The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth – Reclaiming Matriarchal History, the Goddess, Feminist Spirituality, and Women's Power

I bought several copies of this book originally and loved it. I liked the way she said we could define our own morality and intelligence and didn't need degrees from male-supremacist owned and abusive governments, institutions, schools it gave me the revolutionary idea that language, art, music - everything has been defined by people that are afraid of - or submissive to - corrupt male institutions. Christians practice child torture and abuse, the slavery and subjection of women - only their trained b*tches (their words not mine) can speak in public. Try to get a dissenter to speak. An intelligent woman who calls them on it. Not gonna happen. i don't want to be a submissive dog, but there's a lot of pressure from everywhere - the solution - we can invent our own art, spirituality, language - anything we want and we don't have to abuse animals women children like they want us to - we can defy them. The problem - I ordered this book again recently and it was rewritten with a bunch of catholic propaganda (more women slave stuff) replacing her critical analysis of current male abusive religions and about six times as thick as the original which was a thin, good book. Also watch out - good ideas in here orginally, but the snake on the cover makes me think Christian propaganda. They love to set up Goddess and God or pagan tribes that are seemlingly women-friendly or kind and gentle friendly,, but have serpents in the background, the word witch or b*tch somewhere in the mix defining us. They sucker us into believing that we're "owning" those words. One born every minute. They are doing this with the so-called Witchcraft or Wicca - which they have created to trap you. Also, Serpents in art represent venomous lies (but they suggest to us it means wisdom or something) and the fact that the art on the cover has snakes makes me think Christian trap. They like to trick you by setting up these group traps and saying that love for women, equality, safety of children, men being good - not hurting us or animals/children are in fact venomous lies. They are spin artists and are themselves snakes in the grass. They set up these things as venomous traps for women's rights people. If you are a man, woman, anyone who loves - watch out for these and other many traps that try to trick you into hurting anyone, worshipping the creators, (bio-tech people) who are cruel and hate those who resist their predator pyramid scheme. Also free press is a lie. Just try and get your stuff out there if it's against predation, male supremacy, child abuse, animal abuse or anything - and try not to have it altered and see what happens. They have people that alter it for anyone they have cornered that wants to get out. Many people probably get these copes. They have people in law enforcement, postal service, government - everywhere. They say they're "protecting their children" from outside religions. But in fact, they want to make sure their "little women" stay forever submissive, obedient and "subject in all things" and silent as their books says. They want slaves, and are willing to practice child sacrifice and torture - so their protection of children thing falls flat. Sometimes they threaten authors and force them to say what they want also. The christian mob will terrorize you if you try to escape. If you receive a rewritten account of this book, or other Goddess book - two things, they could own the author - or terrorize her into "converting" like they most likely did to Marion Zimmer Bradley - as well as myself once - or they might have rewritten copies which they send to people. They have been known to hurt people's pets, children or anyone who defies their male supremacist regime. Be careful and try to get real information to people. The only way is to deliver it personally. Even then - they're watching you can have a network that replaces books, controls and threatens, as well as owns media and government, and practices abusive techniques to shut people up. Women be silent and all that. I bet they want us to shut up. Books like this are almost always in some way controlled, altered, or used to trap the people attracted to them. Did you know there are several secret "brotherhoods" of hate that practice assault of women, terror, abuse and such. They have much power and our government is controlled by them. If you tow the line you are safe, if you try to escape - target zone for you. They have ways of making sure you end up in the loony bin, in jail, dead or destroyed socially. Freemasons, Catholics, Christian sects - watch out for them. Almost all of them practice some form of occult or Christian women abuse and child sacrificial abusive religions. Anyone who dissents is a target. They practice the art of propaganda dedicatedly and control information. Do not believe they are benign. Gay kids have been killed and tortured, women, children, animals - anyone. If you are animal rights, women's rights, the rights of the small and helpless - you are their enemy. We need protectors and we need to get strong and smart. Please, pay attention. The new thing is to pretend that they don't own everything and are David, when in fact they are Goliath. They pretend that slave-owners are victims and that the men in power are poor, abused misunderstood people. They are not. They have money, they own government and almost all information including the internet. Also they use spy tech, bio-tech, psyche stuff, image warfare, planting of evidence, and other techniques to keep you quiet. If you are bio-tech creation they can also use yourself against yourself. They remove impulse control and then like all animatronic animals, manipulate you into doing things that can harm you or set you up for more abuse, mentally, physically or sexually. Study this tech because it's the secret they keep from us - among others. That tech you see in Star Wars - the 3-D imaging in the air, is what they used to use to create "apparitions" to make Catholics think they saw the Virgin Mary - so guess what - slavery of women is true! God told them. They're not gods. Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Just like in the book (if you get the real version) they use advance tech (for many of us) to convince people that they are gods and that - guess what - the gods want you to be their slave!! What a revelation. They recruit men into rape and abuse religions by trying to make it funny or selling it - or threatening those men who defy them. Is it really true that men are this.... easy to destroy their heart and soul??! I can hardly believe it myself. Some are uneducated, some - they just prey on their greed, or passiveness in the face of evil - like all of us really. Please wake up. I'll be surprised if this gets out there unless someone helps. I can't post on the internet usually. They may alter it. Women need to wake up. The right to bear arms was so that government didn't have the power to do this to us. I'm not sure that bearing arms will help in a word of bio-warfare and weapons of mass destruction, war destroys us anyway, but the intelligence to fight the problems and cure the problems will. Education people. And we can only do that with free press. Please. Help solve the predation of men so we can speak freely in public without harm. One solution - do not go with Christians, Freemasons, or groups of men that keep information from you, spy on you, use weapons to intimidate, or keep you from positions of power and authority, do not include you in the truth or in decisions that effect you, or abuse animals or children. Refuse as much as possible to give them sexual pleasure, or be servants to them. As much as possible do not buy their (really incredibly beautiful) art that sells abuse. It takes strength. Keep your heart muscle strong. So - great book when I first got it. Introduced me to a revolution, Christian controlled traps or not, there were good ideas in here. Just sort out the bad ones. You can create, you don't need to endure this world of hurt and abuse. You can try to be free, kind, gentle, powerful, loving, end their abuses, attempt to cure predation, illness slavery and death, get stronger, get involved in creating this world.

