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The Politics of Women's Spirituality: Essays on the Rise of Spiritual Power Within the Feminist Movement
The Politics of Women's Spirituality: Essays on the Rise of Spiritual Power Within the Feminist Movement | Charlene Spretnak
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So glad I found this book! The first part discusses the matriarchal societies that existed 25,000 years before the patriarchy of abrahamic religions; the second, how to take back our power through consciousness, rituals and community; the third, and biggest: politics. It is past time for womxn to be at the front. They (patriarchy) only have as much power over us as we let them. Think about what we need to do…to be, and stay—FREE.

JenniferEgnor Shown: myself (left) and another fellow pink vest clinic escort volunteer/intern at the SC Statehouse, for a day of action against anti-abortion bills, anti-trans and anti-queer bills, and more. February 2022 (edited) 2y
Amiable Fellow clinic escort/volunteer here -- love this photo! 2y
JenniferEgnor @Amiable I want to thank you for the work that you do! Where are you located? 2y
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JenniferEgnor @Come-read-with-me I think you‘d like this book. 2y
Amiable @JenniferEgnor Three cheers to you as well! I volunteer in Providence, Rhode Island. 2y
JenniferEgnor @Amiable I hope your state cares about its peoplx more than mine does. It‘s looking pretty grim here for bodily autonomy. 2y
Amiable @JenniferEgnor I actually live in CT, which codified expanded access years ago. Abortion rights will remain here no matter what happens at the federal level. RI just passed legislation in 2019 to protect abortion rights. But I drive an hour to volunteer in RI because the clinic there was/is in greater need of volunteers. The politics in Providence are heavily influenced by the Catholic Church and the protestors are more vitriolic there. 😖 2y
Amiable To be brutally frank, what‘s going on in states like yours are the reason why I will never live further south than Maryland/Delaware-ish. My heart hurts for you guys. Keep up the good fight! 💪🏼I‘d love to chat more about how all of it is going to shake out nationally if you‘re game —email me at AmyBF45 at gmail.com (edited) 2y
JenniferEgnor @Amiable I have a friend who used to escort with me that moved to CO last year. She wanted to live where it‘s safe to make choices. They are about to pass their own WHPA there, Vermont is writing it into their state constitution. Us in the south…we are fucked and there is virtually no democracy at all. Emailing you tonight! If you look through my previous posts, you‘ll see some photos of our protestors. And more great books for choice💕🌻 (edited) 2y
JenniferEgnor @Amiable I tried emailing you, it just came back to me. 2y
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…Patriarchy creates a culture that is destructive and death-oriented.

Just look around at all the laws they are creating right now. Laws that are literally designed to get peoplx killed. Too many politicians for one photo. Dominoes begin to fall. #fascism

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Religion in the common understanding of the Judeo-Christian-Muslim monopoly emphasizes sin, guilt, authoritarianism, fear, and promises of future well-being rather than self-knowledge, love of self and other, and integration of inner power with outer power. In addition, these religions as institutionalized exclude women, the Earth, and the body, and separate the emotions from the spirit, thus denying any chance of wholeness. —Hallie Iglehart

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Estrangement is the combination of a long, historical process. Its roots lie in the Bronze Age shift from matrifocal, Earth-centered cultures, whose religions censored around the Goddess and the gods embodied in nature, to patriarchal, urban cultures of conquest, whose gods inspired and supported war. Yahweh of the Old Testament is a prime example.

—Starhawk

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Awareness means participating in your own evolution.

—Nancy F.W. Passmore

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Know your power ladies! Change comes when we know what we can do and we fight back. We can live in and become the most beautiful things we can imagine.

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The Goddess does not rule the world; She *is* the world.

—Starhawk

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In England, the artist Monica Sjoo was nearly brought to trial in 1970 and again in 1973 for exhibiting a painting titled God Giving Birth (1968), featuring a large female figure in the process of giving birth while the planets revolve nearby. This the British authorities found deserving of a blasphemy and obscenity charge!

See the full painting and read more details here: http://www.artcornwall.org/features/Monica_Sjoo_God_Giving_Birth.htm

JenniferEgnor Patriarchal governments and religions regard the current Goddess revival with deep-seated fear. Nothing threatens their power structure so resoundingly as the ancient consciousness that they believed had been crushed. In panicked tones, they declare that we are the demonic antichrist or that we are “unnatural” or “indecent.” 2y
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The objective of patriarchy was and is to prevent women from achieving, or even supposing, our potential: that we are powerful in both mind and body and that the totality of those powers is a potent force. All of the myriad varieties of patriarchal oppression—co-opting and replacing the Goddess, imposing patrilineal descent and ownership of woman‘s womb, restricting and mutilating woman‘s body, denying woman education and legal rights, forbidding

JenniferEgnor her control of her body, and portraying that body as a pornographic toy—all of these acts are motivated by one desperate drive: to prevent woman from experiencing her power. 2y
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