Could Mother Mary give us some updates on the progression of the decade of women? I can see an incredible shift in the growing number of women. More and more women are refusing to play traditional roles, however they were defined for their society, and are trying to work on their psychology using many different ways and modalities. Some become more spiritual, some just work on their psychology using conventional psychology. At the same time, we can see more and more men resisting that change. There is a visibly growing number of men, even in democratic countries, who openly express disappointment with women, or even anger toward women, who are not so sexually available anymore, who are very carefully considering decisions about having children, and who refuse to be the only house and family keepers.
Quite a lot of ordinary men, also young men, openly comment about taking away voting rights from women, or forbidding their right to work as a solution for the demographic crisis. I know that it is part of things coming into the open and becoming more extreme, so that people have an opportunity to see it, but could Mother Mary give us an update on those changes?
Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.
Well your observations are correct, and as Saint Germain just mentioned in another answer, you have this movement in democracy, and we can say that as a democracy matures, it is natural that there will be some things that have to be brought up, brought out in the open, in a more extreme way, so that people can see it, and choose to let them go, to leave them behind. It is really sort of a shake the tree and see what falls out kind of process. The fact of the matter is, as we have said many times, that many of the modern democracies are in this process of transitioning from a welfare model to a well-being model, where it is not so important with the physical affluence, it is how do people feel about themselves and about life.
And that is, as we have said many times, a transition into focusing more on psychology than on the physical conditions. And what you see in general is that women are far more attuned to this than men. Many, many women are attuned to this process, even if they do not talk about it in spiritual terms, they are just realizing intuitively that we need to shift our focus away from the physical and towards the psychological.
And it is perfectly correct that many men not only are not attuned to this, but they resist it. And it is just one of those necessary upheavals that need to happen. As Saint Germain has already said: “Those who are seeking to turn society back to where women find their traditional roles, they are just on a collision course with history”. And they may create some upheaval in societies, but they are not going to get a majority in any society. As they say, the train has left the station. Women are not going to go back, they are not going to be forced back in traditional roles.
And the minority of men who have not realized this will go through some very hard times, and they may create some noise in society, and in some societies more than others, but it will be a short-lived phenomenon. It is also, especially in the West, especially in America, tied into the Christian movement, which is going through this last-ditch attempt to maintain what they saw as the control of society. It is like this wounded animal that is rolling around, roaring and screaming in its death throes. And that is how it is for this movement, not only in America, also in other countries, but especially in America where they have more influence on people than, for example, European countries.
It is simply that you can see, as we have said before, when the fallen beings came to earth, they saw men are more easy to fool into the epic mindset than women. Therefore, they chose to create these religions that established men as the superior sex, created the traditional roles, all created by the fallen beings.
But you see, what has also happened at the same time is that as society has started dealing with these traditional roles and giving more freedom to women, there is a certain group of men who are lagging behind, and they do not want to change, they do not want to grow. They just want to have a comfortable life based on traditional values, where basically the women did all the work and the men were sitting around studying the Torah or playing chess or drinking all day. Or maybe once in a while they went to war but it was women who were carrying society. And now women are saying: “Well, if we have been carrying society for this long, maybe it is time we got into leadership positions.” And it is just a natural, inevitable development. And what you are talking about in the question is democratic nations, but you can, of course, look at other nations that are not democratic, where you have the same dynamic happening. But there is, of course, more of an attempt to close it down, for example, in Islamic nations, Muslim nations, where women have to fight a lot harder to get more freedom and more rights.
But you see that it still is beginning to break through, even in those nations. You can see a certain irony that women are actually in some Muslim nations getting more freedom. And yet here are these fundamentalist Christians in America, who think they can turn back the clock. And if they got their way, you could have a situation where in 10, 20 years, women would be more free in Muslim nations than they are in America—if they had their way, which, as I said, they will not have. But the irony there is that they claim this would be better for society.
But the reality here is, you need to ask yourself a simple question. Why is it that the democratic nations are more materially affluent than Muslim nations or dictatorships like Russia and China? Why is there so much greater affluence in Europe than in Russia or Saudi Arabia? It is not just because of democracy. It is also because democracy has freed up women to take positions in society. And women have contributed with new ideas that have brought society forward.
In other words, the greatest resource for any nation is its people. If you suppress half of the population by ‘traditional values’, how can that nation become as affluent as a nation that allows women to make a contribution to new ideas and society? This, as they say, is not rocket science. It is just a matter of looking at it realistically.
Naturally, the more mature societies, democratic societies, have given the greatest freedom to women. The majority of the people know this intuitively. You can see there are some like the Scandinavian countries. These fundamentalist Christian movements or even conservative right-wing parties that want to go back to traditional values, they cannot get a foothold. Because even the men in those countries realize that it is to the benefit of everyone that women are given more freedom and opportunity. You can look at the countries where these movements have some foothold, some inroad, and you can see they are not as high in the level of the collective consciousness.
But of course, this is the decade of women, accelerated by the 12-year cycle. All I can say to these conservative people is: Duck! Because you are going to be hit by the energies, whether you want to or not, whether you believe in it or not. If there is one lesson that people should learn from history, is you cannot turn back the clock. You cannot recreate the past. You cannot put the cat back in the bag. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men can’t put Humpty together again.
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