The Mother's Call for Peace, Volume II: A New Earth

By Sarah RisingSun Lee

This is the 2nd 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

• Language: English
• Publisher: Casa Tra Noi LLC
• Release date: Jun 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9781737612032

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 2)

This series ended during Russia’s criminal war against its neighboring country of Ukraine.  What Russia’s President V. Putin did had shocked the democratic world.  This was an example of what can happen when structural evil is allowed, within one’s own country, and is enabled by other leaders and countries.  Putin had obviously planned for his war machine to quickly overrun Ukraine, take its capitol, and replace its democratic government with one that would be subject to Russia’s influence or control again.  After Ukraine’s forces were able to defend their capitol for weeks, the Russian forces finally pulled back, to redeploy to another part of Ukraine.  What they left in their wake was also shocking and begs the question: What kind of men did this? Areas, which had been occupied by the Russian military, were ‘scorched earth,’ with villages and homes destroyed and twisted military equipment, trash, and dead bodies left behind.  Some of the dead men still had their hands tied behind their backs and had been executed (much like the Nazis had once done, as they swept across Europe).  Some dead bodies were thrown into a Russian military’s trash pit or left to rot, so little respect did these Russian soldiers show for human life.  (Russia wanted to claim that Ukrainians had killed their own people, but all evidence proved not.  One non-profit website, bellicat, was set up to provide verified evidence of Russian war crimes.)

Some Ukrainian cities were trapped behind Russian lines, being shelled daily, without water or heat, using wood framing from destroyed structures to cook food together.  It will cost at least $100 billion to rebuild these cities, now reduced to rubble by Russian bombing and missiles.  For what?  The cynical ambitions of one fallen leader, who is taking his countrymen down with him, much as Hitler likewise did fifty years prior.  Russia is once again behind an Iron Curtain, one of its leader’s making, trapped within a box or cage, together with a madman and evil.  New Agers, who still pretend there is no evil, can surely see what an organizing force for evil looks like in the outer, now in Ukraine, even if they might still be in denial about the pathology that underlies it.  One former U.S. military officer noted that Putin is restless, with a dark side and no grounding in morals, whereas Ukraine’s president is fighting for the right reasons: elders, family and nation.  The author of All the Kremlin’s Men said that Putin runs the game and makes all decisions, even if shifting blame.  His state media propaganda is more potent than ever.  Russians are depressed, with nothing to lose, so can be brainwashed with collective nationalism (making Russia a great nation again) and Putin’s (warped) parallel reality.  (Amanpour & Co., PBS, November 17, 2022.)

      An aborted mutiny within Russia, in June of 2023, was yet another example of the mafia-style of leadership in authoritarian nations.  The leader of one brutal para-military, the Wagner group, and a bloody nationalist had been fighting with the Russian army, then took over two Russian military bases and directed his troops toward Moscow, which was unprepared for any rebellion.  It was two gangster leaders fighting, with the older one retreating to a neighboring country, later claiming it was a protest against military mismanagement of the war, not Putin, and Putin hiding in a bunker somewhere, until this crisis ended.  The war was failing, and one man was not afraid to say so; but, like a gangster, Putin needs, but does not forgive, enemies.  (Source: Amanpour & Co., PBS, June 26, 2023.) Gangsters fighting it out put everyone in danger.  Such a large failure by Russian intelligence made Putin look weak, so, like any weakened dictator, he is more dangerous.  But the Russian people must not replace Putin with one more ‘strong man’ leader that does evil.

      A Russian journalist and author of War and Punishment, Mikhail Zygar, said that Russia is in disarray and the system is collapsing, as generals disappear and Putin appears indecisive.  His book details many facts about the history of Russia and Ukraine and blames Russian culture and its toxic idea of greatness, which is used as a justification for violence.  The Russian people must stop lies about Ukraine and other myths and debunk false narrative and propaganda.  (Source: Amanpour & Co., PBS, July 14, 2023.  An article in Time also noted that both leaders are killers.) The advice or change in attitude that this reporter advocated for Russians applies to all cultures.  The world will not be safe, until the people, especially earth’s women, rise up and remove such leaders from their streets—but also from their state houses, parliaments, and all political parties.  To some extent, this organizing force for evil was/is being countered by an organizing force for good.  Hope now had to also be imported, as the International Medical Corps brought in tons of medical supplies to warehouse, in an area not yet controlled by Russian forces.  People still need primary medical care for general and chronic conditions, not just battleground injuries.  The IMC, together with organizations like the Red Cross, was finding out what the people needed.  But life is ruined for many Ukrainians now.  Can they ever go back?  An 800-year-old Ukrainian city was/is now setting up crowded evacuation centers, with the refugees sleeping on wooden pallets and staying there for endless hours of worry, as air sirens go off and this historic city was/is attacked.  For now, all that these war victims and refugees can do is pray that light endures the darkness.  (It is why adults must understand both.)  (Source: City of Lions, 60 Minutes, CBS, April 2, 2022.)

