Barbara Marx Hubbard: Visions of a Universal Humanity

Well, historically we can see that we’ve had great women in the past. But I think it really wasn’t until the early 60s that something of a bio-evolutionary event occurred.  First of all, we saw Earth from space.  Secondly, Earth Day and the environmental movement started.  Third, the women woke up.  We also saw that there’s a population limit on this planet.  The whole purpose of reproducing the species shifted to a choice between children or no children.

From the 60s, 70s, 80s, we started to wake up to our own identity, but even more than that, what’s coming forward now is what I call the feminine co-creator.  This woman is one in whom the creative impulse to give birth to her authentic self is alive.  She’s not only just fixing things up, she’s birthing her creative expression in the world.   Because her body seems capable of unconditional love of the unknown child, which is often quite painful, she seems to be capable of love of the unknown world; seems to be able to express this unique creativity without anger and fear and rage.  And we’ve seen it in great men like Gandhi and Jesus and Martin Luther King, Jr. and others like that. But the feminine co-creator is a whole species waking up.  When women are over 50, it used to be considered that you’re now declining; well women 50, 60, 70, 80 are wakened to spiritually-motivated vital expression, whatever that may be. We get turned on to our own potential.