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Angelina Jolie Leads Global Fight Against War Rape At London Summit.
"This sends a big message to those who abuse women. We will come after you."
Angelina Jolie today launched a global campaign to stop rape in war and warned perpetrators that they will be hunted down.
As world and religious leaders gathered in London for a landmark summit, the Hollywood star, 39, who is co-hosting the event with Foreign Secretary William Hague, told the Standard: "This sends a big message round the world. You see how women are treated as second-class citizens and abused. This is to say, "No, you can't and we will, in an organised fashion, come after you."
The Pope led condemnation of sexual violence in war, tweeting: "Let us pray for all victims of sexual violence in conflict, and those working to end this crime. TimeToAct".
A the summit's opening, Ms Jolie, a special envoy of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said: "This subject has been tabloo for far too long. War zone rape thrives on silence and denial.
"This evil will continue ruining the lives of millions of people unless we make this summit a turning point. We must send a message there is no disgrace in being a survivor of sexual violence, that the shame is on the aggressor."
She dedicated the summit to an 'abandoned' victim of rape she and Mr Hague met in Bosnia.
Nicholas Cecil. Deputy Political Editor
‘Where there’s fighting, there’s rape — it’s simply an expectation if you are female’
In the unforgettable Seeds of Hope, women in the Democratic Republic of Congo describe attacks of unimaginable brutality — it’s a story of the triumph of human nature over terrible abuse, the film’s maker Fiona Lloyd-Davies tells Alison Roberts
Towards the end of Fiona Lloyd-Davies’s extraordinary documentary, Seeds of Hope, there is a sudden and terrible twist. Beginning in early 2011, the film follows a group of rape victims at a residential centre established by the indomitable Mama Masika, herself a survivor of multiple rapes, in the small lakeside town of Minova in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) — a country ransacked and exhausted by waves of extreme violence in the wake of a civil war that was supposed to have ended more than 10 years ago.
The women, who describe attacks of unimaginable brutality — gang rapes, killings, sex slavery, atrocities involving the rape and murder of children — are rebuilding their lives slowly at a time of relative peace in the region. Masika is renting a small plot of land and the women, many of whom have been rejected by their husbands as a result of rape, seem to be regaining a sense of identity and potential as they work the richly fertile central African soil.
And then, in November 2012, the soldiers come back.
At this point watching the film — which is shown tonight in a free screening at the ExCeL Centre as part of the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict — becomes almost unbearable.
A graduate of the Royal College of Art, but best known for her series of films for Newsnight with the “Baghdad blogger”, Salam Pax, Lloyd-Davies talks not only to the women who are raped again — in every case with savage violence — but also tracks down some of the men who admit to doing it. They are members not of a foreign invading force, nor one of the notorious militias that haunt and ravage the country, but of the Congolese army itself — the men Masika calls, with astonishment and anger, “our brothers”.
“As Masika says, where there’s fighting, there’s rape,” says Lloyd-Davies, 49, who first documented victims of sexual violence in the DRC in a series of photographs in 2001. Ten years later, the culture of rape was so entrenched, its use as a weapon of war so prevalent, particularly in the east of the country, that senior UN official Margot Wallstrom called the DRC “the rape capital of the world”.
“When I first started going to Congo the women talked about the horror of having to choose whether to stay in the house and starve or go to the market or the field to get food and risk being raped,” says Lloyd-Davies. “But they’d only been raped once back then. Now, anecdotally at least, rape is simply an expectation if you’re female. And it won’t happen once, it will happen two, three times, more. And if you have a girl baby, she will probably be raped too.”
Definitive figures are impossible to collate, but in 2011 the American Journal of Public Health estimated that 48 women were raped every hour in the DRC.
The soldiers who came to Masika’s house in November 2012 were fleeing the militia group M23, and were out of control by the time they reached Minova. The UN claims they raped at least 97 women and 33 girls, some as young as six; yet a military trial of 39 soldiers, which ended a month ago, resulted in just two convictions for rape. A further 24 men were found guilty of looting but every one of the 13 officers on trial for their part in the violence was acquitted on all counts.
Lloyd-Davies shares the international frustration at these verdicts, but “at least there was a trial”, she says — in itself a sign of progress. “There is a ground-swell now, signs of real movement, and that’s exciting. But I do think this trial was a missed opportunity,” she says. “Obviously the summit this week in London is fantastic, and the involvement of Angelina Jolie and William Hague is hugely to be welcomed. But one has to look at what they’re actually going to do. And Hague and the British Government, and the American government, could have really used this [the trial] to help Congo rebuild its very fragile judicial system. It’s a shame that they didn’t.”
