SWITCHING TO GODDESS: Humanity's Ticket to the Future

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CHAPTER 1. We Are What We Worship

We Are What We Worship

Love No Matter What

Alice in Opposite Land

The Lucky Sex Is Born That Way

Whomped by War Gods

The Moderate Menace

How Do War Gods Lead to War?

Pitching the Baby with the Bathwater

Like It or Not, Religion’s Here to Stay

The God Called Science

Born Numskulls

Pick Your Spectacles

32c/21p Worth of Chemicals

Mommy, Daddy and the Science Guy

Deity Disarmament

A Shot of Something Smooth

Tend and Befriend

Killing the Urge

Grandma Didn’t Run

Time to Switch


CHAPTER 2. Kissing Cousins

The Moso of Mother Lake

The Moso Guiding Mother Goddess

Mothers Are the Model

The Mysterious Basques

Shape Shifter

Dashing, Daring and Democratic

Risk Takers to Beat All Risk Takers

The Hopis of the American Southwest

The Hopi Mother Goddess

Freedom-Loving Power Sharers

Creative and Playful

Our Kissing Cousin the Bonobo

Hey Dudes, Chill, Will Ya?

Blocking the Oxytocin Fix


CHAPTER 3. Good Times

Just Any Ol’ Goddess Won’t Do

Speaking of Time

Old Snapshots of the Guiding Goddess

Calling All Artists

Divine Catwoman

Great Mother of the Mountain

Crazy about Goddess — All Over the Globe

The Guiding Goddess at Catalhoyuk

Elsewhere in the Near East

India’s Mysterious Indus Valley

The Goddess in Neolithic Japan

Europe’s Great Guiding Goddess

Men and the Goddess

Europe in the Bronze Age: The Fab Minoans

But Are They Really Goddesses?

Go Directly to Jail, Do Not Pass Go

Backlash

Tricky Dickies

Out-to-Lunch Ideas?

Cauvin Pooh-Poohs the Toy Notion

But in the End Most See the Light


CHAPTER 4. Before Snoots, Snobs and Bully Boys

Did the Guiding Goddess Guarantee Utopia?

Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal

Our Ancestors: Playful and Creative

George Lucas and Ron Howard’s Willow

No Snoots in the Near East

No Snoots in the Indus Valley

No Snoots in Old Europe

No Snoots in Jomon Japan

Goddess Daredevils

Rich as Rockefeller

Only the Best – For Everyone

No Dictators, Despots or Bully boys

Guiding Goddessites: Ancient Techno Wizards


CHAPTER 5. Before War

As Far as the Eye Can See: No War!

Biologically Built for War?

Before War in the Near East

Before War in the Indus Valley

Before War in Japan and Europe

The Myth That Underpopulation Means Peace

End of the Female Figurines


CHAPTER 6. Bad Times

Who Popped Us in the Chops, Ma?

Europe in the Big, Black Box

Whomped Again in the Near East

The Rascals Run Roughshod Over the Indus Valley

Myce or Min?

In Japan, the Jomon Jump Ship

What Twisted Them into Monsters?

Where’d All This Dust Come From?

What’s That Spider Web Sitting on Your Head?

Help! I Can’t Stop Eating!

Birth of Daddy War God

Con Dude Goes to Town


CHAPTER 7. Fight

Bounceback #1: The Return of Tiamat

Bounceback #2: Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better

Bounceback #3: 180 Degrees Backwards

Hel: Goddess Who Couldn’t Be Conquered

Stealing Her Magic

Bouncing Back All over the Place

Bounceback #4: A Bit of Goddess Back to Christians

Bounceback #5: God Dark Ages, Goddess Renaissance

Twenty-First-Century Bounceback


CHAPTER 8. The Fix

A Vision

With a Little Magic, The Fix Would Be Simple

Around the World, Nations Switching

Switching at Home

Switching Hearts and Minds

Switching for Men

Switching to What?

“When God Wants War”

But We
Haven’t All Gotten It Yet

Beating the Talking Drums, Getting the Word Out

Weblogistan

Whadda We Say? How Do We Say It?

Congregation Revolution

Don’t Believe in Goddess. See If I Care

Calling All Manly Mother-Men

We Can’t Lose

But Time Is Running Out

We Can Do It By 2035

Money Can Be Part of the Mix in the Fix

Get Ready for the Big Daddy of All Backlashes


CHAPTER 9. Home Again

In a Nutshell

All Signs Point to Switching

War to End All Wars

Have War God, Will War

Little Ones, Come Ye Unto Daddy War Lord

Jesus the Conditional Lover

Full of Hope

Ten Things I Can Do to Spread the Word

Luke Skywalker, Where R U?


Appendices

A. Origin of Starvation Culture

B. War Gods Around the World

C. Questions from the Peanut Gallery

D. Possible Guiding Goddesses We Can Return To

E. Weblogs in the Closed Countries

F. World Religions

G. Things You Can Do to Flip the Switch

H. Web Directory

I. Goddess Reading List

J. Cruelty in the Bible: Short List


Bibliography

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Index


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