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Before There Was God
There was the Goddess.
C.G. Jung intuited that modern Western civilization was suffering from a massive epidemic of soul loss. This revealed itself to Jung in the suffering of his patients, but also in the modern materialistic and overly- rational emphasis, with a technological view of life. He saw these trends 100 years ago, as cutting people off from their ancestral traditions, from their natural instincts, from the Earth, from the heart, and imagination, and from their own people. The biggest loss he sensed was of the Sacred/Divine, of a sense of purpose rooted in inspiration and inner guidance. The condition we have today is that too many of our children believe they are worthless, without importance or purpose, and that life is simply dead (cf note left by the Oxford High School shooter). We have a lot of therapist technicians, but few doctors of the soul, and a scarcity of real ‘elders’ (although we have a lot of self-absorbed “olders.”
— C. Mikkal Smith
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It is important for women whose religions define them as inferior to men, based on the gender of God, to learn that before there was God, there was the Goddess. In ancient Greece, the original Trinity was the triple goddess as maiden, mother, and crone. Eleusis, just outside of Athens, was the site for the Eleusinian Mysteries, where for more than 2,000 years, until the…