Had the resources been there, it’s possible the trial might have represented a watershed moment, she says. There wasn’t enough money to photocopy case notes, nor to find the military judges somewhere to stay in Minova, let alone to meet international standards of justice. There is no system in Minova for collecting forensic evidence of rape, and none of the women at Masika’s house have been tested for HIV. Of the six defence lawyers, says Lloyd-Davies, only one had ever been in court before.
At times her film is laconic, languid even — it dwells on the beauty of the landscape, on its equatorial lushness; and on the tragedy of the children of rape, many of whom Masika takes in as babies, but whose mothers admit to “hating”. “The DRC is a heaven and hell,” says Lloyd-Davies. “It’s the most beautiful, compelling, extraordinary place where the most terrifying things happen.”
The film was originally shot as a half-hour programme for Al-Jazeera, but was turned into a full-length film with funding from the Pulitzer Centre on Crisis Reporting, based in Washington. There is no narrator: the women’s stories are told in fact-laden captions and in their own words, allowing them perhaps to reclaim the sense of self that rape so often destroys.
Yet the softness and neutrality of their voices often belies the hideousness of what they say: there are anecdotes about women being forced to put their babies into large stone mortars and then pound them to death. One woman who refused this horror was killed and her husband’s penis cut off. Many women talk of contemplating suicide.
Although there are signs of a new robustness from the latest UN initiative in the DRC — a 20,000-strong force led by the tough Brazilian General Santos Cruz — in the past the UN has been worse than ineffective. “In Walikale [also in the eastern regions] some 400 women were raped in four days, and the UN were a few kilometres down the road but did nothing,” says Lloyd-Davies angrily.
What makes her go back? Even the most hardened war-zone veteran might find the seeming inevitability of rape too depressing, and Lloyd-Davies knows that she runs a risk of attack herself. “I think it’s an extraordinary story of resilience,” she says. “ OK, the women of Minova don’t have a choice — if they sit down and collapse they’ll starve to death and so will their children. But to see them laughing and joking, as they still very much do, is to see human nature triumph over terrible abuse.
“And I have a responsiblity to them, too, because they have trusted me with their story. Now we need to repay that trust.”
Seeds of Hope screens at Silent Cinema, ExCeL London, E16, today at 6.30pm, as part of the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict Fringe programme (esvcsummit.com/publicprogramme), open 9am-9pm daily until Thursday, admission free.
Alison Roberts
Commentary: The Standard is proud to support this bold and vital campaign
The horror of war rape is a shameful scar on the world.
For centuries it has been seen as an inevitable part of conflicts. It is not —and Foreign Secretary William Hague and actress Angelina Jolie are urging global leaders to act now to prevent it.
They are hosting a summit in London, which opened today, to mobilise nations to save women, young girls, men and boys from terrifying and life-shattering sex attacks while their countries are being torn apart by war.
The Evening Standard is proud to fully support their bold and desperately needed campaign.
Today’s paper is being edited in part from the ExCeL centre, where hundreds of delegates have gathered.
This paper has supported the campaign by highlighting the plight of survivors, the stories of children born of rape and the work of Britain’s top military leaders in a series of articles.
Our coverage has shown that war rape not only devastates victims physically and mentally, but it has repercussions beyond the immediate act. It perpetuates violence and disrupts communities for generations.
London, which stood as a beacon of hope during Europe’s darkest hours, is a fitting venue for the summit. The message must reverberate out from the capital to the most far-flung reaches of the planet that war rape is a heinous crime that will not go unpunished.
Perpetrators must be hunted down and jailed for their barbaric acts, legal systems need strengthening, armies have to be better trained and victims need more support.
Crucially to achieve these aims, attitudes must change so sexual violence in conflict is seen as an evil that can and must be stopped. Sarah Sands, editor of the Evening Standard, said: “War rape is a complex problem but there is a collective will to stamp it out and change attitudes for good.”
As he toured the conference fringe, Foreign Secretary William Hague said: “The Evening Standard is doing the world proud.”
A spokesman for the Foreign Office said: “We are trying to do something that has never been done before — to change the entire global attitude towards sexual violence in conflict.
“The Evening Standard’s commitment to this issue — both explaining why it matters as well as how Londoners can engage — has been admirable.”
In this great cosmopolitan city, hundreds of thousands of people have been affected by conflicts in other parts of the world, many fleeing unthinkable horrors.
It’s part of our identity in London to stand together for justice.
Angelina Jolie arrives at summit saying: I'll fight to end war rape for as long as I'm alive
Exclusive interview: When Angelina Jolie speaks, heads of state listen. A superb negotiator in designer clothing, she knows her power and is determined to use it to change global attitudes to war crimes.
As heads of Governments, NGOs, lawyers and doctors converge on the ExCel Centre today for an extraordinary summit, the Hollywood actress and campaigner Angelina Jolie arrives just in time to provide the fairy dust.
