A POIESIS OF THE CREATIVE COSMOS: Celebrating Her within PaGaian Sacred Ceremony

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This book is the documentation of a poetic ceremonial process practiced over decades, which has been the making of a world, a creative context in which She could be expressed and heard. This ceremonial practice is based in the Seasonal Moments of Earth-Sun that is, specifically the Solstices, Equinoxes and cross-quarter transitions of the Old European indigenous traditions. This has been synthesized with a scientific understanding of the unfolding Cosmos, and with female metaphor for the named as a “PaGaian” cosmology. The poetic process of ceremony described, over the year-long cycle of Earth-Sun creativity is a Geo-therapy, a placing of self within a womb of creativity, a microcosm of the Womb of the Cosmos, the habitat of all being, in which we dwell. This documentation was enabled and enhanced by the author’s academic doctoral work which allowed organic and transpersonal research methods, wherein ceremony, meditations, and intuitive cognitions were part of the learning. The circle of stones on the front cover represents this devotional practice and is reminiscent of the great stone circles built by ancestral peoples, which were ceremonial sites celebrating relationship with the beauty and terror of being alive in this awesome universe.

A Poiesis of the Creative Cosmos Book Endorsements
"This is a deeply spiritual work, beautifully articulating the sacrality and the profundity of our lives and of the cosmos. Glenys Livingstone writes of communions, celebrations, wonderfully creative ceremonies, the continuity of our turns around the Wheel of the Year."
-Miriam Robbins Dexter, Author of Whence the a Source Book and Sacred Divine and Magical Female Figures of Eurasia

"This book is a blessing! Bestowing knowledge, wisdom, and beauty, it presents new possibilities for a greater felt connection with the cosmos. The ceremonies for a PaGaian Wheel of the Year will surely inspire spiritual creativity."
-Charlene Spretnak, Author of Lost Goddesses of Early Greece"In order to enter A Poiesis of the Creative Cosmos, go out under the stars and let their beauty soak into you. Then you will be ready to enter the PaGaian wheel of ceremony which has taken Glenys an entire lifetime to create. Working with other poets of the cosmos, she has constructed a spiritual practice that enables us to root ourselves in place, wherein we may find our creative energies reinvigorated as we set forth to give poetic expression to the divine presence in which we live. Glenys Livingstone is a planetary treasure." -Brian Thomas Swimme, Author of Cosmogenesis

"In these times we need to remember our cosmic origins, the organic power we have within us collectively and personally. Glenys' book offers inspiration for such a journey which is both in and out at the same it presents an action that may be entered into to enable our atrophied sensitivities to our Earth, our place of being. The process described in this book helps us remember how old we really are, and also how young and vibrant we may be. As Joanna Macy it's time for us to act our age." -John Seed, deep ecology activist, co-author of Thinking Like a Toward a Council of All Beings.

"For years and years, we Goddess-folk have chanted, sung and whispered--the Great Mother is returning! Now, in these challenging times, we are blessed with a deeply personal, profoundly universal book from the inimitable Glenys Livingstone. Buy this book, sisters. Read this book, brothers. Live this book, children of Our Sacred Mother." -H. Byron Ballard, Witch, Priestess, Author...