Really really really how we got into this mess.

We need a different conception of God

I got a perfectionist streak from my dad, who was only half joking when I’d come home with a test score of 98 and he’d ask what happened to the other 2 points. As the hundred-percenter my family’s faith in me made it natural for me to be, I am drawn to great beings. Today, I bring you Anne Baring, who has played bit parts in some of my recent Substack dramas, and, in this one, is the star.

The people I see as superstars represent universes. Wherever they are plunked, in their particular purviews they see clearly and communicate compellingly so that you get to nirvana on any of their tracks. In this time of desecration, they are phoenixes rising from the ashes, and are pillars around whom we can regroup. If you are a regular here, Brian Swimme has pulled you into playing a part in the evolution of the cosmos, Marianne Williamson has spiritualized your material world, and you are just discovering Mark McInerney as the poet laureate of our disaster. Now, add Anne Baring for giving you an invite to the marriage of the masculine and the feminine.

I’ve cut to the chase of the essences of an interview Anne Baring did about her new book, Divine Wisdom and the Holy Spirit: The Forgotten Feminine Face of God, which the tuned-in interviewer, Heather Ensworth, calls “truly a masterpiece.” It traces the arc of human history across 13,000 years, from when we honored the sacred feminine to our move into the patriarchy that made us supplicants to God, stripping us of our divine nature to where the dominance of male power is devastating us now. Read the comments on the unedited interview, Remembering and Reclaiming the Forgotten Feminine Aspect of the Divine, for knockout accolades like, “This is the best hour I have ever spent on YouTube.” (The edited version is a half hour.)

An excerpt:

The story of the fall completely messed up our relationship with nature and with the divine also because it made us feel guilty and sinful when we weren’t anything of the sort. We were lost and frightened and suffering just because life was very great suffering for most of time for the poor people of the world, and on top of that we were clobbered with this dreadful doctrine of sin which was completely wrong. And this is why I have taken to task the Christian church because they were responsible for giving us an idea of ourselves that was completely false, so there’s a lot to be corrected. I said in the book that we’ve been guided by four myths: the myth of the father God who created the world, the myth of the only son of God, the myth of the fall, and the myth of scientific materialism. They’re not Truths, but we have elevated them into mythological status, and we can undo that and begin to see things in a different way. All of that got rid of the feminine. Where was the daughter of God?

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