Silencing Wisdom
The Greatest Theft in Human History
What if I told you that the struggles plaguing modern families—narcissism, codependency, estrangement, emotional neglect, gaslighting, and addiction—were never part of the natural human condition? That these self perpetuating cycles of desperation and blame result from a systematic and deliberate subjugation of humanity?
A crime so complete and successful that millennia later we continue blaming victims. Admonishing mothers—in our hearts and minds—for raising immature, dependent (yet ironically rebellious) children. Never realising the systems that accuse mothers for our collective suffering are the same operatives that cultivate and profit from humanity’s capture.
Part I: The Original Design: Spirit-Filled Beings
Before our spiritual history was redacted, humans understood themselves as filled with divine breath. In Hebrew, this was Ruach—the motherly spirit that breathed life into creation. Wisdom herself, Hokhmah, was understood as a divine mother, a presence whose voice spoke directly to the human conscience, guiding each person’s decisions—and hence development—through lived experience. A divine spirit of wise and motherly direction, guiding our lives to full maturity.
In his illuminating work Did God Have a Wife?, Biblical archaeologist William Dever documents that this beloved and divine presence was not primitive superstition but sophisticated spirituality. Archaeological evidence from sites like Kuntillet Ajrud shows 8th century BCE inscriptions pairing Yahweh with Asherah—proof that the Divine Mother was once central to worship in early Israel. People understood themselves as filled with Her living wisdom, capable of discerning the right course of action through direct spiritual connection.
People filled with Her divine spirit didn’t require external validation to know their worth. Neither did they require intermediaries to tell them right from wrong.
The Greatest Theft in Human History
The priests who reworked early scripture to create ‘The Law’ that became ‘book religion’ understood a psychological principle: people who hear Wisdom’s voice directly cannot be easily made into servants, slaves, and soldiers.
People connected to their most elevated ideas of self-care—under the authority of their Heavenly Mother—are difficult to make subservient to a ruling class that feels entitled to the efforts of our labour.
Our Heavenly Mother’s authority, in essence, protected us from what would develop into the narcissistic/codependent cycle of exploitation.
Once an essential spiritual parental figure to the ancient world; most references to our Heavenly Mother’s authority were systematically edited out of ‘book religion’.
Usurping Divine Authority
Asherah’s removal from sacred texts was part of this coordinated effort. Replacing our Heavenly Mother’s divine authority over our lives and choices—and hence our authority over ourselves. As biblical scholar Margaret Barker argues in The Great Angel, the Deuteronomistic reforms systematically suppressed feminine aspects of the divine and temple wisdom traditions to consolidate priestly power and redirect worship towards obedience to canonical law.
People filled with the female spirit of loving maternal wisdom will unlikely willingly line up to die in war. A worker knowing they are a child of divine parents will be less easy to exploit. A consumer able to discern nourishment from artificially manufactured desire will not purchase addictive substances, but seek only that which will cause them (and their family) to grow strong.
The Prime Motive: External Control
This removal was done in an attempt to sever our connection with inner wisdom—the understanding that held us worthy as divine and autonomous human beings, with a system of abuse (daily sacrifice of animals the early Israelites considered productive and sacred) and exploitation (tithe/taxation) installed instead as worship.
Men and women asking questions when authorities desire strict obedience has always been a challenge to those who seek authority.
Humanity feeling free to make their own decisions—guided by their own conscience—worked against the central authoritative religious state the invading tribes in Deuteronomy sought to establish on threat of death.
The Method: A Systematic Usurpation of Motherly Wisdom
Archaeological evidence shows this operation unfolded in calculated stages:
Stage 1: Erasure - Despite centuries of religious tradition, Asherah’s poles, once central to worship in ancient Israel, were destroyed and rebranded as “pagan.” Sacred groves where people meditated to access Her direct divine wisdom were cut down and burnt.
