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...During his last illness, Michael courageously came to work, sometimes walking with a cane. On a day when he didn't need it, he commented wryly, "No pain, no cane." In the latter months of 1990, Michael was conducting interviews for a future story about the resurgence of Goddess worship, talking to people around the country who could help assess the movement and put it in historical perspective. The story appears in this issue, and after the final paragraph you will see the words "Reported by Michael P. Harris/New York." It is his last byline...
RELIGION: Worshipers of Mother Earth are part of a Goddess resurgence...
...planet Earth," intoned barefoot Selena Fox, priestess of Circle Sanctuary. Worshipers responded with a crescendo chant, "Clean soil. Clean soil," then pledged to do a variety of ecological good deeds and joined in a hug. Similar nature worship was part of Earth Day festivals from Boston, where the Goddess Gospel singers performed on the waterfront, to Berkeley, where devotees drummed and sang for a crowd...
...ceremonies were part of a growing U.S. spiritual movement: Goddess worship, the effort to create a female-centered focus for spiritual expression. Most participants are women who seek a deity other than God the Father, and a faith less patriarchal than the Judeo-Christian tradition seems to offer. Adherents claim the movement involves as many as 100,000 U.S. women...
Though such ancient goddesses as Isis or Astarte are often invoked, most worship occurs in the name of a vague generic "Goddess," often depicted as Mother Earth or Gaia in line with environmental awareness. "The Goddess is not just the female version of God. She represents a different concept," says Merlin Stone, author of When God Was a Woman. While the Judeo-Christian God is transcendent, the Goddess is located "within each individual and all things in nature," she says...