Tag Archives: Glenys Livingstone
(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 […]
Out of Her Fertile Dark Matter
Out of Her fertile Dark Matter, out of the Stillness of her Creative Centre, New Being comes forth, Light is thus born. All Manifestation is born. … as it says in some poetic manner in many spiritual traditions: and as it is announced in traditional PaGaian Winter Solstice ceremony after all have been sitting in the dark cold […]
Cosmogenesis Dance for Winter Ceremony
Celebrating the three qualities of Cosmogenesis – differentiation … each unique being: to be is to be unique – communion … the related web: to be is to be related – autopoiesis/subjectivity … the sentience of the Creative Cosmos: to be is to be a centre of creativity.[1] oOo We may say in the Winter […]
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 […]
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 […]
Samhain Ceremony and Cosmogenesis
A core inspiration for the processes of the Samhain/Deep Autumn seasonal rite as it has been done here at my place for over a decade, is Robin Morgan’s poem, “The Network of the Imaginary Mother“.[1] The whole poem helped me through a gateway into new language and perceptions some 34 years ago (1980), but the main […]
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 […]
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