“To the ancients, the cosmic serpent—the spirit of earth and water—was everywhere known as the energy source of life: of healing and oracular powers, fertility and maternal blessing. This energy-spirit, with emerging patriarchy, was redefined as the dangerous enemy, to… — Monica Sjöö Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Patriarchal religions keep this fusion from happening, imagination dies, and is replaced by mechanical-linear thought patterns, i.e., indoctrination.” — Monica Sjöö Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
