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Heroine worship // Goddess lifts the spirits of some feminists
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Lunea Weatherstone's spiritual turnaround started with a bad
back. She went to see a massage therapist, who considered
Weatherstone's spinal woes before saying something that left
Weatherstone completely aghast.
Close your eyes, the therapist instructed, and try to envision
"breathing God into the pain."
That sounded too bizarre, so Weatherstone begged off. But the
masseuse gently persisted. Imagine, she said, the most sacred image
you can, and breathe that.
Weathe...
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`Goddess' worship is a good idea
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; I understand that the so-called "goddess movement" is sweeping east from California, the modern Fertile Crescent of wacky spiritual notions, and I can't wait until it gets to my neighborhood. A mix of feminism, ecology and New Age spiritualism, the goddess movement is more than Christianity in
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THE GODDESS GOES MAINSTREAM At first glance, the goddess movement might almost look like a parody -- a female version of those modern male rituals with tom-toms and sweat lodges. But these days, the yearning to honor women's spirituality is anything but offbeat.
The Boston Globe
; The women, more than 60 of them, stand in a circle, holding hands. The priestess, a witch from Providence who goes by the name Eclipse, moves quickly around the inner boundary, tracing it with her sacred knife. One of the women steps forward and invokes the first of the four directions. "Hail,
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Goddess groupies: not so divine
The Boston Globe
; Francine Prose's ninth and latest novel, "Hunters and Gatherers," is about the goddess movement and, like much of her work, it has a satirical edge. Prose says she didn't intend to make fun of goddess spirituality, a belief system that combines feminism, mysticism and environmentalism, but she
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GODDESSES AND WORSHIP SCHOLARS TURN TO ANCIENT CULTURES FOR A MORE FEMININE CONCEPT OF THE DEVINE
The Boston Globe
; Spurred by the women's - istory movement, scholars and theologians are increasingly turning to the art, myths and folklore of pre-Christian cultures to recover evidence of goddess worship. "The idea of the divine as female is ancient," said Elinor Gadon, who has taught classes at Tufts and Harvard
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GODDESS MOVEMENT LOOKS TO STONEHENGE'S FEMININE SIDE
The Boston Globe
; ... ancient sex symbol," read a headline in The Observer of London. CBC News in Canada proclaimed: "Stonehenge mystery solved: it's a girl ... San Francisco, two students were so excited by the Stonehenge news that they rushed to tape up an article about the theory on a ...
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`States of Grace' explores ways to save the Earth
The Boston Globe
; STATES OF GRACE The Recovery of Meaning in the Postmodern Age By Charlene Spretnak HarperCollins, 339 pp., $21.95 What do we need to know to save the Earth? Or is it that we don't need to know but need to feel something? Can the world's four major "wisdom traditions" help? Or should we all just
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Women on top
Isthmus
; Has there ever been a true female-dominated society? I've got a friend I'm concerned about: She seems to have gone insane, spouting something about a peaceful, goddess-worshiping matriarchy that ruled the earth for 25,000 years until Evil Patriarchal Religion rose up and conquered the planet. Was
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Something sexy about Stonehenge
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ... reacted with amusement. "The vagina monoliths: Stonehenge was ancient sex symbol," read a headline in The Observer of London. CBC News in Canada proclaimed: "Stonehenge mystery solved: It's a girl." To adherents of the goddess movement, though, the new theory ...
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Ga-ga over goddess-ness
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Kathleen Parker Ga-ga over goddess-ness By KATHLEEN PARKER Orlando Sentinel Sunday, August 3, 2003 At great risk to my standing in the zeitgeist, I have a confession to make: I'm having trouble locating my inner goddess. I've looked everywhere. I even consulted my inner child, who was still moping
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The Goddess, the Ethnologist, the Folklorist and the Cadre: Situating Exegesis of Vietnam's Folk Religion in Time and Place1
The Australian Journal of Anthropology
; Vietnamese anthropology has been portrayed as a project in close alignment with the goals of a progressivist, culturally assimilationist and security-oriented state. This paper explores unexpectedly positive assessments by anthropologists and folklorists of a recent popular upsurge in goddess
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