“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… — Monica Sjöö Copy Share Image
“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
“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
“Patriarchal religions keep this fusion from happening, imagination dies, and is replaced by mechanical-linear thought patterns, i.e., indoctrination.” — Monica Sjöö Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
