Angels in a Harsh World
by Don Bradley
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter :
A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine
by Sue M Kidd
Harper San Francisco
Diving Deep and Surfacing :
Women Writers on Spiritual Quest
by Carol P. Christ
Table of Contents:
Women's Stories, Women's Quest
Nothingness, Awakening, Insight, New Naming
Spiritual Liberation, Social Defeat: Kate Chopin
Refusing to Be Victim: Margaret Atwood
From Motherhood to Prophecy: Doris Lessing
Homesick for a Woman, for Ourselves: Adrienne Rich
"i found god in myself . . . i loved her fiercely": Ntozake Shange
Toward Wholeness: A Vision of Women's Culture
Ecstatica : Woman's Realms of Power
by Rivka Leah
Sacred Vision Press
Everyday Sacred :
A Woman's Journey Home
by Sue Bender
HarperCollins
Feminine Fusion
by Chris Griscom
Fireside
Grandmothers of the Light :
A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook
by Paula Gunn Allen
Beacon Press
Kali : The Black Goddess of Dakshineswar
by Elizabeth U. Harding
Nicolas Hays
Medicine Woman Inner Guidebook
by Carol Bridges
The Places That Scare You
A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
by Pema Chodron
Shambhala
Pema Chodron may have more good one liners than a Groucho Marx retrospective, but this nun's stingers go straight to the heart: "The essence of bravery is being without self deception"; "When we practice generosity, we become intimate with our grasping"; "Difficult people are the greatest teachers." These are the punctuations to specific teachings of fearlessness. In The Places That Scare You, Chodron introduces a host of the compassionate warriors' tools and concepts for transforming anxieties and negative emotions into positive living. Rather than steeling ourselves against hardship, she suggests we open ourselves to vulnerability; from this comes the loving kindness and compassion that are the wellsprings of joy. How do we achieve it? Through meditation, mindfulness, slogans, aspiration, and several other practices, such as tonglen, which is taking in the pain and suffering of others while sending out happiness to all emphasis on the all. Chodron introduces each of these practices in turn, backing them up with succinct practical reasoning and a framework of ideas that offers fresh interpretations of familiar words like strength, laziness, and groundlessness. Chodron is the type of person you'd like to have with you in an emergency, and to deal with the extremes of daily life. In her absence, The Places That Scare You will do nicely. Brian Bruya
Simple Abundance :
A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
by Sarah Ban Breathnach
Warner Books
Something More :
Excavating Your Authentic Self
by Sarah Ban Breathnach
Warner Books
Transformation Soup :
Healing for the Splendidly Imperfect
by Sark
Truth or Dare :
Encounters With Power, Authority, and Mystery
by Starhawk
Harper San Francisco
List of Processes, Exercises, Rituals, and Meditations for Individuals and Groups
Chapter 1: Truth or Dare
Chapter 2: The Dismembering of the World
Chapter 3: Firece Love: Resisting the Weapons the Culture Has Devised against the Self
Chapter 4: Unraveling and Reweaving: Pattern and Ritual
Chapter 5: The Sacred Spark: Reclaiming Value from the Judge
Chapter 6: Risking the Boundaries: Dethroning the Conqueror
Chapter 7: Finding a Voice: Breaking the Censor's Silence
Chapter 8: Creating Sustainable Culture: Serving No Masters
Chapter 9: Evoking Mystery: Restoring Organic Order
Chapter 10: Toward Community: Structure and Leadership in Groups
Chapter 11: Ritual to Build Community
Chapter 12: Resistance and Renewal
Chapter 13: The Last Story
A Woman's Book of Power :
Dancing the Divine Feminine
by Karen Andes
Perigee
Dance can be a prayer
Women once used dance as a form of prayer; a way to embody the Divine. I wrote this book because my soul craved this re-union and I couldn't find this in traditional, militaristic fitness moves. Dancing from the inside, with rounded shapes that come naturally to women, is one way to heal the collective wound of body self-loathing that has kept women down. As we heal, we become radiant and we leave for our daughters, a legacy of love, not shame.
The Woman Who Glows in the Dark :
A Curandera Reveals Traditional Aztec Secrets of Physical and Spiritual Health
by Elena Avila
J P Tarcher
Practicing Curanderismo has taught me to be creative, compassionate, and more in touch with the Divine light of Spirit. This luminous medicine has been passed down orally for hundreds of years. I am the first practicing Curandera to write a comprehensive book on Curanderismo. I need to share how relevent, powerful, and useful this spiritual medicine is to the Universal community. I also have a Masters degree in Nursing. Has it made me a better Curandera? No. Being a Curandera has made me a better nurse. In conventional medicine, the body goes to the hospital, the mind to the psychiatrist and the spirit and soul to the church. In Curanderismo, the healing takes place under one roof, with earth mother as the foundation, and the Divine as the source. Ometeotl
Yesterday, I Cried :
Celebrating the Lessons of Living and Loving
by Iyanla Vanzant
Fireside
Book of Shadows :
A Modern Woman's Journey into the Wisdom of Witchcraft and the Magic of the Goddess
by Phyllis Curott
Broadway Books
"Most people know intuitively that when you fall in love the world is full of magic. What they don't know is that when you discover the universe is full of magic, you fall in love with the world."
