At the moment, I don't. Want to bother, that is. But if anyone else out there wants to take on the job, be my guest. You can use any/all of the material here, and send for the stuff i can't post 'cause of formatting problems [such will be mentioned and so noted].
Here's all the stuff churned out before realizing it was a lost cause, 'cause not enough women really want to go to the trouble. There's speeches, a questionnaire, assorted plans, and even theme song lyrics, for cryin' out loud! I'm not gonna hold my breath waiting for masses of you to step up and volunteer, though... I'm olive-complected, so blue's just not my color, you know?
I'm just going to toss it all on here sort of higgledy-piggledy, so you can wade your way through the mess, if you've nothing better to do.
1. Start out with the "How Women Can Change the World" essay, if you want. [it's too much to double it up here]
2. Speeches:
FIRST SPEECH
[This needs to be a speech... but to be a speech, it needs an audience... Where do I get one? I see myself facing 300+/- women in a large hall. I’m in generic-ethnic attire, un-make-upped, hair braid-bunned, as now... but where?... when?... & how? This is what I hear/feel myself saying...]
Wow,..just look at us!.Wonderful wall-to-wall womanhood! Great sight, huh?
Something made each one of us come here today/-night, didn’t it? I could tell you what that is, but I’d better save it for later. I’ll just say, “Thank you! to what brought you here &, “Thank you!... to every one of you... for paying attention to it!”
You don’t know me... I’m nobody special... just a generic universal female... I’m maia ... & I’m an evangelist. Don’t panic all you atheists & agnostics! I’m no prime-time miracle-maker out to save souls... I’m just the dictionary kind... as in... one who brings good news. Reversing the old gag... There’s bad news & good news... bad news is, our world is (to be polite) “bleeped”... good news is, it can be un-bleeped!
Why am I here? For two reasons.
First... I’m looking for women to help me change the world.
Do any of you want to change the world?
If you do, let me hear your loudest, most roof-raising “Yes!” right now...
[response... or lack of one] Pretty good...
If any of you don’t, if you think our world’s just fine the way it is, let’s hear a cringing, whinging, mousey little, “No!” Come on... anyone? Nobody’s happy with the status quo, huh? Good! You gals on the ejection squad can sit down now...
[response... hopefully, none but laughter]
The second reason why I’m here is to tell you maybe the most important thing you will ever hear in your life... it’s this...
I know how to change the world... I know who can change the world.
I know exactly how it can be done. Big stuff, huh?...
Tell me something...If you [point] had the power to stop all war... would you? [wait for answer]
& if you [point] had the power to stop the beating & rape of women & children... would you? [response]
If you [point] had the power to end drunkenness & drug addiction...
would you? [response]
If you [point] had the power to end poverty... would you? [response]
If you [point] had the power to take away men’s power over women...
would you do it? [response]
& if you [point] could take away men’s power over our world...
would you? [response]
If all of you [indicate whole audience] had the power to change the world in all those ways... would you? [wait for response]
Well... I’m here to tell you this...
You HAVE the power to do it! You WOMEN... have the power to do it.
You HAVE the power to stop the horrors of war!
You HAVE the power... to keep women & children from being beaten & raped!
You HAVE the power... to wipe out drunkenness & drug addiction!
You HAVE the power... to end the despair & soul-death of poverty & homelessness!
You HAVE the power... to take away men’s misuse of power over women & children.
You HAVE the power... to stop men’s abusive power & control over our world.
The power that can change the world is awesomely simple.
Where is this power? It’s inside of you & in every woman on this planet!
What is this power? It’s just... BEING A WOMAN!
What every woman on earth needs to know... what I’m here to tell you... is that every one of us was born with powers that most of us don’t even know we have. The knowledge was beaten, drowned, burned, tortured out of us... threatened & terrified out of us... for so many generations, that our genetic memory developed amnesia in self-defense. We had to forget we were powerful once... to survive man’s fearful, envious brutality.
Before that, women could do things that would still be called “miracles” today. Then, they were just our natural abilities. What little of those powers pops out in a few of us once in a while, gets filed under the category of “psychic stuff” or is feared in more primitive societies as having “an evil eye”, like my Sicilian great-gr&mother was said to be cursed...or blessed... with.
