{"id":4887,"date":"2012-12-27T05:15:55","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T12:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4887"},"modified":"2012-12-27T09:19:20","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T16:19:20","slug":"a-goddess-movement-video-with-something-extra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4887","title":{"rendered":"A Goddess-Movement Video with Something Extra"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of Fred Adams’ visionary paintings on the DVD case for “Dancing with Gaia.”<\/p><\/div>\n

First, although this is not directly about “the Goddess movement,” I want to point out the blogging that Aidan Kelly has been doing, particularly about the history of contemporary Paganism in America, at his Patheos blog, Including Paganism.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Another resource is Dancing with Gaia<\/em><\/a>, a video subtitled “Earth Energy, Sacred Sexuality, the Return of the Goddess as Gaia . . . a Continuum,” produced and directed by Jo Carson (82 min.)<\/p>\n

A number of the well-known names from the Goddess movement are in, such as the Swedish artist and anarchist Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6<\/a> (1938\u20132005) to name just one. So it is a valuable work.<\/p>\n

What I found particularly interesting, however, was the large amount of 1970s- era footage of the Southern California Pagan group Feraferia<\/a>, founded by the Goddess- visionary artist Fred Adams and his wife, Svetlana.<\/p>\n

Somehow the Adamses are left out of most surveys of Goddess religion. Perhaps they were too visionary, too “cosmic”\u00a0 . . . and too religious? They just did not fit the narrative\u2014except in Carson’s case.<\/p>\n

But what you can see is home-movie footage of Pagan ritual in the California mountains that must be some of the earliest available, as well as other footage of sites in Europe, the Mediterranean, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Dancing with Gaia <\/em>is available on DVD for $19.95<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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