When high powered Manhattan lawyer Phyllis Curott began exploring Witchcraft, she discovered a spiritual movement that defied all stereotypes. Encountering neither satanic rites nor eccentric spinsters, she came to know a clandestine religion of the Goddess that had been forced into hiding over the course of history. Book of Shadows recounts Curott's remarkable initiation into Wicca (meaning "wise one") and shares her insights as a high priestess of an elegant, ancient spirituality that celebrates the magic of being alive.
An Ivy league graduate and promising lawyer, Curott was a typical young woman in her twenties, determined to forge a law career within the burgeoning, male dominated music industry. But when she began having prophetic dreams and mysterious visions of ancient female figures and unfamiliar symbols, she discovered an unexpected world of magic and began searching for a rational explanation. When her friend Sophia, a practicing Witch, suggested having her cards read by a Wiccan High Priestess, Curott instinctively dismissed the idea, but then forced her natural skepticism aside on the chance that this age old practice might help her understand the unusual occurrences in her life.
Thus begins her journey into the magical world of Witchcraft, a religion originally practiced by priestesses, shamans, and healers that empowers our lives by working with the natural cycles of nature. Fascinated by this preJudeo Christian religion that honors women as the embodiment of the Goddess and emphasizes respect and love for the natural world, Curott began attending a local coven's weekly circle to learn the sacred arts. Her Book of Shadows chronicles her ascent to the position of Wiccan High Priestess and her efforts to reconcile her newfound spirituality with her struggles as a woman rising through the ranks of the corporate world. Along the way, Curott relates the history of Witchcraft and shares many traditional Wiccan practices, such as casting a circle, drawing down the Goddess, harnessing the powers of the natural world, and casting spells for health, prosperity, and love.
Engagingly written and rich with detailed rituals and techniques, this inspirational book traces a modern woman's spiritual journey into a realm of extraordinary experience and enlightenment. Book of Shadows provides us with the keys to discover an enchanted world of divine empowerment so as to unlock the power that lies within us all.
Mary Daly Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism, Beacon Press
Mary Daly Pure Lust, Beacon Press, Boston.
Riane Eisler The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, HarperCollins
Elinor Gadon The Once and Future Goddess: a Symbol for Our Time, Harper
Marija Gimbutas The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe, University of California Press
Marija Gimbutas The Language of the Goddess, Harper & Row
Marija Gimbutas The Civilization of the Goddess, HarperSanFrancisco.
Carolyn G. Heilbrun Writing a Woman’s Life, Ballantine Books
Buffie Johnson Lady of the Beasts: Ancient images of the Goddess and her Sacred Animals,
HarperSanFrancisco.
Vicki Noble Shakti Woman Feeling our Fire, Healing our World The New Female Shamanism
HarperSanFrancisco.
Adrienne Rich Of Woman Motherhood as Experience and Institution
W.W. Norton & Co
Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth HarperSanFrancisco.
Peg Streep Sanctuaries of the Goddess, Little, Brown and Company.
