Monica Sjöö

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

— Monica Sjöö

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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…

— Monica Sjöö

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

— Monica Sjöö

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

— Monica Sjöö

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

— 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…

— Monica Sjöö

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

— 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…

— Monica Sjöö

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

— 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,”…

— Monica Sjöö

“The current “thrust” of materialism is to escape the earth’s orbit, to flee the knowledge and the problems of our messy, bloody,…

— Monica Sjöö

“We are the imagining animals. We are the ones who participate in the earth’s evolutionary process of imagination. For what is every…

— Monica Sjöö

“The wholly desacralized cosmos is a recent discovery in the history of the human spirit.”1”

— Monica Sjöö

“The snake was first of all a symbol of eternal life (like the moon), since each time it shed its skin it…

— Monica Sjöö

“We have come to mistake information for knowledge.”

— Monica Sjoo

“We will not find the enemy.8 Because the enemy does not exist in space, but in time: four thousand years ago. We…

— Monica Sjöö

“More important, acts of mental construction were performed which allowed people to live together harmoniously, in meaningful and exciting intercommunication with all…

— Monica Sjöö

“The immortality promised by the Moon Goddess was not a state of perfection or stasis in eternal light. She offers an ever-renewed…

— Monica Sjöö

“our global memory, as we all recede backward through the Christian Era, through the Bronze Age, through the Neolithic, through the Stone…

— Monica Sjöö

“The major premises of Christian religions are (1) the idea of Original Sin and (2) the belief in salvation through faith. Deists…

— Monica Sjöö