Our civilization is doomed because we have abused the child within us and outside of us. Our civilization has an epidemic of child abuse, because we have killed the child in ourselves and kill it literally around us. We've killed the sacred child, we've killed the divine child, and unless we restore to ourselves and to everyone else this opportunity of divine childhood, which can only be done by embracing the sacred feminine and by having a relationship with the Divine Mother, and by becoming a mother to our own inner divine child through sacred processes and discipline, we will die out.
— Andrew Harvey, The Return of the Mother