The Greatest Story Never Told
Marija Gimbutas January 23, 1921 – February 2, 1994 Marija Gimbutas was a classically trained Lithuanian-American archeologist.[1] By combining traditional archeological “dig-work” with linguistics and mythological interpretation, her pioneering research into the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of “Old Europe” produced profound cultural revelations. Gimbutas unearthed startling evidence of stable, matriarchal, egalitarian societies living Continue Reading …
Iconic Woman, Feminist Shamanic Healer and Teacher Vicki Noble is a feminist shamanic healer, author, independent scholar and wisdom teacher. In the 1970s she awakened to the Goddess and Women’s Spirituality and opened psychically to the healing, art, yoga, and divination processes that led to the creation of the Motherpeace tarot deck. Noble created, graduated Continue Reading …
How Demographics Led To the Persecution of Women For about two hundred years beginning in the fourteenth century, Europe was swept by natural and man-made disasters. Long bloody wars killed millions of men, several times during that period, the Black plague swept through the new city states of Europe. Interestingly men seemed more susceptible to Continue Reading …
Co-opting of the Goddess: acquire, adapt and subjugate Christianity is based on belief. There was a striking dichotomy in the early Christian church —the beliefs of the elite and the beliefs of the general population that made up the congregations. These congregations were still steeped in the nature-based rites of the old Goddess religion. Continue Reading …
“The Weaker Vessel” Writings in the New Testament attributed to the Apostle Paul were used as the rational for a celibate priesthood, the subjugation of women, and the prohibition of sexual congress for all but procreation. St. Peter’s writings portrayed women as “the weaker vessel” [1 Peter 3:5–7]. A study of the early church’s writings Continue Reading …
We Have To Know Where We’ve Been In the new “Father” based religious practices, men, were the son’s of God, made in his image, to rule over all the living things on the earth. The concept of possession rather than partnership shaped man’s relationship with women and sexuality. Wives and daughters became chattel to Continue Reading …
We Have To Know Where We’ve Been For more than 25,000 years, the Global Goddess presided over thousands of peaceful, cooperative, civilizations. In these many and diverse cultures older woman were revered as “Wise Women” – reflections of the Universal Feminine. That ended with the rise of the phallus. For the past 6000 years Continue Reading …
Menstruation taboos: un-clean, un-well and un-right Thousands of years of patriarchal propaganda have made women feel un-clean, un-well and un-right about the supremely natural cycle of menstruation and fertility. Menstruation taboos, ignorance and fear still drive women’s feelings and more shockingly, the scant understanding of their own bodily functions. The blessing from the Goddess — Continue Reading …
Gaian Spirituality The word religion derives from the Latin re-ligio meaning to re-link. The ultimate goal of all religious practices is to broach and reconcile the alienations that have estranged us from our divine Source. We want to come to peace with the many dualities of our lives. At a spiritual level we want to Continue Reading …
The Power of the Masculine –The Risen Phallus Rosaline Miles, in her wonderful book, The Women’s History of the World, stated that, “the rise of the phallus precipitated the fall of woman.” The real exile from Eden started around 3000 BC, when Iron age, male-dominated, nomadic, warriors invaded and subjugated the people of peace-loving goddess-cultures. Continue Reading …
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