| This is a book about bringing together the spiritual and the pol-itical. Or rather, it is a work that attempts to move in the spacewhere that split does not exist, where the stories of duality thatour culture tells us no longer bind us to repeat the same old plots. That space is dark and half-forgotten but within it lies a powerthat runs counter to the principle of domination upon which oursociety is based. In essence, this is a book about power. It talksabout the differences between power-over and power-from-within, about the stories and thought-forms that convey power,about ethics based on power-from-within. Although it moves inthe dark it is also about vision and about action -- that is, aboutmagic, the art of evoking power-from-within and using it to trans-form ourselves, our community, our culture, using it to resist thedestruction that those who wield power-over are bringing upon the world. This book begins in a conversation that unrolls like the dark ribbon of the road as we pass by orchards of almonds and fields of wild mustard. We are driving home from a women s conference -- myself and my friends Lauren and Kerry. All weekend we have been hearing horror stories of rape, torture, footbinding, clitori- |
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