FELICITY ARTEMIS FLOWERS – on Maui with Airielle and Jason 1998
Summary & Full timestamped transcript below…
Introduction and Context
Jason Schwartz from the Maui Arts and Music Association introduces the program filmed in the beautiful locale of Wailoa, Maui. He is joined by co-host Ariel and guest Felicity Artemis Flowers, who is the writer and performer of a unique performance piece titled “Blood Sisters”. The piece is not a traditional play but a heartfelt performance that uses archetypal characters to convey important messages about womanhood and empowerment.
Key points:
- “Blood Sisters” is described as a performance piece, distinct from a play because it is autobiographical and uses characters as vessels to express the artist’s truths rather than fictional storytelling.
- Felicity embodies three ancient goddess archetypes, channeling them to bring forward messages relevant to contemporary society, especially regarding women’s roles and empowerment.
- The location—Maui—is highlighted as a place of natural beauty and cultural significance, providing a fitting backdrop for the discussion of feminine power and spirituality.
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The Three Archetypes in “Blood Sisters”
Felicity explains the three goddess archetypes that she portrays, which represent different facets of female identity:
| Archetype | Description | Key Message |
|---|---|---|
| Artemis | Goddess of female autonomy, representing the untamed, autonomous self-defined womanhood. She is uncolonized and creates herself moment to moment, refusing societal prescriptions. | Represents female independence and self-creation. Challenges societal expectations and molds. |
| Medusa | Embodies female rage and outrage, the capacity to say no and set boundaries. Medusa represents the power to reject violence and injustice, especially violence against women and the Earth. | Calls for recognition and expression of female anger against systemic violence and abuse. |
| Aphrodite | Reframes the concept of the erotic as connected to justice and respect for women. Aphrodite demands that honoring the goddess means actively creating a just society that does not tolerate violence against women. | Connects erotic power with social justice and the transformation of society through honoring women. |
Insights:
- The archetypes are ancient yet relevant, offering a framework for contemporary female empowerment.
- There is a tension acknowledged between men’s attraction to autonomous women and their fear of losing control in patriarchal structures.
- The performance challenges traditional religious and societal norms, including criticism of symbols such as the crucifixion, which Felicity interprets as representing the glorification of torture.
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Emotional Impact and Societal Commentary
Jason shares his personal emotional response to “Blood Sisters,” ranging from joy to anger and sadness, emphasizing how the piece deals with deep and difficult emotions connected to women’s experiences.
Felicity discusses the historical worship of the mother goddess and how modern society has largely forgotten this, shifting focus toward male-dominated religious structures that diminish the feminine principle.
Important statistics highlighted:
- More women die annually from domestic violence in the US than from drugs, automobile accidents, and cancer combined. This underscores the urgent need for societal change.
Key initiatives and solutions:
- Felicity references Alan Johnson, a teacher who educates men about patriarchy and their role in dismantling it.
- Groups like Men Evolving Non-Violently in California and Alternatives to Violence on Maui work with men to address cycles of abuse compassionately.
- Compassionate intervention is advocated, similar to practices in addiction recovery, where community members confront harmful behavior with honesty and care.
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Role of Men and Community in Ending Violence
Felicity stresses the power of men to use their voices to condemn violence against women and support change. She recounts witnessing a man passionately speaking out for the Earth, which moved her deeply.
The discussion highlights the necessity for men to balance strength with gentleness, helping to equalize societal structures and contribute actively to ending violence.
Maui is described as a microcosm of global challenges:
- It has a spiritually enlightened population yet also faces denial and environmental destruction through golf courses, plantations, and military presence.
- There is a juxtaposition of paradise and poisoning, reflecting wider societal contradictions.
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The Goddess Movement and Religious Transformation
Felicity speaks about the infiltration of goddess spirituality into mainstream religions, including Christianity. She refers to televised events where women bless each other in the name of Sophia, the goddess of female wisdom.
Maui is noted as unique for its openness, with many female ministers and a community more aware of feminine spiritual power. However, change within institutions is slow, and wider participation is required.
Key themes:
- The goddess represents love and reverence for all life.
- There’s a call to reclaim the earth-based spirituality that honors women and nature, which has been suppressed by patriarchal religions.
- The importance of active participation by both women and men to accelerate this spiritual and cultural transformation.
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Empowerment, Autonomy, and Collaboration Between Genders
Felicity emphasizes that the path forward begins with women embracing their power and autonomy (Artemis archetype) without waiting for men to lead. However, men are invited to join as allies, not controllers, honoring the separate but complementary nature of male and female experiences.
She clarifies that this is not about separation or exclusion but about mutual respect for difference and wholeness. The matristic societies of the past prioritized the care of mothers and children, and such values can guide healing today.
Challenges for men:
- Many men experience separation anxiety due to brutal cultural rites of passage, lacking gentle transitions to manhood.