That same report by 60 Minutes also provided one example for why people are fools to ever ignore, ‘get into bed with,’ or enable evil.  Putin had used his positions of power, after the Soviet Union fell, to transfer its state-owned resources to the men now known as the Russian Oligarchs, a small group holding much of the wealth, which props up Putin and helped to fund this criminal war.  They all have close links to the Kremlin/the central government.  According to one, who had criticized Putin and was ousted, they ‘dance to his tune.’  Yet the U.K.  had welcomed them, providing special visas or even British citizenship.  Russian money had flooded into London, as these oligarchs used their money from a tainted source to buy up palatial estates, a soccer team, and other investments.  This money ignited the London real estate market; $200 billion worth of expensive houses were purchased, which was one way to launder their dirty money.  The houses’ location gave ‘mafia thugs’ the look of aristocracy and nobility; one was even given citizenship and made ‘a lord.’  Persons and businesses that served them were getting rich, so the politicians looked the other way.  Even after Putin had one former spy poisoned, and another one and his daughter almost killed with a nerve agent, in the U.K., its politicians mostly still looked away.  At least one Russian oligarch had contributed to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s conservative party, which he could, since he had been given citizenship.  One critic said that, as they had done with Hitler, British leaders had been cowards.  (Source: Londongrad, 60 Minutes, CBS, April 2, 2022.)

Under Putin, Russia became a ‘mafia’ state.  Some of its ‘dirty’ money was likewise laundered through the financial system, real estate, and other investments in the U.S. As noted, there are no good reasons for tax shelters or shell companies, and many reasons to outlaw them.  A Nobel Prize winning journalist from Russia, whose newspaper was forced to close under the new laws passed, during its war against Ukraine, asked, Why blame the Russian people, when Europe and the U.S. all stood up with this regime, when it was convenient?  There are anti-war movements within Russia to end the extermination of people.  But about half of Russians still instead believe Putin.  They are the result of 20 years of an experiment in social propaganda that, like radiation, spreads into everything.  Propaganda has won; some people always believe the government is in power.  But there are two divisions in Russia; this is not just one war.  One is the war in Ukraine; their other war is within Russia.  Not everyone believes Putin’s regime; about half of its people will not be ‘zombies.’  But how can they be heard, when independence has been eliminated and protestors have been arrested and punished? Children in Russia are suffering; sick ones can no longer be flown out of Russia for life-saving medical treatments.  What has happened to Ukraine will become a part of what a dictatorship means.  (Source: Amanpour & Co., PBS, April 4, 2022.) (To be clear, Ukrainians did not harm any Russian children; that responsibility belongs to Putin.)

A former U.S. intelligence agent and congressman noted that Russia does not share the values of Western democracies.  Death and destruction that create fear is the order of war for Russia.  Putin has three goals: (1) Stay in power, (2) Re-establish the former Soviet Union, and (3) Try to win the dis-information and cyber war, at which Russia is practiced and successful.  Putin is not afraid to wage an aggressive war and commit war crimes; he has veto power on the U.N.  Security Council, creating ‘a gap’ in the international justice system.  The longer the war goes on, the more pressure on Europe, so the Western alliance could fracture.  His is a simple philosophy: enemies fear you.  He does not fear the U.S. or its president.  (Source: Amanpour & Co., PBS, April 4, 2022.)

    Here is another lesson for the British and Europe, in general: Racism, sexism, and classism are all part of an extraction system, which is wrong for a tribal species.  The British Empire was one of many examples of a system, in which Blacks and native peoples were either slaves or used as a source of free or cheap labor in the British colonies.  Taxes and other means were then used by the central government to extract as much wealth as it could from its colonies.  The crown and its aristocrats were becoming wealthier on the backs of the colonists, who were doing the same on the backs of Black slaves or people reduced to servants, at best.  Some French colonies had to continue payments to France, in order to be independent.  Putin has simply duplicated that same ugly system, with himself in the role of Russia’s Czar and his cronies in the roles of its aristocrats.  Even today, some guilds, which gave some political power to its common tradesmen in European towns and cities, are mostly male, with membership passed on down from fathers to their sons.  Classism will likely be the most difficult one of these three to overcome for many Europeans; but it can be done—beginning with the deconstruction of all of their outdated monarchies and titles. 

      Give autocracies a form, de-construct them, and then imagine them being removed from your psyche.  One woman, in doing this, experienced a tormented, wailing female ‘ghost’ leaving with it.  If there is any doubt about the harm repressive leaders and systems do, look no further than the atrocities in Ukraine.  Most societies are now too big for rule by consensus.  A true democracy is the next best system of governance, where citizens chose their leaders in regular, fair elections, beginning at the local levels and extending all the way up to top tier representatives and leaders.  A free press, election integrity, and an educated citizenry are all fundamental to any democracy, which is why autocratic leaders have to stifle investigations, rig elections, and use propaganda.

There are lessons for Americans, as well.  In times of stress and confusion, people cry out for salvation and strength.  The victorious ruler connects not only with human pride, but also with human longings for protection, purpose, and identity (as normally provided by a tribe).  V.  Putin replaced the lost Soviet identity with a renewed commitment to Russian greatness.  The sobering reality is that we cannot look at Russia and simply shake our heads at ‘those people,’ secure in the knowledge that we’re fundamentally different.  We’re still not far removed from a violent attempt to overturn an American election, led by a mob (on Jan.  6th) waving blue flags stamped with their leader’s name.  -David French in The Dispatch (Source:  The Week, March 18, 2022.)  That attack on the U.S. capitol was also a day of death and destruction in its ‘temple of liberty,’ incited and driven by the same pathologies that surely underlie Putin’s war and his war machine.  Until people recognize these pathologies and ‘close the door’ on evils like this, in their own souls, within their collective societies, and in geopolitics, everyone is at-risk of death and destruction.  Putin often presents himself as a glorious leader riding on a horse; the devil rides the same horse.

