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Feminine Power And Men’s Imaginations
“During the millennium before Jesus….the major divinity of the Mediterranean world appears to have been Isis of Africa, dark mother of many names. Great mother of the mediterranean…..Worshiped by many names throughout Africa, Asia, and Greek and Roman empires, she was known as Isis, Hathor, Ma’at, Artemis, Demeter-Persephone, Hera, Mother of Corn, Juno, and Hecate. She was Lilith of west Asia and Kali of India.”
~ Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum
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…if my mother is cold, distant, and secretly hostile to me and shames me for not meeting her expectations, then I will have internalized a fear of abandonment and my whole defense system will have become hyper-vigilant….On a deeper level, I will have anger, rage, and resentment at the failure of my mother, or whoever else….I will have developed a negative mother complex — and in an extreme case such as this one, a Death Mother complex….my psyche will organize my emotions and early experiences around the archetype of the negative mother or the Death Mother.
— Bud Harris PhD, Massimilla Harris, PhD
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Someone, who…will look at you and smile, asking what you want to have for dinner. You’ll realize that you are longing for love, a comfortable and simple love….