Ted Andrews Animal Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small, Llewellyn
Nancy Blair Amulets of the Goddess Oracle of Ancient Wisdom, Wingbow Press
Rodney Castleden The Knossos Labyrinth A New View of the Palace of Minos at Knossos, Routledge
Rodney Castelden The Minoans Life in Bronze Age Crete, Routledge
R.F. Willets The Civilization of Ancient Crete, University of California Press
Natural Witchcraft by Marion Green
Of Witches Celebrating the Goddess Pagan Ways Finding Spirituality in Nature
Practical Dreaming Awakening the Power of Dreams
The Sacred Round Witch's Guide to Magical Practice
To Ride a Silver Broomstick by Silver Ravenwolf
A Tree in Your Pocket by Jaqueline Memory Paterson
Wiccan Handbook by Susan Bowes
A Wisewoman's Guide by Elisabeth Brooke
A Witch Alone by Marian Green
The Witch in Every Woman by Rea
When God Was A Woman by Merlin Stone
Grandmother of Time by Z Budapest
Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets by Barbara Walker
Sacred Pleasure by Riane Eisler
The Great Mother by Erich Neumann
Heart of the Goddess by Hallie Inglehart Austin
Drawing Down The Moon by Margot Adler
Moon, Moon (out of print, but worth searching for) by Anne Kent Rush
Spiral Dance by Starhawk
Women and Nature by Susan Griffin
Mirrors of Ancient Womanhood by Merlin Stone
Angels in a Harsh World
by Don Bradley
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter :
A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine
by Sue M Kidd
Harper San Francisco
Diving Deep and Surfacing :
Women Writers on Spiritual Quest
by Carol P. Christ
Table of Contents:
Women's Stories, Women's Quest
Nothingness, Awakening, Insight, New Naming
Spiritual Liberation, Social Defeat: Kate Chopin
Refusing to Be Victim: Margaret Atwood
From Motherhood to Prophecy: Doris Lessing
Homesick for a Woman, for Ourselves: Adrienne Rich
"i found god in myself . . . i loved her fiercely": Ntozake Shange
Toward Wholeness: A Vision of Women's Culture
Ecstatica : Woman's Realms of Power
by Rivka Leah
Sacred Vision Press
Everyday Sacred :
A Woman's Journey Home
by Sue Bender
HarperCollins
Feminine Fusion
by Chris Griscom
Fireside
Grandmothers of the Light :
A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook
by Paula Gunn Allen
Beacon Press
Kali : The Black Goddess of Dakshineswar
by Elizabeth U. Harding
Nicolas Hays
Medicine Woman Inner Guidebook
by Carol Bridges
The Places That Scare You
A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
by Pema Chodron
Shambhala
Pema Chodron may have more good one liners than a Groucho Marx retrospective, but this nun's stingers go straight to the heart: "The essence of bravery is being without self deception"; "When we practice generosity, we become intimate with our grasping"; "Difficult people are the greatest teachers." These are the punctuations to specific teachings of fearlessness. In The Places That Scare You, Chodron introduces a host of the compassionate warriors' tools and concepts for transforming anxieties and negative emotions into positive living. Rather than steeling ourselves against hardship, she suggests we open ourselves to vulnerability; from this comes the loving kindness and compassion that are the wellsprings of joy. How do we achieve it? Through meditation, mindfulness, slogans, aspiration, and several other practices, such as tonglen, which is taking in the pain and suffering of others while sending out happiness to all emphasis on the all. Chodron introduces each of these practices in turn, backing them up with succinct practical reasoning and a framework of ideas that offers fresh interpretations of familiar words like strength, laziness, and groundlessness. Chodron is the type of person you'd like to have with you in an emergency, and to deal with the extremes of daily life. In her absence, The Places That Scare You will do nicely. Brian Bruya
Simple Abundance :
A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
by Sarah Ban Breathnach
Warner Books
Something More :
Excavating Your Authentic Self
by Sarah Ban Breathnach
Warner Books
Transformation Soup :
Healing for the Splendidly Imperfect
by Sark
Truth or Dare :
Encounters With Power, Authority, and Mystery
by Starhawk
Harper San Francisco
List of Processes, Exercises, Rituals, and Meditations for Individuals and Groups
Chapter 1: Truth or Dare
Chapter 2: The Dismembering of the World
Chapter 3: Firece Love: Resisting the Weapons the Culture Has Devised against the Self
Chapter 4: Unraveling and Reweaving: Pattern and Ritual
Chapter 5: The Sacred Spark: Reclaiming Value from the Judge
Chapter 6: Risking the Boundaries: Dethroning the Conqueror
Chapter 7: Finding a Voice: Breaking the Censor's Silence
Chapter 8: Creating Sustainable Culture: Serving No Masters
Chapter 9: Evoking Mystery: Restoring Organic Order
Chapter 10: Toward Community: Structure and Leadership in Groups
Chapter 11: Ritual to Build Community
Chapter 12: Resistance and Renewal
Chapter 13: The Last Story
A Woman's Book of Power :
Dancing the Divine Feminine
by Karen Andes
Perigee
Dance can be a prayer
Women once used dance as a form of prayer; a way to embody the Divine. I wrote this book because my soul craved this re-union and I couldn't find this in traditional, militaristic fitness moves. Dancing from the inside, with rounded shapes that come naturally to women, is one way to heal the collective wound of body self-loathing that has kept women down. As we heal, we become radiant and we leave for our daughters, a legacy of love, not shame.
The Woman Who Glows in the Dark :
A Curandera Reveals Traditional Aztec Secrets of Physical and Spiritual Health
by Elena Avila
J P Tarcher
Practicing Curanderismo has taught me to be creative, compassionate, and more in touch with the Divine light of Spirit. This luminous medicine has been passed down orally for hundreds of years. I am the first practicing Curandera to write a comprehensive book on Curanderismo. I need to share how relevent, powerful, and useful this spiritual medicine is to the Universal community. I also have a Masters degree in Nursing. Has it made me a better Curandera? No. Being a Curandera has made me a better nurse. In conventional medicine, the body goes to the hospital, the mind to the psychiatrist and the spirit and soul to the church. In Curanderismo, the healing takes place under one roof, with earth mother as the foundation, and the Divine as the source. Ometeotl
Yesterday, I Cried :
Celebrating the Lessons of Living and Loving
by Iyanla Vanzant
Fireside
Book of Shadows :
A Modern Woman's Journey into the Wisdom of Witchcraft and the Magic of the Goddess
by Phyllis Curott
Broadway Books
"Most people know intuitively that when you fall in love the world is full of magic. What they don't know is that when you discover the universe is full of magic, you fall in love with the world."
