Christian religion, with its traditional focus on a heaven after death, emphasizes the relief that comes from leaving behind physical reality. But according to Carol Christ, the body is the portal to religious experience.
In the late ’90s, I rented a summer house in Molivos, Lesbos, to spend time with Carol Christ, the late feminist theologian. Carol was the rebellious scholar who challenged the world of religious thought, and with her help, I was writing a novel about embodied spirituality.
The workshops could be therapeutic and my daughter had been depressed. She had dropped out of McGill University, my alma mater, because she felt unhappy. A psychologist once told me once boys act out immediately when their parents divorce while girls don’t express their anger until they are in their 20s. That day in the taxi, Sam was 24, the same age I was when I married her father, and she was angry with me about her childhood.
Carol was younger, blonder and taller than almost all the men in her class. They talked constantly about her miniskirts and long blonde hair and took bets on where she might sit in the classroom. The overwhelming male attention flustered Carol, whose parents were conservative Republicans. She felt frustrated at being perceived in terms of her body instead of her mind.
According to Carol, the enchanting images of the dark-haired snake goddesses represented priestesses who stood in for the Goddess. The space Evans called the throne room had likely been a shrine complex designed to celebrate the harvest cycles. Look, she’s processing like a snake goddess, one of the women joked. Everyone laughed. I turned around, laughing myself, and saw clusters of tiny bright orange flames hovering in front of each woman’s chest. My vision lasted for about thirty seconds.
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