Author Archives: Glenys D. Livingstone
Re-Visioning Mythologies of Gender/Sex
This essay was first published in Goddess Pages in 2008, isssue 9. ‘Gender’ might be described as “one’s perception of their self as being” either female or male, and ‘sex’ as “the physical appearance of one’s body” as either female or male.[1] The “sex” of a body is commonly understood to necessarily be able to […]
Making Sacred: Space for the Not-Yet
It seems timely … as well as Seasonal (for both Hemispheres): originally published in Goddess Pages issue 6 (2008) As the Wheel turns into Imbolc in the Northern Hemisphere, it is the Seasonal Moment of Lammas in the Southern Hemisphere. For those in the planet’s South, Earth’s tilt is delivering the post-Summer Solstice welcoming of the new Dark, the […]
Godless Paganism wins Book of the Year!
Originally posted on Naturalistic Paganism:
Godless Paganism has been named Book of the Year at Pagan Tama! This recognition is wonderful, especially after a tough year for many of us! Godless Paganism is available on Amazon, here. In case you haven’t read it, in it John Halstead has gathered together the voices of 40 atheistic, humanistic,…
(Essay 3) Restoring Her as Creative Triplicity: She Who Creates the Space to Be by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.
… on this Dark Moon and in these times, just published at Return to Mago E-zine a creative re-writing of pages 99 -106 of PaGaian Cosmology, some 11 years on. You will find my re-writing of the other two qualities of Goddess/Cosmogenesis linked there also. May you be well Glenys
Brian Swimme Quotes
From Cosmologist Brian Swimme whose teaching has been a major part of the inspiration of PaGaian Cosmology. The universe began as an eruption of space, time, matter, and energy out of all-nourishing abyss, the hidden source of all creativity. The universe began as a titanic bestowal, a stupendous quantum of free energy given forth from the […]
Why I choose to be an RTM contributor by Glenys Livingstone
“…When Dr. Helen Hye-Sook Hwang invited me to contribute monthly, I had no idea of the rich pathway and community I was entering into. It was not difficult for me to find material … I had a lot to say from a gynocentric perspective: my PaGaian cosmology was deeply resonant with Magoism, the understanding of […]
Mother Sun Ripens in Us: So May We Shine
In Summer Solstice ceremony as it may be done, the group blesses each with: It is the Sun that ripens in you: so may you shine. Mother Sun, our source of life and energy, is a model of the quality and power of Radiance.[1] She pours Herself forth in every moment: and Earth absorbs only a very […]
Storytime at HearthGround
Thomas Berry has named The Seasonal transitions as “moments of grace” … as they are moments of emergence and return, moments of transformation; and attention to these moments is fruitful As I write EarthGaia passes through the Moment Beltaine/Samhain (9:42 EST Australia) as noted here (for all global times). I share with this video of […]
We Are the Ancestors
… for the current Samhain Season (in the Southern Hemisphere), as well as the planetary meltdown we witness: may we remember a deeper story always present. This was originally published in Gaian Voices Volume 6, Number 1 & 2, 2008 (by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.) In the last couple of years two significant friends of mine have passed, trans-formed. […]
Eyes of Goddess
… the Eyes of Goddess … we walk between Her eyes in Beltaine ceremony, to be seen by Her. To be seen by Her is healing, wholing, restoring … as opposed to the patriarchal gaze that judges, evaluates, diminishes. In these recent times (this era) the act of seeing has commonly become an act of […]
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