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OP "...I could probably start a forum on it."

Definitely. 

@ghdprentice 

Where would you start the forum and what would you call it? IMHO, modern attitudes toward women do not go deep enough. It's as if we're color blind trying to talk about color. Our entire thinking process, the development of our logic, science, and philosopy are all involved, again IMHO. 

The book @mahgister recommended to me talks about societal perspectives. The lens through which we see things. He says that the reason Cortez was able to conquer Montezuma was because of their mindsets. The Aztecs thought as one and that was conducive to magic and spells. When they tried magic and spells on the Spaniards, who had learned about individual thought, they did not work. He also talks about how art developed perspective during the Renaissance. People did not see perspective prior to that. And so their conception of space was entirely different than ours. Today, we are beginning to see space and time as connected.

We have almost totally suppressed what I call the Feminine Creative Spirit, and it would take a long time to explain why I call it that. Partly it has to do with modern physics. Would you want to go that deeply? And if so, how would that be reflected in what you call the forum?

@audio-b-dog 

Have you heard "Season of Lights",  the live L. Nyro album?

As it happens, it features the same Jazz bassist as Astral Weeks- Richard Davis.

L. Nyro is too "breathy" for me and this makes her hard to understand.  As nice as her voice is, I don't want to have to "strain" to understand the words.

She sounds sort of like a Joni Mitchell but without the lower harmonics and inflection.

@stuartk 

"Season of Lights" will probably go to the top of my long list. Although I did hear her live, but that was late in her life. And many years ago in my life. Madonna and Warren Beaty were together and they were there with Sandra Bernhard. Probably in the mid- late-eighties.