others.  Schuster had counseled top executives, who had spun false memories about themselves, thus helping to create a faulty self-awareness—and their downfalls.  As he said, Each denial and mis-assessment, even the smaller ones, has a cost.  It is a game-ender, a crying-out-loud shame, a mission-mangler. (Source: Taking control of your past by Diane Stafford, The Kansas City Star.) Many mothers have ‘inherited’ a good/bad mother split, even if good enough mothers try to always act from the good mother side of that split.  However, when the split is still there, the bad mother could come up in a crisis—or some family member could project his or her negative energies and feelings onto the bad side of this split, within their own mothers.  Either way, women will do well to search out and correct any splits, within themselves.  If the bad mother side cannot be redeemed, it must be gradually, carefully shown out of a psyche. 

Like memories, a family of origin’s dynamics can spill over into many areas of adult life.  A family’s script might not be as lethal as some ‘curses.’ But, much like a play, it still assigns certain roles or functions to its most suitable members.  If these roles are rigid, it creates a dysfunctional family system that has little or no room for its members to develop their individuality and fully claim/express their spiritual nature.  In a more lethal script, there might not be enough room, psychologically, for a parent and a child of the same gender, both.  It will not have psychological room for a mother and daughter or for a father and son—so one must die or otherwise go away.  This lie sets up a terrible choice (false, but believed, anyway, until the script has been changed) within the psyche of one of both of the members currently involved.  Does the mother do away with herself, so a daughter can live, or does a daughter do away with herself, so the parent can live? Many children could believe that this is what must be done, by themselves or by some other members, in order to ‘take care of’ their family’s mother.  Either way, members that ‘love’ each other will now also have murder in their hearts.  In cases like this, they cannot listen to their own soul’s intuition; it will usually guide them toward their own survival, not a spiritual solution.  The solution is to expose and change the lie, at all levels of their own selves, and replace it with Truth. 

Otherwise, scripts can force family members to live double (or even triple) lives, in which one adapted side is the loyal, loving family member, while another side believes that it must get rid of, or invest in harm to, at least one other family member.  The leading of this double life will then likely carry over into adult relationships, in which the person is a faithful partner, who then also has affairs on the side or wants out of the relationship.  But leading a double life eventually catches up with a person, internally and psychologically, whether or not it does so in the outer.  It can lead to depression, or even self-destructive thoughts and/or behaviors, in the longer term, to say nothing of what these kinds of betrayals might do to one’s mind, soul, and divine nature.  Any duality within the psyche, even if not as pronounced as schizophrenia or a bipolar disorder, can still weaken or cause the ego self or one’s sense of self to fall though, creating a mental health crisis.  One must never integrate any parts of the psyche that are deviant with its healthier side.

How do these harmful scripts set up, within families?  A child could pick up on it, intuitively, if the parent, or some other member, becomes anxious and agitated.  The possibility of death by one member or a spouse could trigger it.  It usually involves intuition, that soul intelligence which helps people to survive, and not a conscious knowledge of what is setting up or happening.  The soul’s intuition knows about these scripts and will look for ways to survive, even if it also follows the script.  The body reads the soul, so it will begin to self-destruct in some way, if that is what the script calls for—in order to ‘save’ the other person.  All of this is based upon a lie and a lower consciousness of ‘kill or be killed,’ but the soul’s intuition does not discern that this is a falsehood.  A Higher Power, from within one’s soul must take change and eventually replace its intuition, for this reason.  One woman used to communicate with her soul’s intuition, which she ‘saw’ as Yoda from Star Wars movies, until it was finally completely replaced by her own Higher Spiritual Self. 

So what might a daughter do, if she is still living ‘down in the old rabbit hole,’ believing that she must push out her mother, to make room for herself?  This may involve a self-deception and a concerted effort to prove to herself that she has more value than does her mother, and perhaps also an attempt to prove it to others, especially her siblings.  If this is reversed, then the mother may try to convince herself and the targeted daughter that, just by virtue of being its mother, she has more value to the family, so the daughter must get rid of herself, for the sake of their family.  This same dynamic could also set up among siblings, in which one of them must be ‘thrown under the bus.’  In many cases, this will likely involve dishonest games, such as ‘cat and mouse,’ in which one person or persons will find reasons to ‘pounce’ on their targeted member, and other ploys, in which the target is set up, discounted, put down, or beaten down in some manner.  The goal is to create or increase self-loathing and depression within their target or their family‘s ‘scapegoat.’

If a family also carries too much inter-generational pain and trauma, then a member will be acting out that pain, even if also increasing it, if she kills herself or otherwise self-destructs, over a period of time.  As long as any family members still believe these old, evil lies, there are no easy choices for them.  In one true example, a teen-aged girl bolted out in front of fasting moving traffic, even as the other girl with her clearly saw the approaching cars.  Therapists, who knew this family system well, understood that this death was more than just a tragic, unexplained and almost unimaginable accident.  It was both psychological and deeply dark, at its innermost core.

In yet another real case, something triggered the family’s lethal death script in an adult child, who then turned on her mother and set out to prove to herself and all other family