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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 […]

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 […]

Moon Goddess – Primordial Trinity

Moon Goddess: Primordial Trinity and Cosmic/Personal Heritage by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. This essay is an evolved version of an excerpt from Chapter 2 of my book PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion. I am a regular contributor to the Return to Mago blog – you may like to check it for other essays, poems and art as […]

Thomas Berry Anniversary – some lectures

It is the 99th anniversary of Thomas Berry’s birth (9th November 1914). Thomas Berry has been a major inspiration for the evolution of PaGaian Cosmology, along with Brian Swimme and many Mothers and Spin-sters (acknowledged here:http://pagaiancosmology.com/book/acknowledgements/). Here are some lectures by Thomas Berry that are being offered in honour of his birthday anniversary:http://thomasberry.org/Biography/lectures.html  Gaia Institute Lecture […]

One Who Hears, Let Me Speak

Sacred ceremony may be an exercise and practice of Speaking new language, a speaking WITH the Mother/Place of Being … a “Con-course” as I name it in PaGaian Cosmology Introduction  (p.9, and also p.45). We need to find new language for speaking with our Place of Being, so that we may shape our thinking anew […]

Three Candles Meditation

This meditation is mentioned in the Introduction to the book, PaGaian Cosmology, as being part of my daily practice: I describe it as a “layer of action” – taken to “nurse and create a context in which ‘She’ could grow”. The three candles with some associated objects remain on an altar. The candles may be […]

Australian Earth Laws Conference

Wild Law Conference 27 – 29 September 2013 Brisbane   Hosted by the Australian Wild Law Alliance (AWLA), which will soon be changing its name to the Australian Earth Laws Alliance – AELA (Pronounced ‘AY-LA’). The Alliance will begin using the name AELA from Monday 22nd July, onwards. “Living within our ecological limits: law and […]

Winter Solstice Dawn June 2013 C.E.

… over the Triple Spiral window @ MoonCourt Blue Mountains Australia. May the new being within come forth This was after a lovely ceremony the night before under clear sky, with a close to full Moon – t’was cold but we had a good time, and called in all others across space and time who […]

Bolivia article back on-line!

Please note that this article which was lost when pagaian.org went down some months ago, has just been re-posted here: Bolivia: Earth-worshippers in power, sort of

Integrating the Co-essential Darkness of the Cosmological Unfolding

Integrating the Co-essential Darkness of the Cosmological Unfolding by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. This article was first published in 2007 at what was called Integrative Spirituality site,  now known as Universe Spirit  We live in times of the witnessing of global transformation. Such a scale of planetary changes has happened before, but humans are integral to this one […]

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