generation. We do what we can, carrying the torch from the previous generation and letting the work continue for the next. It has taken our world thousands of years to build up our cities, hone our technology and thus create the problems that now exist with pollution, waste of natural resources and loss of natural habitat. Problems that won’t be fixed overnight. And along with solutions that need to be found, our way of thinking must undergo a shift.

In the distant past, there was no hierarchical mastery by man over woman over animals over the earth. We all had an equal place in the world. Human beings had a more harmonious relationship with the world around them. People believed then, as contemporary pagans do now, that divinity was immanent in ourselves and in the many forms of life around us. So whether the people were honoring a corn goddess or a god of the grape; whether they worshipped the sun or moon, Mother Earth or Father Sky, or feared the nature divas in rocks and trees and streams, or co

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