start to realize how much bigger it is and how these ideals can change the world and lay a foundation for social transformation. Karen encourages you to see what the ideals of the sacred feminine can bring towards creating a more car- ing culture of partnership, rather than patriarchy and domination that so many of us are suffering from today.
Karen’s work now involves secular law accompanied by goddess theology – or thealogy (just as some people spell herstory, theal- ogy is a way to bring the feminine into our language.) Her focus is to raise awareness about herstory so there’s a foundation for this movement of embrac- ing feminine ideals.
She feels the Goddess movement could poten- tially be the vehicle that can help us to- ward a healthy
paradigm shift, tip us over into an age of enlightenment equality, and partnership rather than predator capitalism, survival of the fittest, individualism and disconnection with each other.
“Today’s divine feminine
movement is not your mother’s feminist movement.”
Karen acknowledges the feminist movement as the forefront of to- day’s movement that embraces the feminine. Back in the 70’s there was the rejection of the feminine, as then we had the ideal that you had to be like a man to have equal- ity in society.
The word feminist needs to be rehabilitated. Karen thinks a lot of the reason it was demonized to be- gin with is because of propaganda against change. All feminists really wanted was equality and what’s wrong with that. You heard some people say if women become femi- nists they want to be lesbians, they hate men, they don’t want to be mothers, they hate their families, which Karen says is so ludicrous and ignorant of what they were really striving for and still are.
Feminists want equality and desire a caring culture, and if we look at the statistics we’re still not achiev- ing equality and caring for women. 80% of women in the U.S. retire in poverty, white women still make 70 to 80 cents to the dollar that men are paid, and even less for black and Hispanic women.
“What’s wrong with wanting equality?”
Karen points at what’s happening in Europe, which is so far ahead of us in so many ways. They have a 40% solution where women have
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