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Mago Pilgrimage to Korea 2014 – Report

My partner Taffy (Robert Seaborne) and I have completed three short videos reporting on our experience of the Mago Pilgrimage to Korea in October 2014, for which I was honoured to be guest co-facilitator. We were in awe most of the time, and these videos are a beginning of documenting the experience: it will give you […]

(Interview) Glenys Livingstone: 2009 Parliament of the World’s Religions

I was privileged to co-present 2 programs at the 2009 Parliament of World’s Religions – one was “Australian Pagans Speak – a Community Forum”, and the other was “The New Archaic: Neuroscience, Spiritual Practice and Healing”. Here is an interview published today on the Return to Mago blog. There are just 3 more days for […]

from Dusk to Night @ MoonCourt

A series of photos of MoonCourt Goddess ceremonial space (Blue Mountains, Australia) – from dusk to night, in honour and celebration of the waxing Dark here …  Notice the star becoming visible in the centre of the roof “eye”. As Thomas Berry said: “The night has advanced. The stars are more brilliant than ever.” (Evening Thoughts, […]

2014 in review for pagaiancosmology.com

Thank you so much all for being part of this blog – may you be blissed by  the Creativity of Mother Cosmos. The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 8,600 […]

Solstice – Summer/Winter @ EarthGaia

It is the Season of Solstice – Earth’s tilt in relationship with Sun leans us to the furthest point, either South or North: see Her there in your mind’s eye, where She is in Her orbit … For the Southern Hemisphere December Solstice is the awesomeness of the return to the dark, the turn out of […]

Solstice Preparation – Summer/Winter – On-Line

Solstice – Summer/Winter (depending on your hemisphere) – Preparation On-line … for contemplation of the significance of this Seasonal Moment – with teaching, readings, links, experiential process: e-notes and images by email, and photocopied material and CD posted to your snail address.  This rich material may be referred to for years of celebration of this […]

(Book Review) LUPA and LAMB by Susan Hawthorne, reviewed by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.

My heart opened to this book of poems with the very beginning quote from Monique Wittig – one that I have loved and used often myself: a call to remember another time and place when we “bathed bare-bellied”, full of laughter, or, “failing that, invent.” This book by Susan Hawthorne fulfills this promise: it does […]

Book Review by Eileen Haley: Naming the Goddess

BOOK REVIEW by Eileen Haley, Sydney-based crone, poet and PaGaian: Naming the Goddess. Edited Trevor Greenfield, Foreword by Cheryl Straffon, Introduction by Selena Fox. Moon Books. 2014. Thanks to Moon Books for sending this book to Goddess Association in Australia for review. ‘Naming the Goddess’ is an eclectic collection of articles by over 70 contributors. […]

(Essay 2) The Power of Metaphor: Spelling Ourselves, Our World by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.

This essay is part 2 of an edited excerpt from the Introduction in her bookPaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion. A Functional Cosmology and Metaphor Brian Swimme has said that to become fully mature as human persons, we must bring to life within ourselves the dynamics that fashioned the cosmos … That is our task: […]

PaGaian Prayers: Invoking Her

just released! a DVD of three short meditation videos: The first two prayers/meditations are invocations of the Sacred Three – a powerful Creative Cosmic Dynamic recognised by humans since our earliest of times – and cross-culturally; often recognized and represented as the Triple Goddess or the Triple Spiral. If you would like a copy please […]

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