Author Archives: Glenys D. Livingstone
Mother of us All
from friend, poet and PaGaian con-spirator Eileen Haley … remembering our Mother: Mother’s Day greetings, people of Goddess. We pay honour to the ancient Mother of us all and of all life, the wellspring; we remember the times of the Great Mother Goddess. We remember when birth was sacred, one of the most sacrosanct events of […]
Signs Out of Time – a Review
Signs Out of Time – a Review by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. – a documentary on the life and work of archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, who made significant contribution to new perceptions about the origins of Western civilisation – including what actual “civilisation” might be: she was archaeologist, linguist, mythologist, folklorist. And then also get a copy of […]
Samhain Ceremony and Cosmogenesis
A core inspiration for the processes of the Samhain/Deep Autumn seasonal rite as it has been done here at my place for over a decade, is Robin Morgan’s poem, “The Network of the Imaginary Mother“.[1] The whole poem helped me through a gateway into new language and perceptions some 34 years ago (1980), but the main […]
Feminism and the Future of Religion
… presented as a paper for the National Socialist Conference Sydney, 1990 – but if I didn’t tell you, you may think it was written yesterday … 🙂 FEMINISM AND THE FUTURE OF RELIGION By Glenys Livingstone published in full at The Girl God blog The essay begins: Feminism/the uprising of women continues to chip […]
Ancient Irish Sites – photos and story
First the photos that inspired this post: Some Fantastic 19th century Photos of Irish Archaeology Sites … and the story that I wrote some seven years ago begins with a feeling about the uncovering of the Triple Spiral – which is a significant recent event (late last century). I have never visited the home of […]
Autumn Equinox – Thanksgiving and Grieving
In the traditional Autumn Equinox ceremony here, it is said: “In our part of Earth, the balance is tipping into the dark. Feel the shift within you, see in your mind’s eye the descent ahead, the darkness growing, remember the coolness of it. This is the time when we give thanks for our harvests – […]
God on the Run
GOD ON THE RUN By GlenysLivingstone Ph.D. This essay is an unedited paper as I presented it at the University of Western Sydney in June 1995. Hopefully some have come a little distance since then – I would write it differently now, and indeed I have, but it still seems to be useful as it […]
PaGaian Lammas – Celebrating an Autopoietic Cosmos
She Who receives all, transforms all – in every moment Lammas may be a Seasonal Moment for the recognition of the autopoietic quality of Cosmogenesis [1], the Larger Self whom we are –and the power each thing has to participate directly in the cosmos-creating endeavour” (Swimme and Berry The Universe Story p.75) : it is a powerful thing to […]
Lammas Thoughts … and a few Imbolc ones
We drift towards Lammas in the Southern Hemisphere … after the Summer Solstice, the peaking of light, the fullness of being, there comes the falling apart: the rose, the flower, peaks in beauty, then she fades, falls apart … the petals drop, and the seed is exposed. Sometimes the falling apart, the dissolution, comes abruptly […]
Season of the Rose – Blossom and Thorn
Summer Solstice ceremony is a celebration and invocation of the Sacred Fullness/Wholeness of Being – when our Sun is at its peak of radiance in our part of the world … when Summer fruits are ripening and pouring forth in abundance, when greenery is thriving (as it is in my region). The fullness of being […]
PaGaian Cosmology 
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