Articles and Poems by Monica

Monica is the author of several books, but she also wrote numerous articles for various magazines. In this section we have gathered together a dozen or so of these articles and a few of her poems.
Together they give a good overview of Monica's concerns, her philosophy, her activities and her extensive network of connections with other eco-feminist women.
There are articles here on sacred sites, shamanism, new age channeling, death and dying, a couple of the actions she was involved in, a journal of her pilgrimages at home and abroad, reports on conferences she attended.
We also have a section on her 2004 Retrospective exhibition, which includes images and commentaries on her paintings. This gives a helpful insight in Monica's approach to her art and the story behind the creation of these works.
The articles can be accessed from the links on the right hand panel or you can click from page to page using the triangular links.

Other writings published on this website by Monica are her autobiography (please click the "Biography link above) and the complete text of a 40 page A4 size pamplet on the subject of Channeling, which you can find by clicking on the "Books" link at the top.

Two Quotes

Our current predicament has been well put by Monica Sjöö and Barbara Mor in their book "The Great Cosmic Mother of All,  rediscovering the religion of the Earth":

"Modern sickness is that of disconnection, the ego unable to feel an organic part of the world, except via chemical and popular culture addictions. But when the healers - the physicians of mind and body - do not know themselves what it is we need to be connected to, how can they solve the syndrome of disconnection?

When the ego lets itself go, sinks down into the oceanic all-oneness of the beginning, and its peace - the shrinks call this "regression"! They have virtually defined "mature-mindedness" as a state of permanent alienation - the" I" chronically differentiated from the" All". What this amounts to is that "the mature mind" is the male mind, rejecting his mother.

Within Western culture, whenever the "doors of perception" open ever so little to let us catch a glimpse of the holographic cosmic mind within us - we are in danger of being locked up for psychiatric observation, and given tranquilizers and other "cures". The established patriarchal institutions all have a vested interest in keeping the individual mind disconnected from the experience of cosmic oneness, because this disconnection is patriarchy.

The bulk of patriarchal industries - drugs, alcohol, entertainment media, fashion and cosmetics, pornography, the tourist business, polyester-suited politics, drive-in religious sermons, interstate freeway systems, you name it - exist and profit solely by selling momentary diversions to quietly desperate people, seeking anaesthetic escape from the pain of personal alienation."(p.29)

Monica Sjöö wrote in an unpublished letter to Freedom:

"If any of you male anarchists out there think it is somehow radical or anti-establishment to be for pornography think again. In spite of all the lipservice paid to the contrary there is nothing more acceptable than porn in every patriarchal society, societies that depend on warfare as well as sexual violence for their existence".

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