Humanity can bear only so much policy – it deserves some beauty and charisma to sugar the pill. No one should doubt the star’s clout or commitment. When Jolie speaks, heads of state listen. She is a powerful voice on behalf of victims of war, particularly women. Her statement today is that the summit must answer the grievances of girls kidnapped in Nigeria, wives stoned in Pakistan and women raped in many war zones.
“This sends a big message round the world, you see how women are treated as second class citizens and abused. This is to say: ‘No, you can’t and we will, in an organised fashion, come after you.’”
For Jolie, 39, this is personal. “I will work on this for as long as I am alive. For as long as it takes.”
It is thanks to a remarkable partnership between the actress and the British Foreign Secretary William Hague that the issue of rape in war zones has such prominence. For students of politics and leadership, the method is almost as interesting as the topic.
Politicians alone – with their poor standing on social media and their narrow processes cannot “shift the dial” on social change. But social change cannot happen without them. Legislation matters, Governments must be involved as well as “the people”. The summit today could be a template for how to tackle the big global issues.
Jolie is convinced that this coalition of players is the way to crack social injustice. “If this works, it can spill out into all the other crimes against humanity. I think this kind of summit is the only way to address these issues in a comprehensive fashion to get change and make a difference.”
She is shrewd enough to understand the value of her power base. I ask her if she is likely to move into conventional politics and she says, politely: “If I felt I could effect change, I would certainly consider it.” But isn’t she in a more powerful position as a globally known actress and humanitarian? “It is certainly more unusual. It is interesting to be able to work with all sides in all ways and to work as a citizen of the world. I wouldn’t want that taken away.”
I note that Hillary Clinton’s autobiography – seen as presaging a presidential bid – is published today. Is Jolie backing her, or contemplating a role in her administration? She answers deliberately: “I shall be following every candidate.”
By working with whoever is in power, Jolie can makes things happen. She is a beauteous version of Henry Kissinger, a superb negotiator in designer clothing.
We meet in a central London hotel, where Jolie has hardly had time to unpack before the summit. This is trivial hardship compared to last time we met, in March 2013, on an RAF flight to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Jolie joined William Hague to meet survivors of war rape and to flesh out a solution with the Governments of Congo and Rwanda. It was only after the trip that the media learned the actress had also undergone a preventative double mastectomy.
I recall the unmade roads, and shuddering helicopters and asked what on earth made her do the trip at that time.
Her preternaturally grey eyes fasten on me in surprise. “Honestly? There was no way I wasn’t going to be on that trip and certainly when you think of what those women suffer it was the least I could do."
She pauses: “And in a way, it helped to heal me because any pain or discomfort or concern I had became secondary in comparison. You would be ashamed if you did complain about it.”
Later, Jolie made another bold decision. She kept quiet about her operation in the field, but later wrote about it when securely and privately back in LA. Once again, she refused to claim special privilege.
“I do feel very human in my connection to others. I felt in that moment it was something I would have wanted other people to help me with.” She refers to her mother, who died of ovarian cancer at the age of 56: “To know I had this option and it could prevent me from dying young and leaving my children. It was something important to discuss and I have been so extremely grateful to women round the world who have in turn shared their stories.”
For some commentators, it was an awkward association. Here was a Hollywood woman voted the most beautiful in the world. How would it affect her image to have her breasts removed?
Jolie, whose humanitarian work has made her appreciative of unexpected goodness, says that she was “pleasantly surprised” by the general reaction of the public.
“I grew up in Hollywood, so I was expecting more of that silliness, I expected more surface judgement.”
In a way, her operation was central to the Jolie persona. She is both sex symbol and madonna. Her rebellious child star self has given way to a kind of overflowing maternal spirit, with unusual empathy.
She and her partner Brad Pitt have three children, adopted from Cambodia, Ethiopia and Vietnam, as well as three biological children.
Jolie, slender as grasses and with a Disney delineation of features, leans across the hotel sofa earnestly.
“Always since I can remember as a little girl, I felt that I wanted to adopt; as soon as I was aware that there were children in the world who needed families. It seemed a natural thing to do. It seemed so simple, if you were ready to be a mother and children needed a home.”
“But I think like most people I went through not being sure that I was good enough to be somebody’s mother. And especially I take very seriously bringing a child into my home that I did not give birth to. Maybe there is even an extra responsibility, a desire to earn this child. Then when I went to Cambodia, it was one of those strange moments when I just knew this is what was supposed to be.”
An armchair psychologist might link the reverence for the maternal impulse with Jolie’s loss of her own mother: “I had a great mother,” she says. “It is hard to think I could ever be as good as she was. Her whole life was motherhood. Like every mother you hope you are making the right choices but I love my kids so deeply.” She says that because her children are “home schooled” they accompany her on some trips and she hopes will inherit “a bigger picture of life”.