- Patriarchal culture is dualistic and black-and-white, while goddess spirituality embraces paradox and integration—being both unique and collective.
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Closing Reflections and Call to Action
Felicity shares her passion for Maui as a place to effect systemic change, aiming to be a “major tweaker” of the system. She invites producers and supporters to help bring “Blood Sisters” to more audiences and mentions upcoming workshops to help women integrate these archetypes into their personal lives.
She stresses that the performance combines outrageous acts of empowerment with kindness, encouraging people to engage with the work emotionally and intellectually.
The show closes with a powerful meditation on the true story of Medusa, reclaiming her as the ancient serpent goddess of female wisdom, rage, and transformation rather than the villain of patriarchal myth:
- Medusa represents the knowledge and power of saying no, setting boundaries, and protecting women and the Earth.
- The story critiques the patriarchal re-interpretation of Medusa as a monster and highlights the weaponization of female power by oppressive systems.
- Felicity calls for unbinding minds from patriarchal thought forms and reclaiming female spiritual self-knowledge as a path to healing and empowerment.
Summary Table: Archetypes in “Blood Sisters”
| Archetype | Essence | Cultural Challenge Addressed | Contemporary Message |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artemis | Female autonomy and self-creation | Fear of uncontrollable women in patriarchy | Women as independent creators of their own lives |
| Medusa | Female rage and boundary setting | Suppression of female anger and outrage | Empowered rejection of violence and injustice |
| Aphrodite | Erotic power linked to justice | Erotic power trivialized or abused | Erotic energy as a catalyst for social justice |
Key Insights
- “Blood Sisters” is a transformative performance piece that channels ancient goddess archetypes to address contemporary women’s issues.
- The performance blends personal narrative with archetypal symbolism, inviting audiences to engage emotionally and intellectually.
- Violence against women is a pressing societal crisis, requiring active intervention, especially from men who hold social power.
- The goddess movement is influencing mainstream religions, bringing back earth-based reverence and female wisdom.
- Healing requires mutual respect and collaboration between genders, recognizing differences without separation.
- Reclaiming suppressed female archetypes like Medusa is vital for dismantling patriarchal myths and empowering women.
Contact and Further Engagement
- Felicity Artemis Flowers can be reached at:
- Email: felicityartemis@earthlink.net
- Phone: (808) 573-2497
- She offers workshops on integrating goddess archetypes into women’s lives.
- Performances of “Blood Sisters” are planned, pending a producer to help expand its reach.
- Maui’s New World Books in Haiku serves as a hub for related literature and learning.
Closing Remark
The discussion and performance serve as a call to reclaim feminine power, integrate compassion and justice, and heal society through honoring life and womanhood. The message is urgent yet hopeful, urging both women and men to take responsibility and participate in creating a more just, loving world.
Transcript
[Music] brand new [Music] don’t let me down [Music] [Applause] aloha i’m jason schwartz from the maui arts and music association you know me and i’m sitting here with ariel my co-host and co-host s well that would make me a co-host that’s right anyway and felicity you know i’m here with two flowers felicity artemis flowers and arielle who’s such a flower the reason that we’re here we’re out in beautiful waylo i don’t know if many of you have been out to will if not
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go through it’s a beautiful unnatural place and felicity thought this would be a great place to sit and meet felicity has got a story that she wants to tell you and sure arielle will share you know how this all happened was a friend of mine who in fact is on camera thanking mikhail and ananda for doing the camera work and here’s his dance we thought there was a play that i heard about and in fact you’re going to tell me it really wasn’t the play it was really a performance that’s right it wasn’t a play
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what was it it was an it was a gift from her heart it was a gift from your heart well of course okay yeah and i think of it as a performance piece a performance piece it’s called blood sisters and then i heard that it was not going to be out in this church in haiku it was going to be at the iao theater and felicity called me and after i went with ariel to see it i thought this was something we’d like to share with you not only blood sisters the performance piece but the writer and performer felicity
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herself welcome welcome welcome to our show thank you jason you are closer to give you a hug [Music] thank you for being here with us you look beautiful today thank you thank you kind of like a younger woman thanks for helping me get laid finally you got to get laid on maui so i heard i’m purposely giving you room to start talking if you don’t it’s so tight it was really good i was looking for you guys i was just starting to say that about the let me start i’ll leave it again okay
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we’re live ready three two one so blood sisters that was really to me it spoke from your heart but speak to us about that wonderful creation of yours that we all enjoyed so much let’s tell our audience what blood sisters was about if you would well first of all i wanted to address whether it was a play or a performance piece oh please yeah to me uh the difference between the two is that a play would be a story where the actors would be pretending to to be different characters and to give their message whereas a performance
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piece it’s it’s definitely me and it’s i’m using the characters in order to say what i have come to earth to say so i think that’s that’s the one of the main differences between that makes a lot of forms i like that definition yeah yeah well you definitely do use those characters and you use them beautifully and we she takes three different characters and makes them hers in a very unique way they’re actually archetypes ancient archetypes of goddesses that our collective
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unconscious have held for thousands of years and so what i’m doing is i’m you we can say that i’m channeling them but really i don’t feel that i feel like i’m embodying them and as we all do as all women do um embodying the archetypes in a contemporary uh context a contemporary with a contemporary message uh brought back from the ancient world into our times when we need it the most well let me translate that into english i’m gonna bring it down what there’s there are three