...is to return to the beginning. This book is the most important and powerful book I have ever read. It is important to read the book through and understand what is being said before bashing the author as a man-hater, as some have done. There is *such* a difference between bashing men and naming the injustices of the roots of patriarchal religion. For instance, it is men who are dying in the name of a patriarchal God (anti-terrorist and anti-infidel) as I write this. It is boys as well as girls who are starved, beaten and abused within a patriarchal system as children, entirely dependent on women who have all the responsibility for their unpaid labor, and none of the power to make things right. I loved the way the authors articulated the importance of the unpaid work women do, and how much our entire global economy depends on it. This work is not only historical, it is current, prescient, and brilliant. It is crucial to our time, and should be mandated reading for everyone. If only we could make that happen! "Because the enemy does not exist in space, but in time; four thousand years ago. We are about to destroy each other and the world, because of profound mistakes made in Bronze Age patriarchal ontology -- mistakes about the nature of being, about the nature of human being in the world." Touching on *quantum physics*, the authors create a spiral of hope that defies the statement that we are calling for a *return* to a time that no longer exists, but to a time that cannot be destroyed because it is organic and essential to the survival of this planet and the people She embraces. I loved the author's use of words, too, she does not limit her vocabulary or "talk down" to her readers, but she does not talk over their heads either. She knows what she is talking about and it would behoove us all to listen. After all, "People who put in two-thirds of the world's working hours and receive in return one-tenth of the world's income should have something to say about the idea that hard work equals wealth. ... The bitter truth is, under four thousand years of patriarchal 'exploit-for-profit' economics, the women of the world have worked long and hard, often under the worst necrophilic conditions, to keep the human race minimally alive. In return, we receive mostly dismal statistics signifying not reward, but rip-off." The only drawback of this book is that once you read it, once you *get* it, you will never be the same again. And if more people *don't* read it, those who *do* get it are going to be very lonely and hard to live with people. Evolution is a lonely path. Let's walk the journey together, shall we?

Greatest Book ever written!! A must to read to know, historically and spiritually, who you are and where you came from!! It resonates with Spirit! If anyone disagrees, all they must do is research what is written. Laziness should not be the reason to dismiss this work!

I have just received this book, so I haven't read much. So far, it's even better and deeper than I expected. If you are interested in learning about the female from the beginning, this is the book for you. It's a deep book but it's easy to read and understand. I have a hard time not underlining everything in it. For women, it's empowering and educational; for men, not so much.

