Today is launch day for the second book of my Gaia’s Majesty Trilogy-Gaia’s Majesty-Challenge: The Chosen Rise. It is now available on Amazon for the bargain price of 0.99 for the kindle edition. Come join in the revelations as we hurtle through the gathering storm on earth into our future.

And now to another great challenge of our time!

Women – Why Now?

Time to Face the Unknown

I have some questions. No! I have a lot of questions and am getting restless.

Return of the Equal Rights Amendment

I’m hearing about a new movement for the Equal Rights Amendment. Last time it went through Congress and then the states failed to support it. Men were prominent in the opposition. Surprise!

But there were also some women who were opposed. Phyllis Schlafly was particularly prominent. Her role was clear in a recent television documentary. To be blunt, I saw her as power hungry and relishing prominence with her opposition. Her arguments held as much validity as a piece of window screen holds water. Nowhere could I see any justification for the failure to pass something supporting the equality of women.

Then There Are Men

In another recent post I’ve challenged men to begin to truly look at themselves. We don’t seem to have any idea who we are or what our true role should be. Turning into an aging white man in a dark suit is not exactly a laudatory life goal. But often it seems where we stand has little to suggest about why our positions require support. For what? Our own glorification and to put us on a stage?

The Roots of Opposition 

Much of the opposition seems to be about abortion but I find their fundamental contentions to be invalid because they are even opposed to women having control over their own fertility. The battle is beyond anything reasonable. Men aren’t being honest and I have to suspect they aren’t even being honest with themselves because they aren’t clear about the roots of their opposition.

The World of Men

Again, I have to walk away from a sole focus on power as being what is motivating men to oppose equality and true partnership with women. The first thing men have to do is look at their world and how they relate to each other. It often is not a pretty sight.

There is something almost primordial here. The resistance is not about conservatism which is having its own crisis at present. Certainly there are specific issues which require attention but the global one should not involve conflict between liberals and conservatives. 

Something Fundamental

if I had brilliance to lay out here I would do it. But, as a psychologist I have to sense that there is something truly fundamental operating. Men have questions for themselves and that includes how we treat each other and rigid foci on how men must be. We need to aid each other in exploration and I would encourage women to both challenge us and whisper in our ear.

What we need is to build a partnership to explore the problem we are having with equality and full partnership. The outcome could be globally empowering.

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Don’t Miss My Developing Gaia’s Majesty Trilogy

I refer to it as a work of magical realism. It is a series with a strong mythological element and a real world setting in this time when women are being empowered at last. It is a time of wonder and awakening for all of humankind.

Gaia’s Majesty-Mission Called: Women in Power – Book 1

(Available now in Kindle and paperback on Amazon.) 

Avery had dedicated her life to work for the future of third world women. Her life was enhanced when she met the man who became the love of her life. They could not know that they shared a destiny and that a mission set long ago by our Earth Goddess was to be revealed before them.

Gaia’s Majesty-Challenge: The Chosen Rise – Book 2

(Available now in Pre-Order and goes on sale April 29 on Amazon)

These people, called Tethyans, live in cities in the sea but can morph into fully human form and come to land to form families. They join with the warrior women called the Andromeda to fight against the forces working to impair the future of humankind. Avery has found her birth name of Chantia and she and Beck find there is soon to be a child of seeming great import just as the world falls into terrible strife with millions already dead.