I had wondered if Jolie departmentalised her life into “Hollywood” and “the world” but it occurred to me that her humanitarian work finds unseen outlets. In her latest film, the Disney Maleficent, loosely based on Sleeping Beauty, she plays a fairy who falls in love with a human. He is ordered to kill her by the king, but instead strips her of her wings. She is desolate and bitter.
Was this a metaphor for rape? “You are the first person to ask,” she beams. “I was wondering who would figure it out. I am so happy that you have. We were all very conscious of it, it was in fact rape, it was clear. She was with a man, she is violated and of course it is a Disney story but she goes through a period of losing herself and her femininity and her motherly qualities, then she is able to remember them again, in her case, because of a child.”
Rape is not opaque in Jolie’s directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey, being shown at the summit tomorrow, Wednesday. It is explicit and brutal. William Hague’s Bosnian special adviser, Arminka Helic, credits Jolie with an astonishing grasp of her country and the consequences of the war in the early 1990s.
By contrast, Jolie’s next film, which she has directed and is currently editing, is about the heroism of war. It is called Unbroken, and is the tale of an All American legend, Louis Zamperini, an Olympic winner, a World War II prisoner of war, a survivor, a Christian.
Was she deliberately scouting for a male role model? “Both my films have been war films. In extreme circumstances it brings out the worst and the best in human nature. In some ways, the films are not dissimilar. The unbroken strength of the human spirit, overcoming hate.”
Jolie says she intends to direct and write more and act less while continuing to “ fight the good fight” through her humanitarian work.
She is particularly interested in the balm of dignity given to victims of war. She describes a refugee asking her for soap. “ The woman explained to me how it hurt her not to be clean. That she wasn’t the woman I saw. She was so ashamed. And it is so painful for refugees not to be able to give their children what they ask for – I cannot imagine having to deny my children.”
Today, Jolie will be among political leaders and ordinary women who have survived unspeakable horrors. She will be equally at ease with government statistics and personal anecdotes. The wild, tattooed Hollywood child turned global humanitarian crosses all boundaries. She is a one-woman soft power solution and William Hague’s chief weapon in executing change.
Evening Standard
Sarah Sands
Journalists raped for reporting on conflicts: We were assaulted to shut us up. But we’ll never stop speaking out
A group of journalists who suffered sexual attack as they reported on conflicts have vowed never to be intimidated into giving up their jobs.
The international reporters are among the delegates in London for this week’s global summit to end sexual violence in war. They have flown to London to tell their stories in an effort to stop the atrocities happening to other women.
Jineth Bedoya Lima was kidnapped by paramilitaries in Colombia in 2000 and tortured and raped for reporting on their activities in the country’s civil war.
She said: “It is a responsibility on my part to tell my story. I never for a single second questioned my resolve to be a journalist. For me it was always very clear the attack was meant to be a way of warning — not only for me but for the whole press. It was a message for us to stop dealing with these subjects.”
Ms Bedoya Lima was kidnapped at gunpoint inside a jail after she had secured an interview with a paramilitary leader who was locked up there. After her ordeal, she was dumped naked on a roadside.
Within two weeks she was back at work and did not mention her rape. But after nine years she decided to speak publicly about it. She said: “I believe the summit is an answer that we [abused women] have been expecting for so many years.”
Amanda Lindhout was abducted while working as a journalist in Somalia in 2008. She was held for more than a year and subjected to serious sexual violence.
Since her release, Ms Lindhout, originally from Canada, set up a non-profit organisation working with rape survivors in Somalia. She sees it as her role to speak out for other survivors. She said: “I was held for 460 days in captivity by 15 teenage boys who had grown up in a war-torn environment.
“I suffered many different things, but the most difficult violence for me to process has been the sexual violence. I speak in an effort to empower other women who have been abused. A lot of women are shamed into not saying anything, but there is real power in using our voices.”
Speaking about her ordeal, she said: “I was the only female in the group. They were passionately opposed to everything I represented to them. I believe they had the goal of wanting to break me so I wouldn’t be a woman who would go forth into the world and continue to be a journalist and speak about it.”
Hania Moheeb is a television journalist in Egypt and survived a brutal sexual assault by a mob in Cairo’s Tahrir Square last year. The experience catapulted her into becoming an activist. She said: “I heard that 19 other women were exposed to the brutal act on the same night in the same place as me. I thought that, having the ability to stand in front of the camera and talk to the media, it must have been my destiny to speak about this issue for all the others.”
Asked if she ever thought about giving up her job, she said: “Not for one second. The second I was in the ambulance I made up my mind I would be back on my feet and would get back at these people who humiliated me in that way.”
