The Great Cosmic Mother : Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth

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Summary: World-expanding, empowering, essential, HerStory, flowing
Review: This is a life-changing book. Everyone struggling within the system that exists today should read this for inspiration, hope, remembrance. The info contained within the pages of this book can bring you back to your source, allowing positive energy to flow thru you and out to your universe, returning you to the love-filled, creative world we used to thrive in. This is an extremely important book.

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Summary: obviously researched very extensively, still easy reading
Review: This is one of the few books I have read over and over again, quoted it, referred other people to it, given it to others as a gift, and yes, even loaned my own personal copy that was passed along to me by a dear friend who is now a unity minister. There have been those who were not yet ready, those who were afraid, but they all have been touched by the knowlege and the mystique presented by the authors. It was as if I was reminded of my own past and given the given the knowlege to counteract some of the puritanical religous beliefs of our "modern" world.

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Summary: Fact or opinion?
Review: While I got a great deal of information from this book (including a list of other books I want to read), I finally had to STOP reading it because of the male bashing and blanket statements which appeared to be unsubstantiated by any research.
Both authors obviously did do an impressive amount of research for much of the content in the book, but there were numerous statements such as "The same customs were found throughout precolonial Africa and no doubt existed among all our European ancestors" had nothing to support it. I also was disappointed with the phrasing of opinions as facts: "Under patriarchy, the mother is feared and hated, quite crazily both for her power and her weakness..." While I am a pagan and a feminist, I don't condone elevating one gender or spiritual path over another just to "even the score." Such an approach seems to make one no better than the very thing being criticized, and reminds me of children in a schoolyard bragging about who has the better toy, or who can beat up whom.