A Poiesis of the Creative Cosmos

""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 life: our turns around the Wheel of the Year."" -Miriam Robbins Dexter, Author of Whence the Goddesses: a Source Book and Sacred Display: 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, begin the night before. Go out under the stars and let their beauty soak into you. Bring to mind the 320 million Earth-like planets sprinkled throughout the Milky Way galaxy and imagine there are other beings out there who are, simultaneously, trying to imagine us. As you climb into bed, reflect on the stunning truth coming from both the ancient ones and the contemporary scientists, that you are at the center of the universe, at the very center along with everyone else. After a deep sleep, you will be ready to enter the PaGaian wheel of ceremony which has taken Glenys an entire lifetime to create. She has had to struggle out of the unconscious arrogance and profound ignorance of industrial society in their dismissal of the wisdom embedded in Goddess-based cultures. Working with other poets of the cosmos, she has constructed a spiritual practice that enables us to root ourselves in place and celebrate the sacred annual journey about the sun. By releasing ourselves into the wisdom of her ceremonies, we find our creative energies reinvigorated as we set forth to give poetic expression to the divine presence in which we live. Glenys Livingstone, the author of this cosmological poetry, 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 time: 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 says: it's time for us to act our age."" -John Seed, deep ecology activist, co-author (with Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming, and Arne Naess) of Thinking Like a Mountain: 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....