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Women & Spirituality: The Goddess Trilogy

Part 1
Goddess Remembered

This poetic documentary is a salute to 35 000 years of “pre-history,” to the values of ancestors only recently remembered, and to the goddess-worshipping religions of the ancient past. Goddess Remembered features Merlin Stone, Carol Christ, Luisah Teish, Starhawk, Charlene Spretnak, and Jean Bolen, who link the loss of goddess-centred societies with today’s environmental crisis. They propose a return to the belief in an interconnected life system, with respect for the earth and the female, as fundamental to our survival.

Part 2
The Burning Times

This beautifully crafted film is an in-depth look at the witch-hunts that swept through Europe just a few hundred years ago. False accusations and trials led to massive torture and burnings at the stake, and ultimately to the destruction of an organic way of life. The Burning Times advances the theory that widespread violence against women and the neglect of our environment today can be traced back to those times.

Part 3
Full Circle

In this stirring documentary, authors, teachers, social activists and feminists explore manifestations of contemporary women’s spirituality in the Western world. Drawing on the customs, rites and knowledge of the past, Full Circle envisions a sustainable future where domination is replaced with respect. At the centre of these discussions is a reverence for the Earth–a sacred circle which we must protect.

Featured Experts

Donna Read is an award-winning producer, director and editor. Her credits include a television special called Temagami; a documentary on the life’s work of Marija Gimbutas, Signs out of Times; she won the best edited award at the Toronto International film festival in 1982 for Behind The Veil: Nuns. She received 8 awards for her three- part series Women and Spirituality. She was editor, associate director, and producer for Anatomy of Desire, which received a Juno award for best editing. Mask and Drum won first prize at the London International Film Festival. In 2003 she and fellow W&S expert Starhawk formed Belili Productions

Starhawk is one of the most respected voices in modern earth-based spirituality. She is also well-known as a global justice activist and organizer, whose work and writings have inspired many to action. Starhawk is best known as an articulate pioneer in the revival of earth-based spirituality and Goddess
religion. She is a cofounder of Reclaiming, an activist branch of modern Pagan religion, and continues to work closely with the Reclaiming community. She is a veteran of progressive movements, from anti-war to anti-nukes, and is deeply committed to bringing the techniques and creative power of spirituality to political activism

Charlene Spretnak is one of the many originators of the women’s spirituality movement. She is a cofounder of the Green Party movement in the United States. In 1989 Charlene Spretnak was inducted into the Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame in recognition of her writings on spirituality and social justice. In 2006 she was named by the Environment Department of the British government to their list of “100 Eco-Heroes of All Time” in recognition of her pioneering work in ecological thought, spirituality, and activism. She is a professor in the philosophy and religion program (in the Women’s Spirituality concentration) at the California Institute of Integral Studies, a graduate institute in San Francisco.

Carol Christ is a feminist, eco-feminist and a pioneer in the Goddess movement. Her essay “Why Women Need the Goddess” delivered at the Great Goddess Re-emerging Conference in 1978 has been reprinted scores of times. She holds a Ph.D. from Yale in Religious Studies. She has taught at Harvard Divinity School, Pomona College, Columbia University, San Jose State, and California Institute of Integral Studies where she currently is Adjunct Professor offering courses over the internet in the Women’s Spirituality Program. In 1987 she resigned a tenured position and moved to Greece where she became a citizen in 2002. She is trying to save the wetlands of her beloved island working with Friends of Green Lesbos and World Wildlife Fund–Greece.

Merlin Stone became interested, in adulthood, in archaeology and ancient religions from her study of ancient art. She taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She spent a decade on research before writing the book published in the UK as The Paradise Papers and then in the U.S. as When God Was a Woman (1976). It describes her theory of how the Hebrews suppressed allegedly goddess-based religions practiced in Canaan and how their reaction to what she asserts as being the existing matriarchal and matrilineal societal structures shaped Judaism and, thus, Christianity. Another major work, Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood collects stories, myths, and prayers involving goddess-figures from a wide variety of world religions, ancient civilizations.

Luisah Teish is an author, storyteller, and priestess of the Ifa/Orisha faith from New Orleans, Louisiana. She is the founder and president of Ile Orunmila Oshun, and holds a chieftancy title in the Fatunmise lineage as head Oshun Priest in the United States. She is the Vice President of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology, and the founder of the School of Ancient Mysteries and Sacred Arts Center in Oakland, CA. She is the author of several books on African religion. She has been on the faculty at University of Creation Spirituality in Oakland, California, the Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, California, and she teaches at New College of California, John F. Kennedy University, the Montclair Women’s Cultural Arts Center, and Naropa. Her performances, lectures and workshops have taken her to Europe, Egypt, South America, New Zealand, Nigeria, Costa Rica, and across the United States.

Jean Bolen is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco, a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and recipient of the Institute for Health and Healing’s “Pioneers in Art, Science, and the Soul of Healing Award”. She brings an emphasis on the question for meaning and the need for a spiritual dimension in life to all aspects of her work, while also taking into account the powerful effects of archetypes within us and family and culture upon us. Her books are used as college and university texts in gender studies, women’s psychology, mythology, spirituality, east-west philosophy, and psychology courses.