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Universe Story and Autumn Equinox

Every moment of life is lost – it dissolves, and is never repeated. Every moment in our lives and in the entire history of Gaia-Universe is never repeated – it is lost. That means it is also ever-new. That is the mystery – it is lost, but it is ever-new. The Beloved One descends: it […]

PaGaian Cosmology On-line Course

For those in the Southern Hemisphere of Earth-based tradition, the Wheel of the Year begins in the late Autumn (late April- early May) with the Seasonal Moment traditionally known as Samhain or more commonly as Halloween. So my year-long course in Seasonal celebration of our Earth-Sun journey, begins there. The Introduction is best done in […]

PaGaian Meditations – now digital

I am happy to announce that PaGaian Cosmology Meditations CDs are now available in digital format here. The  meditations may be useful to assist healing at any time. They may support and nurture a wholing connection with larger self in the full cycle of Her creativity – for group or individual contemplations. The whole set (usually 3 […]

Situating in the Womb of Gaia: a PaGaian Contemplation

Situating in the Womb of Gaia: a PaGaian Contemplation of Her Creative Place together with Casting the Circle, MoonCourt Australia (PaGaian style): a poetic variation of how the elements are referred to in PaGaian Solstice ceremony for both Summer and Winter, using metaphor from Brian Swimme‘s book “The Universe is a Green Dragon”.

Foremothers of Women’s Spirituality Movement Anthology

I am honoured to be a contributor to this anthology. Foremothers of the Women’s Spirituality Movement: Elders and Visionaries  edited by Miriam Robbins Dexter and Vicki Noble The thematic focus is the “seeming explosion of creative religious expression on the part of contemporary Western women is the thematic focus of this book; the 33 chapters […]

(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 […]

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 […]

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