This commentary is meant as a companion to the Goals. I hope publication of the Goals will foster open discussion of many women's hopes and dreams. Here are a few examples of the glorious light that illuminates human religious experience. I've partnered my examples with statements from the Goals to show the persistence of spiritual ideals. The experiences of transcendence to mystical heights and immanence with Earth and Her creatures will be equally honored.
Mystics defy all expectations about boundaries between the powerful and the powerless.
In our current era's year 437, St. Genevieve left her home city, Paris, during a siege, to procure boatloads of food. She declared she would burn heaven and drench hell to focus the people's minds on the love of Allah. There will be global recognition of both male and female qualities of the Divine. Buddhist and Hindu women dared to follow sexual exaltation as a path to enlightenment in Tantric practice, which flourished during the 8th through 12th centuries. Allie Walton celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Friends' General Conference Women's Center in the 1980s by writing a dramatic presentation on the ministry of Quaker women since the time of Margaret Fell.