The Golem tradition that emerged after this erasure—involving a creature from Jewish folklore made from clay or mud and brought to life through rituals involving Hebrew letters and spoken words—can be seen to represent the priestly rulers’ attempt to replace spirit-filled divine creation with word-magic: created servants rather than self-directed sovereign beings.
Stage 2: Depersonalisation - Wisdom (Hokhmah) was stripped of Her divine personhood, reduced from living guide to abstract concept. The maternal spirit (Ruach) was neutered, transformed from personal mother-wisdom into an impersonal force, dispensed through approved religious channels.
Stage 3: Substitution - Where young people once faced genuine trials that forged inner strength and moral autonomy, a frightening administration of control introduced artificial rites of passage. They replaced the sacred grove with the temple and tests of inner fortitude with rites like circumcision—not to forge character, but to claim.
Stage 4: Institutionalisation - The printing press mass-produced uniform state control. As historian Elizabeth Eisenstein notes, “Printing enabled standardisation that erased regional variations—including motherly advice.”
The Result: Species-Wide Grooming
This crime transcends theft, constituting the grooming and capture of our species for subjugation. Where humans once developed through personally measured challenge, following the voice of external and internal parental guidance, we have now been trained to seek validation from external systems of authority.
The Template for Family Dysfunction
The ancient theft didn’t just sever our spiritual connection—it created the blueprint for the dysfunctional dynamics that now plague modern families. When you remove the divine mother’s protective authority, you create a void. Into that void rushes the very patterns we see destroying families today: narcissistic systems that demand endless servitude whilst offering nothing in return, codependent relationships where one party enables another’s perpetual immaturity, the gaslighting that makes us doubt our own perceptions and self protective instincts, and the addictive seeking that can never be satisfied, because we’re looking outside ourselves for what can only be found within.
If you’re a mother watching these patterns play out in your home and asking yourself “why is this happening?”—the answer may lie not in modern psychology alone, but in understanding what was stolen from us millennia ago.
Part II: The Scapegoating of Mothers
The Perfect Cover Story
With the theft complete, the perpetrators needed a scapegoat. Who better to blame than the very relationship that could expose their crime? Mothers, after all, represented the original nurturing, wisdom-providing relationship that control-oriented systems had worked so hard to replace.
This scapegoating of mothers is not a modern phenomenon—it’s been refined over millennia since the story of Eve. The mid-20th century mother-blaming documented by psychoanalysis was simply one chapter in an ancient pattern.
In his 2007 book, Madness on the Couch: Blaming the Victim in the Heyday of Psychoanalysis, Edward Dolnick provides a detailed account of the unrestricted rise of blaming parents and especially mothers, for diseases such as schizophrenia and autism (both now universally acknowledged as stemming from organic origins, as opposed to failures in nurturing).
The book is aptly subtitled Blaming the Victim, as the psychoanalysis industry that flourished after World War Two created many victims. In his book, the victim he refers to is the mother—whose role of authority was undermined by untested theories administered as (psychological) therapy in the post-war period.
Dolnick writes:
‘Like unwary tourists caught in a gang fight, these unfortunate parents happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. For mothers especially, to live in America in the 1940s, ‘50s and ‘60s was to stand convicted.’ Blaming the Victim - Edward Dolnick
This trend is, unfortunately, raising its ugly head once more, with mothers most tragically now being ‘cancelled’ by their children.
The socio-engineers’ (like Edward Bernays) narrative was brilliant in its cruelty: Blame mothers for creating “dependent” children. Accuse women of being “overprotective” or “smothering.” Encourage families to distrust the very relationship designed to guide children towards authentic autonomy—painting maternal influence as the enemy of independence.
When in reality, the true enemy was the institutional systems that systematically profit from our artificially stunted development—immaturity they promote deliberately to this day.
The Truth: Mothers Want Freedom, Systems Want Control
The accusers don’t want you to see this truth: most mothers want their children to develop the inner resources to wisely navigate life. A mother’s greatest joy comes from watching her child become a self-reliant adult, celebrating the benchmarks her child reaches when they no longer need constant guidance at each level of development—because her child’s own Ruach, their inner wisdom, has replaced her voice.
