In praise of the book

PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion

by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. …

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from Janet V (USA), January 2015:

I have been walking with the Goddess for many years. I have a slight interest in very, very progressive Christianity and that is what brought me to the writings of people like Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry about 4 years ago. I have been reading Matthew Fox for over 20 years. But, as the “new Universe Story” was/is being told in Christian circles, I felt like a part of me was dying to find someone who could translate this into a woman and earth centered cosmology/thealogy. You have done it.

from Deborah Milton, Washington USA, December 2014:

Received Glenys’s book, PaGaian Cosmology and love discovering we speak a common language. Your book is sooooo important, Glenys, … I am truly grateful and thank you for writing it all so beautifully and richly. I feel affirmed and inspired by reading your words. The global quality you share is so deeply important.

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I don’t want to try and articulate her vision here but it has to do with all of us being Creator, that we are IN earth, and that the feminine metaphor/feminine energy (not in opposition to masculine ) is at the heart of all creation…birthing, the womb, the something from nothing …. And she thinks globally, … northern and southern hemispheres balancing each other and the Wheel of the Year a template for healing/wholing our lives. For those of you who know Brian Swimme’s and Thomas Berry’s work, she relies heavily on them, which I love because those two men have been “speaking” to me for nearly 30 years now. Her book is revelatory for me – affirming what I know but articulating it in new ways. Stunning!

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from  Ameenah:

A beautiful marriage of the scientific and the spiritual

There is simply not enough PRAISE for this book!

As a spiritual mid-wife, teacher, and ritual facilitator, this is by far, one of the most important books in my collection. My ideas and philosophy on spirituality have been greatly influenced by Glenys’s work. Her book and its teachings have become part of the heart beating at the center of my own spiritual practice. Through her personal “Great Work”, Glenys shares with us a dazzling, powerful and inspiring blend of mythology, art, poetry and ritual that celebrate the turning of the wheel of the year in which she refers to as “Seasonal Moments”. Her profound wisdom and teachings throughout this book are incredibly thought provoking, deep and insightful. This is a book meant to be not only read but lived and its wisdom danced into being. When one puts into practice and lives the teachings presented in this book, they open themselves up to the amazing awareness of the beautiful marriage of the scientific and spiritual that only deepens the connection and understanding of the ever unfolding Sacred. This is a book that even the non-theist or the spiritual atheist can appreciate. Highly recommended.

from Eli Effinger-Weintraub in Minneapolis, Minnesota USA, December 2010:

I encountered PaGaian Cosmology just shy of two years ago, during a dreadful bout with anxiety and depression. The timing was perfect. I was questioning everything I believed, spiritually and intellecutally, about the nature and purpose of life. Old systems of belief and action were crumbling, and nothing I found seemed able to replace them. Reading your book was a revelation and a ray of hope. Yes, I cried a lot while I read it, but when I reached the end I realized that they were the necessary, cleansing tears that washed away the old structures that no longer worked for me and made room for a new way to grow. I came through that rough period stronger and surer of myself and my beliefs than at any other point in my life, and PaGaian Cosmology was an essential tool in that growth.

On a nuts-and-bolts practice level, the book has heightened my awareness of the intimate link between each Sabbat and the one opposite it on the Wheel of the Year. The balance of the Vernal Equinox is an equilibrium we recapture at the Autumnal. The blossoms that flourish at May Day wouldn’t be possible without the dead matter we committ to the Earth at Samhain. I am trying to be more conscious of looking across the Wheel, of incorporating something into every Sabbat ritual that honors and lays a path for that complementary moment. I don’t always succeed at this, but the attempt has deepened my practice and my sense of the wholeness of the year and the interconnectedness of the systems of life.

And so, again, I offer my deepest thanks to you, Glenys, for the amazing book you have birthed into the world. It is truly a gift.