As the destruction of Earth’s ecological systems and its natural habitats clearly also shows, the fossil fuel industry, and others like it, are now extraction systems that make a few people and states wealthy, at the expense of the many.  Earth’s climate is at a tipping point, as a result, while 99% of people are now living with air pollution, a threat to their health resulting in more deaths.  Sweeping changes are needed and will require governments to act through public policies, yet world leaders have broken promises and some, especially its autocrats and dictators, have made a climate crisis worse.  The world needs to switch to clean electricity and adapt its infrastructure, yet the (U.N.) IPCC’s report was damming.  According to the editor of VOLTS, the world has two paths to follow: One is running out of time and getting closer to the cliff’s edge.  The second will be an energy revolution.  The tools are available to increase the ability for clean electrification, using wind, solar, batteries, and other clean fuels.  Once electrical grids and infrastructure are upgraded, buildings, transportation, and even some industries can be connected to them.  This transformation must be done in ten years or less; it cannot be market-driven.  Clean energy and infrastructure legislation must pass, or the plans will fail.  (Source: PBS NewsHour, April 4, 2022.)

As oil prices climbed in the U.S. and globally, the price of gas increased dramatically.  When the price of oil fell, the big fossil fuel companies did not lower gas prices; they extracted record profits instead, blaming staff and supply lines, which Republicans then blamed on green energy efforts.  Give industries that are killing the planet a form and also reduce them to rubble, within.  The shift to green, renewable energy can begin at the local levels, even if much of the leadership in Washington, D.C., which should be voted out, remains in the pockets of the fossil fuel industry.  If one needs to access the powers of Nature, in inner soul work, one cannot be alienated from it.  The change and healing described in this series combines spiritual healing, some of which comes from the earth’s healing energies, with in-depth psychological ‘soul work’ and the latest science.

It is assumed that readers have already taken in and understand the sub-topics and subject matters explored or explained in the first volume of this series.  This series has a format similar to that of every recipe: ingredients are listed, first, then followed by the instructions.  Having all of the necessary spiritual understandings and knowledge—and then very carefully following directions, are both important, in this process of bringing forth your authentic self.  As in other recipes, it is not wise to skip or to reverse the steps, or otherwise get ahead of yourself.  Tasks in food recipes require a few minutes or hours.  These processes are slower and life-long.  Most steps must be retraced, at many levels, until all the parts of one’s Ego self and psyche have been stirred up and changed, at-depth.  And, as with any recipe, this entire series would be read, first, before engaging in any changes that involves internal and intra-psychic work.  It is wise to call upon the Counselor, within, to guide you and those professionals that might be assisting you, through the recovery process, bringing forth and dealing with things as they come up within and present themselves through some outside challenge.  Treat challenges as opportunities to grow.  Set aside all denials and be willing to do all inner soul work required.  But then wait upon Spirit.

It is unwise to assume that inner guidance will always come from a higher Source.  Anything that travels through the subconscious is subject to deception and distortion, depending upon its contents.  As one example, an adversary, including ‘the serpent,’ knows how to stand behind any ‘golden doors’ within.  This is another reason why a prayer life is so essential, when undertaking all deeper levels of psychological work or meditation.  To first request a divine clearance—for a true connection that has a secured line—when seeking divine guidance is a wise precaution.  Or a part of one’s psyche that does not support change or healing may answer.  Or it will get out in front and otherwise block Spirit and guidance.  These persons tell themselves what their Ego wants to hear, calling it ‘divine’ guidance.  Or, unlikely as it is, Spirit may ‘tell’ someone what she wants to hear, not what she needs to know at the time.  Spirit may not reveal what she does not want to acknowledge, if she does not want to hear a deeper truth about what is really going on or what emotional reactions are actually about.  One cannot hear the ocean, if one is far from it.

Albert Einstein had a brilliant mind, extraordinary intuition, and intelligence.  He wanted to know the thoughts of God, considering all else to merely be details.  But, even though culturally Jewish, he does not seem to have communicated directly with God.  To be a towering intellectual, scientist, pacifist, and a humanitarian was not enough.  How can one actually find God, apart from exploring the depths of his or her own psyche? Many New Agers prefer to stay focused on their spiritual natures and their visions, which allow most of them to by-pass deep soul flaws.  If they are bright students, ‘Truth’ can be mainly an intellectual ‘word game’ for them.  The mind must be involved and used to communicate directly with Spirit.  But a strong memory and/or a vivid imagination can also be a crutch, resulting in a disability, in place of the sought after ability to hear God’s voice.  Who has not heard evangelical types declaring, The Lord told me _____, when you know the words cannot possibly be true or have come from God?  They profess to love God and/or the Goddess, but how do persons actually love Someone, if He or She is unknown to them?

How do you know with certainty that it is God’s voice that you are hearing, or that it is really God speaking to you and saying those things you report?  The mind can be more easily deceived than the soul.  The soul will know, and you can use the mind to ask it.  Ask to speak to the essence of your soul, alone, not what is at its center, but the true essence.  Ask for the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.  Then sit, wait, and listen within for the soul’s answer—or for the Great Creator to answer.  In prayer and meditation, focus on a short verse about the Creator or thoughts of high praise for some time, then sit in the silence and wait for God’s still, small voice.  It will come from within you, but you somehow know that it is God, not you, speaking.  Or some women might actually feel the Presence of the Goddess, as Her Spirit comes/passes by.

