"Underlying reality there is a world of archetypes, and reproductions of these make up the real things in the material world. The world of archetypes is heaven, the world of reproductions is the earth: there energy, here matter; there the Creative, here the Receptive. But it is the same tao [way] that is active both in the Creative and in the Receptive."
I Ching or The Book of Changes - Richard Wilhelm, translator
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THE SPIRAL DANCE, A REBIRTH OF THE ANCIENT RELIGION OF THE GREAT GODDESS
Starhawk (Miriam Simos)
Shows how Goddess religion can become the means of expanding awareness, tapping creativity, and encouraging community.
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"Love is not only an energizing force, but an individualizing force. It dissolves separation and yet creates individuality."
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"Nature knows best….It is through study and observation of nature, of the visible, physical reality, that we can learn to understand the workings of the underlying reality."
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"The circle is ever open, ever unbroken. May the Goddess awaken in each of our hearts."
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"We are already one with the Goddess – She has been with us from the beginning. So fulfillment becomes…a matter of self-awareness."
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"The world of separate things is the reflection of the One; the One is the reflection of the myriad separate things of the world."
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"All began in love; all seeks to return to love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries."
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"Awareness of energy is awareness of the great dance of the universe. Seemingly intangible, it underlies all that we can touch….Awareness of your own energy is the awareness that flesh and spirit are one, that thou art Goddess, eternally linked, connected, at one with the moving spirit of All."
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"Everything is connected to everything else." Barry Commoner, 'The Closing Circle'
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"Wake up! You are it. You are a part of the circle of the Wise. There is no mystery that has not already been revealed to you. There is no power you do not already have. You share in all the love that is."
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"The All-That-Is-One is not now and never has been separate from this existing physical world. She is here, now, IS each of us in the eternal changing present; is no one but you, is nowhere but where you are – and yet is everyone."
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"The Goddess says, 'If that which you seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find it without. For I have been with you from the beginning.'"
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"The Goddess is not separate from the world – She IS the world, and all things in it: moon, sun, earth, star, stone, seed, flowing river, wind, wave, leaf and branch, bud and blossom, fang and claw, woman and man."
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"The Goddess has infinite aspects and thousands of names – She is the reality behind many metaphors. She IS reality, the manifest deity, omnipresent in all of life, in each of us."
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"The universe is a fluid, ever-changing energy pattern, not a collection of fixed and separate things. What affects one thing affects, in some way, all things: All is interwoven into the continuous fabric of being."
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"Justice is an inner sense that each act brings about consequences that must be faced responsibly."
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"We are continually renewed and reborn whenever we drink fully and fearlessly from the cup of the wine of life."
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"The Goddess is manifest in the food we eat, the people we love, the work we do, the homes in which we live."
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"The myths and stories that have come down to us are not dogma to be taken literally….they are poetry, not theology – meant, in Joseph Campbell's words, 'to touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.'"
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"Love is the glue that holds the world together."
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"God is within and without. Like the Goddess, He in invoked in many ways: singing, chanting, drumming, dancing, a whispered poem, a wild shout. However we call Him, He awakens within us."
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"Images bridge the gap between the verbal and non-verbal modes of awareness; they allow the two sides of the brain to communicate, arousing the emotions as well as the intellect."
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"We are fish caught in a magic net – imagenetic – because our genes remember, our cells remember, the source, the origin, the beginning – imagenesis – creation out of image – creation of the image – from the image all is born – all is magic – imagnosis – this, through what we imagine, we know."
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"Oneness is attained not through losing the self, but through realizing it fully. Honor the Goddess in yourself, celebrate your self, and you will see that Self is everywhere."
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"Life and the world are not separate from Godhead; they are immanent divinity."
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"The universe is a dance of energy, a uni-verse, a single song of ever-changing rhythms and harmonies."
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