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and Strategy, Keeper of Pleasure, Lady of the Land. From our
patriarchal perspective, we call Goddess-worshiping peoples indigenous,
aboriginal, or rural. We observe that these people are invariably tied
intimately to the land, and that they contact their environment as if
it were alive.

Our own histories have been written as if this point of view were
"other." We thus have great trouble remembering that our view of Earth
as a dirt clod was perpetrated on us as children, and on our ancestors,
just as it is being perpetrated by our "modern" cultures on "third
world" cultures today. As documented by Merlin Stone and Riane Eisler,
among others, the Goddess was actually worshiped for thousands of
years. We urban peoples are as distanced from the live Earth as people
have ever been. But we are also the people whose book learning and
psychological sophistication opens us to the Ancient Within and Without
as we have never been open before. In this time of great danger and
great recovery, we are calling on Her again to help us treasure
ourselves and re-enchant our Planet. We are hungry, and She is feeding
our souls.

All in All: Healing the Split Out camping a couple of years ago while
the sun beat its way around the edge of the day, I lay exhausted on a
mat, grateful for the shade provided by the pines above me. Tired and
vulnerable as I was, I found myself thinking of those trees as kind,
providing me with shade out of their goodness and love. As represented
by Eve in the biblical creation story, I had been taught that Nature
was beautiful but evil and in need of control. Now, in my involvement
with the Goddess, I wanted to reverse that. I wanted to think of
Nature as good. But my insistence on understanding Her as one way or
the other broke on me suddenly. I realized that She is neither good
nor evil: She encompasses both those experiences. She is all and
nothing. She just is.

Earth-centered spirituality is a whole new way of thinking about
opposites. In this culture, we are used to dividing the world into
good and bad. We think of light as good and dark as bad. High is
good; low is bad. The three-part Godhead is all male. It is high in
the sky. It represents the Mind, the Word, the Spirit. The Feminine,
or what is of the body and the Earth, is low. It is sinful. God the
Father is container of all good, and the Christian Devil (whose horned
face was borrowed from the ancient Europeans' image of the Goddess's
Consort, God of Plenty and Harvest) is container of all evil.

In our patriarchal culture, we are encouraged to split off the parts of
ourselves we find fearsome or shameful. We are encouraged to "agree"
that anything mysterious or "other" belongs to the "dark" and that dark
is bad. Our bodies and their functions are bad. So are our deepest
wishes and our "negative" emotions. All must be dominated and
controlled by our "lighter,"