We’re trying to find out who we are when we’re not possessed by those complexes.
From a larger perspective, the breakdown of the immune system in the microcosm, the human body, is mirroring what is happening in the macrocosm, the earth.
The immune system of the macrocosm is breaking down.
It can’t help its trees, it can’t help its biosphere. And anorexia!
So many addictions compensate the extreme of the perfectionist ethic, the opposite of feminine wisdom.
The system is breaking down and people can’t take it.
They say, “If this is what life’s about, I’m not interested.”
Some of them think that blowing up another country is the answer.
We’re on the tail end of the patriarchy.
What I think is going on is the emergence of the Great Goddess, the feminine side of God. I call her Sophia.
I have enough faith in the evolution of consciousness to believe that, just as in their personal life people don’t usually bother with the feminine principle unless they are forced to through some illness, so the same thing’s happening on the planet our earth is sick.
Fear is going to force us to allow the Goddess in.
No, she is forcing her way in whether we like her or not.
There has never been feminine consciousness on the planet.
Susan: Never?
Marion: Never. A few
A few individuals, a few of the great saints, certainly knew what femininity was about.
In the old matriarchies there was no feminine consciousness, only unconscious mother.
The “I”, the ego with values and truths of its own was not operating. In the Celtic world they died for the Goddess but they had no ego that said, “Life is worth living.”
They were like the terrorists…who don’t have the ego strength to say life is worth living so they willingly die for a cause.
Feminine consciousness has been operative in some individuals, but not in a whole culture.
Now I think we’re starting to get free of the old matriarchy and free of the patriarchy.
In other words, we are entering into conscious relationship with our mother and father complexes.
As a planet we’re moving toward maturity.
We’re trying to find out who we are when we’re not possessed by those complexes. And we’re fighting against time. — Marion Woodman, Conscious Femininity, Page 60-61
