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I offer you some of my poems & prayers and a few of my early papers. The recommended reading list is made up of books from my own libary and the links are some related places to visit in cyberspace.
POEMS AND PRAYERS
By Glenys Livingstone

"The Form and the Shape that they sought
was not in any Atlas.
Her gaps had been covered up,
Her hollows filled in,
Her name blanked out.
She lay buried beneath things, silent,
but with a detectable visceral pulse."



Beginning Again
The Mother within reweaves the Fabric
- the torn Fabric
torn in the weak spots.
She sets to work with all Her love and consciousness
picking up the threads
- threads that go all the way back to the beginning
She uses these, yet makes new patterns.

Mercifully Erishkagel, Crone - Her partner
has destroyed old patterns.
Erishkagel has washed away the debris
with Her storm and tempest.

Artemis, virgin, spiritual warrior,
fiercely guards and nurtures the new
She is faithfull to the heart that seeks
fullness, wholeness
She will constellate in the heart's night sky
and call forth right direction.

© Glenys Livingstone 1993 C.E.


Goddess Prayer 2004 C.E.
Mother - She within me Who is deeply related
Virgin - She within me Who is ever new
Crone – She within me Who is creative return to All
       Holy is my Being.
The Mystery pervades all...
May I understand my Inner guidance and graciously receive the infinite daily abundance
May I forgive my insensitivities and lack of skill
       - and forgive others the same.
May I respond to my Divine Passion.
      I am in Awe ...
and give thanks to the Light&Dark within.

© Glenys Livingstone 2004 C.E.


Recognizing Her
I feel the urgency - the Urge-ncy of Being to unfold
I have called it panic. I have paniced.
Now … recognizing Her in me.

I tremble, the tremor of uncertainty, the quantum fluctuation
- is Her presence …
before She unfolds,
rushes away from Herself, with news of Herself.

I feel Her emptiness.
I have called it vacuous.
It is Her fullness.
.
… this is Annunciation.

Now recognizing Her in me.

© Glenys Livingstone August 1997


VIRGIN
Virgin,
- warrior of the spirit,
urging me on
calling forth my green shoots
singing them out of the darkness.
in love with this new life
no-one can distract you.
Yet you do not curse the darkness
you know it and trust it.


After the storm, the tempest, the destruction,
in the compost,
Is there a will to live?
something to grow?
From whence will come the mighty forest?
Where does it begin?


Artemis, great Virgin Goddess
of the hibernating bear who wakes in the Spring
of the deer whose antlers regrow so fast


Protect our spirits, our will to life
tend the Flame within us.

© Glenys Livingstone February 1995



SAMHAIN
Changing now, changing quickly now,
going into the darkness
letting go of knowing.

Allowing myself to be subject
to the fertility of the dark.

Allowing a new pattern to emerge.

Letting the rich darkness soak through my being
like blood;
so a new constellation can gestate,
twinkle through to me
from an ancient past/future time,
from a galaxy within.

Allowing a new constellation
to form in the Void;
to guide my ship by.

As the New Year turns - the New Era turns,
letting go of the past year
with all its learnings and gifts

thankfully and graciously.

© Glenys Livingstone April 1995
 

SOME EARLY PAPERS:

 Now Recognizing Her in Me - [open]

There's a Place for God, and it's in the Bedroom. - [open]

God On the Run - [open]

the female metaphor: "Goddess" - open

 

RECOMMENDED READING:

Abram, David. The Spell of the Sensuous. NY: Vintage Books, 1997.

Baring, Anne, and Cashford, Jules. The Myth of the Goddess. Penguin Group, 1993.

Barlow, Connie. Green Space, Green Time. NY: Springer-Verlag, 1997.

Berry, Thomas. The Great Work. NY: Bell Tower, 1999.

____________ The Dream of the Earth. SF: Sierra Club Books, 1990.

Christ, Carol P. Rebirth of the Goddess. Addison-Wesley, 1997.

Edwards, Carolyn McVickar. The Storyteller’s Goddess. NY: HarperCollins, 1991.

Eisler, Riane. The Chalice and the Blade. San Fransisco: Harper and Row, 1987.

Getty,Adele. Goddess: Mother of Living Nature. London: Thames and Hudson, 1990.

Gimbutas, Marija. The Language of the Goddess. NY: HarperCollins, 1991.

_______________ The Goddesses  and Gods of Old Europe. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.

Grahn, Judy. Blood Bread and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993.

Halifax, Joan. The Fruitful Darkness.  SF: HarperCollins, 1993.

Iglehart Austen, Hallie. The Heart of the Goddess. Berkeley: Wingbow Press, 1990.

Liebes, Sidney, Sahtouris, Elisabet and Swimme, Brian. A Walk Through Time: From Stardust to Us. NY: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1998.

McLean, Adam. The Triple Goddess. Grand Rapids MI: Phanes Press, 1989.

Monaghan, Patricia. O Mother Sun! A New View of the Cosmic Feminine. Freedom CA: Crossing Press, 1994.

Morgan, Robin. Lady of the Beasts. NY: Random House, 1976.

Plaskow, Judith and Christ, Carol. Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality. NY: HarperCollins, 1989.

Perera, Sylvia Brinton. Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Women. Toronto: Inner City Books, 1981.

Raphael, Melissa. Thealogy and Embodiment : the Post-patriarchal  Reconstruction of Female Sacrality. Sheffield: Sheffield Press, 1996.

Reis, Patricia. Through the Goddess: A Woman's Way of Healing. NY:Continuum. 1995.

Sahtouris, Elisabet. Earthdance: Living Systems in Evolution. Available at www.sahtouris.com

Shuttle, Penelope and Redgrove, Peter. The Wise Wound: Menstruation and Everywoman. London: Paladin Books, 1986.

Sjoo, Monica and Mor, Barbara. The Great Cosmic Mother. SF: HarperCollins 1991. 

Spretnak, Charlene. States of Grace: The Recovery of Meaning in the Postmodern Age. SF: HarperCollins, 1993.

_______________ Lost Goddesses of Early Greece. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992.

Starhawk. The Pagan Book of Living and Dying. NY: HarperCollins, 1997.

________Truth or Dare. SF: Harper and Row, 1990.

________The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess. NY: Harper and Row, 1989.

Stone, Merlin. When God was a Woman. London: Harvest/HBJ, 1978.

Swimme, Brian. The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos. NY: Orbis, 1996.

____________ Canticle to the Cosmos. (Video series). CA: Tides Foundation, 1990.

____________ The Universe is a Green Dragon. Santa Fe: Bear & Co., 1984.

Swimme, Brian and Berry, Thomas. The Universe Story. NY: HarperCollins, 1992.

Walker, Barbara G. The Woman's Encyclopaedia of Myths and Secrets. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1983.

Woodman, Marion. The Pregnant Virgin. Toronto: Inner City Books, 1985.
LINKS
www.thegreatstory.org/metareligious.html
www.sahtouris.com
www.brianswimme.org/
www.archaeoastronomy.com/
www.wildgenie.com
www.susunweed.com
http://www.goddessassociation.com.au/
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