When a connection has been secured, you can ask questions, by addressing them to God, the Goddess, or your soul.  Then wait for the answer or counsel you are seeking.  Or you can just ask the Holy Spirit and/or Holy Wisdom to reveal some answers to you.  These answers might come in the form of images or symbols that you must unravel.  You could even ‘hear’ answers in the words of some well-known song that comes to you.  To connect to the Goddess, seek and pray to Her in a place of quiet beauty in nature.  If She chooses to respond, Her very powerful Presence may be felt, as She passes by.  The Co-Creators’ words are powerful—not long, detailed answers and explanations, but more than just clues or riddles to be solved.  Opaque answers would all be suspect.  The Truth, whether coming from God or the Goddess, will be always simple and elegant.

Even if the Co-Creators might be in the fast lane, spiritually, it is very unlikely that either One will swerve from lane to lane with you.  If soul work is mostly done in spurts, working really hard for a period of time, but then veering off track, consider this: Being erratic is the opposite of being centered, of being calm and steady in life, which supports this internal soul work.  Changing lanes can also be used to shift focus and/or responsibilities, since you are probably then in someone else’s lane, so to speak.  Try to instead be a person that will stay the course, and then stay in your own lane.  You cannot let what the people/erratic drivers in those other lanes are doing distract you.  If any others have an ulterior motive, you are less likely to be taken in by their deviousness.

Also keep in mind that the many examples pointed out in this series are a composite, not any one individual adult or child.  Even if a person is far outside the norm, he or she could just be an exception to it—or at the extreme of one end of the spectrum or the other.  Sometimes children just outgrow whatever it is/was that made them stand out or appear too far outside the norm at that time, to their teachers or other adults.  Do not become an armchair analyst.  If something is or could be wrong with you or one of your children, you must search it out with and within your own psyche.  Do not make assumptions or jump to conclusions, based upon what is described in this series.  Its examples are loosely based on real adults or children, each one of which will differ in significant ways from what is described.  One reason for examples is to point to the possibility that any family’s pathology and fallen side could still be active within today’s adults and children.

If you are still riding upon a ‘wolf’s’ back, it has nothing to gain by staying the course.  It does have something to gain by shifting things, such as stress, off to other persons.  Even if you keep having wondrous visions, these could be coming through your inner child, so do not misinterpret these to mean that you have arrived at your destination, either psychologically or spiritually.  Other parts of the psyche can still be riding on the back of a ‘wolf,’ still surrendered to and acting from the old pathologies, which means that your journey, toward the full sanctification of your soul, is far from over.  You have to do this sanctification work first.  Otherwise, you are a mixed blessing to yourself, others, and the spiritual world—which sorts and selects, to fill its missions.

When change and healing are desired, ask and find the answer to questions like these: What serves as your own psyche’s foundation and its supports—and what keeps holding you together, below the external layers of your personality and Ego self?  If Spirit is not in place, deep within, and the Ego self falls through, what holds the psyche together?  Without a spiritual foundation, an existential crisis leading to depression is possible.  The weakened soul is like the house built on sand; so, for a weaker soul, a stronger, spiritual foundation must be put in place and built, a few stones at a time, over time, with the Creators supporting it from underneath, until there are no places left where their Ego self, or their psyche, can fall through.  If a spiritually empowered woman were to look down through her soul’s spiritual foundation, she would see a ‘solid marble’ floor, with only the Creators underneath it.  As she explored her soul, she would see it filled with love and positive energies, with no toxic, anti-life, persecuted, bitter, or dark places remaining.

If the woman then looked into/at her psychological core, she would see only the Creators, and her own Higher Self, filling up its whole Center and holding the Seat of Power within her soul.  (Your body’s core must likewise be very strong, or it cannot function properly as a whole.)  Images like this are important to begin holding in mind, because they instruct the soul as to what you want—communicating what end results are desired, through use of the imagination.  But a thought, an affirmation, or a vision is only that.  Starting from the inside-out will progress beyond the power of words and images to what is becoming real and eternal, for and within your psyche.  In the outer world, this process might be compared to a foundation that has cracked or shifted, so the entire structure is less stable.  In that case, one solution is to install extra support beams in basements, while also sealing the cracks, so no more water can get in or continue to weaken the foundation.  New, healthier introjects might be compared to the new beams, while the water suggests the damage done to psyches, when the feminine is in the wrong place, in some parts of the psyche, with the dark side sealed off—until it has no more power to weaken the psyche’s structure.  As in any external structure, if one fails to shore up the foundation, it could collapse.

Most women must keep in mind that they have had very little or no experience as children with the Mother Goddess, so they will also have little or no faith in what is now true.  How could you/they have known Her before?  Furthermore, many females do not know what unconditional love is, so they will want to stay within the old family and institutional structures, even if these were/are toxic in many ways to the female heart and soul.  In that case, you would begin by loving yourself to the same degree that a true mother loves her child—even if that child might have serious health problems or even a clear disability.  You must continue to love every part of yourself, including any parts of yourself that became fallen and degenerate or veered off track, morally, as you stumbled in the dark.  Loving these ‘wretched’ parts is one key to healing them.  As a measure of the Creators’ love, He and She love these fallen parts of you, as well.  They will provide the grace and divine assistance needed to redeem all that you are.  But that will involve separating from and removing evil and what is not of the Goddess.  No matter how fallen an adult might have become, redemption is always possible.  Remember that females were first pushed and pulled down, so that males could dominate and rule, before women likewise became fallen.

