Through myth-like short stories, She Lives! The Return of Our Great Mother, tells of the return of female divinity in a variety of religious traditions, and in our personal lives. Rituals celebrate passages in women's and men's lives, and in Earth's cycles. Meditations focus on personal issues. LONG

She Lives! The Return of Our Great Mother

Laura, Judith

Religion & Spirituality

Xlibris, Corp.

Through myth-like short stories, She Lives! The Return of Our Great Mother, tells of the return of female divinity in a variety of religious traditions, and in our personal lives. Rituals celebrate passages in women's and men's lives, and in Earth's cycles. Meditations focus on personal issues.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Alternative Medicine

She Lives! celebrates the return of female divinity to our spiritual lives. The book opens with a creation myth, followed by a mythological account of the suppression of Goddess worship. Five other myth-like short stories tell about the return of the Goddess in our own time in Pagan, Christian, Jewish, and other settings. Also included are rituals for menarche, first orgasm, and menopause, as well as Goddess-centered rituals for male milestones; and celebrations for the equinoxes and solstices with choreographed dances and musically notated songs drawing on a variety of traditions. Several meditations round out this book, including a self-blessing belly dance.

LGBTQ+ Books

Literature & Fiction

Crossing Pr

Is Goddess a Being? A metaphor? A process? This award-winning second enlarged edition of Goddess Spirituality for the 21st Century clarifies these and other concepts guiding contemporary Goddess spirituality. It also delves into the history of Jewish Kabbalah and Western Esoteric Qabalah, examining their biases and proposing a more gender-balanced version that links back to the Goddess Tree of Life. This book also explores the similarities between Goddess concepts and quantum physics and cosmology, and includes guided meditations and rituals. The Second Enlarged Edition contains the entire first edition plus a new Foreword, a new Preface, expanded discussion of a few subjects, musical notation for songs in the rituals, Tarot spreads using symbolism from the re-visioned Tree of Life, and a discussion guide. From the Foreword by Rachel Pollack: "This remarkable book manages to say more than many works on these subjects four or five times its size. What's more, what it says is not just clear and lucid, and stocked with information, it also is valuable for women and men living their lives today....Goddess Spirituality for the 21st Century is a rare book, a kind of sacred quest of ideas."

Goddess Spirituality for the 21st Century

Politics & Social Sciences

Women's Studies

Open Sea Press

She Lives! The Return of Our Great Mother explores the return of the divine personified as female through myth-like stories, rituals for both personal and seasonal celebrations with songs and dances, and a variety of meditations. Now in its third edition, this book continues to be treasured for its innovative multi-traditional perspective and the beauty of its language. Judith Laura's approach in She Lives! remains unusual among Goddess spirituality books. Its material doesn't fit neatly into any one category, such as Pagan. Rather, especially in its myth-like stories, it describes how female divinity might return to people on diverse paths, and addresses a variety of issues in a number of different religions and in secular settings. Its seasonal rituals contain aspects of Pagan, Jewish, Christian and other traditions. One of the earliest writers to see the connection between what is commonly called belly dance and Goddess heritage, Laura includes this and other folk dance forms in her rituals and meditations. Her personal rituals for women and for men focus on sex-related life milestones. Her seasonal rituals are community-oriented, including both adults and children. This Combined Third Edition has all material from the first edition, including 30 songs with notated music for 26 of them. (The four songs for which notation is not included in this edition have well-known melodies. The 1999 second edition had notation for only 11 of the songs.) This new edition also includes material added in the second (10th Anniversary) edition, such as guided meditations for each of the seasonal celebrations and an entirely new section, "Reflections on Seasonal Celebrations," with background information on holidays of a number of different traditions. There are also some changes and additions found only in this edition, such as an alternative "Hail Mary" in one of the "Modern Myths," and other material modified or added to keep pace with the evolution of Goddess thought.

She Lives! the Return of Our Great Mother: Myths, Rituals, Music & Meditations

Award-winning novel Beyond All Desiring reveals the deep secrets of Sara, a woman who was "different" in a time of conformity. When Sara's niece, Janice, is notified that her sharp-witted aunt, now in her 80s, hasn't been seen for several days, Janice¿s panicky drive to find out what's happened begins our journey of discovering that Sara has led a life very different from what her relatives and friends assume. Historical events of the 20th century form a backdrop to Sara¿s often tumultuous personal life, which we follow from Trenton, NJ, to Washington, DC. As Sara visits a museum exhibit about Buddhism, we learn of her two marriages, the first to an abusive man and the second to a kinder man involved in top secret projects, who develops a bizarre illness. We discover Sara's long but secret love relationship with a woman. And we learn of hidden booklets that hold the key to yet another secret. Judith Laura's writing in this novel is stylistically innovative, realistic and magical, erotic and spiritual. Beyond All Desiring received top honors in the Ulysses Awards, and finalist awards in the USA Best Books Awards and Media Darlings Awards, 2006.

Beyond All Desiring

Literary

Beyond All Desiring is realistic, magical, erotic, and spiritual. It gives us a look into the heart of a woman who was "different" in a time of conformity and who made a difference to those close to her.

Contemporary

Llumina Christian Books

Goddess Spirituality for the 21st Century: From Kabbalah to Quantum Physics

New Age & Spirituality

Booklocker.com, Inc.

Goddess Spirituality for the 21st Century presents new ways of deepening the mystical connection with the divine embodied as female. Judith Laura begins by reviewing concepts common to various forms of Goddess spirituality. She then moves into uncharted territory by re-envisioning the metaphysical basis underlying much of Western mysticism. This is the first book to look at both Jewish Kabbalah and Western Esoteric Qabalah from the point of view of Goddess concepts, and to offer a more gender-balanced, female-affirming re-visioning of the central kabbalistic symbol, the Tree of Life. The book also encourages the incorporation of contemporary science, such as quantum physics, into the symbolism and practice of Goddess spirituality. Though tackling complex subjects, the author offers her explanations in an approach that is easy to understand without being simplistic. 
The book also includes rituals and guided meditations to help put these ground-breaking theories into spiritual practice.

Open Sea Pr

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She Lives! The Return of Our Great Mother

She Lives! The Return of Our Great Mother

She Lives! The Return of Our Great Mother

Goddess Spirituality for the 21st Century

She Lives! the Return of Our Great Mother: Myths, Rituals, Music & Meditations

Beyond All Desiring

Beyond All Desiring

Goddess Spirituality for the 21st Century: From Kabbalah to Quantum Physics

Goddess Spirituality for the 21st Century: From Kabbalah to Quantum Physics