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Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of reconciliation of science and religion, of many ways of knowing.
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Starhawk
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: June 17
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Miriam Simos
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