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Changing Visions
I’ve been moving in this direction for quite some time— really probably since my miscarriage-birth experience in late 2009—but I’ve decided that it is officially time for me to take a break from...
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The Great Birth (of the Universe)
I love it when someone writes with passion, heart, depth, and poetry about natural and scientific phenomena and as such greatly enjoyed an essay by Brian Swimme in the book Reweaving the World: The...
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Birth as a Spiritual Experience (Thesis Project)
“Here is your sacrament Take. Eat. this is my body this is real milk, thin, sweet, bluish, which I give for the life of the world… Here is your bread of life. Here is the blood by which you live in...
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Thesis Tidbits: Naming and Claiming
As I mentioned recently, I’m working on my thesis project on the subject of birth as a spiritual experience. Today, instead of my usual Tuesday collection of links, I’m sharing some thought-provoking...
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Thesis Tidbits: Birth as a Shamanic Experience
“Childbirth is a rite of passage so intense physically, psychologically, emotionally, spiritually, that most other events in a woman’s life pale next to it. In our modern lives, there are few remaining...
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Listen to the wise woman…
Mini mamapriestess sculpture I made to take with me for my medicine bundle. Last summer after I finished my priestess certification and I’d been facilitating women’s retreats for two years, I got a...
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Thesis Tidbits: Mary Christmas
Mary and Child painting by blogging friend Paola Suarez “…When I say painless, please understand, I don’t mean you will not feel anything. What you will feel is a lot of pressure; you will feel the...
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Talk Birth Wordwalls
In the womb we begin enclosed and safe nurtured by our mother’s body soul connected to soul. We are fed and encouraged to grow to take the steps to life beyond the womb. –Linda Ervin quoted in To Make...
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Thesis Tidbits: Feminism, Midwifery, and Motherhood
“Feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hungers.” –Carol Lee Flinders (in The...
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The Great Birth (of the Universe)
I love it when someone writes with passion, heart, depth, and poetry about natural and scientific phenomena and as such greatly enjoyed an essay by Brian Swimme in the book Reweaving the World: The...
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Listen to the wise woman…
Mini mamapriestess sculpture I made to take with me for my medicine bundle. Last summer after I finished my priestess certification and I’d been facilitating women’s retreats for two years, I got a...
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