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3. Likewise, in another e-magazine entitled Awakened Woman, Dr. Mari P. Ziolkowski discusses her own encounters with the power of Kali, which she describes in her Dec. 2, 2004 piece entitled: "The Goddess behind the Demon:An adventure with Kali"
“Was this then another reason for my movement out of the church and towards feminist spirituality? A search for a positive context for this forceful energy? Did I meet Kali in response to this search?

It is said that rage must be released before the repressed power of women can turn into creativity. Is this the process that was set in motion? As I owned this fierce energy, would I access a new source of power? Would I walk differently in the world? What would shift as this inner female warrior energy was recognized, acknowledged, given a purpose?
Another unexpected part of the journey soon made itself known. In a continuation of work started in the dreamtime, in the next holotropic session I found myself grieving and raging for the masculine that was not present for me growing up -- the masculine church that could not acknowledge me as a woman -- and the culture that had little place for my power. And this time I was met.”

http://www.awakenedwoman.com/mari_kali.htm