When your adult self is gradually able to connect with the Goddess, you can also begin to imagine your inner children with Her, then moving into a new structure in your soul, wherein you and all child parts of yourself are loved by this Great Mother.  Expect some child parts to be reluctant to move.  It is your task to bring them along, in the same way that wise parents gently overrule a child, whenever in the interest of the child.  Specific examples for how to find and heal these younger parts have been provided.  You cannot do this ‘soul work’ without inner children.  Keep moving all the inner children toward the changes you desire.  Find ways to teach her/them about what is right for you.  When a child is first learning to stand, she will not let go of one hand, without another one to hold onto.  You cannot just tell any inner children what the adult part of yourself wants.  Visualize a new, inner Safe Haven that you create for them/her, as vividly as you can.  Use clay, coloring, and other forms of art therapy with her.  Help her to look at and see her choices.  You will be molding a new inner reality, so you must make this as concrete as possible for your inner children.  Change involves moving from where you are to a new and, eventually, a better, holier place.  The Mother Goddess desires to help you with your inner children, and your own children, so females no longer pass on down pathologies, which they inherited, any further.

Far too many parents have made children feel ‘special,’ in place of providing the consistent, unconditional love that all children actually need.  This was like giving the child candy, in place of wholesome foods.  Being ‘special’ can then also become connected to love, within the psyche of a ‘special’ child.  As a result, she cannot feel loved, unless also being the center of attention or otherwise being enabled to feel special.  Wanting to always be ‘special’ takes the person’s focus off how she can serve the common good.  It can handicap the talents or gifts she could otherwise bring to work with at-risk youths, the downtrodden, or other works of service. The egocentric way is: From-the-outside-in vs.  From-the-inside-out.  The self-centered persona puts self before others.  Self is then her primary point of reference: Look at me!  How great I am!  I help others!

In stroking her own ego, she already received a reward.  Self-satisfaction or self-gratification is an ‘Achilles’ heel,’ which could result in arrogance and will keep her out of the highest spiritual realms.  If she cannot translate her spirit into her personhood, then her ‘self’ will be partly false.  Even if someone has a kind, generous side, her psyche can still be partly ‘a wolf.  If the ‘wolf’/the dark side still has power in one’s psyche, it will search for ego justifications for verbally abusing, or otherwise attacking, and harming others.  Hatred and homicidal rage will feed ‘wolves,’ giving the dark side more power.  But, no adult can have it both ways: venting out negative energies on certain persons, while still being in a right, loving relationship with them.  All adults must learn to express their anger and grievances, without bringing up this aggressive energy in their psyche.  Otherwise, it also poisons them, even as it is creating a tear in the social fabric of their families and/or their community.  If you have ‘special’ and love connected, you must disconnect them, no matter how difficult.  You are loved, just because you are one of the many children on earth, not because you are ‘special.’  Help inner children to take in this truth and reject all old, false beliefs.  When you have taken off this old ‘non-life,’ it makes no sense to put any part of it back on, again.

One woman, who had taken in/on her biological father’s narcissism, described this condition as a predatory personality type, in which the person is always trying to put another person down, even if only or mainly doing so, within his or her own mind.  Instead of being all about one’s truer self, it was as if ‘the self’ had ‘flipped’ or turned inside out, psychologically.  As a person from a ‘superior’ tribe and ‘higher’ class, she had become consumed with being better than others.  Very little room was left for any authentic self and individuality.  Everything was about a comparison with persons and situations, outside of her own self, resulting in twisted, negative energy.  If you became self-centered, and continue being so, it means that your heart is likewise turned inward.  Another way to think of this condition would be that the person’s heart has become and it is still turned inward.  When self is mostly an empty shell, with a limited ability to bond with and love other persons, becoming a predatory soul/vampire that is a parasite on others, could be another, secondary result.  At least in this one woman’s case, her biological father had become a parasitic introject, within her soul, so he has to be entirely removed and replaced with a healthier father introject.  For this to happen, she must completely discard his unholy ways of living (now hers).  If he misused his ‘wolf’ to attack others or vent out his negative energies, she cannot do the same.  If he had used it to create fear and dominate others, she must ferret out and change this pattern.  If he had and expected to have priority, and that his needs came first, she must focus on humility.  Since she was/is a Christian, it may be advisable for her to call upon Jesus, to help her to change. 

Empowerment is about two worlds aligning: the earthly and the spiritual.  To be lifted up, a woman cannot rely solely upon men to help her ‘arrive’ there.  Jesus and other godly males can act as fathers, for both males and females.  But even Jesus Christ has no guarantee of access to the Mother Goddess’ spiritual realms.  To merit access, any ego parts that still have an elitism or superiority/inferiority complex must change.  Having faith is knowing that the Truth will prevail, then doing one’s part.  Women can be energized by getting close to a body of water and/or from their own Higher, Spiritual Selves, as they undertake this interior work.  Its stair steps, which wind upward, include faith, love, trust, courage, dedication, knowing.  Doors at the top only open from the other side.  They will not push in.  But you can keep knocking, as you are also working to be allowed in.  Still trying to somehow attach to another person, who already has access, will not work, either, which is a challenge for anyone used to leaning on or being a parasite on others.  And feeling as if you are co-dependent with a woman of spirit is exactly that—only a feeling.  It is not the spiritual reality.  You cannot enter in on someone else’s merits.  If even humble men cannot lift women into higher feminine spiritual realms, for sure, no false teachers can, so do not look to anyone, male or female, that is mainly a pseudo-saint and/or a religious cult leader.

