Author Archives: Glenys D. Livingstone
Gate of the Year
I said to the one who stood at the Gate of the Year: “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.” And the angel said: “Go out into the darkness and put your hand in the hand of the One. That will be to you better than a light […]
Brian Swimme: the Omnicentric Universe
In this excerpt from his video The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos, Brian Swimme Ph.D. describes the omnicentric nature of the Universe. This concept of the omnicentricity is essential to PaGaian Cosmology: the Centre of Creativity is here as much as anywhere. My favourite quote from this excerpt is: “Every place is that very place that gives birth to the […]
(Essay) To Honour the Grandmothers by Majidi Warda
… an essay as we in the Southern Hemisphere enter Winter: “… I honour the grandmothers who were married too young in order to serve husbands and communities. I honour the grandmothers who upheld the traditions and kept the customs. The grandmothers who sewed the sacred cloth and stirred simmering pots of stew that nourished […]
Conceiving, Imagining … the New at Samhain
In the PaGaian version of Samhain/Deep Autumn ceremony participants journey to the Luminous World Egg … a term taken from Starhawk’s The Spiral Dance (p.210), where she also names that place as “The Shining Isle”, which is of course, the Seed of conception, a metaphor for the female egg: it is the place for rebirth. […]
Red Threads of Autumn Equinox
I am always conscious of the passing of my ceremonial circle’s sister-friend Lyn at this time of the year’s cycle; the Seasonal Moment of Autumn Equinox – “Mabon” as it is often named. Since Lyn’s passing over a decade ago, I have always kept a place in the Autumn Equinox ceremonial circle for the Lost […]
Mother Medusa: Regenerative One
an essay by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. for the anthology Re-visioning Medusa: from Monster to Divine Wisdom I first saw Her in myself, and gave voice to Her, after I had given a paper on Women and Religion, at the Women and Labour Conference in Australia in 1980; and the paper had attracted quite a bit […]
Mother-Warrior
Mother-Warrior You are brave, you are Brave … You have conquered … You have taken in hand those forces of disintegration that threatened your existence You hold them in your hands your strong hands they writhe but you hold them fast. … Your strength is a-mazing your courage awesome. … Your wild hair flies in […]
An Indigenous People’s Statement to the World
Delivered at The Parliament of the World’s Religions Convened at Melbourne, Australia on the Traditional Lands of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation December 9, 2009 In keeping with the theme of this year’s Parliament, “Make a World of Difference: Hearing each other, Healing the Earth,” we, the Indigenous Peoples participating in this Parliament, hereby […]
Naturalistic Paganism’s Spectral Challenge – Part Two: Calling the Specters by Émile Wayne
Originally posted on Naturalistic Paganism:
In Part One, I called attention to the specters which haunt as we try to live into more intimate and thoughtful relationships to land. Part Two is designed to call these specters by name. The goal of this series is not banishment or exorcism, but rather genuine, empathetic encounter. We…
Sacrifice is to Make Sacred in GoddessSpeak
In this season of Lammas: contemplating “making sacred”/sacrifice. The “making sacred”/sacrifice of Goddess is very different from the “sacrifice” demanded by patriarchal cosmology. The kind of “sacrifice” demanded by the father god of Christian cosmology, for example, may leave nothing for the self – it is an abnegation of the self. Whereas in Goddess cosmology […]
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