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| conscious conception ritual: Crystal Muse Heather Askinosie, Timmi Jandro, 2020-06-02 “Crystal Muse is pure enchantment. It is written with grace, deep knowledge, and the kind of magic that comes only from years and years of experience trusting and working in the unseen realms. I highly recommend this book to everyone who wants to live a more delightful and fulfilling life.”— CHRISTIANE NORTHRUP, M.D., New York Times best-selling author of Goddesses Never Age Crystal Muse explores how you can transform life’s challenges into opportunities for growth by being equipped with the right crystals and mindset. Learn how you can connect with crystals and empower your life by using this guide to set such transformational intentions as: —Attracting love through learning to love yourself —Relieving anxiety by surrendering to meditation —Becoming a magnet for prosperity —Crystallizing a breakthrough —Consciously conceiving a new life —Cutting your unhealthy energy cords —Getting rid of insomnia to sleep with your mind fully at rest —Cultivating the connection with your creative spirit —Aligning with the energy of the moon —Grounding yourself with the energy of the earth; and —Finding the temple within These practices are a collection of over 25 years of rigorous research, world travel, and spiritual quests by holistic healer and crystal expert, Heather Askinosie. For over two decades, Heather and her business partner, Timmi Jandro, have been offering insights into crystals through their crystal healing business, Energy Muse. Throughout Crystal Muse, Heather and Timmi share their personal stories on the path toward alternative practice, and explain how these remedies can work for the reader’s life too. |
| conscious conception ritual: This Sacred Life, Transforming Our World Through Birth... Zuki Abbott, 2007-04-12 A text guide covering conception, pregnancy and childbirth, for Parents, Birth workers and those interested in Transforming Our World through Birth.... |
| conscious conception ritual: Parenting Begins Before Conception Carista Luminare-Rosen, 2000-05 Prospective parents learn how they can lay the foundations for a healthy, happy family life even before their children are conceived. This guide shows parents how they can optimize children's physical, emotional, and spiritual health. Illustrations. |
| conscious conception ritual: Womb Awakening Azra Bertrand, Seren Bertrand, 2017-08-15 Rediscover the lost ancient mystery teachings of the Cosmic Womb • 2017 Nautilus Silver Award • Explains how each of us has a holographic blueprint of the Womb of Creation, our spiritual Womb • Offers practices to help awaken your spiritual Womb, experience the Womb of God within, and activate the Womb’s sacred magic of creation and manifestation • Looks at the power of the moon and its connection to sacred Womb Consciousness • Explores how the lost Womb mystery teachings were encoded in folk and fairy tales, the legends of the Holy Grail, and the traditions of Mary Magdalene and Sophia • Includes access to three guided Womb Awakening audio journeys The Ancients lived by a feminine cosmology of creation, where everything was birthed and dissolved through a sacred universal Womb. Within each of us, whether female or male, lies a holographic blueprint of this Womb of Creation, connecting us to the Web of Life. By awakening your spiritual Womb, the holy of holies within the temple of your body, you can reconnect to the transformative energy of Womb Consciousness and reclaim your sacred powers of creation and love. Drawing on mythical and spiritual traditions from almost every culture, Dr. Azra and Seren Bertrand reconstruct the moon-based feminine mystery teachings of a lost global Womb religion, tracing the tradition all the way back to the Neanderthals and beyond. They explore how these teachings were encoded in the symbolism of folk and fairy tales; the legends of the Holy Grail; the traditions of Mary Magdalene and Sophia; the maiden, queen, and crone archetypes; and the teachings of alchemy and the chakras. They show how sages and shamans across the globe all secretly spoke of the Cosmic Womb and the sacred creative powers of Moon Blood. The authors look at the power of the Moon and its connection to sacred Womb Consciousness, offering meditations and practices to help awaken your spiritual Womb and activate its sacred magic of creation and manifestation. They explain how to activate the energetic gateways of the Womb and merge the heart and Womb to make sexual union the highest sacrament of love. Revealing how we must reconnect with the Divine Feminine to rebirth the Divine Masculine and restore balance to our world, they show how, as we reawaken the powerful ancient path of the Womb Mysteries, we help return our world to harmony with the wild, untamed creative flows and cyclical rhythms of the cosmos. |
