Why Women Need the Goddess by Carol Christ

A profoundly significant article for all women and all who love women's existence,
women's bodies, women's being, women's birthing, women's blood mysteries and
women's wombs from which we have each and all emerged, all of woman born into being
here now!

We have forgotten the miracle of our own birth and being.
Imagine existence without woman, womb and Mother. It is impossible to imagine!
Imaine Life without woman, without the mother-daughter, grandmother-grandaughter
generation after generation birthing, rebirthing of bodies with brains and blood
and guts, our own living, quivering internal viseral/ organic vital life essence,
which has been recently named the "luminious feminEssence", the Kundalini Shakti,
the "organic Light" without which all life would instanteously cease to exist!

That "inner", "organic light" is the mothersource we each received when we were
tiny little "egglings", embryonic "potentialities" floating in ambiotic female
ambrosia inside a womb sac, cocooned in our mother's swollen with new life
pregnant belly.

The female "belly dance" may be the most ancient and original form of human
dancing ever danced. . . . even unto this current Age of the Great Goddess UPrising, like the Great Mythic Phoenix, the firebird that rises from the ashes of it's own
firey demise, the most appropriate symbol of female/Mother/Goddess Resurrection
and Cultural Re-emergence in the modern Women's Movements, Women's Liberation,
Women's Rights, Women's Spirituality Movement, Women's Eco-feminist Movement,
Women's Movement of Movements . . . moving all womanborn womankind, mankind and
humankind out of the old male myths of feminine evil, inferiority that demonized
the whole feminine principle, presence and inner "essence" for milleniums of
patriarchial empire building and the male colonization of the female body, womb
and being, enmasse.

The Why Women Need the Goddess article by Carol Christ says all of this better.