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Why We Celebrate Her in Seasonal Ceremony
Why do we do this? … create sacred space wherein She may be spoken, wherein She may be embodied in Her Seasonal expression according to your place? Herewith some reason for celebrating a Gynocentric Cosmology, with religious/spiritual practice: it is more urgent than ever. From PaGaian Cosmology Chapter 4: Charlene Spretnak has noted that: When […]
(Essay 1) The Power of Metaphor: Spelling Ourselves, Our World by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.
[This essay is part 1 of an edited excerpt from the Introduction to the author’s book PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion.] Metaphor is not merely a matter of language, it is pervasive in everyday thought and action; “the way we think, what we experience, and what we do everyday is very much a matter of […]
Wheel of Year Ceremony: En-trancing Gaia’s Womb
By Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. Published in G.A.I.A. Newsletter October 2008, and re-published at Return to Mago blog as En-trancing Gaia’s Womb Through Seasonal Ceremony: Re-creating Her Sacred Site in 2012. In the earliest of Her stories, Gaia – also known as “Ge”, meaning Earth – was the possessor of the oracle in Delphi, the place at the […]
Poetry for Birthing New Being
This is one of my favourite poems to contemplate at the Seasonal Moment of Winter Solstice: it expresses so much for me of the journey into new being, and continues to at this time. Birthing is a shamanic act – it is frought with challenge and often takes one to the limits, yet eventually the […]
There’s a Place for God and it’s in the Bedroom
by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. This is a slightly edited version of a paper presented by the author at the Religion, Literature and Arts Conference Sydney 1995, and published here by request – apparently still very relevant. I guess there seems to be a need for putting the big G.. in his place, which could also be in the garden […]
(Review) Women and Spirituality: the Goddess Trilogy
This three part film series – Goddess Remembered, The Burning Times, and Full Circle, by Donna Read, now released and available as Women and Spirituality: the Goddess Trilogy , (by AliveMind in 2008), was first released on video almost two decades before that. It was shown on some television networks, and received awards, and fired many hearts, but it […]
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 […]
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 […]
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