We Are Not Going Back
I’ve been teaching energy medicine and spiritual sustenance for over four decades. Last week, we watched both energy and spirit manifest spectacularly when a high-profile United States Presidential candidate harnessed and highlighted our nation’s most idealistic goals. This is a moment when the “divine feminine” interfaced with the “divine masculine” to create a synergy that simply does not exist outside the “divinity” matrix. I bring this up because the energy/spirit shift has been so swift this past week that it has become a critical moment for us all.
I teach individuals across the political spectrum – what follows is not about politics; my thoughts have nothing to do with party. I’m an independent – I don’t vote along party lines, I vote for the individual who can best do the job. With that said, I’m especially ardent about women’s rights, having walked across coals to protect my own and other women in that regard. So I don’t care where you stand as long as you care about women as much as I do. And today I take up my pen because women’s rights are on the table: we have already lost our right to make decisions about our own body that should be a matter only between ourselves and our doctor, not the government. Now, if we fail to take action, we also stand to lose our rights to no-fault divorce, child-care for women who work, even the concept of women working at all!
Contrast that to Kamala Harris, who is all in for women. She is a phenomenon not only because she’s a woman running for the highest office in the land, but because she telegraphs a distinctive yin/yang vibe. She comes across clearly as both an adept prosecutor (divine masculine energy) and an advocate/protector (divine feminine energy). I relate because (full disclosure) I too am a former prosecutor, and that role prepares you to move mountains when you are confronted, as we are today, with the loss of liberties women and other marginalized groups face.
Women Are Elevated to Powerful Positions to Complete, not to Compete
For the most part, women leaders have been venerated for their compassionate, coherent, and collaborative discourse and actions. The most memorable among them have relied upon a combo of the divine masculine and feminine aspects of their nature to guide them to help their families, their clan, their tribe.
Women are culturally encouraged to serve as nurturers, caregivers, and multitaskers. And because we are the gender from which future generations arise, we are uniquely in touch with the progeny that we and other women produce.
Thus, a good mother is “pregnant forever”— that is, for the rest of her life, her heart beats both inside and outside her body: within her children, whether they are biological children or (contrary to the assertions of a Vice-Presidential nominee that I and Kamala are nothing more than “childless cat ladies”) the kind of children I have raised – books I have painfully birthed, students I have laboriously mothered, causes I have lovingly fostered. Because of this, women are far less likely to put people’s progeny (their own or anyone else’s) in harm’s way for anything less than truly existential threats. They will put themselves in harm’s way to further a cause or to defend others (examples: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Tubman, aviatrix Amelia Earhart, women’s rights advocate Malala Yousafzai, astronaut Mae Jemison, and countless others), but rarely has a woman leader sent soldiers into battle for anything less than a truly-existential cause.
There have been countless heroic women across the centuries of recorded history, from the pre-Christian matriarchal societies I’ve taught and written about so much, to Mary Magdalene, to Joan of Arc, to today’s cadre of environmental and social justice advocates.
What sets most activist women apart from activist men is that when women do achieve leadership roles, they most frequently serve; any political power they gain is leveraged to benefit as many citizens as possible, as opposed to simply benefiting themselves and their cronies and chums.
For many women, life—like politics—is the passionate pursuit of the possible.
Men Are Elevated to Powerful Positions to Compete, not to Complete
Contrast that dynamic to the history of most men in political power. Although a number of America’s most venerated leaders have been true statesmen and public servants — George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, FDR, and Martin Luther King come readily to mind — male politicians are rarely elevated by their respective followers for purely altruistic purposes (in our parlance, for their divine masculine characteristics).
Compare the male pursuit of power, which is founded in patriarchy and hierarchy (think caste, status, and class, all patriarchal concepts); at its essence, ego- and testosterone-driven. This type of older vision carries a gladiator’s spirit and energy onto the political battlefield. As a result, for far too many men, politics is engaged in as a type of warfare: there must be decisive victories and vanquished losers. This kind of thinking brings to mind the energy of men like Putin in the Ukraine and Netanyahu in Gaza.
So, after giving careful, calculated thought to what is at stake for our nation’s and our world’s future depending on which candidates emerge in charge in 100 days, I’m adding “2024 election activities” to my already insanely jam-packed schedule to help ensure that Kamala Harris becomes our next president of the United States.
And I’m not alone. Women and men are leaping from the sidelines to work their fingers and feet off for the next 100 days for a woman candidate who is seeking the highest office in the land that they can really believe in – finally! An enthusiasm that has been sadly lacking for a long time has arrived on the scene – the excitement is palpable.
Why I’m Endorsing and Supporting Kamala Harris
It has become crystal clear to me that Kamala Harris is exactly who she is and where she needs to be at this crucial juncture in our nation’s history. She is fully conscious and keenly aware of what’s at stake: well-spoken and insightful, she is a compassionately fierce advocate for women’s bodily autonomy and reproductive health care issues including abortion, IVF, and birth control. And as a former prosecutor and Attorney General, she will fiercely defend women’s rights across the board.
During my life, I have never witnessed a time in our nation’s history more in need of our precious attention and activism, not just on Election Day on November 5, but on every day between now and then. The stakes have never been higher for women and for every other marginalized, frequently denigrated demographic. As Kamala so passionately put it, “We are not going back!”
No matter which side of the political spectrum you’re on, you can feel that what just happened has cast a crucial spotlight on what a boost in energy and spirit can do to create the forward momentum necessary to succeed in every area of our lives, and that it behooves us all to join together to preserve the few gains that have been made for the fairer sex before we are forced back to the Handmaid’s Tale way of life.
I encourage you to join me here:
https://www.facebook.com/womenforbidenharris
and here:
PLUS, tonight, Monday, July 29, 2024, at 7:00pm EDT, join me to hear from extraordinary women like model Christie Brinkley, actress Jamie Lee Curtis, and singer Barbra Streisand, all in support of Harris. We will be provided details on how we can get involved with efforts to mobilize women voters ahead of November. Please sign up for the call and share it with anyone you know who might be interested.
Whatever you do, don’t be passive; this is the moment where you and I and everyone we know can pool our energies, jump on the Kamala bandwagon, and be part of the change we want to see in the world!