When high powered Manhattan lawyer Phyllis Curott began exploring Witchcraft, she discovered a spiritual movement that defied all stereotypes. Encountering neither satanic rites nor eccentric spinsters, she came to know a clandestine religion of the Goddess that had been forced into hiding over the course of history. Book of Shadows recounts Curott's remarkable initiation into Wicca (meaning "wise one") and shares her insights as a high priestess of an elegant, ancient spirituality that celebrates the magic of being alive.
An Ivy league graduate and promising lawyer, Curott was a typical young woman in her twenties, determined to forge a law career within the burgeoning, male dominated music industry. But when she began having prophetic dreams and mysterious visions of ancient female figures and unfamiliar symbols, she discovered an unexpected world of magic and began searching for a rational explanation. When her friend Sophia, a practicing Witch, suggested having her cards read by a Wiccan High Priestess, Curott instinctively dismissed the idea, but then forced her natural skepticism aside on the chance that this age old practice might help her understand the unusual occurrences in her life.
Thus begins her journey into the magical world of Witchcraft, a religion originally practiced by priestesses, shamans, and healers that empowers our lives by working with the natural cycles of nature. Fascinated by this preJudeo Christian religion that honors women as the embodiment of the Goddess and emphasizes respect and love for the natural world, Curott began attending a local coven's weekly circle to learn the sacred arts. Her Book of Shadows chronicles her ascent to the position of Wiccan High Priestess and her efforts to reconcile her newfound spirituality with her struggles as a woman rising through the ranks of the corporate world. Along the way, Curott relates the history of Witchcraft and shares many traditional Wiccan practices, such as casting a circle, drawing down the Goddess, harnessing the powers of the natural world, and casting spells for health, prosperity, and love.
Engagingly written and rich with detailed rituals and techniques, this inspirational book traces a modern woman's spiritual journey into a realm of extraordinary experience and enlightenment. Book of Shadows provides us with the keys to discover an enchanted world of divine empowerment so as to unlock the power that lies within us all.
Mary Daly Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism, Beacon Press
Mary Daly Pure Lust, Beacon Press, Boston.
Riane Eisler The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, HarperCollins
Elinor Gadon The Once and Future Goddess: a Symbol for Our Time, Harper
Marija Gimbutas The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe, University of California Press
Marija Gimbutas The Language of the Goddess, Harper & Row
Marija Gimbutas The Civilization of the Goddess, HarperSanFrancisco.
Carolyn G. Heilbrun Writing a Woman’s Life, Ballantine Books
Buffie Johnson Lady of the Beasts: Ancient images of the Goddess and her Sacred Animals,
HarperSanFrancisco.
Vicki Noble Shakti Woman Feeling our Fire, Healing our World The New Female Shamanism
HarperSanFrancisco.
Adrienne Rich Of Woman Motherhood as Experience and Institution
W.W. Norton & Co
Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth HarperSanFrancisco.
Peg Streep Sanctuaries of the Goddess, Little, Brown and Company.
