The Dance of the Dissident Daughter (39 page)

19.
      
Buffie Johnson,
Lady of the Beasts: Ancient Images of the Goddess and Her Sacred Animals
(San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1988), 296.

20.
      
Sylvia Plath,
The Journals of Sylvia Plath
, ed. Ted Hughes (Garden City, NY: Dial Press, 1982), 176, 177.

21.
      
Etty Hillesum,
An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941–1943
(New York: Washington Square Press, 1981), 222.

22.
      
Starhawk,
Truth or Dare
, 66.

23.
      
Marian Woodman, with Kate Danson, Mary Hamilton, and Rita Greer Allen,
Leaving My Father's House: A Journey to Conscious Femininity
(Boston: Shambhala, 1992), 31.

24.
      
Cynthia Eller,
Living in the Lap of the Goddess: The Feminist Spirituality Movement in America
(New York: Crossroad, 1993), 202.

25.
      
Charlene Spretnak, “The Unity of Politics and Spirituality,” in
The Politics of Spirituality
, ed. Charlene Spretnak (Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1982), 351.

26.
      
Joseph Campbell, with Bill Moyers,
The Power of Myth
, ed. Betty Sue Flowers (New York: Doubleday, 1988), 150.

27.
      
From the discussion of entelechy in Edward C. Whitmont,
Noetic Sciences Review
, no. 31 (Autumn 1994): 11–18.

28.
      
Louisa May Alcott,
Little Women
(New York: Macmillan, 1962), 394.

29.
      
Jean Shinoda Bolen,
Gods in Everyman
(San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1989), 260.

30.
      
Nancy Qualls-Corbett,
The Sacred Prostitute: Eternal Aspects of the Feminine
(Toronto: Inner City Books, 1988), 73.

31.
      
I have ambivalent feelings about the inner masculine in a woman's life, because it has come to be defined so stereotypically. I've seen it written, for instance, that if a woman asserts herself in the world, it's not her own feminine self doing this but the masculine within her, suggesting that the feminine has no attribute of assertion and autonomy but must go through the masculine to get it. I do not accept this view, but I do acknowledge a masculine aspect within women, one that can be both positive and negative. When negative, it criticizes, judges, limits, undermines, and oppresses a woman. There was an undeniable connection between my struggle to speak, create, and act and the images in my dreams of crippled or tyrannical men. When the inner masculine in a woman is positive, it supports her and helps her manifest her vision, voice, and soul into the world. But I don't see the positive inner masculine as her intellect, her logic, her spunk, her independence, her authority, her strength, or her ability to have an opinion. I see all of these things inherent in her feminine self. Her positive masculine is a conduit, an enabler that helps to manifest these things.

32.
      
George B. Hogenson, “The Great Goddess Reconsidered,”
San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal
10, no. 1 (1991): 24.

PART THREE: GROUNDING

1.
          
See Marija Gimbutas,
The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe
(Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 1982),
The Language of the Goddess
(San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1989), and
The Civilization of the Goddess: The World of Old Europe
(San Francisco: Harper-San Francisco, 1991).

2.
          
In addition to Gimbutas,
Civilization of the Goddess
, see historian Gerda Lerner,
The Creation of Patriarchy
(New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1986); art historian Merlin Stone,
When God Was a Woman
(San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976); art historian and professor Elinor Gadon,
The Once and Future Goddess
(San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1989); scholar and attorney Riane Eisler,
The Chalice and the Blade
(San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987).

3.
          
Ntozake Shange,
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
(New York: Macmillan, 1976), 63.

4.
          
Janda J.,
Julian: A Play Based on the Life of Julian of Norwich
(New York: The Seabury Press, 1984), 99.

5.
          
Sallie McFague, “God as Mother,”
Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality
, ed. Judith Plaskow and Carol Christ (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1989), 141.

6.
          
Anne E. Carr,
Transforming Grace: Christian Tradition and Women's Experience
(San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988), 140.

7.
          
Paul Tillich,
Theology of Culture
, ed. Robert C. Kimball (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1964), 53–67.

8.
          
Carr,
Transforming Grace
, 141.

9.
          
Nelle Morton, “The Goddess as Metaphoric Image,” in
Weaving the Visions
, ed. Plaskow and Christ, 116.

10.
      
Mary Daly,
Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1973), 19.

11.
      
McFague, “God as Mother,” in
Weaving the Visions
, ed. Plaskow and Christ, 139–40.

12.
      
McFague, “God as Mother,” in
Weaving the Visions
, ed. Plaskow and Christ, 141.

13.
      
Nelle Morton, “Goddess as Metaphoric Image,” in
Weaving the Visions
, ed. Plaskow and Christ, 111.

14.
      
Sogyal Rinpoche,
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
, ed. Patrick Gaffney and Andrew Harvey (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992), 164.

15.
      
Carol P. Christ,
Laughter of Aphrodite: Reflections on a Journey to the Goddess
(San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987), 100.

16.
      
Morton, “Goddess as Metaphoric Image,” in
Weaving the Visions
, ed. Plaskow and Christ, 111–12.

17.
      
This story was published in a slightly different form in Sue Monk Kidd, “Reclaiming Lost Altars,”
Encore
2, no. 5 (Jan. 1995): 35–36.

18.
      
Stone,
When God Was a Woman
, 1.

