Author Archives: Glenys D. Livingstone
Video Review of PaGaian Cosmology Book
A friend recently found this on YouTube: PaGaian Cosmology (Book Chat) by Cassandra Tarot, July 21 2016. Cassandra says: “Less of a review, and more of an off-the-cuff, from-the-heart ramble, I talk a bit about the book PaGaian Cosmology and how it’s re-framed my view of the cosmos. I also chat a bit about […]
Pagan Review of My Name is Medusa
MY NAME IS MEDUSA By Glenys Livingstone Ph.D., Illustrated by Arna Baartz. Review by Veronica Scoot, for The Small Tapestry, Pagan Awareness Network newsletter, Spring 2016. I was thrilled when Glenys Livingstone asked me to review this delicious book. It was put to me as a children’s book, but to be honest, I can’t endorse […]
The Equinoxes as Story of Redemption: Sacred Balance of Maternal Creativity
Each year in March and September, the Autumn and Spring Equinoxes occur at the same time on the Planet – they are the Seasonal Moments of balance of light and dark, in the dark part and in the light part of the year respectively. The story essentially enacted and told at these seasonal transitions is […]
Sacred Words of Spring Equinox
When we have been lost and lost others – when we have lost beloved ones, including ourselves … When we have wandered the barren fields of our psyches, minds and our lives … When we feel we have failed and our hearts are broken … When we know we have made terrible errors of judgement […]
Equinox – Spring/Autumn September 2016 C.E.
The Seasonal Moment of Equinox @ EarthGaia comes around again at 14:21 UT on the 22nd September – the second for this Gregorian calendar year of 2016, and it is Spring in the Southern Hemisphere, Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. At my place East Coast Australia that is 0:21 on the 23rd September … and all global times may be […]
PaGaian Cosmology On-line Course
September is a good time for Northern Hemisphere people to begin this course, as Autumn rolls in. It is a very rich course, with material that will last you for years … you can keep coming back to it, grazing, following your threads of interest and developing it with your own creativity … some do […]
An Integral Universe: Conscious from the Beginning, in Conception
“From its beginning the universe is a psychic as well as a physical reality.” is Thomas Berry‘s principle #3 for a functional cosmology; a version he wrote amongst 12 principles in the early 90’s. See Appendix A PaGaian Cosmology Thomas Berry later expressed it this way: “The capacity for ordered self-development, for self-expression, and for intimate presence […]
No Eye but Hers
From all eternity the Beloved unveiled Her beauty in the solitude of the unseen; She held up the mirror to Her own face, She displayed Her loveliness to Herself. She was both the spectator and the spectacle; no eye but Hers had surveyed the Universe. Jami 1414 C.E. … no eye but Hers … in […]
Restoring Dea – Female Metaphor for Deity (essay 1) by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.
“Almost every ancient culture’s creation myth begins with Her.[1]In the beginning was the Matrix, and the Matrix was all there was. “Before creation a presence existed …(which)… pervaded itself with unending motherhood.”[2] This Matrix was not “feminine”, in any stereotypical way, which would limit Her to a certain mode of being. She was beyond all […]
Imbolc/Lammas Moment August 2016 C.E.
As Earth continues Her/our everyday sacred journey around Mother Sun, the Seasonal Moment of Imbolc/Lammas is next in the orbit: it depends on your Hemisphere as to which aspect of the Moment you experience. We – all beings – do not need to go anywhere for this everyday pilgrimage: we are already travelling, and maybe walking it. […]
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