"Soul is not a thing, but a quality or a dimension of experiencing life and ourselves. It has to do with depth, value, relatedness, heart, and personal substance…The great malady of the twentieth century, implicated in all of our troubles and affecting us individually and socially, is "loss of soul." When soul is neglected, it doesn’t just go away; it appears symptomatically in obsessions, additions, violence, and loss of meaning."

From Manuela Dunn Mascetti’s book, Goddesses:

"The Goddess is the Mother and the Untouched Maiden in times of peace and harmony. She is the bestower of all that is good and gracious. But when turmoil and war shake the earth and Her help is sincerely called upon, She comes to save the world from ruin. Perhaps this is one reason why She is coming so powerfully to the consciousness of woman and man throughout the Christian, Western world. We know ourselves to be in serious trouble in the unnatural and violent world that we have created."

She continues…

"It has been more than 2,000 years since the Goddess was recognized as the primary spiritual force on earth. The idea of a single, sky father god was still relatively new when the carpenter’s son was born and gave rise to Gnosticism, the Roman Church, Protestantism and all the contemporary, fundamentalist Christian Churches. Today, when violence against women and girl children is epidemic and the toxic destruction of the earth is at an extreme turning point, the recognition of the transformative power of the Goddess is re-emerging to show us ways out of our self-created hell."