'Bombshell'
"Naomi Wolf's utterances on everything, from childbirth to Al Gore's demeanour, have a disproportionate effect on public opinion. This latest confessional, a self-acknowledged 'bombshell,' will make a generation of feminists cringe. ... Wolf's very soul is about to become a theological battleground, and she knows it.
"'I am not going to be in the closet about this any more. I'm on a spiritual path, I answer to a higher authority,' she says. ...
"'Yeah, God. I believe absolutely that every single one of us is here with a spiritual mission. We come in knowing it and then we forget. ...
"But when one of the foremost feminists in the world, who is Jewish to boot, says she has met Jesus, the ultimate figure of Christianity and the redeemer of lost souls, it's more than a little disconcerting.
"'I was completely dumbfounded but I actually had this vision ... of Jesus, and I'm sure it was Jesus. ...
"'On a mystical level, it was complete joy and happiness and there were tears running down my face. On a conscious level, when I came out of it I was absolutely horrified because I'm Jewish. This was not the thing I'm supposed to have confront me.'?"
-- Torcuil Crichton, writing on "Revered as a feminist icon ...," Jan. 22 in the Sunday Herald of Scotland
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