Even if it seems that she may be alone, within Divine Feminine realms, a female is more alone and trapped within a church and other places for worship, wherever males dominate.  God and the Goddess are now offering all women a bridge, from internal isolation to the Divine Parents—a bridge over and out of the sins of the past into a spiritual community, a place where Divine Parents are the Center and divine children orbit around them.  This gift does not exclude males, but, to receive it, most of them will have to become better sons.  Is it not past time for all women to call for an end to acts of insanity, including wars, starting with any pathologies they might still be carrying and passing on to offspring?  As long as any pathologies still lie beneath the surface, within human psyches, everyone remains at-risk, whether the violence is close at-hand or being acted out on more distant killing fields.  When the Great Mother is where your treasure lies, then things will be as they should be in a female soul.  You can then focus your attention and spiritual gifts on the struggles for peace.  Until then, some things can still be amiss or part of you can still be living ‘in a rabbit hole.’ No female can express her divine nature through the dark feminine.  How can any woman take on and defeat ‘a pack of wolves,’ if ‘a wolf’ still has power within her?

How does a woman allow in ‘the wolf?’  As in examples given, she falls back on the old family or tribal pathology and starts to run its negative and harmful energy or embrace its values, such as greed.  She fails to stand up to any ‘wolf’ in her psyche, in a partner, or in family members.  She runs with the ‘wolf,’ allowing it to express through her; she is coupled with it; or both.  The ‘chase’ that is going on within her psyche can often be seen in her life.  Her main focus is on ‘run, rabbit, run.’  But, as part of her is running from ‘the wolf,’ another part is riding on its back and running with it.  The ‘wolf’ then feeds on the fear that it keeps creating within vulnerable parts of her.  Or she is activating it, whenever she acts out her family’s pathology and/or its harmful scripts, by becoming hostile toward some person, when she does not have to put anyone in the old role of scapegoat, just because this was modeled for her as a child.  In such cases, the ‘wolf’ is activated in her own psyche.  If she fails to stand up to a mate, or to his inner ‘wolf,’ and require him to stay out of her sacred spaces, or to a partner who is abusive to her or a weaker person, the ‘wolf’ is allowed in through him.  By whichever way, this predator energy gains power within her psyche.  This is likewise true, if not even far more so, for nearly all adult males currently living on earth.

Any adult male misusing the ‘attack dog’ part of his psyche to create fear is abusive.  Minority and at-risk children, especially, know a dangerous man, whenever they see one.  Do not confuse a misuse of fear to keep a child (or a female) in line, with respect.  Furthermore, the ‘wolf’ is old and graying, so it ages persons still giving it power.  According to studies on aging, about 20% is determined by genetics, while the rest is determined by lifestyles, including diet, exercise, non-smoking, and moderation in other areas of life.  These studies do not how the impact the soul has on aging; nor do they take into account that, regardless of lifestyle, the soul can override the body.  Some of the wealthiest, ‘healthiest,’ and most talented people have died before their time.

Like the physical body, the soul is inclined toward healing and wholeness.  When something surfaces, through some outer ‘mirror,’ in a dream, or through prayer and meditation, this usually means that your psyche is now ready to reveal, change, or heal it.  This psychological dynamic is like that adage: When the student is ready, the teacher will appear, and the more that a student and all teachers understand about the psyche’s dynamics, the better.  Too much change, all at once, can upset the psyche’s equilibrium.  But no change at all will get the soul nowhere.  If a woman is bothered a great deal by something, or if it is right up front and in-her-face, her psyche could be signaling that it ready for positive changes in this area of her life.  Something that pricks your conscience or pushes in a different direction can actually be grace at work.  Do not be like the Christian Apostle Paul, ignoring the pricks, until a crisis finally gets your attention.  If you do find yourself in some crisis of faith, or a dark night of the soul, use it to grow.  Reach up for help.

Any situation that seems and feels almost the same as one from the past will be just enough different this time to make a change, within.  Change in one area will then facilitate change in all of the other areas of living.  Combining psychology with spiritual persistence will usually affect desired change.  In searching out what is amiss and in affecting change, results will be quicker and deeper for the woman that begins from the inside, especially her center, and works outward.  She can use prayer, in concert with imagination, to visualize the Goddess, with her Higher Self, at her soul’s center, then continue to clear away prior sins of forefathers and her own sins or falsehoods.  In other words, pray it so; say or affirm it so; and then see it so, until it finally is so.

Every aspect of womanhood, which has become warped within her own culture, will likely be warped the same way and to that same degree, within the female mind and soul.  Females can be just as arrogant and capable of evil as their male counterparts.  An angry, immature mother, who is overwhelmed, could accidently kill the child that she only intended to severely punish; doing so does not indicate that she is homicidal.  But, if the dark, reptilian side of human nature dominates within her psyche, any woman could become a cold-blooded killer, even of her own offspring.  Or she will not protect her own offspring or another child in those ways that a female mammal does, instinctively.  A homicidal female, often a religious psychopath or a sociopath, with a subservient partner is the most dangerous.  Her partner will hunt with her, bring her prey, and then provide cover for her—so her enraged, demented side will never be focused on him.  Animosity can originate in many places, but it often originates in a female’s animus.  For example, abusive energy might be rooted in a father introject, within a child ego state.  Managing it at an adult ego level will not be as effective as removing its roots.  An anger management program is only a ‘stopgap measure,’ until its deep roots are removed through psychological/spiritual work.