Ted Andrews Animal Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small, Llewellyn
Nancy Blair Amulets of the Goddess Oracle of Ancient Wisdom, Wingbow Press
Rodney Castleden The Knossos Labyrinth A New View of the Palace of Minos at Knossos, Routledge
Rodney Castelden The Minoans Life in Bronze Age Crete, Routledge
R.F. Willets The Civilization of Ancient Crete, University of California Press
Natural Witchcraft by Marion Green
Of Witches Celebrating the Goddess Pagan Ways Finding Spirituality in Nature
Practical Dreaming Awakening the Power of Dreams
The Sacred Round Witch's Guide to Magical Practice
To Ride a Silver Broomstick by Silver Ravenwolf
A Tree in Your Pocket by Jaqueline Memory Paterson
Wiccan Handbook by Susan Bowes
A Wisewoman's Guide by Elisabeth Brooke
A Witch Alone by Marian Green
The Witch in Every Woman by Rea
When God Was A Woman by Merlin Stone
Grandmother of Time by Z Budapest
Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets by Barbara Walker
Sacred Pleasure by Riane Eisler
The Great Mother by Erich Neumann
Heart of the Goddess by Hallie Inglehart Austin
Drawing Down The Moon by Margot Adler
Moon, Moon (out of print, but worth searching for) by Anne Kent Rush
Spiral Dance by Starhawk
Women and Nature by Susan Griffin
Mirrors of Ancient Womanhood by Merlin Stone
Angels in a Harsh World
by Don Bradley
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter :
A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine
by Sue M Kidd
Harper San Francisco
Diving Deep and Surfacing :
Women Writers on Spiritual Quest
by Carol P. Christ
Table of Contents:
Women's Stories, Women's Quest
Nothingness, Awakening, Insight, New Naming
Spiritual Liberation, Social Defeat: Kate Chopin
Refusing to Be Victim: Margaret Atwood
From Motherhood to Prophecy: Doris Lessing
Homesick for a Woman, for Ourselves: Adrienne Rich
"i found god in myself . . . i loved her fiercely": Ntozake Shange
Toward Wholeness: A Vision of Women's Culture
Ecstatica : Woman's Realms of Power
by Rivka Leah
Sacred Vision Press
Everyday Sacred :
A Woman's Journey Home
by Sue Bender
HarperCollins
Feminine Fusion
by Chris Griscom
Fireside
Grandmothers of the Light :
A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook
by Paula Gunn Allen
Beacon Press
Kali : The Black Goddess of Dakshineswar
by Elizabeth U. Harding
Nicolas Hays
Medicine Woman Inner Guidebook
by Carol Bridges
The Places That Scare You
A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
by Pema Chodron
Shambhala
Pema Chodron may have more good one liners than a Groucho Marx retrospective, but this nun's stingers go straight to the heart: "The essence of bravery is being without self deception"; "When we practice generosity, we become intimate with our grasping"; "Difficult people are the greatest teachers." These are the punctuations to specific teachings of fearlessness. In The Places That Scare You, Chodron introduces a host of the compassionate warriors' tools and concepts for transforming anxieties and negative emotions into positive living. Rather than steeling ourselves against hardship, she suggests we open ourselves to vulnerability; from this comes the loving kindness and compassion that are the wellsprings of joy. How do we achieve it? Through meditation, mindfulness, slogans, aspiration, and several other practices, such as tonglen, which is taking in the pain and suffering of others while sending out happiness to all emphasis on the all. Chodron introduces each of these practices in turn, backing them up with succinct practical reasoning and a framework of ideas that offers fresh interpretations of familiar words like strength, laziness, and groundlessness. Chodron is the type of person you'd like to have with you in an emergency, and to deal with the extremes of daily life. In her absence, The Places That Scare You will do nicely. Brian Bruya
Simple Abundance :
A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
by Sarah Ban Breathnach
Warner Books
Something More :
Excavating Your Authentic Self
by Sarah Ban Breathnach
Warner Books
Transformation Soup :
Healing for the Splendidly Imperfect
by Sark
Truth or Dare :
Encounters With Power, Authority, and Mystery
by Starhawk
Harper San Francisco
List of Processes, Exercises, Rituals, and Meditations for Individuals and Groups
Chapter 1: Truth or Dare
Chapter 2: The Dismembering of the World
Chapter 3: Firece Love: Resisting the Weapons the Culture Has Devised against the Self
Chapter 4: Unraveling and Reweaving: Pattern and Ritual
Chapter 5: The Sacred Spark: Reclaiming Value from the Judge
Chapter 6: Risking the Boundaries: Dethroning the Conqueror
Chapter 7: Finding a Voice: Breaking the Censor's Silence
Chapter 8: Creating Sustainable Culture: Serving No Masters
Chapter 9: Evoking Mystery: Restoring Organic Order
Chapter 10: Toward Community: Structure and Leadership in Groups
Chapter 11: Ritual to Build Community
Chapter 12: Resistance and Renewal
Chapter 13: The Last Story
A Woman's Book of Power :
Dancing the Divine Feminine
by Karen Andes
Perigee
Dance can be a prayer
Women once used dance as a form of prayer; a way to embody the Divine. I wrote this book because my soul craved this re-union and I couldn't find this in traditional, militaristic fitness moves. Dancing from the inside, with rounded shapes that come naturally to women, is one way to heal the collective wound of body self-loathing that has kept women down. As we heal, we become radiant and we leave for our daughters, a legacy of love, not shame.