19.
      
Elizabeth A. Johnson,
She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse
(New York: Crossroad, 1993), 47.

20.
      
Rosemary Radford Ruether, “Sexism and God-Language,” in
Weaving the Visions
, ed. Plaskow and Christ, 154.

21.
      
Ruether, “Sexism and God-Language,” in
Weaving the Visions
, ed. Plaskow and Christ, 153.

22.
      
References to Wisdom/Sophia can be found sprinkled throughout the Bible, especially in Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Job, and two apocryphal works, Sirach and Wisdom of Solomon. For amplification, see Susan Cady, Marian Ronan, and Hal Taussig,
Wisdom's Feast: Sophia in Study and Celebration
(San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1989). Also, a good summation can be found in
Feminine Aspects of Divinity
(Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill Publications), pamphlet 191.

23.
      
Proverbs 8:22–23, 27, 30.

24.
      
C. G. Jung,
Answer to Job
(1958; reprint, Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1969), 86.

25.
      
Cady et al.,
Wisdom's Feast
, 44–45.

26.
      
Cady et al.,
Wisdom's Feast
, 45.

27.
      
See Elaine Pagels,
The Gnostic Gospels
(New York: Random House, 1981).

28.
      
Pagels, “What Became of God the Mother?” in
Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion
, ed. Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1979), 109.

29.
      
Pagels, “God the Mother,” in
Womanspirit Rising
, ed. Christ and Plaskow, 110.

30.
      
Pagels, “God the Mother,” in
Womanspirit Rising
, ed. Christ and Plaskow, 110.

31.
      
Ruether, “Sexism and God-Language,” in
Weaving the Visions
, ed. Plaskow and Christ, 153.

32.
      
Johnson,
She Who Is
, 4.

33.
      
Deepak Chopra,
Perfect Health
(New York: Harmony Books, 1991), 132.

34.
      
Beatrice Bruteau, “Deep Ecology and Generic Spirituality,”
Silence in the Midst of Noise: An Ecumenical Approach to Contemplative Prayer
, ed. Beatrice Bruteau and James Somerville (Pfaffrown, NC: Philosopher's Exchange, 1990), 105.

35.
      
Sallie McFague, “God as Mother,” in
Weaving the Visions
, ed. Plaskow and Christ, 143.

36.
      
Nancy Passmore, as quoted in Charlene Spretnak, “Toward an Ecofeminist Spirituality,” in
Healing the Wounds: The Promise of Ecofeminism
, ed. Judith Plant (Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1989), 129.

37.
      
Susan Griffin,
Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her
(New York: Harper & Row, 1978), 227.

38.
      
This experience was published in a slightly different form in Sue Monk Kidd, “Weeping with Dolphins,”
Pilgrimage: Psychotherapy and Personal Exploration
(May–Aug. 1993).

39.
      
Griffin,
Woman and Nature
, 219.

40.
      
This story is adapted from Kidd, “Dolphins,” 7.

41.
      
“Everyone Is a Closet Mystic: An Interview with Andrew Harvey,”
Inquiring Mind
(Fall 1994), 8.

42.
      
“Closet Mystic,” 9.

43.
      
Jean Shinoda Bolen,
Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Pilgrimage
(San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994), 39.

44.
      
From an interview with Thomas Berry in Mark Matousek, “Reinventing the Human,”
Common Boundary
(May–June 1990), 34.

45.
      
Hildegard of Bingen,
Mystical Writings
, trans. Robert Carver, ed. Fiona Bowie and Oliver Davies (New York: Crossroad, 1990), 91–93.

46.
      
Sue Woodruff,
Meditations with Mechtild of Magdeburg
(Santa Fe: Bear, 1982), 42.

47.
      
Janet Frame,
An Autobiography
, vol. 2,
An Angel at My Table
(New York: George Braziller, 1991), 188.

48.
      
Judges 19.

49.
      
Phyllis Trible,
Texts of Terror
(Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984), 81.

50.
      
Maya Angelou,
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
(New York: Random House, 1994), 163.

51.
      
Susan Griffin,
Woman and Nature
, 188.

52.
      
Johnson,
She Who Is
, 5–6.

53.
      
Tillie Olsen, “I Stand Here Ironing,”
Tell Me a Riddle
(New York: Dell Publishing, 1956), 12.

54.
      
Annie Dillard,
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
(New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 35.

55.
      
Daly,
Beyond God the Father
, 51.

56.
      
Isak Dinesen, quoted in Hannah Arendt,
The Human Condition
(Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1959), 175.

57.
      
For reading on mindfulness see: Thich Nhat Hanh,
Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
(New York: Bantam Books, 1991); Thich Nhat Hanh,
The Miracle of Mindfulness: A Manual of Meditation
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1976); Jack Kornfield,
A Path with Heart
(New York: Bantam, 1993); Joseph Goldstein,
The Experience of Insight
(Boston: Shambhala, 1976); Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield,
Seeking the Heart of Wisdom
(Boston: Shambhala, 1987); John Kabat-Zinn,
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
(New York: Hyperion, 1994).

58.
      
C. G. Jung and C. Kerenyi,
Essays on a Science of Mythology
, Bollingen Series 22 (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1963), 162.

59.
      
Clarissa Pinkola Estés,
Women Who Run with the Wolves
(New York: Ballantine, 1992), 364.