Reflections on Chapter One of The Great Cosmic Mother
for Self-Guided Abortion
Before there were gods, there was the body.
Before there were hierarchies, there was rhythm.
And before there was man, there was woman.
In The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth, Monica Sjöö and Barbara Mor begin with a radical premise: that life itself began female. That the first consciousness, the first reproduction, the first act of creation — came from the womb.
This isn’t a metaphor. It’s biology, myth, and cosmology all at once.
And it changes everything we think we know about origin, power, and the meaning of choice.
The First Sex: The Original Creatrix
Chapter One opens with a reminder that life emerged from self-replicating female organisms — no male involvement required. Creation was an act of inner intelligence, not domination or division.
“The female principle is primary. The male is a late biological mutation.”
— The Great Cosmic Mother, Ch. 1
In the earliest myths, the universe wasn’t born from war or command — it was born from flow. From water, blood, milk, magma, from the fertile chaos of a self-creating Mother.
She wasn’t a goddess of fertility. She was fertility itself — matter alive with consciousness.
The “First Sex” wasn’t a political category; it was a cosmic one. To be female meant to be life’s source and cycle. Birth, death, decay, rebirth — all one motion.
The Great Forgetting
The authors trace how patriarchal culture later split creation in two: mind from matter, heaven from earth, man from woman.
Once the feminine was dethroned, birth became property. The womb — once honored as the center of the universe — became a tool to be managed, feared, legislated, or idealized.
This is the original colonization: the seizure of life’s creative principle from within the body.
You can see it echo today in abortion debates, in how we talk about “control,” “ownership,” and “rights.”
Even the most progressive language often still frames the body as something to defend, rather than something to be.
But if the first sex was the first sacred, then abortion — the conscious decision to open or close the gate of life — is not an act of defiance against creation. It is participation in it.
Abortion as Remembering
To self-guide an abortion is to remember this lineage.
It is to act from the same ancient knowing the first female organisms did: to discern what to sustain and what to release.
Abortion is not anti-life. It is part of life.
A return to the cycle the Great Mother taught long before religion or law — that creation and destruction are sisters, not enemies.
When you take misoprostol, when you bleed, when you feel your body contract and release, you are not outside nature. You are inside her. You are part of her living intelligence — the same intelligence that built oceans, mountains, and cells.
> “The female is the life of the species — its beginning and its end.”
— The Great Cosmic Mother, Ch. 1
This is why abortion can never be reduced to politics. It’s cosmology in motion.
The Myth Rewrites Itself
We were taught that the female was created second.
That Eve came from Adam’s rib, that woman was derivative.
Sjöö and Mor say: No. That story is the Machine’s rewrite.
The truth is older — and bloodier, and more beautiful.
In the beginning, we were all female.
Not in gender, but in essence: capable of generating life from within.
And when we honor abortion as part of that original rhythm, we stop seeing it as failure or loss — and begin to see it as continuation. As the body’s creative autonomy expresses itself exactly as it was designed to.
Why It Matters Now
Reading The Great Cosmic Mother in 2025 feels like reading prophecy.
We live in a world that still fears the feminine: the cyclical, the emotional, the uncontrollable.
But people are remembering — through self-managed abortion, through doula work, through community storytelling — that we are the descendants of the first creators.
Every abortion, every menstrual cycle, every miscarriage or birth — all of it sits inside this cosmic lineage of becoming.
The Machine wants to turn it into data.
The Mother whispers: This is initiation.
Return to the Lineage
Self-Guided Abortion isn’t just about access or safety — it’s about meaning.
It’s about restoring the spiritual architecture beneath the practical act.
When you make this choice, you are not breaking away from life — you are embodying its full intelligence.
You are writing yourself back into the oldest story on Earth.
> In the beginning, we were all female.
And we still are — in the sense that we still hold the power to create and uncreate, to listen and to choose.