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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"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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"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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"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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"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 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 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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"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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"The circle is ever open, ever unbroken. May the Goddess awaken in each of our hearts."
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"The laws of ecology are the laws of energy. Everything is interconnected; every action, every movement of forces, changes the universe."
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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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"We are continually renewed and reborn whenever we drink fully and fearlessly from the cup of the wine of life."
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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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"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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"Everything is connected to everything else." Barry Commoner, 'The Closing Circle'
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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 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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"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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"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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"Life and the world are not separate from Godhead; they are immanent divinity."
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"We are each a part of the interpenetrating, interconnecting reality that is All."
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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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"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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