Voices of the Sacred Feminine
Posted by Joan Norton at 4/23/2008 8:47 AM 
Categories: Goddess and the Sacred Masculine, podcasts
Tags: Mary Magdalene 14 Steps To Awaken the Sacred Feminine Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene
Categories: Goddess and the Sacred Masculine, podcasts
Tags: Mary Magdalene 14 Steps To Awaken the Sacred Feminine Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene
My podcast conversation with Lisa Osborne about the wildly popular Oprah Book Club Eckhart Tolle book, A New Earth: Awakening To Your Life's Purpose turned out to be a discussion about the sacred feminine as "inner space". I'm always satisfied when I can add the language of feminine values and principles to anything. You can hear it here :
Podcasts are a great new "alternative media" that can enrich personal time at home on your computer while you're working on other things. I recently listened to Riane Eisler, author of the classic Chalice and the Blade on Karen Tate's absolutely wonderful podcast series on internet radio. Karen's commitment is to bring Goddess mainstream and her show is called "Voices of the Sacred Feminine". You won't believe the line-up of fabulous goddess women she has coming up....Jean Shinoda Bolen, our own Magdalene-list moderator Loretta Kemsley, Tina Carey author of God's Messengers for Today's Women, Starhawk, Barbara Walker, a "Foremother of Goddess Spirituality", Jayne Demente "A Feminine Reformation", and Carol Christ......to name just a few. So rich ! Thank you, Karen, for reaching out on the airwaves to help earth the feminine energies which will heal the world.
Here's where you can listen and download the podcasts :http://www.karentate.com/Tate/radio_show.html
I leave you with this line from Bob Dylan's "Love is Just a Four Letter Word" ...
"The Holy Kiss that's suppose to last Eternity..."
Here's where you can listen and download the podcasts :http://www.karentate.com/Tate/radio_show.html
I leave you with this line from Bob Dylan's "Love is Just a Four Letter Word" ...
"The Holy Kiss that's suppose to last Eternity..."
Joan: in another yahoo group you asked someone the following: "In The Myth of the Goddess, Evolution of an Image
by Baring and Cashford, they say that there is no word for Goddess in the
Hebrew language.(pg. 447) . Do you think this has anything to do with all
the difficulty with names and naming of Mary Magdalene? Even if she was
perceived by people to be the "goddess partner to the god", there
would be no word to say it. What do you think? Thanks, Joan"
I find this very interesting! As you may know I have a passion for the LOST Hebrew Goddess. SHE "IS" NAMED and SHE IS IN THE BIBLE!! When I discovered this many years ago, I was surprised and overjoyed. To some she may have no name because many Jewish Kings decided to wipe out Goddess worship in the Temple (which they eventually did). I believe that the Mother is described in several of the books of the Torah (old testament) as well as the NT. I would have to find the references again. They are mentioned in one of my very favorite books called, When God was a Woman. The book titled the "Hebrew Goddess" would have significant information about the Mother Goddess which was worshipped in ancient days. She was called the Queen of Heaven (long before the name was given to Mother Mary). She is also known by a variety of names: Asherah being one. Sadly her sacred groves were burned, her name forbidden to be spoken in the Temple, and her worship became punishable by death. This was part of the deliberate destruction of the sacred union which has caused countless grief and insanity in the world. As Priestesses it is our honor to help restore in this age what has been destroyed. Mary Magdalene's goal, I believe, is to help bring about the reconnection of the sacred union.
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Hi C.A.,
You are so right, and thank you for reminding me of that incredible book When God Was a Woman, which was so important in the "early days" of our recovery. I didn't make myself very clear in that post on the Magdalene-list forum. My thought was something like this...did the patriarchal thinking , belief system, zeitgeist of the time influence "word choice" to the extent that there was difficulty in naming Jesus' wife as a goddess figure? Someone who people perceived as "enacting" the role of goddess? If he was seen as a hoped for King, wouldn't she have been "named" as Queen in the popular thought of the time? As Margaret saaid, wouldn't people have recognized the resurrection story as a "just like Tammuz" story? And therefore seen Mary Magdalene as Queen in the story?
I thought that the goddess in the Hebrew stories was "left over" from earlier times and that the conquering tribes incorporated her but set about progressively discrediting her , until the sad and sorry state of things for goddess and woman alike when Jesus came onto the scene with his incredible love for women.
I appreciate your thoughts! Joan
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