Every woman who is awake and looking for answers and the history of the matriarch should read. Very enlightening, can be triggering at times, and make you think, feel and see dynamics regarding the beautifulness of womanhood and the damaging effects of patriarchy. So many jewels and historical lessons learned in this book. Almost feel I need a class or to discuss this book with like minded women because of the depth and density of knowledge in this book!

Extremely eye opening.

When the book arrived, my first impression was that it was fairly thick, with a generous length of approximately 500 pages. However, once I started reading, I found it hard to put down. It is exceptionally well written, thoughtfully structured, and covers every aspect of the subject in depth. I highly recommend it to anyone and everyone—it is definitely a must-read!

Good book. Arrived fast and in good condition

Se come me non sopportate il femminismo di oggi non comprate questo libro. Sembrava qualcosa di serio sulle donne ma è solo un inganno per propinare la solita propaganda femminista in salsa spirituale New Age, ci sono libri interessanti su queste tematiche ma di sicuro questo non è uno di quelli

Men often say, "Women have contributed hardly anything of importance for the benefit of Humankind." These men ignore the fact that women, half of the world population have not massacred millions, if not billions of human beings they never met before, but looked/look after the maimed victims of the by patriarchs triggered massacres. The Great Cosmic Mother can show women & men that for 6000+ years of Abrahamic brutal Patriarchy/male supremacy, men have stolen from women all truly valid wisdom accrued by women throughout tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years, and that with women's valid spirituality, natural sciences and practical knowledge men have been unable to do anything beneficial for Humankind. This for women most important book seriously empowers women, takes women home to their intrinsic brilliance, armors women against the all pervading, never ending women denigrating attacks, guides women safely through the thick anti-women mist that the Race of Women, as well as men have been stumbling through for 6+ Abrahamic-millennia. Monica Sjoo is influenced by Darwinism. I am not. No ape has ever changed into a human being. It is crystal clear that he-god in the sky, The Man did not create first him-self, a man, and then man no.2 and from man no.2 a woman. It's an absurdity. Some people believe that human beings came from some other planet and that's why we are here, but this does not explain who created 'the aliens'. Nature is permeated with cosmic consciousness and is capable of parthenogenesis, self-creates and re-creates sentient beings. This is obvious. For me it is not important how human beings came/come into existence. We come and go, and come again and go again, again and again. I simply trust in Nature's dynamic, unlimited creative cosmic consciousness. To attribute to a he or a she in the sky the creation of literally countless galaxies and all forms of Life is to compulsively box in/make small the Great Mystery of Unlimited Creativity of Cosmic Consciousness. Let IT, let conscious/aware/awake BE-ing remain a mystery. Patriarchy has tried to box-in, to kill The Mystery Of Life, is even replacing the natural birth of babies with machine-produced babies. The patriarch's/man's baby is The Machine, they replace(d) the Mother (Nature) with the godfather, they wanted to, still want to get rid of mighty creativity of The Mother altogether. All problems that men have are "caused" by their Mother (Freud the Fraud), all women's problems are penis-envy (Freud the Fraud). Women always have been, still are the main enemy of the patriarchal box-in everything cerebral-mind. Life Giving and Life Sustaining Conscious Nature, she is being boxed-in & destroyed too, all dynamic forces of life are being straight-jacketed, captured, and as much as possible destroyed by patriarchy. Patriarchy plundered/plunders and enslaves women's brilliance, raped/rapes women by declaring women their property and therefore sex-slaves, exhausts women's essence, nature and energy, slander(ed), stone(d) to death and curse(d) women who break free from their stranglehold. The no-it-all patriarchs mistreat Nature in the very same way, nor do they stop at enslaving, torturing and massacring young & adult men by the billions, they deceive and abuse all men, glorify the bloodbaths. the deaths of the male-youths who are lured with absurd and obscene promises into dying for 'holy' wars. For me it is most important to make sure that all human beings, all living beings, including Nature are treated with great care and with great compassion, that people celebrate human life, honor human and all life, above all honor women who make it possible to experience precious human life, and give women a preeminent position in governing societies, because women only can assure that people live in peace & harmony with each other and Nature. Throughout the last six millennia men have proved that they are unable to do what women did for tens of thousands, if not millions of years, create prosperity (without slavery), valid spirituality, and a relaxed, communal and peaceful life for all.

Livre en excellent état, livraison rapide, Merci! 10/10