Jody Williams, an American who won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work to ban landmines, was working as an activist in El Salvador when she was raped by a member of a death squad who came to her hotel room.
The attack happened in the late Nineties but the first time she spoke about it was in 2006.
She said: “I don’t know how to describe it, it was like evil was in the room. I know it was an effort by the Right-wing military people to frighten me and my organisation. But it honestly didn’t cross my mind that I would leave.
“I recognise it was a political tool and I know I didn’t do anything wrong. He was the cretin, not me.”
All the women spoke out to support the International Campaign to Stop Rape and Gender Violence in Conflict.
Anna Davis
Girl suffered six years of abuse after being taken from school
Angela Atimwas only 14 when she was kidnapped at gunpoint by Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army.
The once-happy schoolgirl from north Uganda was captured along with 138 other pupils and marched out of her school one night in 1996.
It was the start of a six-year nightmare, during which she was assigned to a commander under the LRA’s “forced wife system” and subjected to daily abuse including constant rape.
Today she is in London to plead with governments from across the world to bring the perpetrators of such abhorrent crimes to account.
Angela said: “When they came we hid under our beds but they smashed the windows to our dorm and took us away. After walking for miles we were lined up and inspected.”
Angela was one of 30 girls spirited away into south Sudan. She escaped in 2002. She was given counselling by World Vision and now campaigns for justice. She said: “To end sexual violence in conflict we must hold the perpetrators accountable. I will tell the summit that enough is enough and ask it to act.”
World Vision is working to highlight the plight of rape survivors including children born of rape during conflict.
Angela said when she returned home “people did not trust us”, adding: “They called us rebel children. Now the same is happening to our children born of rape. They too are being stigmatised. We want the pain to end with my generation but sadly it has not.”
Anna Davis
End War Rape 2014
London Global Summit
"We want to shift the stigma from survivors onto the perpetrators of these crimes, so that they, not the innocent victims, bear the stigma.
We want to encourage men to speak out - to agree with us that it is only a weak or inadequate man who abuses women. It is not a sign of strength, it is the ultimate weakness and shame."
William Hague, who along with Angelina Jolie has been working on this issue for two years.
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Writer, Speaker and Enlightener, Amera Ziganii Rao, is now putting together a comprehensive and unique programme of Alchemy & Liberation & Humanity™. A programme of learning that is specifically about one particular kind of woman. And one particular kind of man. The Sacred Whore High Priestess™ and the Sacred Whore High Priest™, and the true society that they come from and the one they, in particular, she can and has to return to and that anyone can join her and him in. This is about Paradise on Earth.
This is about The Sacred Whore High Priestess™ and the Sacred Whore High Priest™, and the Alchemy and Liberation and Humanity that is for all as a result of their healing and in particular, hers. This is about the kind of woman who is at the bottom of the pile in a Patriarchal Toilet Tribe from Hell Society™, the norm, the conventional world and the world of the Tribe. This is about the kind of man who is next in line from the bottom. The sensitive man and the female chattel. The High Priestess and High Priest of a profane society, that has long forgotten who they are.
This is about being at the bottom of the pile, for the forgotten and strangled shamans, and for her, the story of escape. Abused by her family, her friends, her men, her whole society, by the very nature of who she is and who they are and what has happened on this Earth. It is about women of love, of Spirit and of sex. It is about men of love, of Spirit and of sex. It is about the Cinderellas of this world. It is about the The Sacred Whore High Priestess™. Who she is and how, loving her is the secret to Paradise on Earth and how we have been living a lie for 8000+ years. A lie of male (non High Priest) religion with a male ‘God’ and with Patriarchs and Patriarchal types and Matriarchs and Matriarchal types ruling over us and making our lives hell, all in the name of family, the tribe and the way things are and should remain. Hate, fascism and profanity. A sick society that vilifies, more than anyone else, the The Sacred Whore High Priestess™, just because it was told to. A sick society that calls her Eve. A sick society that has forgotten who we all are, let alone the The Sacred Whore High Priestess™ and the Sacred Whore High Priest™. This is about us remembering and knowing who WE are.
This is a programme of healing for the The Sacred Whore High Priestess™, and the Sacred Whore High Priest™, to take them and particularly, her, from monstrous levels of low self esteem and lack of self knowledge, back to herself and it is a programme for all those who truly want to love her, and indeed, him. This is a programme for the greatest carers on Earth, who are vilified, destroyed, ridiculed, ignored, abused, used, misused and hated for being everything that those who would steal from us are not. This is a programme to turn Cinderellas into The Sacred Whore High Priestesses and for anyone who wants to love her or live by the values of the The Sacred Whore High Priestess Society™. And this is a programme to turn sensitive men into Sacred Whore High Priests™ and for anyone who wants to love him and live by the values of the The Sacred Whore High Priestess™ and High Priest Society. Love, humanity, Spirit and sex. This is a programme to reverse 8000+ years of witch burning, women hating and healer ridicule. This is about the The Sacred Whore High Priestess™ and all those who would love her and live by her values.
