The Burning Times

This beautifully crafted film is an in-depth look at the witch-hunts that swept through Europe just a few hundred years ago. False accusations and trials led to massive torture and burnings at the stake, and ultimately to the destruction of an organic way of life. The film advances the theory that widespread violence against women and the neglect of our environment today can be traced back to those times. Part two of a series of three films on women and spirituality, which includes Goddess Remembered and Full Circle.

A powerful documentary from The National Film Board of Canada, accessible on YouTube as a six-part series.  Here are the first two:


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We've come a long way baby... or have we? See how you feel after viewing this remarkable series.

Here are links to the six segments in order:

Part 1 -- Part 2 -- Part 3 -- Part 4 -- Part 5 -- Part 6

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"It's first very difficult to find out what is our own experience, to find our own authority, to find our own voice.  And second, once we have found it, it is very hard to hang on to it - it is hard to remain true to it and it is also very scary when we think about what often happens to women when we do find our own voices and we proclaim our own experience and our own truth and we refuse to tell lies about it and to submit."
- Barbara Roberts, Historian
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