Dear you, from whom all light and sound vibration emanate,

"I was changed forever with the potential of this revelation, despite the fact that its mystic inclinations are considered by conservative Christians to be more conjecture than translation. Replacing father with the source of sound and light vibration destabilizes the conflicts between science and religion, between mono an polo, and supports my conviction that neither god nor earth are best considered in gendered human terms.
Twenty years of developing the tools of queer and feminism for inspired analysis and action have prompted me to challenge pagan friends and networks. How can we say mother without invoking father? In the myth/story of Mary and Jesus, the virgin birth is a non-consensual fertilization by the Holy Spirit, a proxy of God the Father. Are we silently calling an all-powerfull father god every time we call mother earth? Feminist and queer perspectives remind us of the hegemonic damage of continually reasserting the heterosexual nuclear family as a universal norm. Mother plus father does not have to be the only frame for creativity, life, law, generation or genius.
There can be significant patriarchal disruptions and spiritual inspirations when calling the earth a mother. But the ambivalent subtexts, both heterosexist and human-centered, suggest that we reconsider. What if the earth us not y/our mother?"
(Keith Hennessy)