I am totally looking forward to that movie, good or bad. The first time I heard about the book was when I was trapped on a train next to a hippie woman, going from Missouri to Chicago, and she (exactly like an Xtian proselytizer) could NOT stop trying to convince me to read it because it would change my life. Of course that made me hate it deeply, and I didn't actually read it for another about ten years, when a fellow teacher I liked also recommended it. I started the book very aloof and ready to hate its woo and hippiness, although there was at least a bit of acclimation to Bay Area pagan/wiccan stuff going on with me around 2002. And I was surprised to find that I liked it, though I am afraid that it's not much of a political plan. Starhawk herself seems to me to be actually a useful leftist -- at antiwar meetings her interventions were good, and not ultraleft or liberal. I've even done a spiral dance with her, up at a lefty educational conference in Humboldt County!
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