Marketing systems need consumers who look outside themselves for satisfaction. Political systems require citizens who trust external authority over inner discernment. Extractive economic systems depend on workers who accept exploitation rather than recognise their inner worth. It’s these institutions, not mothers, that profit from the prolonged dependence of those kept immature.
When a mother protects her child’s development or questions harmful influences, she’s labelled “overprotective.” When she expresses concern about harmful systems or influences, she’s dismissed as “paranoid.” When a child naturally turns to parental wisdom before institutional authority, it’s mislabelled “clinging and insecure.”
This is gaslighting on a civilisational scale—making mothers doubt their own perceptions, question their own protective instincts, and believe they’re the problem when they’re actually the solution.
The “helicopter parent” narrative serves those who want to redirect our most natural bond towards institutional dependence—divided families now leaving many adults and children in a state completely dependent on ‘The State’.
Mothers, stripped of any collective sense of authority over their home or children, are gaslit into believing their maternal wisdom is neurosis. They strive ever harder to maintain any form of loving connection with their families, often falling to the role of servants in their homes rather than risk being labelled “controlling” or “overbearing.”
With no institutional or cultural support to teach children life’s harder lessons, mothers find themselves trapped: enable selfish and immature behaviour, or face ostracisation from the very children they’re trying to protect. It’s a devastating bind—watch your family spiral into dysfunction, or risk losing them entirely by holding firm boundaries.
This creates a self-perpetuating cycle: codependent parenting produces narcissistic children, who grow into adults demanding the same unconditional servitude their mothers provided, never having developed the inner resources to genuinely care for themselves or others.
Part III: The Modern Golem
Adults Made of Words, Not Wisdom
Walk through any modern city and you’ll see them: adults made of words rather than wisdom’s breath. Carrying smartphones like prayer books, they seek external validation for every decision they make. Accumulating degrees and certifications like magical talismans, looking for the right set of letters from institutions that will finally make them authentic and whole.
These are the spiritual descendants of the Prague Golem—animated by external words rather than filled with divine breath. They carry what psychologist Arthur Janov identified in The Primal Scream: a desperate hunger for the maternal connection that has been severed, leading to neurosis and endless seeking.
This severed bond with the comforting, protective mother—both divine and human—creates a wound that never heals. We try to fill it with consumption, with validation, with addictive behaviours. The pornography, the smartphones, the shopping, the substances—all attempts to soothe a pain that can only be healed by reconnecting with that internal compass our ancestors called their Heavenly Mother’s spirit or voice.
What we genuinely crave is not external approval or the next dopamine hit, but the restoration of that loving maternal presence within ourselves—the ability to honestly assess our own development and know, deep in our souls, that we are worthy.
The Hungry Ghosts Among Us
Carl Jung observed in Aion that “the repressed feminine always returns—often in distorted forms.” Today’s distortion manifests in a world obsessed with pornography, men robbed of the sacred and protective comfort of their divine mother, seeking comfort in the only way they’ve been taught—through consumption and artificial pleasure.
This alongside what in Everland we call Hungry Ghosts—entities, both individual and systemic, that feed on our artificial cravings and spiritual immaturity.
These aren’t mythological creatures but real forces: marketing systems that manufacture dissatisfaction, educational institutions that reward compliance over wisdom, therapeutic approaches that create dependency rather than autonomy and strength. They whisper “more, more, more” whilst ensuring that no amount of consumption will ever satisfy.
A true teacher wants you to develop internal resources and eventually become a master yourself. A predatory system wants you to remain dependent, always seeking external solutions to internal hungers.
Part IV: Reclaiming What Was Stolen
Returning to the Source
The theft was thorough, but not complete. As Jung noted, the repressed returns. Deep in the human psyche, the connection to inner motherly wisdom persists. This is why approaches that help people reconnect with their internal capacity for self-assessment and wise discernment—create such profound transformation.