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different aspects of a character that are embodied in every woman yes what are they that you portrayed well the three that i’ve identified and that i portray the first is artemis and she is the goddess who represents uh female autonomy and the sacredness of our autonomous self-defined womanhood how does that feel to you guys okay she who is uh the uncolonized untamed and un cult enculturated female uh the second archetype i think that’s a little scary for me [Laughter] it’s a woman who discovers and herself
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and creates herself from moment to moment and doesn’t take directives from the directors of this world what culture says she has to be or do or look like or act like but creates and invents her own personality her own character and her own uh path that sounds like a very attractive thing for any man to want to be sharing with a woman who is her own being and not just cut out of a cookie cutter mold mm-hmm no i hope so i think we could get into that at a different i don’t think that’s what
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this show is about but i think no i think that a lot of men are very attracted to that but on the other hand it really scares them to have a woman that they don’t feel is controllable or who fits into the cookie cutter mold so the first character was was artemis who was that passionate front-line adventurer cut her own path kind of presentation of a woman yes and the second one was medusa medusa what was she about medusa is the embodiment of female rage and outrage and our capacity to say no to that which
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is not acceptable and to set boundaries and this is a very usually a very uh difficult archetype for most women to embrace because we haven’t been in our culture given access or given permission to be outraged and to be uh en enlivened by our uh our passion in that way we’re usually told to be you know don’t make a big deal out of it and just you know stay stay calm that’s what she says you know stay calm ladies don’t get upset don’t get hysterical uh you know just and when there’s definitely a lot of
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things to be upset about right now and uh the earth is being threatened you know and women are being brutalized raped and murdered every day and so artemis is here with her medusa’s here with her message of that it’s time for us to collectively as a species say no to violence against women and the earth that’s a real powerful part of of being this and what was the third well you make that so clear in your gift i mean medusa goes so far as to implore us to get rid of those symbols of torture that
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are fueling our modern religions such as the crucifixion of jesus which to my mind is the the glorifying of torture as a religious symbol and i have a lot to say about that actually i’m definitely on a mission to transform the nature of religion on the planet so okay yeah sure we’ll get to that passion our society has been in obviously our lifetimes very patriarchy you know very male dominated i think most men have come to understand most of the people that i know have come to understand that
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fact when i originally named this organization mama maui arts and music association is because i think there was a clear awareness of mother earth and that need to be whole and preserving of our earth that feminine quality is something like when you talk about the three aspects that you were portraying you had um uh artemis he didn’t get to the third one and medusa and the third one aphrodite uh-huh and and aphrodite i’m reframing the concept of the erotic and uh for me the erotic in the times in
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which we’re living for myself needs to be what you’re talking about men who honor the goddess it just can’t be theoretical anymore honoring the goddess for men is about helping women create a just society and a society that uh that honors women and that will not tolerate violence against women as a society we tolerate it and even the nice men who say they worship the goddess because they were you know they are reasonably nice to their spouses it’s just not enough right now and so
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aphrodite speaks to that and she says if you really want to make love to the goddess then you’ll help me create justice in the world because that’s what making love really means and i learned that from john lennon and yoko ona which i credited on my on my program that that concept of using that erotic charge to create justice in the world that’s an interesting charge thank you for explaining that i i saw the piece that i didn’t put your exact message there so clearly together that’s why so many
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people see the show two and three times it’s a great show so if you have the opportunity go see it she really speaks from her heart and i must say for me it brought up a lot of emotion you know i went through a gambit of emotion with you from joy and playfulness to anger and deep sadness and it just takes you through uh wonderful feelings and things that we all really need to be aware of you know and we’re not it’s like we were coming over here and jason was talking to me and we started a little conversation and he
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said but you think that everybody understands that the mother was once worshipped as god and he said and they don’t yeah he’s right you know he said these people don’t have that understanding they haven’t they haven’t studied what you’ve studied and because we’ve come so far as a civilization from that basic awareness i think we should share a little bit of that do you mind um i was listening on the way over to your tape yeah it’s an invocation what was the title invocation to free women
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invocation to free women and i’m a man and i think of myself as open and and aware and as i was listening and realizing that uh our society has really focused so much on the man and it’s really only in the last 1500 or so years that before that our society was very clearly honoring of women that life came from woman and a womb and and then there was suddenly a refocus on god who created life without honoring that it came from a female form i really without acknowledging it in motion most natural process it got
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very unnatural and supernatural right no wonder it’s so hard for many of us to embrace religion there are some guys that say they can do that but they don’t need a woman it’s not reflected in the society that we are living in i’m saying and uh that was really a very big one for me to really hear again and and you know wake me up to that fact because to remember yeah really very much so have you been doing this work for a long time i’ve been performing this particular piece for um
