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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"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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"Love is not only an energizing force, but an individualizing force. It dissolves separation and yet creates individuality."
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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 universe is a dance of energy, a uni-verse, a single song of ever-changing rhythms and harmonies."
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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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"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 secret of immortality lies in seeing death as an integral part of the cycle of life. Nothing is ever lost from the universe. Rebirth can be seen in life itself, where every ending brings a new beginning."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Life and the world are not separate from Godhead; they are immanent divinity."
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"Everything is connected to everything else." Barry Commoner, 'The Closing Circle'
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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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"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 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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"We are each a part of the interpenetrating, interconnecting reality that is All."
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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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"All things are interdependent and interrelated and therefore mutually responsible. An act that harms anyone harms us all."
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"The center of the circle is the point of transformation. It corresponds to pure essence, to timelessness, to transparent light."
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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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"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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"She [Goddess] is the ship, on which we sail the waters of the deep self, exploring the uncharted seas within. She is the door, through which we pass into the future. She is the cauldron, in which we who have been wrenched apart simmer until we again become whole."
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"Love is the glue that holds the world together."
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"The Goddess is manifest in the physical world, and the more we understand its workings, the better we know Her."
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