The Importance of Today's Actions for Tomorrow
Luisah Teisch: [[symbolism]
It helps me a lot to remember that I'm an ancestress of tomorrow and that what I say and do today - 5,000 years from now - may be coded into the ] of what they believed then. If you think that way, no tiny act is meaningless. Everything becomes very, very important.
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Questioning the Great Bearded White Man
Luisah Teisch: [the mother of God]
The more I listened to what they had to say about the Great Bearded White Man in the Sky the more I realized that he was no one I could talk to. You couldn't say nothing to the dude'. He didn't answer prayers. He could go off on you at any minute and you were supposed to be grateful no matter what he did. This is nobody who made any kind of sense to me in my naiveity. So I put him down and hung with Mary .
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Understanding Patriarchy and Cultural Choices
Charlene Spretnak: [[fear]
And this is where we live today: suddenly everything was fortified; the warrior was honored; we follow a "sky god"; and we have a "patriarchal" social system. I don't think you can understand patriarchy unless you look at the fact that ] is at the core. Fear that female sexuality will somehow become this chaotic force. That nature will become this chaotic force overtaking us. So we have to have everything tightly controlled and hierarchically ordered. In every cultural era, there have been forces that were going toward the negative, toward the destructive and forces that were going toward the positive, toward the wisdom path. And I think if we can get that message out to more young people, that there are cultural choices, and economic choices.
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The Sacredness of Nature in Politics Today
Charlene Spretnak:
The kind of connectedness women's spirituality and goddess spirituality teaches about the earth is missing in politics today and the people who are guiding our countries see only nature as a resource for industrial growth. They don't see the sacredness and the interconnectedness and the simple fact that we live on a finite planet.
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