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just about a year now but it took me about four years to create it and so i’ve been performing it as i was creating it and this is my first performance piece ever it’s very very powerful thank you you guys are going to watch blood sisters when you see it and uh i think that all of you will find it’s the kind of thing you say god i’d like to see that again so i hope that we’re going to see some performances here on maui and if you’re fortunate enough to get an opportunity to go i hope you’ll all come
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out and share with it it’s really it was like a tip of an iceberg because the subjects that could be talked about from it are very significant we could take just any aspect yeah for example as we’re sitting here i’d like to really back away and see you guys share about aspects about it and about this whole work because you’ve been a student of the student of you’ve been a goddess for a long time i am a daughter of the goddess yes right and i am the goddess yeah as are we all
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ways of feeling um here on maui like you say there’s a cursory awareness and acknowledgement of a woman but now what is our next step i’d like to hear what you feel is real what do we do i mean i can say i’m i’m honoring of a woman i’m not into rape when there’s abuse i’m not into that i’m into equality right what kind of things do you mean and how can we all who are feeling so empowered yes do something to be helpful in that great question i’m grateful for that
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question yeah it’s it’s big on my mind right now actually and uh well let’s see the first thing that comes to mind is that there’s a a man who teaches other men about patriarchy out there his name is alan johnson and he teaches about patriarchy yeah he teaches men how to take responsibility for patriarchy and he explains in no uncertain terms how men are all responsible for patriarchy whether they themselves are perpetrators of violence or just the nice guys who say nothing about it or very rarely even
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think about it and what comes to mind for me about that is there’s a group in santa rosa in northern california called men evolving non-violently and i have a feeling there’s other groups besides that one that’s the one i know about and they are a group of former batterers who are now counselors and they hold a very compassionate but focused space for men who are trapped in their own cycle of being abusers which which is a trap for men as well to do an incredible job with those people
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they do and they teach men how to be with their anger in a way that is not harming anyone especially the one they love the most here in maui there’s a group called atv alternatives to violence is that right which has been i in fact um familiar with them through someone that i did acting with joe amica who was very active in in that program so different name same book under that cover that’s good to hear okay well i’d like to know more about that group and uh and i i’d like all of us to know
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more about that creek it needs to be more broadly for those that may not be specifically uh batterers of women but there’s a whole sort of posture that a society has lent itself to using uh women as the brunt of of jokes and a whole twist that shows weakness and things like that and i’m very aware of it sometimes i look into all your beautiful ladies and i think to myself when you come on so strong with it to sort of shun that kind of activity that um some of us need to show you the love and tenderness so you realize
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that we’re there with you somehow i’d like to feel more like we hear your message and we walk to share this together yeah well for me what that would look like is you know the the fact is that and i found this out just recently by calling our local battered women’s services women helping women and finding out this current statistic current statistic is that more women die every year from domestic violence in this country than those that die from drugs automobile accidents and cancer combined wow those are the
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statistics it’s a war against women really sad so what i want to see at the very least is men who traditionally have pretty loud voices and big forums to use those loud macho voices to express their outrage about that particular reality that we’re all a part of that we’re all affected by and complicit in in some way or another and to help us dismantle it and take it apart and make it different there’s so much power in all of us and there’s so much power in the masculine in the in the male uh psyche and persona
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and i i once did see a man doing that i saw him raging about it about the destruction of the earth from his you know from his guts from his kishkas [Applause] and i started to cry i was so happy with the vision of a man who uses his his macho masculinity to say this to say this so such important thing because that’s what it is being gentle with us is a part of it and helping us in in various ways equalize you know the economy and how in helping us you know sustain ourselves and all of that stuff that’s
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so important too and as long as we’re butchered in at this level and this is all over the world not just in in the united states you know it’s just it’s going to take more than than mere gentleness it’s going to you’re absolutely right it’s gonna take those same men standing up and saying no yeah you know and it begins at home here and it’s really sad because i love hawaii i mean i love hawaii this is very sad to me that there’s so much abuse and physical abuse that
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goes on here and it’s not stopped the the beings who keep doing this are not stopped and i think that if men get together and say we won’t have this yeah we won’t allow our fellow man to do this in baby they can stop them they can stop it it’s going [Music] more believing there’s a situation when it’s early on i mean more compassion here a lot of stories where oh that’s just a fight at home we we don’t get involved that’s just domestic quarrel no this would look more like
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compassionate intervention like when someone is is being uh you know abusing alcohol within your tribe you make a circle around them and and reflect to them what that is for you and hold a compassionate space for them to you know to process and to heal and to grow and to grow and to change alcohol be more specific so i can understand oh well um there’s a practice amongst people who are involved in you know aaa or whatever that when there’s a friend uh amongst them who’s abusing alcohol in a way that’s
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obviously a detriment to their own you know functioning that they kind of plan a little ambush for them but it’s a compassionate sort of thing where they all just are real honest about what they’re experiencing with them so you’re saying to bring that into the realm of setting a boundary too abusing his wife or any woman that some other guy says you know i think you ought to really take a look at what you’re doing no i want that and to say it’s not okay with me that you’re hurting your wife and i’m