When a person develops what we call the Divine Compass—their ability to navigate life through inner guidance rather than external validation—they discover something remarkable. Because they’re no longer desperately seeking from others what they should be providing for themselves, they don’t become selfish or disconnected but more genuinely loving and strong.
The Liberation Pathway
The journey back from animated-clay golem servant to spirit-filled autonomous being follows a predictable path. First we must recognise the theft—understanding our hungry, seeking, never-satisfied state has nothing to do with our natural condition but is the result of a spiritual connection that has been severed.
This recognition opens what we call the Threshold of Renewal—the moment you stop fighting to return to a past that was already compromised and begin building something new. You develop the essential capacities that generate what we call Inner Radiance: physical vitality, emotional maturity, and mental discernment.
As these capacities strengthen and balance, you begin to experience the authentic magnetism that comes from being a genuinely self-possessed human. Attracting healthier relationships because you’re no longer desperate for external validation, making better decisions because you’re consulting internal wisdom on what is genuinely right for you.
Most importantly, you break free from the Veiled Domain—those forces that profit from your immaturity. You become what the redactors in this ancient crime story feared most: a human who needs no master.
The Great Turn
Every person alive today faces the same choice the ancient exiles faced after the fall of Jerusalem: rebuild the old ways of external spiritual dependency, or face our flaws and create something new: based on the wisdom within you. The difference is that now we have tools the ancients couldn’t imagine.
The same printing press technology that mass-produced spiritual dependency can mass-produce spiritual liberation instead. The internet that creates echo chambers can also connect people seeking authentic development. The psychological insights revealed from viewing how the theft occurred can guide us in reversing its devastating sociological impact.
The journey back to spiritual autonomy—reparenting yourself with internal divine wisdom—isn’t just personal transformation. It’s a path home that we illuminate in The Safe Passage Home Series: a five-part work of love, seeking to restore what was stolen from humanity. The five essential stages of human development—Nourishment, Security, Identity, Truth, and Loyalty—fill gaps that the theft of your Heavenly Mother may have been left in your development. Using guided fantasy and suggestion therapy, you’ll move from captured states that keep you seeking to the liberated territories where you fill your gaps to develop fully and know your own worth.
Your Heavenly Mother’s voice wasn’t permanently silenced. As you learn to quiet that interference and listen within, you will join a growing chorus of voices that refuse to remain animated-clay golems any longer.
The redactors think they’ve won, creating systems so effective at producing immature dependency that people now blame their own mothers for the moral turpitude those systems have created.
But the perpetrators in our crime story made one mistake: underestimating the power of the divine seed within each one of us.
Like the potential trapped within the Orphic Egg, the serpent’s coils may look insurmountable, but the spirit within remembers. Our divine essence still retains all that’s needed to reach our full potential.
The great theft is being reversed, one reparenting journey at a time. The question isn’t whether you have the power to reclaim your connection to inner wisdom—you were born with it—but whether you have the courage to begin following your conscience.
The redactors may have rewritten our history, but they couldn’t rewrite our hearts. Your Heavenly Mother remembers, and She’s calling you home.
The Safe Passage Home Series will be published soon. Five books that provide practical tools for this restoration, beginning—in Book One—with learning to truly nourish yourself on every level: mind, body, and heart. Because the journey to authentic adulthood starts with something as simple, and revolutionary, as learning to nourish yourself with genuine loving care.
Author’s Note:
If we ever hope to be good role models for our families as parents, of course, we must reparent ourselves first.
That’s why I’ve written The Safe Passage Home Series.
The writing and illustrations are mostly finished. What I’m working on now—and it’s a massive undertaking—is recording the guided meditations and suggestion therapy sessions with Steve and other voice actors. These audio components will bring the five books to life, helping you move through the essential stages of development: Nourishment, Security, Identity, Truth, and Loyalty.
For now, whilst the recordings are in progress, you’ll need to use your imagination as you read the scripts. But I promise, even in script form, this work is powerful. I know because I’ve watched it produce genuine growth in our home.