A woman must find where beliefs or energies originated—and from where they are coming, in respect to alter ego states, personality types, energies, and instincts.  Otherwise, she might not really be using her own will to the fullest possible extent.  As one of many personality types, the snail is a pacifist.  A snail does no harm.  But neither does one do great things or great good.  A snail does small things for the planet and women.  But she will never radically change the way systems are.  Compare the energy of a snail to that of a great cat.  A snail’s mother was quite likely extroverted and domineering.  The daughter’s temperament was more likely that of an introvert.  Her mother’s personality likely dominated within the room and a group.  Everyone was expected to agree with her and to do everything her way, so a daughter could not compete with her mother or ever get in front of her.  As an adult child, she still stays quietly in the background, speaking softly, perhaps coming up behind other persons to get their attention.  She is constantly affirming and validating others, which might be one way she learned to be an emotional appeaser for her mother.  One almost never really sees her eyes.  And she usually lives very low on the food chain, materially and emotionally.  Even if she might otherwise be knowledgeable and experienced in many aspects of life, she has become so mal-adapted that she now lives on the cusp of insanity.  Just about any kind of a crisis can throw her into a ‘tail-spin’ and/or cause her to retreat inward.

Dominating is not the same as leading.  When one or both parents dominate, their children seldom mature fully.  A part of them will still be children that may still need the parents or other adults to continue helping to care for them.  In the case of such ‘girls,’ their residence might look more like a little girl’s room than an adult’s space—which reflects both their Ego selves’ outer level of maturity and the conditions within their psyches.  They also typically pursue and enjoy the pursuits that younger children engage in and most enjoy.  Even when self-supporting, these females still defer to their parents or another adult in many decisions about their lives.  They can be very frustrating to their friends and counselors, who want them to be more an adult, because they appear not to want to grow up—perhaps because they do not have permission to become an adult or because giving up their child role could mean that they are not so ‘special,’ after all.  In healthy families, the parents’ needs are balanced with the needs of their children.  When the parents’ needs are almost always first, their families will become dysfunctional, at best, and their children likely will not mature to the same degree or extent as those living in a balanced family.

The Goddess has very little use for adult children, no matter how sweet or caring they might be to those around them.  How can grown-ups dominate, without someone younger or ‘lower’ to lord it over or crowd out?  Could staying in the perpetual child role actually still be taking care of domineering parents, emotionally?  If one or both parents dominated in your family of origin, to regain your place, you must finally speak out.  Or, if one of both of your primary role models dominated, you might be someone, who now dominates in that same role, as an adult.  Shutting down some ‘lesser’ family member, so she either has little voice or her story is of absolutely no value, is a form of dominance.  That member’s experience is discounted or completely devalued.  Doing so can be both overt and subtle.  Either way, it is a form of shunning that is wrong.  It is a form of passive aggression, which females can be more practiced at than a male.  It is a person’s way, often assisted by someone else, of establishing and maintaining dominance in the family or in a social group—but it also undermines relationships, particularly trust between members.

When no person can dominate, every member has a voice and her part to play, which is how healthy families function.  The pathology, nor the personality type, of neither parent dominates, although the children have limits and responsibilities.  Everyone has a time and turn to talk and be heard.  And no one crowds anyone else out, so the children learn to listen, to have room for the stories or opinions of others, and to be respectful.  The alternative is an emotional hierarchy, within a family, which allows some members to dominate and to have priority.  This will then be carried over into the adult lives of the members, who expect to dominate or to draw back rather than to participate (but to also feel discounted, because they were).  Children, who see a parent dominate or discount siblings, or other family members, learn to do the same thing, when they are older or grown-ups—or they see that the boys tease and dominate.  And of what value will deviant, sexist males, and similarly deviant females, be to their own family and to their Creators?

In terms of justice, a few nice gestures, usually made late in life, never compensate for years of hostility and shutting down another member of the family, for no really good reason—except to dominate.  Meanwhile, it has helped to create and has contributed to a toxic intra-psychic life in the family, for which all of those members that tried to dominate earlier and most of the time, are responsible.  Sooner or later, anything toxic within the intra-psychic life will make someone in the family sick.  And that might very well be those persons responsible, you, or a child, who is more vulnerable in other ways.  When any child in their family has a serious medical condition or disease, parents would do well to pray for that child, but then to look within themselves and in their families of origin for possible causes, beyond physiology.  Knowing what passed down through a family, psychologically, especially energies, gives you power to change them.  Knowing for certain that the disease has no psychological dimension gives you peace of mind.  A reminder: To be in full alignment with the biology and physiology of the body, male ego states and energy normally present and dominate within a male soul.  Female ego states and energy will normally present and dominate in a female soul.  Both have opposite gender sides.  Were they mixed up in one’s family?  The Creators did not mix up the genders.  But human beings have confused the two.  (Sexual orientation and gender identification are private matters, not an issue herein.)

Your biology could likewise reveal your biography.  Like genetics, it usually also reflects the history of your extended family, tribe, and origins—over hundreds of centuries.  Said another way, an individual member does not have to ‘create’ any certain pathology, such as cancer or a mental illness, when it is already in his or her extended family of origin.  Energies like animosity and hostility also carry over from generation to generation; they just find new forms or outlets as individual members and life situations change.  How disease in a human soul might eventually manifest within the body depends on the individual, on each person’s unique psychopathology, genetics, biology, life experiences, choices, and other circumstances.  Any presence of evil or mal-adaptation within a human psyche can be one component in understanding disease.  A person’s genetics will also interact with her lifestyle, material circumstances, psycho-pathology, culture, and values.  Aspects of that psycho-pathology could also be rooted in her family of origin’s intra-psychic life.  There could also possibly be ‘manifestations’ of whatever is abnormal, in the outer.

