Author Archives: Glenys D. Livingstone
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 […]
Imbolc thoughts
Imbolc/Early Spring ceremony may essentially be a rite of affirming the Original flame of being in you – this Native, wild self: and this is the Flame that Great Goddess Brigid of early Celtic peoples traditionally tends, the sacred Flame of Being. This is who She is … and it is why She may be […]
PaGaian Poiesis
Participating in the sacred process of the Wheel of the Year … that is, Earth’s everyday sacred Journey around Sun – and therefore yours – is a Poiesis … the making of a world. It is to align one’s small self with the Creative Cosmos, expressed in Her everyday Creativity. And you may expect outcomes. […]
(Essay) Winter Solstice – Celebrating Birthing New Being by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.
Winter Solstice thoughts … “We celebrate the birth of the new Being, which/who is always beyond us, beyond our knowing … yet is within us, burgeoning within us – and within Gaia. What will save us is already present within – forming within us.” For full essay see link below: Return to Mago E-Zine
June Solstice 2015: Winter/Summer
It is the Season of Solstice – Earth’s tilt in relationship with Sun leans us to the furthest point, for both North and South hemispheres: you may see Her there in your mind’s eye, as She orbits … For the Southern Hemisphere June Solstice is the magic of the return to the light, out of the […]
Now Recognizing Her in Me
presented by Glenys Livingstone as a paper at the Women of Faith: Reclaiming the Gift Colloquium, University of Sydney, 1997, now published as my contribution to the anthology by Mago Books: She Rises: Why Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality? edited by Helen Hye-Sook Hwang and Kaalii Cargill Author’s note 2015: Though this paper was written and presented some eighteen […]
The Wheel of the Year in Stone
an edited excerpt from the author’s book PaGaian Cosmology Chapter 1 p. 50 -52 and for a more detailed developed version: the Introduction to A Poiesis of the Creative Cosmos. My ancestors built great circles of stones that represented their perception of real time and space – cosmic calendars. They went to great lengths and detail […]
A Pagan Statement on the Environment
A Pagan Statement on the Environment officially released April 22nd, which is designated as Earth Day, and you may like to sign it: then share with your networks – it is hoped to have 10,000 signatures by the Solstice. Five thousand people have already signed from 67 countries so far! We are the Earth contemplating our kinship …
I am the Ancient One
Folding my arms over my upper torso, I acknowledge this country that I am … an ancient land, a holy land: I only need travel to this place, be present to this place. I am She … GaiaEarth, we are all She: all “Transformations of the Ages” … this could be a title for Her/us […]
PaGaian Cosmology 
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