She Summons: Why… Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality? Volume 1 (Sister Book of the She Rises trilogy)
Co-editors: Kaalii Cargill and Helen Hye-Sook Hwang
June Solstice, 2021
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Book details
- Paperback: 493 pages
- Publisher: Mago Books (June 21, 2021)
- Language:English
- ISBN: 9798513208754
- Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.1 x 9 inches
Description
She Summons: Why Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality? Volume 1 explores the urgency of the call to Goddess feminism, activism, and spirituality with contributions of essays, poetry and art from around the world. As the first of the She Summons forthcoming trilogy, this volume interweaves the howling and churning voices of Goddess feminists, activists, and spiritual practitioners. Moving onward and forward under the banner of Goddess feminist activist spirituality is no small feat. Continuity itself is our power. She Summons speaks with the Great Mother. This book, She Summons Volume 1, carries a birthmark of the Covid 19 pandemic, a virus previously unknown to humans, which continues to take a toll on human lives and their non-human companions. Our co-authors, emboldened in our tones, dare not to quit. We have survived the Covid 19 pandemic. Survivors by definition prove that they have refused to be defeated. We soar in spirit even when our bodies are tied up. This book is a powerful statement of WE/HERE/NOW at the core. She Summons Volume 1 is the fourth anthology of the kind after her sisters of the She Rises trilogy. Engineered to charge against the various forms of capitalist colonialist modern patriarchy by way of constructing the wheel of Goddess feminist activist spirituality, these sister warriors are sent to the battle ground of our daily lives. They are built to invoke the matricentric power from within, which unites elemental beings beyond differences.
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“Rich with layered meaning that speaks to all levels of the reader’s being, She Summons is a clarion call to reach for the stars, jump at the sun, transcend the limitations of inherited trauma, become as free and radiant as we possibly can.”Harriet Ann Ellenberger, co-founder Sinister Wisdom
“Reading this remarkable anthology I felt the summons viscerally rising up in me as a resounding YES to the request to endorse this call to arms. KAVITA BYRD writes of The Feminine, Mysticism and Transformation. Here she defines the Feminine and the asks ‘What do we mean when we talk about the rise of the feminine? It means that it is time to move beyond all that creates separation, competition and domination, and time to embrace all that creates interconnection, flow, Oneness, the melting of boundaries.’ The call to arms can be heard as both war cry and embrace. It is in this fierce embrace that I found myself held as I read chapter after chapter of poetic longing for wholeness. Louisa Calio speaks for Sister Earth as she sees with the ‘Eye of Balance the Lady in Red who found god in myself and I loved her/ I loved her fiercely.’ I, a man, guilty as charged, could not help praying the prayer of fierce love along with Her as I read those words. This beautiful book is both heartbreaking and deeply hopeful.” David O’Rose MD mentor, soul guide (An honours graduate of medicine from Sydney University.)
“The ethos of She Summons: Why Goddess Feminism, Activism, and Spirituality?” offers a deep resonance because of its archetypal and mythological source and the significance of that reverberation emanating throughout contemporary society. Reminiscent of the incantatory poem, “Thunder, Perfect Mind,” in The Gnostic Bible (Boston: Shambhala, 2009), translated by Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer, the poetry anthologized in She Summons is similar in its calling forth the sacred from within the secular world. For this practice of summoning and calling forth to be made manifest in activism is a practice that we can all learn from and celebrate. I highly recommend reading both “Thunder, Perfect Mind” as well as She Summons. The two go hand in hand like fine wine in a crystal glass.” Wally Swist, author of Taking Residence (Shanti Arts, 2021)
Co-editors
Kaalii Cargill, Ph.D.
Kaalii Cargill, author of DON’T TAKE IT LYING DOWN: LIFE ACCORDING TO THE GODDESS, lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. She has been involved in women’s consciousness raising groups, home birth, attachment parenting, home and parent-run schooling, and she co-developed Soul Centred Psychotherapy, a therapeutic modality based on the feminine principle. Kaalii has worked extensively in sacred ritual space and currently runs ongoing dream groups. Kaalii inherits a sense of mystery from Calabrese, ‘strega’ grandmothers and a healthy resistance to enculturation from her Romany ancestors. Kaalii’s latest novel, DAUGHTERS OF TIME, is interwoven with archaeological, historical, and mythological details that reveal the ancient world. It follows a line of daughters through ancient Sumer, Egypt, and Jerusalem, and into the modern world, as they carry the memory of the Goddess through time and across continents to the present day where three women come together to save the world from environmental catastrophe. For more, see here.
Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D.
Helen Hye-Sook Hwang (Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University), the co-founder of The Mago Work, is scholar, activist, and advocate of Magoism, the Way of the Great Mother. She earned her MA and Ph.D. in Religion with emphasis on Feminist Studies from Claremont Graduate University, CA. She also studied toward an MA degree in East Asian Studies at UCLA, CA. Hwang has taught for universities in California and Missouri, U.S.A. Since 2012, Dr. Hwang has founded and directed The Mago Work whose branches include the Return to Mago E-Magazine (http://magoism.net), Mago Academy (http://magoacademy.org), and Mago Books (https://www.magobooks.com). She also co-founded Gynapedia (https://gynapedia.magoacademy.org) and Mago Pool Circle (https://mpc.magoacademy.org) to broaden The Mago Work. She co-edited and published the She Rises trilogy series (2015, 2016, and 2019) as well as Celebrating Seasons of the Goddess (Mago Books, 2017). Also authored The Mago Way: Re-discovering Mago, the Great Goddess from East Asia (Mago Books, 2015), Mago Almanac: 13 Month 28 Day Calendar annually since 2018, and The Budoji Workbook series since 2020.
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