“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 and autonomous creatrix of the world . . . and, unlike the aloof and self-righteous patriarchal… — Monica Sjöö Copy Share Image
“Ancient moon priestesses were called virgins. ‘Virgin’ meant not married, not belong to a man - a woman who was ‘one-in-herself’. The very word derives from a Latin root meaning strength, force, skill; and was later applied to men: virle.… — Monica Sjoo 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 with the snake in her belly—we can see the profound power as well as universality of this cosmological symbol, its range of endurance in the human mind. And we begin to see why the upstart patriarchal… — Monica Sjöö Copy Share
“The envisaged self is the next stage in human evolution, and it will be born explicitly from the refusion of experienced spirit and experienced flesh—not as a “means” toward any externally established “end,” but as a consciously perceived process of evolution unfolding itself. The primary urge of patriarchy has been to control and repress life toward some profitable end, rather… — Monica Sjöö Copy Share
“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 be the principle of organization and intelligence in the universe. This ordering principle could be discerned by rational thought and investigation, but it was not a personal deity who could be petitioned by humans. Deists considered… — Monica Sjöö Copy Share
“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