~ Becoming Encouraged

Needless to say, a peace movement will include all women, from every place on earth.  Those who speak and read English have an initial advantage, but the spiritual world does not extend any advantages to some over others, at least not in the longer term.  And there are already many women, all over the world, who are now engaged in building a better world in some way.  The spiritual world also works ahead of you, until you are stronger and wise enough to undertake whatever work it intends for you.  Without the involvement of the Creators, especially the Divine Feminine, the dream that women might have of a New Earth would only be what is sometimes called ‘pie in the sky,’ an unrealistic fantasy that flies in the face of the current realities.  However, the Goddess is now on earth; so, with Her guidance and help, the impossible becomes possible.

As already explained, females did not grow up just within a physical environment.  They also grew up within a family system and a tribe that had its own intra-psychic, social-emotional, and spiritual environment, which may have passed down and created fear in its females.  Fear will shut children down, emotionally and spiritually.  Children are adversely affected by conflict and fear, even when they are sleeping, so any past fears must be overcome, within a female psyche’s younger selves.  Children are born with differing temperaments.  But all children are supposed to be spirited and expressive.  Anything less is not their true, natural child.  Such a natural child is an essential part of the empowered woman that you are trying to become, so no part of an inner child or teen-ager can still be alone, alienated, or afraid, in a female psyche.  Fear created within females also spreads out into families, where it does serious harm to all members. 

Whenever a child absorbed in unhealthy energies and dynamics from caregivers and/or her tribe, she carries these through, on into her adulthood.  As adults can discover, these dark, anti-human energies have become so dense, toxic, and evil, within some tribal groups and families, that they continue to taint children and grown members throughout life, unless and until they are removed, including from all younger ego selves.  No matter how much an adult loves self and is loved by another, this will still never be enough, if any inner children from her past still feel unloved and remain fragmented, out in the cold, and ‘needy,’ within.  How to do this deeper soul work, and eventually reclaim every part of your authentic self, has been explained in detail in this series.  Why do it?  Spiritual empowerment also spreads out into families and communities.  You do it for your soul, your children, your close family, and your global community.

Many women’s loyalty to family, tribe, and religious traditions is an admirable trait.  But they cannot afford to let loyalty override what is right for them and for those that depend upon them.  Give credit where credit is due.  But understand that grace was sufficient for those that raised and otherwise supported you, including an extended family of origin and its community, tribe, and faith traditions.  You do have more knowledge and grace available to you than did those that came before you, so you eventually forgive and heal the past—moving on psychologically and spiritually.  Do not miss any opportunity to recover and rise to meet your destiny.  Your mission can be one reason why you are on the earth in a certain place and at this particular time.  Many people are immovable; some may be movable.  Live with purpose and join those who are moving.

Even if you are an understudy most of your life, you must get ready to take your role and/or play your part, if the spiritual world calls on you to act in some capacity.  Otherwise, your unique potential will remain unrealized for the rest of this lifetime, while someone else might be called upon to take the role that could have been yours.  Never assume that the spiritual world has only one understudy for its divine drama.  Even if you were potentially the best one for a part, it can be given to someone else.  There are very few roles that would not have at least one understudy, or even more.  How very foolish is any idea that the Creators need you, even if He and She wait and hope that you rise to Spirit’s challenge.  And yours is not a man’s, but a woman’s journey.    Each woman can only make it for and within herself, even if she receives grace and help, both from her own spiritual life, within, and from other persons or circumstances in the outer world.

The story that Jesus Christ told about the prodigal son was His model for the Father’s/God’s relationship with each individual.  That daughter, who may likewise be squandering her divinity or divine spark, can choose to get up out of ‘the muck’ and return to the Divine Parents.  But she must go all of the way back.  Otherwise, when her life is over, she will be one of those that never got up out of ‘the muck’ or one that gave up and fell by the wayside.  There is no purgatory or a ‘waiting room’ within the spiritual realms.  People must do their sanctification work, while on earth.  Jesus has no place for unrepentant sinners in His realm, even if some were priests or nuns.  They will be sent to someplace else.  The spiritual world assists those who ask, but do not expect that it will give you any more or any less help than all other persons receive.  No individual is entitled to more, even if spoiled persons typically believe that they should always get one more chance.  What is God going to do about you?  An answer: "What are you going to do about you?"

An adult will come to a turning point in life, at which she either abandons her true self for the sake of keeping her false self or she decides to put her inner children first.  Change takes discernment, seeing things as they really are, not as females have been socially conditioned to ‘see’ them.  It takes Wisdom, transcending social norms, which is one reason why the power of belief systems, bias, and misuses of religion to justify control of others, especially of humanity’s female side, were pointed out, first.  All women need to wake up, move out of their comfort zones, stay out of any cynical or gullible states of mind, and do the best that they can every day to uplift themselves.  A woman must love her own inner young selves enough to straighten out anything twisted.  She never knows when some test of her character might actually be the ‘final exam.’  If she fails it, she may no longer get the help she had been receiving.  A life coach, counselor, and the spiritual world cannot take life’s tests for you; nor will they continue to invest their time and energy on students, who keep failing.  After a mentor has taught you what you need to know, and helped set you up to have whatever you require to pass life’s tests, responsibility then shifts to you.  If you were blessed to be at the front of some line, then move to the back and assist others.

Why do some mothers lack enough courage to stand up and fight for the sake of a child?  A mother must love her children enough to face all of the fallen sides of her own psyche—to ferret