Tag Archives: Glenys Livingstone
An Integral Universe: Conscious from the Beginning, in Conception
“From its beginning the universe is a psychic as well as a physical reality.” is Thomas Berry‘s principle #3 for a functional cosmology; a version he wrote amongst 12 principles in the early 90’s. See Appendix A PaGaian Cosmology Thomas Berry later expressed it this way: “The capacity for ordered self-development, for self-expression, and for intimate presence […]
No Eye but Hers
From all eternity the Beloved unveiled Her beauty in the solitude of the unseen; She held up the mirror to Her own face, She displayed Her loveliness to Herself. She was both the spectator and the spectacle; no eye but Hers had surveyed the Universe. Jami 1414 C.E. … no eye but Hers … in […]
Restoring Dea – Female Metaphor for Deity (essay 1) by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.
“Almost every ancient culture’s creation myth begins with Her.[1]In the beginning was the Matrix, and the Matrix was all there was. “Before creation a presence existed …(which)… pervaded itself with unending motherhood.”[2] This Matrix was not “feminine”, in any stereotypical way, which would limit Her to a certain mode of being. She was beyond all […]
Imbolc/Lammas Moment August 2016 C.E.
As Earth continues Her/our everyday sacred journey around Mother Sun, the Seasonal Moment of Imbolc/Lammas is next in the orbit: it depends on your Hemisphere as to which aspect of the Moment you experience. We – all beings – do not need to go anywhere for this everyday pilgrimage: we are already travelling, and maybe walking it. […]
June Solstice 2016 C.E. EarthGaia
It is the Season of Solstice – Earth’s tilt in relationship with Mother Sun, our Source of life and being, leans us to the furthest point, in both the South and the North: see Her there in your mind’s eye, as She orbits … The actual Moment of June Solstice 2016 @ EarthGaia is 10:44 UT […]
My Name is Medusa – an Eco-Fable
“A wonderful book of Snake Wisdom for kids, or not-kids, with insights about life, growth, change, dreams, and our relationship to the Whole.” Max Dashu, Suppressed Histories Archives Order at Amazon Books – available in Kindle and paperback, or The Girl God “What a beautiful book! If we can learn to love the what we have been taught […]
Transformation (a poem)
Transformation Completely dismantled – all the stock taken out of the cupboards. Strip them bare Pull apart my knowings – rip them open, let the connections be severed. … Expose all the parts, every cell to the sunlight de-toxify throw away move it all around mix it, mix it skim the dross …. With mortar […]
Medusa: Sister, Mother, Abyss – Mirror
By Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. originally posted at The Girl God blog In the writing of this essay I wish to acknowledge the wisdom of those women who were my earliest re-storative informants about Medusa. The first perhaps was Hélène Cixous with her essay The Laugh of the Medusa which I read in 1980 for my […]
Jesus, Muhammad and the Goddess
I am a contributor to this recent publication available now at The Girl God Contributors include: Dr. Amina Wadud, Andrew Gurevich, Anna Ruiz, Bonnie Odiorne, Ph.D., Carol P. Christ, Ph.D., Dominique Christina, Donna Snyder, Glenys Livingstone, Ph.D., Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D., Rev. Dr. Karen Tate, Kelly Stewart Hall, Kim Mohiuddin, Laurence Galian, Liona Rowan, Lisa Artis, Marianne […]
Equinox @ EarthGaia March 2016 C.E.
The Seasonal Moment of Equinox @ EarthGaia, as our Planet may be named,[i] will occur at 4.30 UT March 20th (that’s “Universal Time” as it is named – measured at Greenwich England). At my Place in the Blue Mountains of Australia, it is the Season of the Autumn Equinox – the midpoint between Summer and Winter […]
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