Maddy’s Reviews > The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth > Status Update

“human male sexuality has not evolved radically beyond primal sexuality, while human females, through the shift from estrus to menstrual cycles, have evolved a nonreproductive sexual capacity that functions primarily for affectional bonding”

“while mother nature remains at work as a servant of this enterprise, her energies and resources used to realize his thought forms and achieve his goals. the earth, the body, the soul, and the imagination will be allowed to survive only as handmaiden’s of the great male mind up in the sky.”

“what has happened to us? our primordial and practical, maternal-magical perception of oneness between ourselves and the universe is the innate female state which, in this modern patriarchal world, we are all supposed to “grow out of” in order to become . . . men.”

“our history as a species is stored in our genes; and no matter how hard patriarchy tries to suppress our past matriarchal history, it keeps “bobbing to the surface” in worldwide archeological ruins, icons, and myths, as in our dreams.”

“the contemporary western world, ruled by an essentially white patriarchal elite, sees itself as the peak of human development; in its linear view, all past cultures were by nature “inferior” simply because they came earlier in time— and existed mainly, not on their own right or in their own terms, but as many steps on a grand staircase leading up to the “ supreme white western maledom” “