{"id":101,"date":"2008-06-13T15:13:10","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T15:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apagansblog\/2008\/06\/talk-on-politics-and-spirituality.html"},"modified":"2008-06-13T15:13:10","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T15:13:10","slug":"talk-on-politics-and-spirituality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apagansblog\/2008\/06\/talk-on-politics-and-spirituality.html","title":{"rendered":"Talk on Politics and Spirituality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">Friday July 25 I will be giving a talk at Many Rivers Books and Tea in Sebastopol. California.  The talk is titled <strong>The Divine Feminine and the  Crisis of Modernity.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<div align=\"left\">\n<div align=\"left\">\n<div align=\"left\">\n<div align=\"left\">This talk interprets the contemporary political and social crisis in America as a spiritual birth pang.  A new more immanent feminine spirituality is welling up to heal the disconnect between the modern world and increasingly irrelevant dominant spiritual traditions.  They are pushing back.  With its most recent roots largely in the 60s, this new development is appearing in the rethinking of the spiritual and the role of women in some Christian and Jewish traditions, Western Buddhism, NeoPaganism, Shamanism, and the African Diasporic traditions.  These and other manifestations of Feminine awareness have provoked a pathological masculine counter movement that goes far to explain the te3nsions we experience today in the US.  If the audience desires he will teach them to see subtle energy.<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<div align=\"left\">\n<div align=\"left\">\n<div align=\"left\">\n<div align=\"left\">Many Rivers is at 130 S. 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