Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of reconciliation of science and religion, of many ways of knowing.
Starhawk
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.
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As women, however, we need to look very closely at these philosophies and ask ourselves the hard-headed, critial question, What's in it for me? What does this spiritual system do for women? Of course, the gurus, teachers, and ascended masters will tell us that, even by asking such a question, we are merely continuing in our enslavement to the Lords of Mind; that it is simply another dodge of the ego as it resists dissoulution in the All.
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On every full moon, rituals such as the one described above take place<br/>on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers,<br/>teachers, nurses, computer programmers, artists, lawyers, poets, plumbers,<br/>and auto mechanics - women and men from many backgrounds come<br/>together to celebrate the mysteries of the Triple Goddess of the Dance<br/>of Life. The religion they practise is called Witchcraft.
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