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 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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"Justice is an inner sense that each act brings about consequences that must be faced responsibly."
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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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"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 manifest in the physical world, and the more we understand its workings, the better we know Her."
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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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"We connect with Her [Goddess] through the moon, the stars, the ocean, the earth, through trees, animals, through other human beings, through ourselves. She is here. She is within us all. She is the full circle."
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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 each a part of the interpenetrating, interconnecting reality that is All."
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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 center of the circle is the point of transformation. It corresponds to pure essence, to timelessness, to transparent light."
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"Love is the glue that holds the world together."
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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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"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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"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 Goddess is continually revealing Herself."
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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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"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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"I am Goddess. You are God, Goddess. All that lives and breathes, loves, sings in the unending harmony of being is divine."
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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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"All things are interdependent and interrelated and therefore mutually responsible. An act that harms anyone harms us all."
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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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"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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"Life and the world are not separate from Godhead; they are immanent divinity."
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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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