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In a cave by the blue sea near the Bay of Naples there once was a woman who spoke with the dead for the living, and wrote what she saw down in a book for kings. She was called the Sibyl of Cumae. About five years ago I wrote in her voice for the “marginalia” in a Dark Mountain volume called Sanctum. Ironically, I realized later that writing her into the margins of a book about the sacred ended up perpetuating the marginalization of the feminine voice in spiritual and religious discourse. It was hard to follow her voice there because she had so little room to speak, and it was so scattered throughout the text it was easy to ignore.