I know... from my own experience... that any of you can regain those powers, can learn to use them again as our sisters did long ago. I learned that I can take away pain from others... & heal my own body... I can “get” all kinds of things I need... just when I need them. I can know things about anybody using fortune-telling cards & runes. & I can physically move something around by just willing it. Weird stuff, huh?
My ability to use these powers is still pretty weak. Maybe it’s because I discovered them on my own & don’t know how to kick ‘em up to full strength yet. But at least I proved they exist! If I can do the little I’ve learned so far, just imagine how much more has to be possible!!! I have this strong feeling that I can do much, much more, if I just work on it. Or maybe it’s not time yet. Whatever...
Every one of you knows somebody... maybe it’s you... who can do things way beyond what’s thought of as “normal” in civilized society. Maybe dreams that come true the next day, like my youngest daughter has. Or any of the stuff labelled ESP, for instance. You know what I mean. & down deep inside of you somewhere... where it’s protected from your fear of knowing it... you really do know... that you still have these powers, too. They’re in there... just waiting for you to let them out. They’re in there for you to rediscover like I did... when you’re ready to use them.
But... &... like mine...[pat it]...it’s a big but... the question is... will you?...
Will you use your powers to stop wars & rape & torture & all the other evils of man?
Will you use them... to make this planet a safe & happy place for everybody?
Will you use them... to give your own life meaning & purpose?
What’ll it cost, you’re wondering? Can power like that be free? Nothing is, is it?
The price you have to pay... for regaining your powers... dear sisters... is simple honesty. You’d have to empty your pockets of hopes & wishes & dreams... & let yourself see everything... only as it IS!
You’d have to give up your Cinderella scenes... let yourself see all the real-life Prince Charmings who’re happily beating up their beloveds... & raping their own little ones that “being in love” produced.
You’d have to give up... your happily-ever-after notions... & let yourself notice the squalid, painful divorces & desertions that equal or outnumber all those joy-filled, hope-blinded weddings.
You’d have to look at what’s outside of your own, personal life’s self-protecting bubble... & see so many others’ lives... of non-stop misery, fear & hopelessness.
You’d have to look beyond your own country’s borders... & see women in Afghanistan stoned to death for public nudity. Know what the religiously-ruling Taliban says that such a death-deserving crime consists of? Walking out of your house... with yr face uncovered. That’s right... Women just like you... are executed for just... showing... their... face! You know why? Two really stinking reasons...
First, men are considered so temptation-prone, that a woman showing any part of herself whatsoever, could drive some poor innocent male into a sexual frenzy. So, to protect men from their own sinful lusting... women have to be invisible in public. Sure.
The second reason’s just as bad. An unmarried woman belongs to her father, a married woman is the property of her husb&. & nobody should be allowed the privilege of looking at another’s property. Right? I’d say “Sick!” but it’s not. It’s much worse. It’s EVIL. & no woman dreamed that stuff up!
To be able to use your women’s powers, you’d have to make yourself see all the awful stuff in your world for what it really is. You’d have to be completely & totally honest... about everything. No more fake excuses. No more rose-colored shades.
[need ending for this for first-meeting speech]
SECOND SPEECH
[this will be for the second meeting... need to work on opening]
To use your power to stop all torture & killing, for example, you’d have to give up all the torture & killing you do...Okay...Just hear me out...whether you do it or someone else does, millions live tortured lives & die awful deaths...so you can eat them...& so you can use parts of your fellow animals’ bodies...& so they can be experimented on, for your benefit...even though you’d never ever think of doing it to a fellow human, would you?
So... to be able to use the pure force of GOOD-given powers to achieve only pure & GOOD results... guess what you’ve gotta be... Uh-huh... Come on... say it out loud...
That’s right... P-U-R-E & G-O-O-D... Come on...PURE & GOOD... let me hear it...
[use hands, “pull” it out of audience] Pure & GOOD. Pure & simple, isn’t it?
Hey... but, nobody’s pure good... right? It’s too hard to be... isn’t it? Maybe even impossible? Well, I can answer that in one word... BALONEY! or BUSHWA! Take y’r pick.
