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[woman chanting]
[Francesca De Grandis] Most people see humankind as really
separate from nature, and separate from the earth.
I'm as much of this earth as a rock or tree is.
And I came out of it, this is my mother planet.
I grew out of this earth.
As long as conceive of divinity as above us,
or outside of us, or that our bodies
are somehow less divine than spirit,
there's no way that we can change our course.
[flute and harp music]
When we talk about the Great Mother,
we mean the mother of all things. All things.
The mother who created everything.
Gaia was the ancient Greek goddess of the Earth.
Or, the personification of the earth as a vast ,
divine, living being, maintaining the harmony of all forms of life,
throughout the earth.
There are things that happened in every single culture,
things like the Inquisition, that create quite a block -
to us remembering the old ways, or
adapting the old ways to our modern situations.
[Cerridwen Fallingstar] As soon as I got each person in front of their stone in a circle,
there was this amazing sound, that I can't really reproduce.
It was very electrical sounding, sort of like [sounds out "chick-a-chick-a"].
It went between each stone, and each next stone,
until it completed the circle.
[chanting and clicking]
[Dr Serena Dougal] Whenever you're in an area, like here in Glastonbury,
where you've got unusual land formations,
you've got unusual electro-magnetic effects going on.
And that atmoshphere of the place, that is the intensity of the place,
Is the intensity of this electromagnetic, "Earth Energy".
The pyschic state is the collective unconscious
which is that consciousness of the planet.
What's called the "Cthonic Mind", the mind of the earth.
Our ancestors understood that the animal and divine,
were all connected, they were together-
that there wasn't a separation - that's what we are trying to return to
is that sense that our animal nature is divine,
it doesn't get in the way of the divine - it gets us closer to it.
What your idea of being fully alive as a human being,
because that's what's really spiritual. Write it down.
Start writing your own bible if you want.
Many religions are so negative about sexuality, because
they want to break people apart from their own access to the divine.
so that they can be controlled.
And really, the most important thing you can do for yourself,
is to re-establish your own direct connection.
Your own hotline, to the divine.
The birth of a new myth in our time,
comes from the same source as dreams.
and it must be to rediscover earth as sacred,
earth as the source of life for us here and now,
that this is the sacred realm.
[Singing of the names of goddesses of many religions throughout the world, and drummng]