Spiral Dance, The - 20th Anniversary : A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess: 20th Anniversary Edition
by Starhawk (Author)
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The twentieth anniversary edition of The Spiral Dance celebrates the pivotal role the book has had in bringing Goddess worship to the religious forefront. This bestselling classic is both an unparalleled reference on the practices and philosophies of Witchcraft and a guide to the life-affirming ways in which readers can turn to the Goddess to deepen their sense of personal pride, develop their inner power, and integrate mind, body, and spirit. Starhawk's brilliant, comprehensive overview of the growth, suppression, and modern-day reemergence of Wicca as a Goddess-worshipping religion has left an indelible mark on the feminist spiritual consciousness.

In a new introduction, Starhawk reveals the ways in which Goddess religion and the practice of ritual have adapted and developed over the last twenty years, and she reflects on the ways in which these changes have influenced and enhanced her original ideas. In the face of an ever-changing world, this invaluable spiritual guidebook is more relevant than ever.

Circle Round: Raising Children in Goddess Traditions
by Starhawk, et al
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In our rushed, stressed society, it's sometimes difficult to spend meaningful time as a family. Now Starhawk, Diane Baker, and Anne Hill offer new ways to foster a sense of togetherness through celebrations that honor the sacredness of life and our Mother Earth.

Goddess tradition embraces the wheel of life, the never-ending cycle of birth, growth, love, fulfillment, and death. Each turn of the wheel is presented here, in eight holidays spanning the changing seasons, in rites of passage for life transitions, and in the elements of fire, air, water, earth, and spirit. Circle Round is rich with songs, rituals, craft and cooking projects, and read-aloud stories, as well as suggestions for how you can create your own unique family traditions. Here are just some of the ways to make each event in the cycle of life more special:

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• Mark Summer Solstice by making sweet-smelling herb pillows for good dreams
  
• Send a teenager off to college with the Leaving Behind and Carrying With rituals
  
• Comfort an injured child with the Tree of Life meditation
  
• Commemorate a loved one by planting or donating a tree
  

As a one-of-a-kind resource for people of many faiths and beliefs, Circle Round will be a beloved companion in your home for years to come.

The Pagan Book of Living and Dying : T/K
by Starhawk (Author), M. Macha NightMare (Author)
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Birth, growth, death and rebirth are a cycle that forms the underlying order of the universe. This is the core of Pagan belief -- and the heart of this unique resource guide to death and the process of dying. Filled with encouragement, strength and inspiration, The Pagan Book of Living and Dying is an invaluable source of both spiritual counsel and very practical tools and techniques for:

honoring and caring for a dying persongrieving a beloved relative, partner or friendplanning a funeral or memorial servicedistributing personal possessions and making room in the home for a loved one's memoryunderstanding and mourning specific types of deathproviding final instructions for one's own deathand much more

Bestselling author Starhawk and other Pagan writers have combined practical rituals with prayers, chants, blessings, meditations, essays and insightful personal stories to offer a new understanding of death and a powerful new approach to the various stages of dying and grieving.

A beautifully crafted and deeply spiritual guidebook, The Pagan Book of Living and Dying teaches that death, like birth, is a doorway -- another stage in the cycle of life. It will enhance the spiritual beliefs of readers of any faith and help each of us learn to welcome the change and renewal that await us on the other side of life.

The Fifth Sacred Thing
by Starhawk
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Here is an unforgettable epic that brilliantly dramatizes the choices we must make in order to insure the survial of our selves, our society, and our planet. This powerful novel of ideas and the future of human life itself is written by the bestselling author of The Spiral Dance.

Truth or Dare : Encounters with Power, Authority, and Mystery
by Starhawk (Author)
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An examination of the nature of power that offers creative alternatives for positive change in our personal lives, our communities, and our world.

Dreaming in the Dark : Magic, Sex, and Politics
by Starhawk (Author) 
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What is the relationship between waking experience and dreams, and between dreams and literary creativity? In this book Bert States explores the nature of dream imagery, the metaphorical processes in dreaming, and the nature and sources of dream narrative. Challenging the classical psychoanalytic view that dreams represent censored wishes, he argues instead that dreams are nonrepressive, unplanned constructions that unfold one image at a time with no other end than making the most integral use of the images at hand. Dreams are a phenomenon of mind and, like art, are manifestations of a biological need to convert experience into structure, says States.