I can prove to you that it’s easier to be “pure & good” than to NOT be. What makes you think it’s hard or impossible is that you don’t want to give up doing what you know is bad. But this is not hard to do at all... once you make up your mind to do it.
I am living proof... in my old life, I was the proud, happy wearer of 60-to-70 dead minks; of 20-or-so murdered lynx...I’d been kept warm by assorted other slaughtered, more exotic creatures... even treated my daughters to butchered bunnies & foxes. I wore, carried or walked in... once-live snakes, cows, pigs... elk & antelope...& I ate almost anything that could walk, fly or swim.
I told myself the usual stuff... the food chain, superior species versus lower forms of life... you know the drill... conscience by Mr. Clean... sanitized... For over half a century, I lied to myself comfortably. Till one day... my vegetarian sister’s words finally registered... I took her to a seafood restaurant for dinner once & she had said, “I don’t eat anything that had a mother”
At 58, I finally let myself see that all that stuff I loved to wear, use & eat... had mothers! Lots of them were mothers! I’m a mother. I gave birth to seven children I loved & raised. I have a mother I love, who loves me. But I’d let be done to other creatures’ mothers & children what I’d fight tooth & nail to keep from being done to my own! It finally occurred to me this... was not... fair. Not right. In other words... WRONG! Bad. Even... to be honest... that ultimate bad... EVIL.
I had to admit being bigger, smarter & more powerful can’t give us a right to do to anyone...what we don’t want done to us. If some ET’s out there think we’d be tasty, we wouldn’t think it fair for them to raise us to eat, so how can we do it? Aside from the obvious rationale... what made it easy for me to turn pure as the driven snow was just deciding I had to...
Once you make that decision... once you choose to give up all wrongness... you just go ahead & do it. You stop eating & using any kind of mothers & children. You don’t touch alcohol or anything else that makes you other than your natural self. You don’t tell a lie... ever... to yourself or anyone else... not even a single supposedly harmless little white sucker. You get rid of everything that causes pain & suffering for you to have it... like gold & diamonds & such people kill for... & that gets mistreated, nearly-slave-workers maimed & killed, taking it out of our mother earth.
Once you admit to yourself that owning things... having to have lots of life-useless stuff, while so many haven’t even a rag to cover their dying child with is W-R-O-N-G... in capital letters & neon... then it’s easy as can be to give it all up.
IF... that is... & here’s the big if... if you decide that you’re going to counteract the evil in our world with your own... personal bit of... pure... good.
This isn’t a hard thing to do, either... really. Because... if you see the evil things that go on in our world & you don’t like them... If you want the awfulness destroying your fellow beings & your earth home to stop... If you long for peace & love to conquer war & hate... doing this is the only way you can make it happen...
Cleanse your own life... counter all that’s wrong by being as purely good as you can... & you’ll get your powers back... so you can... change the world... With our powers regained... using them together... We can do it. We MUST do it.
[need some stuff on the powers some have, on my own I know about so far… and closing w/ “don’t tell sons, husbands, fathers, brothers, lovers, male friends”]
3. Questionnaire
You can change the world!
Learn how to regain your inborn powers!
Discover how only women can bring about peace on earth!
When you finish this questionnaire, you will begin to see the answers to questions you never dared ask. If you answer all honestly, you will begin to see yourself as all women once were and as you now can be... and no longer as only what you were forced to become.
Together, women can change this evil-laden world that men created.
To find out how, write to:
maïa
maia3maia@hotmail.com
[Please copy questionnaire onto msword document, complete it & attach it to your email]
Check/circle all you have ever been: _ married _divorced _widowed _in love _pregnant _deserted _raped _beaten _sexually abused/harrassed/discriminated against _keen on sex _down on sex _frigid _promiscuous _lesbian
Check all you are at present time: _single _married _divorced _widowed _pregnant _celibate _w/ M partner _w/ F partner _keen on sex _down on sex _frigid _promiscuous _lesbian _mother
Do you have (indicate how many & ‘b’/birth or ‘o’/other) ____son(s) ____daughter(s)?