More than three years ago, I began the journey of healing my own religious PTSD. Today, I can tell you the spiritual narrative you’ve just read isn’t theory—it’s the higher understanding of someone in active recovery. This work has put my life back together over the last 12 months of writing, after facing yet another extremely challenging time. And while I am not at a resting point, I can assure you our lives are now on track. Gifting myself the time and space required to learn the skills needed to develop this series, is a gap that at nearly 60 I’m finally working to fill.
While a promising student in my youth, as a recovered codependent, my life’s career goals were always side tracked by caring for someone else.
Those days are over, and today I’m putting my life’s work first!
Whether you are a person of faith, or not, I believe this work can help you. Especially if you have never been able to make sense of the violence that ‘book religion’ claims necessary for a new and better creation to unfold. How about protecting and renewing what we already have? Hasn’t humanity suffered enough?
So here’s what I’m offering readers here: While the audios are still in production, this work will remain free to everyone who subscribes to this channel, including free subscribers. Eventually, I’ll need to charge for the finished audios—creating something of this scope requires resources—but for now, whilst still in production, I want to get it into the hands of people who are ready to do the work.
What I’m building is what archaeologist William Dever calls ‘folk religion’—an expression of faith that reflects the actual needs and experiences of real people, not the ‘book religion’ handed down by those who seek to justify unlimited use of force in ruling over humanity with dogma and religious law. Dever showed me that religion has in fact never been static. Throughout history, there have been countless expressions of faith, each one authentic to its time and people. Authentic only if it genuinely serves people’s needs.
“…the biblical figure of Wisdom represents a spirituality of roads and journeys, of public places and open borders, of nourishment and celebration, of justice and equality—rather than a spirituality of categories, doctrines, closed systems and ideologies.” Rev. Elizabeth Raine
I’m looking to build a congregation in that spirit. Not a place for theological debate or people who want to challenge whether my narrative is “truth”. Instead I’m looking for people who are tired of being golems—tired of seeking external validation, tired of the endless consumption, tired of blaming mothers for a system that has deliberately broken us all.
I’m looking for people truly ready to come home to themselves.
Let me be clear about what I’m NOT looking for here: I’m not interested in religious arguments in exchange for our work. I’m not interested in people who want to prove me wrong or defend the systems that profit from our fear and immaturity. If this narrative challenges you in a way that makes you want to debate rather than grow, this isn’t your path. And that’s okay. Find what works for you.
But if you’re ready—if you recognise yourself in what I’ve written so far, if you feel that hunger for the loving Heavenly Mother that’s been stolen from us, if you’re done seeking approval from systems that will never give your life enduring meaning —then I invite you to join us on this journey.
Forty years ago, I sat in my first advertising class and was told our job was to keep people immature by exploiting their insecurities. “Can’t we be subversive about this?” I asked. The teacher smiled. Another student said she hoped I’d get hit by a bus. I’m pretty sure she didn’t get it that I was on humanity’s side… but all these years later I’m still here… finally doing what I instantly knew that I must when sitting in that class… building creative liberation pathways out of the big human-cage that I discovered on that day has been deliberately built for all of us.
This is my life’s work now.
The Law of Harmonic Balance is one of the concepts from Everland—the mythological world that underlies this series—that teaches that love is energy generated by systems in perfect equilibrium. A balance I’m trying to achieve with you here. An exchange that generates that energy rather than aiming simply at extracting money out of you. Instead I provide the tools for renewed growth and you bring your commitment to actually using them and helping us build a community living the same challenges.
If you understand that exchange and you’re ready to fill the gaps in your development, reconnect with your inner wisdom, and become the self-possessed human ‘the cage builders’ fear most—let me know in the comments.
I’ll make sure you get access to the series.
The journey home starts with learning to nourish yourself with genuine loving care. Will you join us in Everland?
— Kim Cooper
Wonderful and inspiring. This is a journey we all need. Thank you for sharing this amazing and transformational pathway. I’m in!!
Wow! Thank you