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 2oo9 Cairns-GREEN-WOMAN EXHIBITION and Celebration!

"In the "Return of the Divine Feminine" Mass we collected 500 slides of the Goddess from all the world's traditions (including the Black Madonna and Mary from the West).  And we danced in the presence of these images, bringing in the spirit of the Divine Feminine.    At each Mass we have a "via negativa" or grief experience where we grieve and lament together the loss or pain we are feeling in our hearts from abuse about the theme of the occasion.   Grieving is such an essential aspect to getting over anger and into our creativity. We also have communion or sharing of the sacred bread and wine that unites all beings in the sacred act of eating and drinking divine food and drink."

Matthew Fox - Author, Creatian Theologian, Scholar,activist

"The idea of it goes back to the late ’80s in England when a group of young people involved in the rave culture felt they had a spiritual experience through the dancing,” Stamper said. “The young people had felt through raves their hearts were open and they felt more spiritual. They asked their priest to hold a rave mass that would combine music with the liturgy — without the drugs of course.”

Enter Matthew Fox.

In 1993 as techno music-driven culture was hitting its zenith, the priest was dismissed from the Catholic Church over some of his beliefs.

For instance, he had written in books that homosexuality is not a sin and celibacy among priests should be voluntary.

In his book “A New Reformation,” he went as far as to write that modern-day Protestant faiths are “uninspired, one-dimensional and burned out.”

Ravers loved him and invited him to their rave mass. He attended and connected to the vibe.

Now among his followers, he’s considered the vissionaire behind the Cosmic Mass, which he began in Oakland, Calif., mixing music, dancing and prayer in a setting he dubbed “creation spirituality.” from the Techno Cosmic Mass WebSite