We have been stuck for about four thousand years as a species, hanging in the balance, struggling with our view of ourselves with the world around us, and with what we are truly capable of and least but not last, our fears. Thirty five hundred years of patriarchal male god rule is adolescent comparatively. Yet the reality of those cultures that have preceded patriarchy are not taught in our schools, colleges or universities unless people like Marija Gimbutas, Robert Graves, Monica Sjoo, Barbara Mor, Riane Eisler, Merlin Stone, stand up and proclaim their hard earned findings to the world. Even then, the average person on the street will never hear a word of it. Television, radio, major communications channels will carry little to nothing of those findings because they do not fit into the paradigm of a world starving itself on its own vomit and laziness because it is easier to rake those millions over the proverbial marketing coals.
People are like sheep going to the slaughter because they have no knowledge.
Archetypal energy can be proven. There is within us all, not outside. The argument of whether there is a god or nay is a useless debate when that which is god is us and has been all along. The need for some to express that outside of themselves has only created a gap in communication and mis-understanding for them as individuals, for the world as a whole for centuries. I am not saying that all shepherds have raped their flocks, but the scales would tip precariously to the side that they have more so than not.