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not going to let you do that personally yeah and i know that you really don’t want to be hurting her and i know that you don’t know what else to do and so let’s let’s talk about that let’s talk about what other what other ways there are to be with anger other than harming someone else and that’s the story of the world right now that’s what we all have to learn it’s hard for me sometimes because that feels so fun yeah to me yeah others may say well you do it with your
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words you know because you have such a sword with your words and i’m sure that that’s also emotional abuse you know that we all have to be keenly aware of yeah but um yeah you can use your words as weapons and it’s also violence and then it becomes a real duel and women are really good with those words too that’s where they i find are uh a much more equal playing field than on a physical brawn kind of a thing but um i think we really all of us have to learn to treat each other gently with more love and compassion
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whether we’re men or women i’d like to see a whole change and that makes me immediately think of the matriarchal society it makes me really realize that difference that you were portraying of the the very brash and male and aggressive and handle it through physicality rather than something soft and gentle and involving which is that’s how i separate when i think of men and women and i often know that to me even in myself it’s the combining of both of those elements that make me feel balanced
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and i think you’re bringing up the um ancient you know what we call matristic societies because we don’t perceive that as as another kind of hierarchy so it’s not necessarily a matriarchy but more a a society that prioritizes mothers and children as the highest priority in the society how do we take care of the mothers and the children the human mothers and children the plant mothers and children the animal all of that and how did we get from there to here which you know some some disciplines say
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it’s not important why you know and i don’t i disagree because i think it helps us figure out how to reclaim those things that are lost to us to figure out how they were taken from us so i really think that the evolution of patriarchy had a lot to do with the evolution of patriarchal religion and that those religions that teach us to worship everything other than life itself and women in nature are what has programmed us to abuse and trash women and nature and i see those as the same violence and
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they are both they both come from the hatred of life and that is taught to us by patriarchal male god religions and i’d say that that’s pretty much summarily true and uh basically i feel that if a religion doesn’t specific this is the thing i want to say the most today this is right this is the thing that i’ve been waiting days to say to you that is that if a religion does not specifically teach the worship of life itself the natural world and women who give life then there it’s teaching not to worship
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those things it’s teaching that those things are not important they’re not even worth mentioning and there is the religious disrespect for life itself that’s taught through these religions there or have there been any groups i want to say women’s group but any groups inside these religions that have been more aware in these last years to bring those things to the forefront and make those religions more responsive i will say yeah the goddess is definitely infiltrating into those religions you know she’s she’s uh
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definitely diabolically thwarting them and bringing in this message diabolically for you that’s a whole other interesting little twist she is and and the goddess’s message is love i mean that’s the bottom line of her message and if you go into a lot of churches it’s love and reverence for life exactly yes love love and reference for life of all forms of all forms and and it’s interesting to see how even the churches are changing but it’s not happening fast enough and in order for it to happen fast
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enough we each and every one of us have to be out there partaking and participating yes and sharing we want to go into this infiltration of the goddess of the female into the church a little bit more so well recently i saw on uh it was on ted koppel’s nightline actually just a few years ago they showed this phenomenon of the goddess being introduced into uh christian churches and uh here they showed these large audiences groups of women gathered together and blessing each other in the name of
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sophia the goddess of female wisdom is really exciting oh really yeah and i i was watching out my mouth it says and uh you know on ted koppel’s nightline you know prime time that’s what the nation was watching so she’s back there’s no doubt about it and she mom she’s definitely getting in there mm-hmm she is she’s getting in there big time and you know i one of the things i think is so beautiful is how many uh female ministers we have now you especially on this island well maui
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is unique you know i have to say that i think maui is is a little different than the rest of the world well it is and it isn’t i feel i mean my perception i haven’t been here very long but i’ve been definitely paying attention and it feels to me like a microcosm of the world uh the only difference that i’ve seen really is that it’s much more fun to be homeless on maui oh that’s for sure so it’s not like there’s no homeless people but they’re all like happy but um but other than that
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you know you’ve got the the uh the most beautiful paradisical reality juxtaposed with the most heinous poisons and destruction in the form of the golf courses and the pineapple and the sugar cane and the the military base on haleakala and you know there’s definitely some some very uh scary stuff going on on this island very scary yeah and around it and around it and there’s a lot of denial which furthers my perception of the microcosm of the universe here we’ve got spiritual enlightenment and denial of
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the dangers to this this beautiful place that we worship that we worship that’s a really good point yeah well you know i really believe that if if you can get enough people to hear this message that you’re putting across yes that you can make a difference which is why we wanted to help you with this show yeah you know and i think that that infiltration is wonderful but i agree with what you said earlier when you talked about the males getting behind you to make the difference because i really think
