Restoring the Great Mother

“I discovered god in myself and I adored her/I cherished her furiously.” — Ntozake Shange

We come into this world longing to associate with the mother. Psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung passed on that this inborn requirement for mothering is a model, implying that it mirrors a widespread emblematic example natural in both the individual and aggregate oblivious. This all-inclusive need was on the whole communicated in old matriarchal social orders.

These social orders loved and venerated the hallowed ladylike as the imaginative power of nature, answerable for…