The Woman Who Glows in the Dark :
A Curandera Reveals Traditional Aztec Secrets of Physical and Spiritual Health
by Elena Avila
J P Tarcher
Practicing Curanderismo has taught me to be creative, compassionate, and more in touch with the Divine light of Spirit. This luminous medicine has been passed down orally for hundreds of years. I am the first practicing Curandera to write a comprehensive book on Curanderismo. I need to share how relevent, powerful, and useful this spiritual medicine is to the Universal community. I also have a Masters degree in Nursing. Has it made me a better Curandera? No. Being a Curandera has made me a better nurse. In conventional medicine, the body goes to the hospital, the mind to the psychiatrist and the spirit and soul to the church. In Curanderismo, the healing takes place under one roof, with earth mother as the foundation, and the Divine as the source. Ometeotl
Yesterday, I Cried :
Celebrating the Lessons of Living and Loving
by Iyanla Vanzant
Fireside
Book of Shadows :
A Modern Woman's Journey into the Wisdom of Witchcraft and the Magic of the Goddess
by Phyllis Curott
Broadway Books
"Most people know intuitively that when you fall in love the world is full of magic. What they don't know is that when you discover the universe is full of magic, you fall in love with the world."
When high powered Manhattan lawyer Phyllis Curott began exploring Witchcraft, she discovered a spiritual movement that defied all stereotypes. Encountering neither satanic rites nor eccentric spinsters, she came to know a clandestine religion of the Goddess that had been forced into hiding over the course of history. Book of Shadows recounts Curott's remarkable initiation into Wicca (meaning "wise one") and shares her insights as a high priestess of an elegant, ancient spirituality that celebrates the magic of being alive.
An Ivy league graduate and promising lawyer, Curott was a typical young woman in her twenties, determined to forge a law career within the burgeoning, male dominated music industry. But when she began having prophetic dreams and mysterious visions of ancient female figures and unfamiliar symbols, she discovered an unexpected world of magic and began searching for a rational explanation. When her friend Sophia, a practicing Witch, suggested having her cards read by a Wiccan High Priestess, Curott instinctively dismissed the idea, but then forced her natural skepticism aside on the chance that this age old practice might help her understand the unusual occurrences in her life.
Thus begins her journey into the magical world of Witchcraft, a religion originally practiced by priestesses, shamans, and healers that empowers our lives by working with the natural cycles of nature. Fascinated by this preJudeo Christian religion that honors women as the embodiment of the Goddess and emphasizes respect and love for the natural world, Curott began attending a local coven's weekly circle to learn the sacred arts. Her Book of Shadows chronicles her ascent to the position of Wiccan High Priestess and her efforts to reconcile her newfound spirituality with her struggles as a woman rising through the ranks of the corporate world. Along the way, Curott relates the history of Witchcraft and shares many traditional Wiccan practices, such as casting a circle, drawing down the Goddess, harnessing the powers of the natural world, and casting spells for health, prosperity, and love.
Engagingly written and rich with detailed rituals and techniques, this inspirational book traces a modern woman's spiritual journey into a realm of extraordinary experience and enlightenment. Book of Shadows provides us with the keys to discover an enchanted world of divine empowerment so as to unlock the power that lies within us all.
Mary Daly Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism, Beacon Press
Mary Daly Pure Lust, Beacon Press, Boston.
Riane Eisler The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, HarperCollins
Elinor Gadon The Once and Future Goddess: a Symbol for Our Time, Harper
Marija Gimbutas The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe, University of California Press
Marija Gimbutas The Language of the Goddess, Harper & Row
Marija Gimbutas The Civilization of the Goddess, HarperSanFrancisco.
Carolyn G. Heilbrun Writing a Woman’s Life, Ballantine Books
Buffie Johnson Lady of the Beasts: Ancient images of the Goddess and her Sacred Animals,
HarperSanFrancisco.
Vicki Noble Shakti Woman Feeling our Fire, Healing our World The New Female Shamanism
HarperSanFrancisco.
Adrienne Rich Of Woman Motherhood as Experience and Institution
W.W. Norton & Co
Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth HarperSanFrancisco.
Peg Streep Sanctuaries of the Goddess, Little, Brown and Company.