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that that’s gonna to it yeah so how do we make that happen ladies i think um i think it seems to me that when women stop worrying or waiting for the men to do any of it when we are basically taking it on ourselves and then embracing ourselves as artemis the autonomous female soul the men are going but what about me but what about me wait for me that’s when we can say okay well this is how you come along with us this is what you do to come along with us we’re not going to hold ourselves back
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to keep you company it’s too urgent it’s too dire right now we got to keep walking it talking it working it making it happen and you want to come along come right along you can join the party you can join the club you’re part of the club we need you we need you yeah we need you very much you know i think that that that may be a scary part for some men yeah is that when they think about the goddess or they think about moving back to mother orientation so to speak that they’re going to be left out or
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they’re not important but if you study the ancient societies the mother didn’t negate the male the the pre the druid the priest was as is important it wasn’t said he’s not important right which is really very much i think what happened when the patriarchy came in and they were also afraid afraid of the power of women that they felt that they couldn’t share it yeah because there’s some things about womanhood women kind that go beyond the experience of a man of course there’s no way that
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you can experience being a woman unless you are one and uh and there’s so therefore there’s stuff that we share together as sisters that is ours and it doesn’t belong to men it doesn’t concern men and so there are men who will be jealous of that or trying to interfere with that or or you know insinuate themselves in the middle of that but there are other men who just let themselves be in awe of the mystery of what they cannot touch and honor the mystery of what they can’t be and those are the men
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i want to hang out with those are the men that i feel like including not in all of my space but in some of my space because they’re honoring my space just as i will honor theirs and their uniqueness and their brotherhood and their magic that they make together exactly exactly yeah so it’s not it’s not about separation no this is not about separation and i think that a lot of men that that that scares them that they really believe that this is about separation and that’s why i want to make it clear
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that and i think that’s because men in our culture are not given rights of passage where they separate from their mothers in a conscious you know community supportive way it’s very it’s very um violent it’s very brutal the way that men are ripped away from their mothers and i think that’s why they have this separation anxiety even the process of of weaning from the breast is usually not done in a gentle conscious way um so that we can actually be separate here’s the paradox we are
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separate exactly but where there’s also a place where we come together and then there’s a place where we’re fully whole and separate as well and that’s what’s different between goddess religion and god is culture and patriarchal religion and patriarchal culture and i didn’t mean to point at you because i don’t get that you’re a big part of that myself i feel like you’re definitely a a member of our club yes but what i do want to say is that i feel that patriarchal culture
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is very dualistic and very black and white and either or and either you’re separate or you’re merged you know and i think that’s that’s the other thing about goddess religion is it’s it’s a a kind of paradigm that is not delineated that way it’s like yes we are separate and we are when yes we are unique souls and we are a collective unconscious it’s all true and we work with that and use that to our advantage you know to make change to make to make psychic connections that
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actually are effective in the world all the pieces are important yes and without all the pieces the whole can’t work that’s right and we all have to be not only free to function as who we truly are but in love to be who we truly are don’t you think yeah you know i mean i love being a female i am so glad i enjoy being a girl [Laughter] and i think it’s important yeah yeah that’s what man feels that’s the very same thing you know i love being a guy okay being in this body and having these
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sensibilities yes and smelling like this i enjoyed doing that in your performance where you really expressed that you know that was the artemis wasn’t it well also aphrodite gives herself a good sniff also yeah and medusa is doing we just don’t see it but she’s also sure taking her own scent in and getting high off the scent of her own body her own female i thought when you got into the role of medusa you really embraced the medusa that i think of you know she did such an excellent job with that
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good all those characters it was so much fun to watch you changing i enjoyed that you had a mirror and you let us share with you we’re giving some of it away but you’re gonna have to go see that’s right where we got to share as you got into that character and really embrace that character it was really really a wonderful experience and i hope it goes far and i’d like to see whatever we can do to be very helpful and to let the people of maui know about this how do we get in touch with you if we
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want to we all of us get in touch with you if we want to be able to share with you and find out more well uh my website’s under construction but i do have email and it’s felicity artemis at earthlink.net also my maui telephone number is area code oh we have 808 573-2497 and i also am teaching workshops for women on how to integrate these archetypes and this knowledge into our own actual you know personal lives oh that sounds and i have one coming up actually this week this week yeah this week will be this weekend you
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won’t get to see yeah you won’t get to see that but but that’s why i’m not there to be able to know where actually i uh yes and i will be teaching some classes through a wonderful store that i just discovered in haiku is it okay if i plug the store it’s a wonderful store called the new world books and very few people even know it’s there it’s right next to the salvation army and the veg out in that little area there you guys know where that is oh my gosh you go off kakomo road and you get to
