Leonard Shlain
Note: Author mentioned by Jerry Michalski as providing academic parallel to Dan Brown's Divine Feminine thesis during the OGM 2025-11-06 call.
Key Work
"The Alphabet vs. the Goddess" - Academic treatment of the marginalization of the Divine Feminine
The Thesis
Same core idea as Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, but from academic perspective:
- Written language's impact on consciousness
- Marginalization of feminine principles
- Historical suppression of goddess worship
- Connection between literacy and patriarchy
Jerry's Synthesis
All clicked together for Jerry:
- Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code (popular fiction)
- Leonard Shlain's academic work (same thesis)
- Jerry's own decades of work on "consumer" concept
- Yin and yang thinking
- Non-local consciousness (later addition)
"All three stories kind of clicked in my head in a really wonderful way"
Related Concepts
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