I STAND CORRECTED, AND...
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From: Jean M.
Date: Wednesday, August 16, 2006, 11:25 AM
Subject: I stand corrected, and...
Reply to: 256350
ID: 253920

Dearest Louise,
I thank Goddess for you!! thank you thank you thank you for so 
beautifully voicing the truth for so many of us.
My sweet mate (a man) and I are celebrating your brave convictions 
and the fact that you are taking the time to share them with us all!
I rarly take the time to write, (raising three children - two of them 
wonderfully conscious and goddess loving boys)but I have been 
impressed by you and had to voice my support of your words.
Thank you again, my wise sister.
jean molina



------ On 8/16/06, Louise Chambers wrote ------

Dear Chrissy,

I stand corrected. You did not say Medicine Man. You said that the 
ELDERS say take the 
cotton out of your ears and put it in your mouth.

I say I AM an ELDER.

I have a right to ask that men remove themselves from Sacred Women's 
Space. 

You speak of women being asked to step out of ceremony during their 
moontimes. Brooke 
Medicine Eagle says this too.

However, if women must remove themselves from ceremony because our 
potency would in 
some way "harm" the ceremony, I say Women Have A Perfect Right To ASK 
that men take 
themselves out of our Millennia of Sacred Women's Space, which was 
respected and 
honored all over the world, prior to men telling us what we can and 
cannot do, and 
INSERTING themselves where they are not welcome or needed.

The Mothers of the Iriquois Nations made all the decisions. The men 
abided by them. It 
was not until the White Men came and refused to council with the 
women that women 
became voiceless.

In my ancestry, women were under seige from the earliest known times 
of "civilization". 
The Goddess was destroyed and called Jezebel, and Eve was blamed for 
all sin. In recent 
times the Wise Women of Europe were burnt as "witches", their lands 
and rights, and 
children, and ancient ways and wisdom stolen from them. Men took 
everything they could 
from women. They stripped us bare and labeled us "evil" 
and "temptresses" when we had 
been Priestesses and Prophetesses.

We have lived in silence and fear too long. 

I AM and ELDER and I say that I have a right to speak and be heard: 
Men must leave 
women's Sacred Space. I have taken the cotton from my ears and I hear 
the women's 
wisdom coming loud and clear. I have taken the cotton from my ears 
and heard the voice 
of the ancient women who are coming to us again, and asking us to 
SAVE the EARTH 
MOTHER, or we shall all surely perish.

I will not put cotton in my mouth ever again, unless it is to listen 
to someone who gives 
me peer respect, as I would give them.

If you want to attempt to guilt trip me with the "man-bashing" ploy, 
I say just try it! I have 
been called every woman-hating name in the book. I won't back down 
from the truth of 
my 30 years of study and council with women and the Goddess.

Louise
lscden@earthlink.net

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