I then learned that Tiffany was the daughter of Leonard Shlain, who Roger and and I got to know at the Conference on World Affairs in Boulder. Tiffany's father is now deceased, but he was one of the great thinkers in our society. His book "The Alphabet and the Goddess" addresses the question: What event in culture could have been so immense and so pervasive that it could change the sex of God?
He hypothesizes that the goddess started losing power about the same time as people began to read and write and that somehow the process of reading and writing could have changed the structure of the human brain and shifted everyone into a patriarchal and misogynous mode. Pretty radical stuff, so I shouldn't be surprised that his daughter is also invested in making huge shifts in our cultural paradigm.
I was so impressed with the scope of Tiffany's project that I wanted to make sure we presented it this week during the Women Writers Week to show that not only are women writing about issues, but that we are proactively working to make actual positive changes in society.
