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The Dark Road of the Goddess:

The "Dark Road" has never seemed to me to be "anti-feminist", in fact, one might argue that it embodies feminist principles in a way that few roads do.

I think the "Dark Road" can best be introduced by introducing the Dark Goddess Herself:

THE DARK GODDESS - WHO IS SHE?

[i] "The Dark Goddess is no lightweight - She promises trouble, an end for form as we have known it; the death of the ego. Her mythology suggests that she is venomous, wrathful, outraged, awake and on fire. She is impersonal, yet she erupts from deep within the human psyche with unexpected passion and rage. She is Transformation in the extreme, and her power is regenerative and healing.

Like a trickster, she frees us from the trappings that bind us to our tiny personal worlds; like a knife she cuts away all that is inessential and untruthful. She shatters structure, disintegrates the personality, destroys form. She liberates and saves, heals and frees. Now is her time, and women are her vessels.

There is an inherent problem with the appearance of the Dark Goddess in the world today, and more personally in women's individual lives. When she was repressed and her priestesses disempowered, she was also demonized by the new ruling elite. What had always belonged to her - and by extension to her priestesses - was the power to interpret and carry out 'natural law' in individual and community lives. The powers of life and death were hers, and we humnas approached her with awe and respect. When female roles were replaced by male priests and shamans and temples became places where rules and regulations were made and held as "commandments", the Dark Goddess was maligned and made 'evil'.

Women carry this malignant definition of female power in our cells today. When the Dark Goddess begins to erupt in us, instead of rage at the wrongs that have been done, many women feel guilty and ashamed, as if something 'demonic' were awakening in them. What is this terrible force that mades a woman scream at her lover, rage at the authorities, and rail at God? When the Dark Goddess enters into the lives of even the most 'ordinary' women, she turns them into 'troublemakers'. Certainly the world around us defines her presence as demonic and destructive: Little old ladies march for abortion, mothers and housewives leave the fold and take up with 'uppity' women, women of all ages stop being 'nice'. If ever there as a revolutionary Goddess, the Dark Goddess is it! ...

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