Comments on: The Middle-Class Goddess Movement?

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:18:00 +0000

Um, new age doesn’t actually rhyme with sewage. That’s more evidence of a poor approach to poetry than wit, the erroneous idea that if words have similar spellings they can be said to rhyme. Not so. Unless whoever is saying ‘sewage’ really has quite the strangest accent in the world! Now, the word ‘assuage’ rhymes with ‘new age’ – which is, of course, two words and not one anyway – but like the quote doesn’t work… x

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:14:00 +0000

I don’t think it’s placing a premium on selling product to charge a reasonable sum for your services, whatever they might be. Three years’ training for under ?2,000? I’d say that’s a bargain. It’s not for me but I do know someone who has undergone that training and has got an awful lot out of it. And plugging a book? Why should plugging a book be reprimanded? People have always had things to sell, talents to make money from – we don’t criticise the wise women of old for taking coin in exchange for wart cures and potions. Why do it now? Let’s not blind ourselves to the need to make a living and let’s not get fascistic in telling people how they should earn their living or get into arguments about what constitutes an acceptable level of income for someone of a pagan bent.I think if you knew the type of readership the Daily Mail usually has, and the kind of gutter journalism it peddles, you might be less inclined to use its outpourings as a basis for condemning those caught beneath its hypocritical and rancid eye as ‘snake-oil sellers’. I would never believe a word that paper prints, let alone use what it has to say as the springboard for condemning others.There is much crass commercialism in Glastonbury but, as AmethystDragon rightly points out, there is much there for spiritual seekers also. Some of it you pay for; some of it you don’t but heck, you have to pay to get into the Chalice Well Gardens. About the only thing you get for free is the Tor. Why expect pagans to give everything they’ve got for either nothing at all or a pittance? x

By: AmethystDragon

AmethystDragon — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:39:00 +0000

I have been to the Goddess Temple at Glastonbury – infact I was there during a Goddess Conference (not deliberate simply a coincidence) a couple of years ago – On a purely spiritual level I found this to be one of the most inspirational places I’ve ever been to – The walls of the temple were covered with some really beautiful images of the Goddess in all her forms – The one that stuck with me the most was the Morrigan – A Goddess I have a particular affinity with There is of course a money element to it – unfortunately in this day and age money is a necessity not a nice to have. However you are welcomed to the temple whether you wish to become a member or not – That is what stayed with me.

By: steward

steward — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:27:00 +0000

“I find modern Paganism’s dalliances with “New Age” monetary ethics distasteful and cheapening.”I like the way one poster on alt.pagan used to refer to the “New Age” movement:”newage – rhymes with sewage”.

By: Inanna

Inanna — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 04:26:00 +0000

Moore’s biases against feminists, peace activists, “hippie dippies,” and Goddess women – and her desire to make it all seem ridiculous – are clear from the snide tone of her article. It’s difficult to take what she says seriously, since it seems designed merely to reinforce her own prejudices and the presumed skepticism of her readers. Yawn.