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"In this post-everything real decade (post-politics, post-feminism, post-consciousness) there's a corresponding decadent compunction to Look Good: spiritually, physically, culturally: pose pretty. Appear-to-have-it-all-together. As a substitute for real substance, genuine power. Even our goddesses. New Age spiritual guides, even we spiritual feminists, urge ourselves to image 'positively': smiling, wise, benevolent, graciously non-confrontational ladies. Those who succor, shelter, soothe, agree and understand. Goddesses of therapy rather than bitches of politics; goddesses of personal wellbeing rather than witches of global change. Healing, not upheaval, because we are all, as the whole doomed world is, alone, scared, in pain, stressed-out, terminally obstructed, overdosed and confused.

"Naturally it follows that we seek the Mother of Peace and Quiet, not an Amazonian Battle-Axe hounding us out to Fight Again. In the midst of patriarchy's metallic noise and violent self-pollution, we consume tapes of our mother's last, lost waterfalls, forest winds, sweet silence."

- Barbara Mor, quoted in Creation Spirituality and the Dreamtime (ed. Catherine Hammond)