Ted Andrews Animal Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small, Llewellyn
Nancy Blair Amulets of the Goddess Oracle of Ancient Wisdom, Wingbow Press
Rodney Castleden The Knossos Labyrinth A New View of the Palace of Minos at Knossos, Routledge
Rodney Castelden The Minoans Life in Bronze Age Crete, Routledge
R.F. Willets The Civilization of Ancient Crete, University of California Press
Natural Witchcraft by Marion Green
Of Witches Celebrating the Goddess Pagan Ways Finding Spirituality in Nature
Practical Dreaming Awakening the Power of Dreams
The Sacred Round Witch's Guide to Magical Practice
To Ride a Silver Broomstick by Silver Ravenwolf
A Tree in Your Pocket by Jaqueline Memory Paterson
Wiccan Handbook by Susan Bowes
A Wisewoman's Guide by Elisabeth Brooke
A Witch Alone by Marian Green
The Witch in Every Woman by Rea
When God Was A Woman by Merlin Stone
Grandmother of Time by Z Budapest
Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets by Barbara Walker
Sacred Pleasure by Riane Eisler
The Great Mother by Erich Neumann
Heart of the Goddess by Hallie Inglehart Austin
Drawing Down The Moon by Margot Adler
Moon, Moon (out of print, but worth searching for) by Anne Kent Rush
Spiral Dance by Starhawk
Women and Nature by Susan Griffin
Mirrors of Ancient Womanhood by Merlin Stone
by Don Bradley
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter : A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine
by Sue M Kidd
Harper San Francisco
Diving Deep and Surfacing :
Women Writers on Spiritual Quest
by Carol P. Christ
Table of Contents:
Everyday Sacred :
A Woman's Journey Home
Feminine Fusion
by Chris Griscom
Grandmothers of the Light :
A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook
Kali : The Black Goddess of Dakshineswar
Medicine Woman Inner Guidebook
The Places That Scare You
A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
Pema Chodron may have more good one liners than a Groucho Marx retrospective, but this nun's stingers go straight to the heart: "The essence of bravery is being without self deception"; "When we practice generosity, we become intimate with our grasping"; "Difficult people are the greatest teachers." These are the punctuations to specific teachings of fearlessness. In The Places That Scare You, Chodron introduces a host of the compassionate warriors' tools and concepts for transforming anxieties and negative emotions into positive living. Rather than steeling ourselves against hardship, she suggests we open ourselves to vulnerability; from this comes the loving kindness and compassion that are the wellsprings of joy. How do we achieve it? Through meditation, mindfulness, slogans, aspiration, and several other practices, such as tonglen, which is taking in the pain and suffering of others while sending out happiness to all emphasis on the all. Chodron introduces each of these practices in turn, backing them up with succinct practical reasoning and a framework of ideas that offers fresh interpretations of familiar words like strength, laziness, and groundlessness. Chodron is the type of person you'd like to have with you in an emergency, and to deal with the extremes of daily life. In her absence, The Places That Scare You will do nicely. Brian Bruya
Something More :
Excavating Your Authentic Self
Transformation Soup :
Healing for the Splendidly Imperfect
Truth or Dare :
Encounters With Power, Authority, and Mystery
by Starhawk
List of Processes, Exercises, Rituals, and Meditations for Individuals and Groups
Dance can be a prayer
Practicing Curanderismo has taught me to be creative, compassionate, and more in touch with the Divine light of Spirit. This luminous medicine has been passed down orally for hundreds of years. I am the first practicing Curandera to write a comprehensive book on Curanderismo. I need to share how relevent, powerful, and useful this spiritual medicine is to the Universal community. I also have a Masters degree in Nursing. Has it made me a better Curandera? No. Being a Curandera has made me a better nurse. In conventional medicine, the body goes to the hospital, the mind to the psychiatrist and the spirit and soul to the church. In Curanderismo, the healing takes place under one roof, with earth mother as the foundation, and the Divine as the source. Ometeotl
Book of Shadows :
A Modern Woman's Journey into the Wisdom of Witchcraft and the Magic of the Goddess
"Most people know intuitively that when you fall in love the world is full of magic. What they don't know is that when you discover the universe is full of magic, you fall in love with the world."
Mary Daly Pure Lust, Beacon Press, Boston.
Riane Eisler The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, HarperCollins
Elinor Gadon The Once and Future Goddess: a Symbol for Our Time, Harper
Marija Gimbutas The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe, University of California Press
Marija Gimbutas The Language of the Goddess, Harper & Row
Marija Gimbutas The Civilization of the Goddess, HarperSanFrancisco.
Carolyn G. Heilbrun Writing a Woman’s Life, Ballantine Books
Buffie Johnson Lady of the Beasts: Ancient images of the Goddess and her Sacred Animals,
Vicki Noble Shakti Woman Feeling our Fire, Healing our World The New Female Shamanism
Adrienne Rich Of Woman Motherhood as Experience and Institution
W.W. Norton & Co
Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth HarperSanFrancisco.
Peg Streep Sanctuaries of the Goddess, Little, Brown and Company.
