The Female Divine in All Her Glorious Shapes, Colors and Sounds

This curriculum is based on a shift to a new social pattern, or “paradigm,” of religious, cultural and spiritual inquiry.

Paradigms are very powerful. They often set the limits for what we will do and will not do.

We filter our experiences through these paradigms, using them to explain the meaning of our activities. When people are committed to living by a certain paradigm, they often cannot even see the evidence that supports the need for a new paradigm. If people live by an old paradigm, they will often resist a new one because they will not or can not consider the evidence that supports the shift to a new pattern.

OLD PARADIGM

there is one truth

we must adhere to conventions

it is better to judge based

on past experience or

preconceptions

religious life and practice

are dictated

there is one absolute authority

God decrees one truth

there is one God who is

transcendent

truth is only achievable through

reason and logic

life is a linear pattern of cause

and effect

a pyramid structure from top to

bottom — God, man, woman,

child, animal, plant — determines

worth and the right to exist

the earth should be conquered,

controlled and exploited

cultures are separate

one culture is superior to

another; others should be ignored

we need to only be exposed to

Jewish and Christian religious

concepts and practices