Belong Earth Quotes by Monica Sjöö

“When we see this worldwide occurrence of the Goddess and her Serpent, and then recall the ancient African Black Goddess, the Black Witch, imaged…

— Monica Sjöö

“The envisaged self is the next stage in human evolution, and it will be born explicitly from the refusion of experienced spirit and experienced…

— Monica Sjöö

“Patriarchal religions keep this fusion from happening, imagination dies, and is replaced by mechanical-linear thought patterns, i.e., indoctrination.”

— Monica Sjöö

“The “Founding Fathers” were not Christian. They were Deists. Deism was an eighteenth-century rationalist philosophy, emerging from the European Enlightenment. Deists understood “God” to…

— Monica Sjöö

“We need a new, global spirituality—an organic spirituality that belongs innately to all of us, as the children of earth. A genuine spirituality that…

— Monica Sjöö

“Paganism has no fixed creeds or dogmas, no self-proclaimed gurus or prophets, no holy books or saviours. Earth Herself is our teacher. Pagans, like…

— Monica Sjoo

“The source of life (female) is redefined and now hated as the enemy of male life. What was once woman’s power is now to…

— Monica Sjöö

“But, when the cult of the male god was established, there must have been difficulty in explaining how he could be the giver of…

— Monica Sjöö

“Our consciousness is a property of our biological being. At the deepest levels of biological and of physical being, all consciousness in the universe…

— Monica Sjöö

“What these modern researchers are now “discovering” is something ancient women always knew. The warring dualisms of “matter vs. spirit,” the hostile antagonisms of…

— Monica Sjöö

“This perpetual success of war and failure of peace is then said to be “the human condition”—but it is only the condition of humans…

— Monica Sjöö

“God is the universe. We are all now living inside the body of God. There is nowhere to go to get there, we are…

— Monica Sjöö

“In the world’s oldest creation myths, the female god creates the world out of her own body. The Great Mother everywhere was the active…

— Monica Sjöö

“Witches cast spells, not to do evil, but to promote changes of consciousness. Witches cast spells as acts of redefinition. To respell the world…

— Monica Sjöö

“interchangeably. There are numerous biblical texts expressing Yahweh’s hatred and condemnation of all people who could be generically defined as witches: “diviners,” “pythons,” “conjurers,”…

— Monica Sjöö