If you balanced all the pleasure & happiness in your life that was caused by any man...
against all the pain and unhappiness in your life that was caused by any man [including father]... would they come out even? _yes _no
If one side hits bottom... which is heavier? _pleasure/happiness _pain/unhappiness
What percentage of all your life experience in loving men would be on the pain side?
_0-25% _25-50% _50% _50-75% _75-100% _100%
Did you ever come out even (or ahead) in loving a man (as in value received)? _yes _no
Did you ever expect to? _yes _no Do you still expect to some day? _yes _no
Or do you just hope to some day? _yes _no
Why? _prior experience _observing others _childhood dream _religious indoctrination _naive _stupid _stubborn
Of the following, which were (1) started by &/or (2) are continued for the pleasure or benefit of women (w) and which by/for men (m)?
[examples: m1-2 rape; m1-m&w2 marriage]
___Barbie dolls ___bras ___death-defying sports/amusements ___drug addiction ___genocide ___governments ___high heels ___incest ___male gods ___marriage customs/laws ___paternal rights/child ownership ___pedophilia ___prostitution ___rape ___religions ___royalty ___sadistic sex ___sex for pleasure only ___slavery ___torture ___war ___war-simulating sports ___weapons ___women’s subservience/inferior status to men
Do you know that the natural, inborn powers some women still knew how to use hundreds of years ago caused them to be burned as witches, by men fearing their usurped authority would be overthrown if those powers weren’t totally wiped out? _yes _no
Do you know that every female is still born with those inherent powers? _yes _no
Do you know that women who are today considered “psychics” are only using little bits of those powers we all once had? _yes _no
Do you know that we can learn how to regain our mother-gifted powers? _yes _no
Do you know/think you can do any of the following:
_dream things that happen later _know what is going to happen _move a pendulum with yr mind _move any other object that way _know about people/things through reading cards/runes/other ways _see/find things hidden nearby or far away _read people’s thoughts _have visions _relieve pain/heal self or others _see people’s aura _make something happen or things you need come to you
If you want women to regain control & put an end to our world’s horrors, write to me.
Women can change our world.
We must change our world.
Women must take back our world!
4. Flyer
[will send on request... it's available in English and French]
5. Anthem
[lyrics only... needs music]
“Anthem” for the My Sisters’ Keeper movement [NEEDS MUSIC!!!]:
My Sisters’ Keeper
Intro:
We gotta bake some bread, sisters
to cast on these troubled waters,
we gotta take over from our misters...
to save our sons and daughters...
Women can make the world better...
only women can make the world safe...
women can stop all killing and war...
women have to take over,
it’s what our powers are for.
Once we moved mountains with only our will,
together we can... what’s another hill...
and till we remember how...
right now...
***
I have two shoulders to cry on,
I have two hands to wipe away tears,
I have two arms to give comforting hugs,
I have words to quiet fears,
I have a lap for
one or two babies... maybe more...
Bridge:
Cain complained to his “God” above,
“Am I my brother’s keeper,”
but thanks to our “mother’s” love,
womens’ hearts are deeper...
I am my sisters’ keeper and...
***
I have knowledge I can pass on,
I have courage for the meek,
I have experience to share,
I have strength for the weak,
I have love to spare...
for sisters everywhere...
Women can make the world better...
only women can make the world safe...
women can stop all killing and war...
women have to take over,
it’s what our powers are for.
Once we moved mountains with only our will,
together we can... what’s another hill...
and till we remember how...
right now...
we’ve plenty of love to spare...
join me sisters, everywhere...
and...
we can change the world...
we know how...
we can change the world...
Follow “mother”...work with one another and you’ll see...
we... can change the world....
we can change... the world...[fade out with ***]
[***“I am my sisters’s keeper/I’ll be my sisters’ keeper” overlapping in background]
??? Switch Intro/Bridge... or leave as is???
