Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Naomi Wolf, author of the well-known books The Beauty Myth and Promiscuities, gave an interview to Scotland's Sunday Herald that was a bit...strange.
...she claimed that during a therapy session to treat writer's block, she took on the spirit of a 13-year-old boy and saw Jesus Christ."I'm sure it was Jesus," Wolf told the Herald, describing him as "this figure who was the most perfected human being that there could be -- full of light and full of love."
She continued, "I was a 13-year-old boy sitting next to him and feeling feelings I'd never felt in my lifetime ... [Feelings] of a boy being with an older male who he really loves and admires and loves to be in the presence of."
Don’t really know what to make of this. Cool for her I guess. I’m not really surprised, though. Back in the day (high school) I went to this weekend retreat thing run by Wolf and she kept talking about her aura and divine femininity. A bit hyper-spiritual for my taste, but whatever.
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(trying hard not to be disappointed:) weird that she was a boy and (of course) jesus, the most perfected human being there could be, was a man.
"the beauty myth" has changed how i interact with other women for the much much better. so i hope ms. klein doesn't continue down the path of allowing her spirituality to be shaped by what the men have told her it should look like.
I wish I could say I'm surprised -- she's always struck me as a bit of a flake, and not very good at all for feminism. She also gets docked a couple of points in my book for marrying David Shipley, who still publishes anything Charles Murray sends him at the NY Times op-ed page.
Your secular bias is showing. A person can be spiritual and still have a valid opinion - and be a feminist.
morgaine, i totally agree. it's more the "vision" aspect of the story that worries me.