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Sharing Shakti: Empowerment Can Surely Save the World.

Just as keeping silent when someone else is being wronged fundamentally supports the perpetrator, staying silent while your own freedoms are being slowly eroded and infringed upon makes you party to your own ruin.

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Staying ‘Woke’ in the Era of Trump.

Our country revealed its true colors on election night, colors as bright as the sea of red on the electoral map.

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Learning to Be Well: Detecting and Dismantling Fear-Based Manipulation.

Anansi and the Maroon and indigenous dwellers of the jungle had indirectly taught me that my 'primitive brain' and instinctual self, contrary to popular Western belief, were not ruled by fear and existential angst.

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Dear Patriarchy, We Know That Our Vaginas Terrify You.

Our vaginas, you told us, are most certainly not for our own sexual enjoyment -- lest we be identified as whores and sluts, of course -- but should be ready and available and appropriately groomed at all times for the pleasure of Patriarchal domination. And we believed it, so much so that we ...

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Unraveling Darkness: Ode to an Inconstant Moon.

We cannot meet the Sacred Masculine when we are carrying around the untended energies of rage of our own unhealthy masculine energies which cause us to reject the other side, the female side of ourselves. We cannot perceive the depth of the Sacred Feminine while strangled by unspoken anger ...

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The Truth About Surrender.

Tantra originally arose in a culture very different from our own, in which women were seen as more powerful and closer to God than men, because of their ability to bring forth life from their bodies. A woman’s body was seen as a bridge between this world and the world of Spirit, and therefore, ...

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Goddess, Dismount Your High Horse and Listen: The Sacred Masculine Is Calling.

You say you want a Shiva to your Shakti. Then bring him into you. He is yearning for you, he profoundly aches for you, just as rawly and wildly as you ache for him -- with a staggering ardor and devotion that knows no bounds. He wants nothing more than to give you his everything. Universes he ...

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Reclamation of Faith, Heart and Spirit.

My indoctrination had sorted me into a belief system that worshiped a patriarchal god whose texts subjugated women, enabling a patriarchal society where that subjugation could continue to varying degrees across the globe. And the funny thing is, for the longest time, I still wanted to believe ...

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Calling Burning Women: A Lost Archetype Of The Feminine.

Those in the System would like us to share their belief that all these changes are not connected, that they are simply anomalies, isolated symptoms to be treated or preferably ignored, before the all-powerful Western capitalist patriarchal model goes on to ever greater heights and grand ejaculations.

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Why Feminism Can’t Be Replaced By Equalism Or Humanism.

If you are really so afraid of offending this patriarchal society, and if all that stands between you and me being on the same side and working for the same cause is a word, then by all means, go ahead and call yourself an equalist. But please don’t question feminism, or suggest that the whole ...

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