The symbolism of the Goddess is not a parallel structure to the symbolism of God the Father. The Goddess does not rule the world. She is the world. Manifest in each of us, She can be known internally by every indivdual, in all her magnificent diversity.
"Starhawk" is an American writer and activist. She is known as a theorist of feminist Neopaganism and ecofeminism. She is a columnist for Beliefnet.com and for On Faith, the Newsweek/Washington Post online forum on religion.
Starhawk's book The Spiral Dance (1979) was one of the main inspirations behind the Goddess movement.
In 2012, she was listed in Watkins Books/Watkins' Mind Body Spirit magazine as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People.
More Starhawk on Wikipedia.That would be great, but I am not so sure it will be that easy.
No true Witches today practice human sacrafice, torture, or any form of ritual murder.Anyone who does is not a Witch, but a psychopath.
The consciousness of people whose natural bent is to support the president and the military and the status quo is shifting. If America ever rises up, Camp Casey is what it will look like--not an anarchist street party.
These people are comfortable with authority from above.
Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation.
If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic - and among its branches I include psychology as its purpose to describe and change consciousness - is an art.
Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.
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