This is about the chance for Paradise on Earth. This is a programme for the most beautiful, kind hearted, wounded women and men on this planet. A programme of how to implement a system of how to beat life, how to survive life and how to resurrect from the grief that is a true life. Alchemy and Liberation and Humanity of the lower mind into the higher mind, the soul and the inner heart and therefore one's true, confident, ‘happy’, successful, creative, sexual, sensual, individual, intelligent, emotionally healed, capable of loving and being loved self. How to turn grief into creation and survive and thrive, despite all the shit, all the pain and all the hurt. How to live in a world of madness, hollowness and cruelty and how to be a winner. How to stand up for oneself and to take back the power that has been stolen from anyone with heart, Spirit and sex. The art and science of Alchemy.
This is a programme, based on my scholarly and non scholarly work over 15 years (so far), if not for my whole life, and my extensive and intense, visceral experiences of self transformation from resignation, cynicism and despair to a state of relative bliss, and above all, the right to be. The programme and the courses and my speaking and indeed my forthcoming book, will cover the method of change. The psychological, sociological, spiritual, cultural, political, emotional and physical and even anthropological methods of change. Why we are here. Who the Sacred Whore High Priestess™ is and why she is here. And who the Sacred Whore High Priest™ is. Why we are here. Who we are and what we are and why we are. The beauty and glory of the truth. The meaning of life, no less. This will be on offer in the future.
My first book of consciousness, my first book of the spiritual politics of humanity, of authentic power and of self love and strength. A comprehensive series of online courses, live events and audio and visual material. Books, live events, CDs and DVDs. And one on one personal empowerment consultations. The Amera Ziganii Rao Method of Change™. The right to be and the way to have the right to be. And indeed, how to maintain the will to live without love. How to BE unconditional, self sufficient, self caring, self love. The right to be and the will to be and the unparalleled success that comes with that. The Lost Knowledge™. HOW to live. And how to heal others, the profane and the sick and the soulless. The others. My Business and that of any Sacred Whore High Priestess™ and Sacred Whore High Priest™, is Human Rights, The Right to a Sexual Society, Self Actualisation and Freedom.
My Business is To Overthrow Fascism, in the Home and in the Country. My business is also mastering destiny. Overthrowing the ultimate 'fascism'. Our journey on Earth and The Return To The Source. Our healing, our ascension and our redemption. Fate. The daily crucifixions of a true life, the challenges and the fury of being healers and people of love on a planet like Earth.
Submitting to the journey to liberate and evolve oneself, through following one's heart, however much heartbreak and devastation it leads to on the long long long journey to freedom and then the longer journey to happiness. 'Long Road to Freedom', as Nelson Mandela says. My business is always taking risks, never giving up and making the endless sacrifices it takes to become whole. Enlightenment, Nirvana and then Parinirvana and beyond. My business is pain. My business is bliss.
My business is seeing the truly glory of Spirit on Earth. The Sacred Whore High Priestess Society™ and all that it is. Spirit, humanity, sex and love again at last. And the end of our legacy as either servants or witches or unpaid carers or indeed, ignored mistresses, other women, other men even, and the weirdos that are at the bottom of society. This is our world and it is time to take it back and I can show you how. And that makes my life, truly, worth living.
I want you to feel the way I do. Alive, with the right to be and the belligerence to exist in this profane and male ‘God’ led world of male supremacy, female supremacy, domestic, casual fascism, tribe rules from hell, with beautiful and kind, love intelligence laden, female and male Cinderella warriors at the bottom, caring for everyone else and getting nothing but hatred, ridicule and isolation for it. The meek are already inheriting the Earth and I can show you how.
Amera Ziganii Rao © 2012
I am THE High Priestess Monarch of the ancient past and I forgive you for becoming enslaved and taken over by the machines of the alien reptile force that invaded and took over Earth 8000 years ago. They taught you to hate me and my kind and you believed them. They told you I and my kind were dictators and that you were slaves, when all we had done was love you, honour you as companions and above all, we had let you just live.
We were the holy communers, the ones who gave birth to human beings, the leaders of society, the creators of society, the vehicles of Divinity on Earth and the channels of wisdom. The ones who looked after everything and the ones who built everything and ran everything, because we could. And because we loved it. We are and were the force of creation. And you loved us and you lived.
