num_pages: 393
description: WINNER IN THE NATIONAL BEST BOOKS AWARDS.... The Sacred Feminine, whether viewed as an archetype, ideology or heavenly deity, has been stripped from our cultures, religions and psyches for several millennia. But we are starting to remember its roots and origins. She is the missing piece of the spiritual, cultural and political puzzle that can address the human conditions of suffering that plagues the planet. A Contemporary Woman Walking and Ancient Path   The Divine Feminine or Goddess Spirituality Movement is probably one of the most important grassroots movements on the planet today.  It is the hope of advocates, with this impetus, the world can be transformed and the future of the many improved across the globe.   Certainly proponents could choose an easier road, but that inner voice, that harkening call, is deafening at times.  It drowns out all other distractions.  It is like the pull of an invisible cord,gentle but firm, not allowing much room to stray.  In the early days, paving the road was rough.  Pushing that proverbial boulder uphill against established ideas, traditions and the status quo was challenging.  Some devotees did not want to introduce Goddess back onto the world stage or vision her temples in neighborhoods.  They preferred keeping the Sacred Feminine underground and to themselves, away from the perils of institutionalization,but can society do without their mother much longer?  I think not. Change is coming.  Disappointed with mainstream religion, more and more people have been left with an unsavory taste in their mouths as human-made dogma divides people and discriminates across culture and gender.  They are disillusioned as  religion is used as an excuse for devastation, war and power over others.Goddess Spirituality offers a new path of hope if humanity has the courage and willingness to rethink, redefine, and remember.  Goddess Spirituality is not a magic potion,but a  roadmap  for transformation and change pointing to anew, peaceful, and enlightened age.  How will we get there?  Where are the guides?  Perhaps I can offer some ideas....This guide starts at the beginning, using the experience of this author's personal and public path as a template as I began to understand and integrate the Sacred Feminine into my Christian-based religious paradigm.  I validated this new spirituality by purposefully traveling to sacred sites of Goddess across the globe as a pilgrim.  That gave me understanding of the role of Goddess in years past, her sacred landscape that remains today and my place within that landscape.  I studied and began to intuit Goddess, particularly through the participatory nature of sacred ritual, a vital tool in developing one's connection with the Divine and for personal transformation.I sought out the camaraderie of others of like-mind to aid me in my physical, intellectual, and spiritual journeys.   Then in time, as I grew,  I cast my net wider, morphing from student to teacher.  I began reaching outside my immediate community to explain the positive affect embracing the Sacred Feminine might have on the rest of the world if Goddess were restored to her original place in the psyche and hearts of humankind.  This book reflects this cycle of realization and integration, moving from the personal,into public realms of local communities, then farther out bridging the gap into wider more mainstream realms.  Perhaps it can be your roadmap, too! 
language: English
title: Walking An Ancient Path: Rebirthing Goddess on Planet Earth
publisher: Changemakers Books