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Journey to Coolum: Belly Stone Revelations
Recently I travelled with my partner to a popular beach named Coolum within our region of East Coast Australia, and I was awestruck with its beauty. Being conscious of the original inhabitants of the land I live with, I googled for the names of the traditional people of the area and found that the Coolum […]
Infinite Generosity
One of my favourite stories is in this telling of a conversation between cosmologist/physicist Brian Swimme and geologian/cultural historian Thomas Berry: On another occasion, Brian was passionately telling Thomas, over a cup of coffee in a café, that he had figured out the source of the problem in industrial society and what needed to be […]
PaGaian Cosmology Preface
The term “PaGaian” requires some explanation: it expresses a reclaiming of the term “Pagan” as meaning a person who dwells in “country”, yet with “Gaian” spliced in, it expresses a renewed and contemporary understanding of that “country”. “Gaia” is a name for humanity’s Habitat, an ancient yet new name, which I understand to include whole […]
A Story of Origins: ever present and unfolding
We, all who live on this Earth, are gift of the ancient Star exploding as supernova, which(who) gave birth to our Solar system, our Sun and Her planets. Our planet Earth was/is in the Goldilocks location of “just right”, and also had the Goldilocks size of “just right”: all enabling a balance of cosmic dynamics […]
(Poem) REFRACTIONS
camped on the frontier of my life, pregnant with the future I am comforted by you star fixed in my sky think of your courage a knife being born in your belly you fear a painful birth … for the world does not yet contain the contours of our sharp new selves we had known […]
Review of Danica Anderson’s Blood and Honey book
… The methods applied and described by Danica Anderson, the author, in this beautifully presented book, may provide a model for approach to healing deep trauma, which is becoming more common on a global scale in these times. The method primarily begins with “bearing witness”: most chapters begin with the paragraph heading “When and Where […]
PaGaian Cosmology Course
The PaGaian Cosmology course is about to begin for the Southern Hemisphere, with the coming of Autumn.It is: A Celebration of Goddess and Cosmogenesis in the Wheel of the Year … for the experienced or the novice: the course may expand your perspective and poetic/ceremonial expression of Earth’s Seasonal Creativity, or it may serve to help […]
Restoring Her as Creative Triplicity: part 2, Place of Being By Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.
This essay is the second part in a series of edited excerpts from Chapter 3 of the author’s book, PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion. It may also be found in Chapter 1 of the author’s recent book, A Poiesis of the Creative Cosmos: Celebrating Her within PaGaian Sacred Ceremony. Author’s note: In this three part series […]
A PaGaian Breath Meditation
(from Chapter 8 PaGaian Cosmology) Going within for the moment and becoming aware of your breath, feeling this cycle within. With your imagination, remember all the breathing happening right now on the planet – feel/sense it with each breath. The entire planet is breathing. Remember the constant dawning and setting of the Sun – happening […]
Some Thoughts About Holy Desire
All being knows desire in elemental ways, for water, for food, for sustenance: and many beings also know desire for air, and most creatures and plants know desire for relationship in some form, and for care. We come into being with these primordial desires, this hunger, this longing – we don’t make it up[i]. Each […]
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