Rachel Wilson
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And then I started researching all the like popular figureheads and really reading their stuff because I was like, this is a very unpopular.
I'm making pretty intense claims here.
So I really have to be able to back it up and I better make sure I'm correct and I better make sure I'm accurate.
Because whenever you're challenging a narrative this big, everyone's going to go through with a fine tooth comb and try to see where I'm wrong or see if I'm lying or see if I'm twisting things.
So I did two and a half years of just reading feminist literature.
It was rough, but I got through it.
And what I found was, holy moly, most of these women, almost all, but certainly most, were into spiritualism, which was like a big 1800s movement of like trying to do seances and contact the dead and things like that.
Theosophy, which combines like Eastern occult practices with like other Western traditions.
ancient goddess worship, New Age stuff, and even Satanism and Luciferianism.
In fact, in my book, I cite a book that's a PhD thesis by a professor from Norway.
His name's Per Faxneld.
I don't know if that's the way you pronounce it, but that's how it's spelled, P-E-R.
It's called Satanic Feminism, his book.
And now he himself is a Satanist.
He's a Luciferian himself.
So he sees it as a good thing that the women of the 19th century openly declared Lucifer as their liberator and the mascot of their movement.
Now, you would look back and think these were Christian women because they were in like New England and stuff in the United States, Puritan communities and things like this.
In fact, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a bunch of her friends wrote something called The Woman's Bible in 1895, where they rewrote the Bible from a feminist perspective and took out the things that they thought were