Ted Andrews Animal Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small, Llewellyn
Nancy Blair Amulets of the Goddess Oracle of Ancient Wisdom, Wingbow Press
Rodney Castleden The Knossos Labyrinth A New View of the Palace of Minos at Knossos, Routledge
Rodney Castelden The Minoans Life in Bronze Age Crete, Routledge
R.F. Willets The Civilization of Ancient Crete, University of California Press
Natural Witchcraft by Marion Green
Of Witches Celebrating the Goddess Pagan Ways Finding Spirituality in Nature
Practical Dreaming Awakening the Power of Dreams
The Sacred Round Witch's Guide to Magical Practice
To Ride a Silver Broomstick by Silver Ravenwolf
A Tree in Your Pocket by Jaqueline Memory Paterson
Wiccan Handbook by Susan Bowes
A Wisewoman's Guide by Elisabeth Brooke
A Witch Alone by Marian Green
The Witch in Every Woman by Rea
When God Was A Woman by Merlin Stone
Grandmother of Time by Z Budapest
Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets by Barbara Walker
Sacred Pleasure by Riane Eisler
The Great Mother by Erich Neumann
Heart of the Goddess by Hallie Inglehart Austin
Drawing Down The Moon by Margot Adler
Moon, Moon (out of print, but worth searching for) by Anne Kent Rush
Spiral Dance by Starhawk
Women and Nature by Susan Griffin
Mirrors of Ancient Womanhood by Merlin Stone
Women's Stories, Women's Quest
Nothingness, Awakening, Insight, New Naming
Spiritual Liberation, Social Defeat: Kate Chopin
Refusing to Be Victim: Margaret Atwood
From Motherhood to Prophecy: Doris Lessing
Homesick for a Woman, for Ourselves: Adrienne Rich
"i found god in myself . . . i loved her fiercely": Ntozake Shange
Toward Wholeness: A Vision of Women's Culture
by Rivka Leah
Sacred Vision Press
by Sue Bender
HarperCollins
Fireside
by Paula Gunn Allen
Beacon Press
by Elizabeth U. Harding
Nicolas Hays
by Carol Bridges
by Pema Chodron
Shambhala
by Sarah Ban Breathnach
Warner Books
by Sarah Ban Breathnach
Warner Books
by Sark
Harper San Francisco
Chapter 1: Truth or Dare
Chapter 2: The Dismembering of the World
Chapter 3: Firece Love: Resisting the Weapons the Culture Has Devised against the Self
Chapter 4: Unraveling and Reweaving: Pattern and Ritual
Chapter 5: The Sacred Spark: Reclaiming Value from the Judge
Chapter 6: Risking the Boundaries: Dethroning the Conqueror
Chapter 7: Finding a Voice: Breaking the Censor's Silence
Chapter 8: Creating Sustainable Culture: Serving No Masters
Chapter 9: Evoking Mystery: Restoring Organic Order
Chapter 10: Toward Community: Structure and Leadership in Groups
Chapter 11: Ritual to Build Community
Chapter 12: Resistance and Renewal
Chapter 13: The Last Story
by Karen Andes
Perigee
Women once used dance as a form of prayer; a way to embody the Divine. I wrote this book because my soul craved this re-union and I couldn't find this in traditional, militaristic fitness moves. Dancing from the inside, with rounded shapes that come naturally to women, is one way to heal the collective wound of body self-loathing that has kept women down. As we heal, we become radiant and we leave for our daughters, a legacy of love, not shame.
by Elena Avila
J P Tarcher
by Iyanla Vanzant
Fireside
by Phyllis Curott
Broadway Books
When high powered Manhattan lawyer Phyllis Curott began exploring Witchcraft, she discovered a spiritual movement that defied all stereotypes. Encountering neither satanic rites nor eccentric spinsters, she came to know a clandestine religion of the Goddess that had been forced into hiding over the course of history. Book of Shadows recounts Curott's remarkable initiation into Wicca (meaning "wise one") and shares her insights as a high priestess of an elegant, ancient spirituality that celebrates the magic of being alive.
An Ivy league graduate and promising lawyer, Curott was a typical young woman in her twenties, determined to forge a law career within the burgeoning, male dominated music industry. But when she began having prophetic dreams and mysterious visions of ancient female figures and unfamiliar symbols, she discovered an unexpected world of magic and began searching for a rational explanation. When her friend Sophia, a practicing Witch, suggested having her cards read by a Wiccan High Priestess, Curott instinctively dismissed the idea, but then forced her natural skepticism aside on the chance that this age old practice might help her understand the unusual occurrences in her life.
Thus begins her journey into the magical world of Witchcraft, a religion originally practiced by priestesses, shamans, and healers that empowers our lives by working with the natural cycles of nature. Fascinated by this preJudeo Christian religion that honors women as the embodiment of the Goddess and emphasizes respect and love for the natural world, Curott began attending a local coven's weekly circle to learn the sacred arts. Her Book of Shadows chronicles her ascent to the position of Wiccan High Priestess and her efforts to reconcile her newfound spirituality with her struggles as a woman rising through the ranks of the corporate world. Along the way, Curott relates the history of Witchcraft and shares many traditional Wiccan practices, such as casting a circle, drawing down the Goddess, harnessing the powers of the natural world, and casting spells for health, prosperity, and love.
Engagingly written and rich with detailed rituals and techniques, this inspirational book traces a modern woman's spiritual journey into a realm of extraordinary experience and enlightenment. Book of Shadows provides us with the keys to discover an enchanted world of divine empowerment so as to unlock the power that lies within us all.
HarperSanFrancisco.
HarperSanFrancisco.