But they told you that you ‘deserved’ power too and that we were the ones standing in your way. And you believed them. The oldest ‘divide and rule’ strategy of hate in history and it worked. They used it and you bought it, hook, line and sinker. You had to give up sex, love, magic and your own spiritual gifts and you burnt, destroyed and violated me for 8000 years.
The world calls that male supremacy. And indeed, family supremacy, Matriarchal supremacy and supremacy of the material world and all who believe in it. Men and women like you. When all that you are are slaves to a reptile force to generate hate energy for them to live and thrive and vampire the human race. The puppets of a hate force, that chose to destroy women and men like me, for hate to grow, so they could live. You bought it and it worked. The greatest fraud in the history of the world.
I am THE High Priestess Monarch of the ancient past and I forgive you for becoming enslaved and taken over by the machines of the alien reptile force that invaded and took over Earth 8000 years ago. They taught you to hate me and my kind and you believed them. They taught you that my mind was evil. My mind, my sex, my body and my ways of life.
The humanity, the glory of sexuality and the glory of creation and creativity and the glory of Divinity in each and every one of us. Our souls. They taught you that human beings are separate from Divinity, that sex was wrong and that women who have minds of their own are uppity slaves. They vilified us but much much worse than that, they destroyed your relationship with all that is unseen, all that we honour and love.
They taught you to hate what is really God. By teaching you to hate us, you hated all that is good in yourselves. They taught you to hate the light. They taught you to kill us. The daughters of The Universe. The High Priestesses of God. The Spiritual Mothers. The Sacred Whore High Priestess Avatars of The Universe™. The Sacred Army of Love on Earth.
The Shamans, the Mystics and the Communers. The Hierophants.
They called me Eve and blamed me for the downfall of the human race and created the awesome profanity that is religion. Of men, by men and from men. Of reptiles, by reptiles and from reptiles. Christianity, Islam and Judaism and every other philosophy around the world was poisoned. There are no female spiritual leaders left. It is all profanity. They chose you to represent them because they wanted to divide us and they did. They told you to hate me. And you believed them. Now I am back and I forgive you.
I forgive you because I can. Because I came here to save your soul. And because I finally know who I am. I am THE High Priestess Monarch of the ancient past. I came here to return your soul to The Source. God, The Mother, The Universe. To return you to what is really God. Because I love you. And because She loves you and your kind, whatever you have done.
Whatever you have done to me and whatever you have done to Her. And most of all, whatever you have done to yourself. We forgive you. This is your redemption. Your freedom and your ascension. We are here to save your soul.
Amera Ziganii Rao © 2012
You bought the Sacred Whore like a piece of meat and you called that a wife. Your trophy wives. Your dancing girls. Your chattel and serving girls. Your piece of beauty. You bought us like you would cattle. Then you called it wives. Now you call it prostitution. The High Priestesses of the real God. You bought us to buy God, The Mother, The Universe and you caged us, separated us from our Divine gifts and skills in the Temple and drove us mad and then lost interest in us, because we had no gifts left, no excitement, no hunter in ourselves and no hope or joy left. Then you just called us mad and discarded us. You called us evil and you call love obedience, even though it had already killed us. You moved into our Temples and you played with the divination tools and thought you communed. The destruction of Atlantis was your gift.
You stole us from God, The Mother, The Universe and you tried to usurp us. You vilified us, enslaved us and you still envy us today. You call it intuition. You might want to think about this when you hate us out of your jealousy. The mystic gene means physical tortuous pain and taking on the empathy of the human race. All their pains, evils and dark thoughts. We see and feel everything. We make crucial sacrifices to be near Spirit and the unseen and we go without for years. To be shaman is not glamour. I make it glamour. To be shaman is a specific Samurai existence, ascetic and harsh. We commune to be guides. And you take that and you shame yourselves because you just want the meat. You didn’t just want the meat. You wanted our beauty of spirit, our personalities and our love and kindness. And you destroyed them, because you caged us and called us wife.
Amera Ziganii Rao © 2012
The High Priestess Sacred Whores, the High Priests and the true protectors. Those who do not have the gift like either the High Priests or especially like the highest of all, the High Priestess Sacred Whores but who honour, protect and facilitate them to the world. Who honour the Shaman Sacred Whores of this world most of all, and who know who they are and who they are not. Who know the difference, who do not envy and who protect and love the representatives of Spirit, GOD, THE MOTHER, THE UNIVERSE, on Earth. Who honour their wisdom and who honour the latent Shaman in themselves too and who honour the communing ability of the High Priestess Sacred Whores. The non violators. Our only friends. The New Society exists. It is called Enlightenment. It is called Love. It is The Holy Grail.
Amera Ziganii Rao © 2012
The master race. It's all a lie. You are brought up to be a despot king and it is only your sister who ever tells you that you have become a pratt. The master race is all a lie. There are no kings in an equal world. Your father was misinformed. What he brought you up to be was a killer. Pure and simple. A misogynist. A modern misogynist. A polite killer.
