Best 5 quotes of Rachel Pollack on MyQuotes

The ancients could communicate with the gods in two ways. First, it was (and is) possible to go into a trance and visit the gods in their celestial retreats, as the great shamans have always done. More easily, and less dangerously, they could let the gods speak through code, that is, divination, using dice, entrails, bird patterns, yarrow sticks, cards.

To learn to play seriously is one of the great secrets of spiritual exploration.

Violence cannot destroy the body of the Goddess, for Her body is the world itself.

We tend to misunderstand the colour black, seeing it as evil, or negation of life. Rather, black means all things being possible, infinite energy of life before consciousness has constructed any boundaries. When we fear blackness or darkness we fear the deep unconscious source of life itself.

Marion: What is all this? What's going on? Clint: The same thing that's always going on. The end of the world.