Feminism, the true nature of women, persecution and subjugation: restoring the feminine principle

Feminism, the true nature of women, persecution and subjugation: restoring the feminine principle

That wonderful old matriarch of Jungian psychotherapy, Marie-Louise von Franz, used to say that Western civilization placed a little gnome on every woman's shoulder to tell her that she was wrong, that her work was no good, and that it was worthless.

The nature of women is always in contradiction to the male-oriented world. The naturalness of women lies in the expression of their true nature in an environment that is considered threatening and heretical to conventional values.

In recent decades, different schools of thought have emerged that make up the women's movement. The different feminisms range from the radical philosophies of feminist separatists to the watered down feminism popularized by the mainstream media, which has done its best to weaken the revolutionary voice of true feminism.

True feminism confronts the horrific and appalling history of oppression and persecution of women over the last two to three thousand years. The legacy of shameful events, such as the systematic persecution and genocide of female healers and herbalists as witches over hundreds of years, remains with us today in the continued treatment of women and therefore children as inferior beings.

There are no complete records of the number of women killed as witches. In Matilda Joslyn Gage's book, howeverWoman, church and state(2nd edition; New York: Arno Press 1972, p. 247, first published 1893), we have this startling estimate: "Historical records show that nine million people were sacrificed after 1484 or during a period of 300 years, and this estimate does not include the large number sacrificed on the same charge in previous centuries. The greater number of this incredible multitude were women."

Felix Morrow, in the foreword to Montague Summers'sThe History of Witchcraft and Demonology(Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1971, p. viii.), tells us: "The figures of scholars estimating the number of witches put to death vary enormously, from 30,000 to several million, and it is truly impossible to know given the records of the time, but it is clear that a considerable number were executed."

Here is one of the most recent statements I made about the witch hunt during the most intense period, i.e. the 16th.

It is as if an agreement was reached to reduce the estimate, and over time the previously claimed numbers comparable to the Jewish Holocaust were reduced to a number comparable to annual deaths in car accidents (in the US) or deaths related to junk food (in the UK).

Is this a conspiracy, the result of misguided cynicism, or just a matter of time healing all wounds?

Oddly enough, the Holocaust of World War II has a second parallel to the witch hunt. A figure of eleven million is usually given, but this figure is considered to be far too low.

Despite supposed progress towards gender equality, women continue to be gradually denied a place in society. In terms of concept and treatment, women still suffer from the lack of recognition and recognition and continue to suffer subjugation and violence around the world in many ways in different cultures.

These cultural mores are reflected in the lives of individual women in the complete separation of themselves from virtually everything that is natural, intrinsic and inherently feminine. For a woman to discover her true self, she must step outside the normal parameters of everything she has learned to accept and what defines her.

Patriarchal society needs to open up to new paradigms and hand over as much leadership as possible to women. The entire conceptual structure of our lives must be transformed in both women and men and given over to the feminine principle. We must finally give back the power that the patriarchy has stolen from women, as Mary Daly put it–the power of naming.

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