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where the post office is and you go a little bit further and right there that’s center now on the right-hand side right yeah yeah and it’s a great store and it has a lot of books there that speak to what we’re talking about here today so a great i didn’t know it was there oh it’s a vortex and it’s a teaching space as well there’s a teaching space in there so mm-hmm we’ve got so many wonderful places happening is that now it’s glenn and sarah’s store thank you people we really want you know
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we here on this island there’s so much going on that we don’t know about uh it would be nice if we all had more opportunities so glenn and sarah at noon new world books in haiku so what else do you really want to tell these people you know what’s hot i love you when you burn when that when that fire is up what what’s burning what’s hot before we say goodbye and aloha and mahalo i want us to all see it all healed and know that it’s it is within our hands it’s in our hands
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to make it so and uh we there’s a lot of just incredible energy and charge in this community uh that i’ve had the wonderful honor and grace of participating in celebrations and parties and ceremonies and i want us to dedicate all this energy to getting rid of those influences here that have destroyed the culture of this land and destroyed the uh the spiritual base of this land which is earth-based just like native american culture and all indigenous cultures is earth-based means meaning worshiping the earth as the
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highest deity i want us to bring i want us to reclaim that as a culture here on this island and if we can do it here in this microcosm we can do it everywhere and that’s why i came to maui because i feel like i want to i want to be a major tweaker of the system a major mover and shaker in in that direction and as long as i live that’s what i’m going to do yay yeah honey you shake rattle and roll really good and you put your message out really well and i encourage everybody to hear and experience you so
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um how will they get to do that are you going to be doing blood sisters again are you going i hope so i’m currently looking for a producer to make it happen again so she needs a producer i need a producer i produced the last three shows myself i’d like to turn that over to someone else now someone far more competent than me as a producer well maybe there’s somebody out here who would love to support the goddess and help her grow in that manner yeah and i hope by the time you see this show there already
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is someone that’s reached out and found this this uh talent you know and already done it if not it might be incumbent upon you to be the one yeah so you know that they can also contact me with regard to video i’ll be taking orders for a video that will be coming out of the show of the performance of blood sisters which the subtitle by the way is three outrageous acts to empower women kind so three outrageous acts outrageous and kind they go together or it just happens of course they go together they’re not
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mutually a exclusive of times i find myself repeating things and and aiming you know things toward the audience i’m sure that this is maybe new to you if you haven’t watched me but i play with our audience a little because i know that some of them [Laughter] they’re playing with me i like him playing with me um i really know that there’s all kinds of people out in our audience some of the people are already keenly aware of the things we’re talking about and some of them this is a whole new
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subject and i really like involving our audience to be with us because the subjects that we have on here really i hope open uh the minds and hearts of people to get involved with such important and passionate things you know um i must tell you i knew nothing about blood sisters before you called me except i saw this poster and i said what a great poster yeah and then i when i got a call from you and i got a call and knew that i had gotten a call from my friend nakilanda who and i when i think of him i think of
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somebody who always has been so honoring of of women really i don’t think there’s any surprise that he’s got that green heart you know that environmental heart responsible and social justice and all those other good things so when i heard even though it’s not easy being green no it’s not [Laughter] um it’s just really i hope that more and more people find it comfortable to talk about these subjects you know when i first thought of bringing you on i thought well all the christians are going to
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hate me and then i realized they already hate you they may already but i don’t think so because i don’t think that we’re really talking about anything that isn’t in the hearts of everyone and hopefully you guys when i ran away to go do your performance started talking that was really important to me that there is change going on and there isn’t any separation between us and them it is all together and that when we pick on on religion we i don’t think it’s anything other than
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opening people’s eyes to uh a very fixed way and opening up and embracing it all together and making it whole making it whole making it all that is i want to say that’s a man and woman thing but that’s really uh something that i always have felt really that’s what identifies that feminine side i remember when i was in college and they tested me they gave me all these tests and then my masculinity femininity scale they found that i was right in the middle but i had a lot of feminine
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qualities for a while i thought i wonder what that means about me and then i realized that those feminine qualities are the one that our society has recognized but it’s nice to to verbally acknowledge that it’s a sliding scale that we all can show our gentleness and not have that be considered weakness right just because i’m gentle i am not of course not well you said something that sparked uh uh me to say that uh you know patriarchy is also another word for that is culture of domination
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and so when we talk about making it whole with certain religions um to me one of the things that marks a patriarchal religion is a religion that tells everybody what they should be and what they should do whereas earth-based religion pagan religion that honors the whole will say if you don’t want to walk around naked on the beach then don’t but if i do that’s my birthright and so that would be the difference and that’s one of the things that my characters i think definitely um the archetypes of
