num_pages: 628
description: In my early years I was called Â“fatherÂ” although I had not fathered. I then left this rocky prominence to descend to a rich fertile land in which I became a priestess and parent, investigative journalist and filmmaker. On my journey I learnt about my nature, changed gender-roles, brought up children, survived male violence, wrote articles and books with the Aborigines among whom I lived and worked Â— as well as producing films shown on Australian, American and British television, and testified to the US Congress on Blood Diamonds and was smuggled into diamond mines. During that time I did not speak publicly of my own unusual path for I wished to protect my children from being teased. But the children grew up, and into my life came a critical illness. I had no time to lose. I returned to what was most sacred to me. In this book I use my gender-journey as a metaphor for our societyÂ’s journey out of patriarchy. I thus weave in many stories of gender and sexuality from Australian Aboriginal and other ancient cultures, of magic and menstruation, circumcision, and childhood gender-typing, on how martyrdom became a route to heaven, of the suppression of the Gnostics and the Beguine women, on the witch-hunts, European shamanism, meditation and mysticism, child-welcoming and Wiccan initiation rituals, the Final Rites Â– and much else. I hope you will find this a rich and rewarding book.
language: English
title: The Seven Days of My Creation: Tales of Magic, Sex and Gender
titlecomplete: The Seven Days of My Creation: Tales of Magic, Sex and Gender
publisher: Writers Club Pr