Author Archives: Glenys D. Livingstone
Solstice Moment – Summer/Winter – December 2015 C.E.
Earth enters the Season of Solstice, as Her tilt in relationship with Sun leans us to the furthest point, in both Southern and Northern Hemispheres: see Her there in your mind’s eye, where She is – where we are – in Her orbit … For the Southern Hemisphere December Solstice is the awesomeness of the return to the dark, […]
(Essay) Mary as Christian Goddess by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.
” … the people offered bread in her name; as they had always done in the name of various Great Goddesses. According to Ashe, the Christian church of the fifth century integrated into itself the flourishing Mariology, thus taking the sting out of a rival religion … The Great Mother as She survived in the […]
PaGaian Cosmology Book
In praise of the book PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. … from THOMAS BERRY, cultural historian, co-author of The Universe Story, and author of The Dream of the Earth and The Great Work. … (I am) impressed with your work and with the vision, courage, and ardor with which you have followed through on a major aspect […]
Seeing Her Land: the Twin Fires of Beltaine
Once cast from the sun, light streams onto planet Earth like liquid. It freely enters us as both photon and wave. In daylight, we ingest billions of photons during every open-eyed moment. As waves, light vibrates into us. It is transduced, within several layers of retinal tissue, into electrobiochemical pulses surging deeply into the tissue […]
PaGaian Cosmology Meditations
PaGaian Cosmology Meditations a set of three CDs and 16 page booklet by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. This set of three CDs with booklet is a treasure. … Livingstone’s narration delivery, including pace and timing of pauses, is outstanding – easy to understand and neither overly dramatic nor boring, but rather wonderfully appropriate. Each meditation […]
Re-creating a Gynocentric Cosmology: Situating Myself by Glenys Livingstone
Originally posted on Feminism and Religion:
I am an inventor, a mythmaker, who has received/taken remnants of her indigenous religious heritage, and newly available parts, and spun and woven new threads, fabrics and stories.[i] My method of approach has been informed by my deep personal involvement … my need to “place” myself here – as…
Concepts of Gaia
Originally posted on Celebration of Gaia:
Guest lecture at Loyola University, April 2015. Concepts of Gaia from Editor B on Vimeo.
Mago/Great Goddess Pilgrimage Korea 2014
by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. … as published in GODDESS ALIVE! Issue No. 28, Autumn/Winter 2015 I was most fortunate to be invited by Dr. Helen Hwang to co-facilitate this pilgrimage to the sacred land of Old Korea and to uncover the Great Goddess of East Asia – Mago, a Primordial Mother. “Mago” is both a […]
Cosmogenesis and it’s Three Creative Dynamics
by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. This is an edited excerpt from the author’s book PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion, Chapter 1 Central to this PaGaian cosmology is Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry’s articulation of Cosmogenesis and its three “governing themes”.[1] Physicist/cosmologist Brian Swimme tells the story of the evolutionary unfolding of the Universe with a […]
Language for Her
This is an edited excerpt from the author’s book PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion, Chapter 1 and a part of the Introduction It generally seemed clearer for me to speak of the “Female Metaphor” rather than “Goddess”, particularly when I was writing my doctoral thesis about Her, since it seemed that in some minds, “Goddess” may imply […]
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