Tag Archives: Glenys Livingstone
(Essay) Mary as Christian Goddess by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.
” … the people offered bread in her name; as they had always done in the name of various Great Goddesses. According to Ashe, the Christian church of the fifth century integrated into itself the flourishing Mariology, thus taking the sting out of a rival religion … The Great Mother as She survived in the […]
Seeing Her Land: the Twin Fires of Beltaine
Once cast from the sun, light streams onto planet Earth like liquid. It freely enters us as both photon and wave. In daylight, we ingest billions of photons during every open-eyed moment. As waves, light vibrates into us. It is transduced, within several layers of retinal tissue, into electrobiochemical pulses surging deeply into the tissue […]
PaGaian Cosmology Meditations
PaGaian Cosmology Meditations a set of three CDs and 16 page booklet by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. This set of three CDs with booklet is a treasure. … Livingstone’s narration delivery, including pace and timing of pauses, is outstanding – easy to understand and neither overly dramatic nor boring, but rather wonderfully appropriate. Each meditation […]
Cosmogenesis and it’s Three Creative Dynamics
by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. This is an edited excerpt from the author’s book PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion, Chapter 1 Central to this PaGaian cosmology is Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry’s articulation of Cosmogenesis and its three “governing themes”.[1] Physicist/cosmologist Brian Swimme tells the story of the evolutionary unfolding of the Universe with a […]
Language for Her
This is an edited excerpt from the author’s book PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion, Chapter 1 and a part of the Introduction It generally seemed clearer for me to speak of the “Female Metaphor” rather than “Goddess”, particularly when I was writing my doctoral thesis about Her, since it seemed that in some minds, “Goddess” may imply […]
PaGaian Poiesis
Participating in the sacred process of the Wheel of the Year … that is, Earth’s everyday sacred Journey around Sun – and therefore yours – is a Poiesis … the making of a world. It is to align one’s small self with the Creative Cosmos, expressed in Her everyday Creativity. And you may expect outcomes. […]
(Essay) Winter Solstice – Celebrating Birthing New Being by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.
Winter Solstice thoughts … “We celebrate the birth of the new Being, which/who is always beyond us, beyond our knowing … yet is within us, burgeoning within us – and within Gaia. What will save us is already present within – forming within us.” For full essay see link below: Return to Mago E-Zine
June Solstice 2015: Winter/Summer
It is the Season of Solstice – Earth’s tilt in relationship with Sun leans us to the furthest point, for both North and South hemispheres: you may see Her there in your mind’s eye, as She orbits … For the Southern Hemisphere June Solstice is the magic of the return to the light, out of the […]
Now Recognizing Her in Me
presented by Glenys Livingstone as a paper at the Women of Faith: Reclaiming the Gift Colloquium, University of Sydney, 1997, now published as my contribution to the anthology by Mago Books: She Rises: Why Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality? edited by Helen Hye-Sook Hwang and Kaalii Cargill Author’s note 2015: Though this paper was written and presented some eighteen […]
The Wheel of the Year in Stone
an edited excerpt from the author’s book PaGaian Cosmology Chapter 1 p. 50 -52 and for a more detailed developed version: the Introduction to A Poiesis of the Creative Cosmos. My ancestors built great circles of stones that represented their perception of real time and space – cosmic calendars. They went to great lengths and detail […]
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