If we acknowledge that dreaming is a biological activity (because virtually all mammals are known to dream), then we may profitably study dreams as instances of an evolutionary process in which images survive by a form of natural selection to influence the remainder of the dream, States contends. And if dreams have any meaning, it is no different in kind from the meaning that may be given to waking experience.

In addition to evolutionary biology, States draws on cognitive psychology, anthropology, neuroscience, literary and rhetorical theory, and philosophy, as well as poetry, literature, and drama. His provocative and lively investigation of dreams will appeal to any reader curious about the mind's activity during sleep.

The Twelve Wild Swans : A Journey to the Realm of Magic, Healing, and Action
by Starhawk (Author)
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A follow-up to the best-selling The Spiral Dance interprets a classic tale of twelve swans, showing how the myth offers a metaphorical view of magic and witchcraft and providing reference material on earth-based spirituality for covens and magical groups. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Starhawk, who introduced over a million readers to Wicca with "The Spiral Dance, " invites a new audience of listeners to learn blessings, spells, and rituals to connect with the Goddess and the cycles of nature.

Walking to Mercury: Starhawk
by Starhawk
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In The Fifth Sacred Thing, readers fell in love with Maya Greenwood, the 98-year-old writer who led Northern California's successful 21st century rebellion against a racist, totalitarian regime of the South. Walking to Mercury takes readers back to the 20th century and powerfully dramatizes the forces that shaped this extraordinary woman.

The book opens and closes with the middle-aged Maya struggling with a profound personal and spiritual crisis. The culminating factor has been her mother's death, and now Maya embarks on a trek in the Himalayas, intending to sprinkle her mother's ashes at the base of Mt. Everest and finally lay to rest her tumultuous past. At rest stops in tiny Tibetan villages, she reads diary pages her lover Johanna has tucked into her bag--the diary Johanna kept throughout their shared youth during the Vietnam era.

In vivid flashbacks to those radical days, we accompany the young Maya as she awakens to the summer of love, joins the anti-war movement, and enters into a relationship with the abusive, alcoholic Rio. She finally gathers the strength to break free and seek her own true path, which takes her from the streets of Manhattan to the mountains of Mexico. Eventually she emerges, stronger and wiser, infused with the wisdom of the earth and the spirit of the goddess.

Traveling through the landscape of memories helps Maya reclaim her past and foreshadows the miraculous events readers of The Fifth Sacred Thing know her to be capable of in the future.

The Spiral Dance
by Starhawk
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The twentieth anniversary edition of The Spiral Dance celebrates the pivotal role the book has had in bringing Goddess worship to the religious forefront. This bestselling classic is both an unparalleled reference on the practices and philosophies of Witchcraft and a guide to the life-affirming ways in which readers can turn to the Goddess to deepen their sense of personal pride, develop their inner power, and integrate mind, body, and spirit. Starhawk's brilliant, comprehensive overview of the growth, suppression, and modern-day reemergence of Wicca as a Goddess-worshipping religion has left an indelible mark on the feminist spiritual consciousness.

In a new introduction, Starhawk reveals the ways in which Goddess religion and the practice of ritual have adapted and developed over the last twenty years, and she reflects on the ways in which these changes have influenced and enhanced her original ideas. In the face of an ever-changing world, this invaluable spiritual guidebook is more relevant than ever.

The author of "Habitations of the Great Goddess" explores the individual quests of men and women who share the ideals of ancient spiritual practices that are reinvigorating their contemporary lives as they are each touched by the goddess. 25 illustrations.

Featuring narrative, chants, songs, and rituals, DREAMING THE DARK brilliantly combines the world of magic and spirituality with the world of political and social change. This fifteenth anniversary edition includes a new Preface by the author. THE BLOOMSBURY REVIEW calls this Starhawk's "best book".

Political scientist Irene Diamond makes an urgent call to feminists and environmentalists to recognize the dangers of technological control over women's bodies and of the earth. "One of the most provocative and original feminist books in years. . . . Diamond poses important questions and breaks ground for new thought about them".--BOOKLIST. Bibliography. Index.