Amera Ziganii Rao © 2011
I enter the magical hours of pure feeling, pure thought, pure imagination and I think and I write and I 'mysticise' the Universe. I escape at will, the truth of my humanless, Samurai solitude, and I pursue the truth of love in myself and in everyone else. I am philosopher. I am shaman. I am alone. I frontier the Soul to be spirit on Earth.
Amera Ziganii Rao © 2011
To trust your soul is to have courage. The courage to ‘get out of the way’. It takes a commitment to courage, a changing of the very matter of one’s access to courage, one’s relationship with courage and becoming the total renegade of an individual you have to, to become soul. It is that rare. ‘Getting out of the way’ takes a commitment to love and loving and being of love, no matter what. And frankly, that means redefining what love is, EVERY STEP OF THE WAY. Finding out what love really is and getting rid of the bullshit we think it is. Love. Soul. Power. It takes courage to be soul. Courage, courage and courage. The rest is easy. Soul is soul. Finally it is an absolute relief to get out of the way. The life of soul may be hair raising, treacherous and mind numbingly arduous. But it is a life of no regrets. Courage. The key to soul. Just give it a go. Wear that hat, say what’s on your mind, dream your dreams again, dream your dreams at all and just smile through the hate. Including one’s doubt. Courage. ‘Kill’ when you have to, especially yourself, and smile the rest of the time and cry when you need to. Always cry. Earth is a battlefield and crying is the way to win. Soul is a way of life. The natural way. Courage is ‘all’ it takes. We learnt the rules, only so we could break them. The rest is the art of life. Creation. Creating oneself again and again and again. Soul. The only way of life worth anything. Otherwise, we are just waiting to die. We don’t need to. We can live. It’s called soul.
Amera Ziganii Rao © 2013
Self esteem. True, authentic, self knowing, self esteem. The one that includes the sex, the primal, the primitive, the animal, the real. The one that includes humanity and a state of unconditional love. Non needing, non greedy, non controlling, non afraid, non negative and non inhumane and non angry. Self esteem. What ego really is, in its true essence. The physical vehicle of self esteem. The physical vehicle of action, reaction, mastery, ‘misstery’, love and war, tenderness and sexuality. Humanity and human. The beautiful, crafted, styled, educated, aware, sincere, active, visceral, sexual, super sexual, heart led, sensitive, humane, courageous and ethical, hopeful ego. The instinct. The intuition. The magic. The primal. The whole. The whole Soul.
Amera Ziganii Rao © 2013
I can feel your sexuality. I love it. My beautiful, filthy, dominating, obsessed, possessed, hedonistic, nihilistic, Sacred beast of a man. Because those of us who are the most sexual, what do we think, in the truth context of the The Sacred Whore High Priestess™, and The Sacred Whore High Priestess (Priest) Society™, that means? We are the most spiritual. The most sexual are in fact the most spiritual. Spirituality being the communing between Mortal and The High Priestess (Priest) to reach ecstasy. Orgasm. Bliss. The most active, dirty minded, passionate, non reproductive, hedonistic, glorious, worthwhile, point of life, meditation or prayer or communing on Earth. THE way to reach God, The Mother, The Universe™. THE way to happiness. Humanity. Joy. Hope. Love. Sex. Sex. Our sex. Sex.
Amera Ziganii Rao © 2011
Love takes courage. Love takes being ready. Love takes love.
Amera Ziganii Rao © 2011
Amera Ziganii Rao is a former hard news journalist who is now turning professional with her art forms and indeed, her healing forms, after a long journey of inner searching, self teaching and exploring many layers and areas of both craft and wisdom. She is now working on her first book of philosophy and esoteric thought, and social, cultural and spiritual commentary. She is also showing her first photography collections. And last but most definitely not least, she is building a business to share her Sacred Whore High Priestess Society consciousness and empowering explorations to reach as many people as possible across the world. She is in her forties and lives in London.
Amera Ziganii Rao © 2011
In the meantime, please enjoy this website. I have included many of the subjects I am covering, areas of experience and insight that I will be exploring to the fullest in my book, the courses and all the other work that is to come as a dramatist, novelist and essayist. I also of course, include many of the wise people on this planet, who have come long before me; authors, screen dramatists, playwrights, film makers, artists, and other enlighteners and grand carriers of the wisdom I have found the most helpful on my journey, to find peace and become enlightened. The seemingly impossible journey, in the face of oneself and one’s circumstances. People who have contributed massively to my healing on this mad journey called life, in this insane existence called The Universe. People who have helped to make me as good a carrier of wisdom as I in turn, can be. Thank you.
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