The Great Leap of Faith

Hi Everyone,
I am deviating from my normal format today to bring you my unpublished book introduction:



Take the Great Leap of Faith, for this is the Time of Woman.

The human race is comprised of thousands of cultures and mainly two genders. If you call yourself woman, you are in the majority. Yet almost ninety percent of this world is ruled by men. Though there are many divisions among all of humanity, the elephant in the living room is the systematic institutionalized segregation that seeks to keep women from being truly empowered, all the while lauding her progress.

This approach to leadership is fundamentally detrimental to humanity as a whole. It seeks to deny the life of the feminine principle to bubble up to humanity’s evolutionary surface. It is the divine right of woman to participate in a meaningful way within humanity as fully empowered humans in accordance with the balance of nature. No creature can be lesser than any other, we are all part of the complex organism called earth.

Centuries of almost exclusive male rule has made of this earth a toxic bachelor pad in which men, women and children are drowning not only in the catastrophic seas of tsunamis and hurricanes, but in the testosterone-infused seas of usurpation and corporate infringement and incarceration. The one constant factor for the last 5000 years has been the absence of women determining the shape of humanity as we go forward. Women have been purposely held back from participation in the molding of a sane, responsible humanity that reveres this earth from whence our sole means of survival comes.

Indeed, women have “been given” recognition and cameo leadership roles throughout history, but always within the auspices and constraints of the pervading patriarchy, and never in the numbers where women could collectively influence world policy. Remember, women in the United States haven’t even been voting for more than a hundred years. Men continually favor educating boys over woman on a global scale, thus ensuring their power inheritance over all realms. Humanity may be on the brink of ruin, and I largely believe that it is due to the omission of the feminine principle.

How would medicine and health have evolved if the witches, who were known healers and concoctors of natural, herbal medicine, had been able to live and thrive? The six to nine million persecuted during those times was a significant number. What would our medical system of today look like with their contribution left intact? Would we be standing in the dark shadow of the monolithic medical monster that exists today?

What would have happened if women had been on board the ships that sailed the world exploring the globe if women had had autonomy on those ships? Would Africa have been divided up and doled out as it was, like chocolate cake at a colonialist tea party? What would spirituality and religion look like today if women had influenced them? Would all these wars fought on the basis of religion, to gain ground and profit, been fought?

What if the Medici family living in Italy during the 1500’s had also funded the genius of women during the Renaissance? What if they had not funded the genius of Da Vinci to draw up early sketches of mechanical weapons of mass destruction?

One of humanity’s most urgent crises is overpopulation, what would have happened if women had been in control of their own reproduction? How many children are born out of rape? Who sanctions ethnic cleansing, genocide and the inhumane use of children as soldiers?




The traditional male role model as protector is archaic, yet still used to maintain and exploit. At the same time and to the same effect, the traditional role model of women as caretakers has been under utilized on the global stage, hidden away in back rooms and taken for granted. Parity in leadership is what humanity requires for survival.

Global warming renders war obsolete, as we can no longer manufacture more damage to the earth on top of global warming and climate change disasters without suffering vast impact on our wellbeing as a planet.

Women are 53% of the world’s population and if we have learned one thing over time it is this: we need self representation, not endless domination and discrimination. Women must have the authority to craft laws to protect themselves in order that they might function at their highest capacity. It is my deep longing that men of grace will propel the notion of equality forward in a massive sweep around the world to end the stoning, burning, mutilation, wars, cultural disparities and the vast unjust chasm between extreme poverty and gluttonous excess.

There have lived many great men who were leaders with divine vision, but they have been suppressed for posing too great a threat to the unsustainable, ruling system that leads by instilling fear in the masses and by maintaining its disproportionate wealth for its continuation.

None ever purported that the freedom of women to legislate on a grand scale could be paramount to humanity’s survival. Women must move beyond the notion of feminist “waves”, or incremental steps forward through time. We must take the great leap now as it stands before us into our true autonomy.

This will be very challenging for women worldwide because we have thousands of years of denigration burned into the neurons of our brains. Women abort their daughters in favor of sons, they genitally mutilate their own daughters, and they have become self- serving servants of the patriarchy. This is the depth of the damage that male superiority has wrought on the minds of women, through intimidation, all over the world. Within every culture lurks the denigration of women, but within every culture lurks also the capacity for men to realize the true worth of women in our survival.

The resources for our unshackling will be hard to come by, because men are in large part in control of the purse strings. But we have each other.

Global violence is escalating as populations grow larger and resources become scarcer as corporations suck the commons up for sale to the highest bidder. We need to be mining nature’s ingenuity for new ways of existing together creatively rather than destructively, and utilizing nature’s classic example of ecosystems that honor the measure of true economy. We have an amazing opportunity to find out now, today, to see if a significant number of women seated at the table of global consequence can nudge this world forward into a healing and more sane mode of existence.

This is not lofty idealism but imperative, and once set in motion, will bring swift change.

Now is the time for that great leap of faith, now is the time for woman.