6. The “My Sisters’ Keeper” / Matera plan:
founding - how to locate likeminded sister(s) to join me as co-founder(s)
centers - outline of physical requirements; uses; staffing
immediate goal - provide help for sisters in need; inspire women to follow “mother’s” ways; teach them how to regain their inborn powers; identify the most powerful; find out what can be done with powers
short-range goal - learn how to inter-connect women’s powers; develop their use
ultimate goal - use women’s concerted powers to regain control of the human world
the main trouble with this is that it feels very strongly like I’d have to “preach” this way of life for the plan to work... either for the centers or for the ultimate goal of changing the world...
short of myself “converting” enough others to “mother’s way” the best that could result would be just another bunch of band-aid type centers here and there and no concerted effort to regain and use our powers properly...
why did I have to wait till I was so darn old to think of this???
how can I get “message” to enough women to find ones committed enough to make it work?
could maybe do it with flyers/Guide handouts... but where get $ to make copies?
my sisters’ keeper... the/our mother’s way?
7. Our Mother’s Way [song lyric…wk-in-progress]
Our Mother who art... somewhere...
hear our pleas...
please hear our prayer...
in our hour of need,
let your power within us
win us away from sin and greed...
lead us in mother’s way.
Mothers’ ways are gentle
mothers’ words are kind...
mothers rule with love,
they’re bearers of
life and they…
follow our mother’s way
follow mother’s way
living mother’s way
8. How to “get” things:
Don’t ask for anything specific; ask only to be useful to GOOD in the world/universe. When you do that, and are really sincere, all you need to be useful will be provided. Food, shelter, all that’s necessary to do what you’re meant to will just come to you.
Don’t expect anything to come from what you do; give open-handedly, expecting nothing. When you give freely of your talents and things you’ve been blessed with, you do GOOD. Anyone who does this willingly, helps to neutralize EVIL and will always be protected.
Don’t want what you think you should have; want only to have what you need to do GOOD. When you give up personal desires and possessiveness, whatever you have is a blessing. Considering everything as just “on loan” frees you from all fear of loss or neediness.
Don’t look for happiness in stuff or other people; happiness can only grow inside you. When you live life not just for yourself, but for GOOD in the world/universe, it works. Working for worthwhile things, you’ll know true happiness, not greed/need-fulfillment.
Don’t whine, moan and groan over “bad luck”; see things that happen as clues to follow. When you pay attention to all that takes place around and to you, you learn what to do. Signs and messages are there to guide you, all you need do is to let yourself see them.
Don’t expect/need others to understand you; it’s only necessary that you do yourself. When you’re honest with yourself, learn what you were, are & can be, you need no one. Alone is never lonely, if you recognize your purpose in life & commit yourself to it.
Next...
I had a dream one night. I was asking what I should do with it, having been told I could have a “shop” of my own, thanks to some sort of divorce settlement (yet another one!?). Different stuff I’d enjoy selling sort of fluttered ‘round in my head till I came into a huge, homey kitchen and met a motherly type who somehow made me “know” what to do. I woke up with the whole thing conceived, planned & practically operational.
What follows [in this case, precedes], “How Women Can Change the World (One-by-One),” came from the dream that couldn’t have been just a dream. The awful part is that I know it would work. I could change the world this way! But where do I find even one woman with guts enough, committed to GOOD enough, to join me in doing it?
I came to think it was impossible to ever do anything significant to better humanity, knowing that women had the potential, but also knowing they’d not have any way to develop it. This plan can create the way to do it, while building the global connection necessary to make it work. That’s the long-range aspect. The short-range, can-do-to-start picture is at least providing immediate help for women and kids in urgent need.
Any chance you’d be draft material for a “sisters’ army”? You’d have be almost as much of a nut as I am, on the subject of GOOD ‘n EVIL and cosmic sisterhood, et al., to be willing to help launch a one-gendered campaign like this... maybe you are? If it’s not up your alley, maybe you know someone else who’d be interested? Let me know, OK???
You can contact me [maïa] at: maia3maia@hotmail.com
9. List of Women Billionaires
[contains graphics, so i can't post it... will send on request]
So, that's basically it. As far as I got before muttering, "You idiot!" to myself and turning on CNN, anyway. There's some other stuff that goes with this, in with the essays. Titles are: Bombs and Babies; What Every Woman Needs to Know. And there's a scattering of stuff about how to get your powers back and such, pretty much all over the place. You're welcome to all of it. If you're nuts enough to try it, let me know what happens, willya?
Addia!
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