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artemis and aphrodite speak to is the birthright that we have to be naked outside that has been stolen from us from these patriarchal religions is these patriarchal cultures that have decided that the human body is obscene especially women’s bodies and gets to capitalize on that in terms of you know pornography and selling pictures of women’s naked bodies to each other but us ourselves our own bodies we don’t get to just you know what a beautiful day right now i’d love to take my shirt off you know on camera just
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because it would feel so nice to have the air on my body not because i want anyone to see or look at me but because i just want to be myself and not you know be controlled by all these other forces so it’s a tall order but i’m seeing us taking that’s a tall order but you know it’s all possible mm-hmm and it just takes a little bit of time one step at a time one step at a time should we do that part two and we have to make those steps you know i would like to see this show on again and if you’re here on
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island i hope that as the cameraman has to take his clothes off too though or it won’t work you’re right you’re right sorry i didn’t notice the camera was in the way we have a naked cameraman here and we’re happy to have him yes you know the fact is i think that’s can’t put clothes on that guy i am very happy that you um agreed to be here with us i know that um you’ll be on different kinds of shows and hopefully you’ll share with different ways i hope that with our
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opportunity i know me specifically i bet you agree with me is that we really want to be very supportive of you in every way that we can and i hope that our audience out here who comes up and sees you on the street says oh i saw you on the show with jason arielle we’ll make it a point to give you some support in whatever way and and find a way to really hook up with you and help broaden this awareness that so important thank you very much for the subject and thank you well delivered thank you so much and anybody who feels
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so pulled us to help to move this forward you know yay contact our beautiful goddess here and give her your assistance and your help and your love so what i was getting ready to say before was i would love to do this again with you okay you and i and maybe we can have um a little more intimate talk but also what i want to do is to bring together a group of women a little panel a little panel of women representing the different cultures beautiful here so that we can do a show with that like beijing conference yes
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and how we can get these changes to happen and get our microcosm here on maui i’ll drink to that and that that shall happen very soon so must it be it’s a conspiracy it is and we’re all involved well i want to thank you all for joining us here today we’re going to take a break although to you it’ll be the end of the show probably here we’re going to take a break and do a performance and somehow maybe sandwich it in and maybe put at the end what do you think i don’t know i think we should talk
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about it we’ll have to talk about it yeah well you’ll find out we’ll find out won’t you that’s right it really is a pleasure always to have you join us here and we hope that you will make copies of our shows and share them with people all over the world right well we get to touch people all over the world i love it that all you people from wherever you’re from get to see this show in the middle of the night when you can’t sleep thank you for watching and thank you for supporting the goddess
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and i thank you beautiful you your beautiful heart and all that you share and all the work that you’ve put forward you’re really lucky we have people like this around thank you thank you very very much true it takes one to know and you know [Music] [Laughter] you want to say goodbye bye thank you aloha god bless you thank you so much for joining us and until our hearts meet again and remember you’re the goddess aloha aloha goddess as time went on the woman and the snake entered their dance at each other
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their exquisite differences and samenesses intermingled and throughout time the woman and the snake danced and kissed and became one in kinship and love they absorbed each other’s wisdom each other’s essence their natures combined and medusa was born i am medusa the original snake monster mommy you’ve all heard about but i am here now to tell you my story my real story before it was rewritten by the fabricators of the fatherland i am the ancient serpent goddess of the libyan animals
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i am female wisdom the serpentine wisdom of cyclic regeneration the awesome power of the bleeding the transformative mysteries of the female body my snake hair is my serpent-guarded wisdom for it is within female spiritual self-knowledge that my power lives such as my power to say no and to stop an assailant in his tracks i am the knowledge that when all women claim our power to say no we will stop all assailants of women and the earth in their tracks of course they had to chop my head off they got this guy perseus to do it to
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prove his masculinity you see it seems that my physical feature is kind of historic when i’m called to defend myself or my principles in such a way that can be kind of threatening to those who expect me to be their victim in fact my furious face alone can petrify an assailant and turn to stone my furious face is my tool of survival and so he chopped my head off while i was sleeping to forbid female fury and then they say percy has used my severed head to vanquish his enemies because with it
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he could turn men to stone he used my head to butcher millions twisting my meaning completely around mass murder is not what i’m about this intentional distortion of my essential truth makes me mad and my sanity is contained within my madness for if i succumb to their lies about me if i become complacent and suppress my truth i will be theirs and they will continue to use my head to butcher and i will not for thousands of years they have been slaying dragons killing serpents beheading monsters in
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the name of righteous glory wielding their violent power over the living world laying their blueprint for all future acts of sadistic cruelty enough don’t you think so can we say that one time together yeah yes i am here to set the record straight and to reveal the true nature of the nightmare of this world of course sometimes this makes me a little unpopular but i am here to unbind your mind from the insidious poisoning thought forms of the patriarchy and to help you unmask more and more of
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who you truly are maybe save you sometimes therapy [Music] there is your heart [Music] don’t don’t let me down [Music] styling you