| conscious conception ritual: Mother with Child Kathryn Allen Rabuzzi, 1994-02-22 “Rabuzzi rejects the status quo, presenting viable, often spiritual, alternatives to prevailing high-tech, patriarchal models of childbirth” (Booklist). Rabuzzi, author of The Sacred and the Feminine and Motherself, contends that childbearing has been denigrated, denied, and devalued. This book is intended to help women rename, re-ritualize, reinterpret, and reframe childbearing for themselves and their partners. “A lovely book. . . . It is a book for anyone wishing to reexamine and reclaim birth’s potential for sacredness.” —Robbie Davis-Floyd, author of Birth as an American Rite of Passage “Excellent.” —The Reader’s Review |
| conscious conception ritual: INTIMACY Komala Lyra, 2025-03-12 Ayurveda & Sexuality views Eros as a natural expression of body, heart, and soul. It explores conscious sexuality through sincerity, vulnerability, and a grounded energetic presence. In a fluid, poetic, yet practical way, Komala invites integration of physical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions, enhancing vitality awareness and sensitivity as the essence of traditional Tantra. Through this lens, sexuality is a source of pleasure, as well as a gateway to a boundless, transcendent experience. |
| conscious conception ritual: Mother Rising Yana Cortlund, Barb Lucke, Donna Miller Watelet, 2012-05-09 Different from a baby shower, where gifts are lavished upon the soon-to-be-born child, a blessingway ceremony honors the mother-to-be and creates a circle of support that will cradle her as she prepares to give birth. Surrounded by the most important women in her life, she can explore the challenges and joys that lie before her, gaining a sense of power and confidence that will help her rise to motherhood. MOTHER RISING shows women how to organize and personalize a blessingway for the expecting friends and family-an experience that will give the mother-to-be the best possible gifts of deep happiness, serenity, and abundance of love. A resource for planning and hosting a blessingway ceremony-a woman-centered celebration of the journey into motherhood. Ideal gift for or from an expectant mother who wants a more meaningful and transformational experience than the traditional, gift-focused baby shower. Outlines the five stages of the blessingway ritual, from establishing a safe and sacred space to honoring and pampering the mother-to-be. Finalist in both the 2004 Independent Publisher Book Awards and Foreword magazine's Book of the Year Awards. Features sidebars, inspirational quotations, resources, and checklists. |
| conscious conception ritual: Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom Christiane Northrup, 2010 Offers information on a variety of women's health issues, including nutrition, menstruation, fertility, pregnancy, menopause, sexuality, breast health, sugery, illness, and mental and emotional well-being. |
| conscious conception ritual: Tarot for Pregnancy Brittany Carmona-Holt, 2022-06-07 Tarot for Pregnancy is the perfect gift for every magical parent-to-be in your life—guiding them through the history, mystery, and ritual that is both tarot and pregnancy. Tarot for Pregnancy: A Companion for Radical Magical Birthing Folks is for parents-to-be who want to tap into internal and ancestral wisdom on the journey to and through parenthood. Brittany Carmona-Holt is an intuitive Tarot reader as well as a full-spectrum doula, marrying her two passions to offer a rare understanding of the birth journey and an esoteric guide to the life-altering experience of giving life. Filled with incredible artwork by Kimberly Rodriguez (IG: Poetagoddess), Tarot for Pregnancy is the perfect book for any soon-to-be (or already) parent—and a sure-to-be staple at every baby shower in the future! Written for both the amateur Tarot fan and the initiated birth activist, Tarot for Pregnancy offers a rare tour-de-force, opening up the Tarot as both a guide to the future and a handbook for the important activism that modern birthing requires. Carmona-Holt's book offers tactical guidance and rituals to guide the reader's birthing experience, empowering them to connect to their ancestral truths in order greet their baby on their own terms. Grounded by two critical essays, History [Mystery] of the Tarot by Sanyu Estelle Nagenda, “The Word Witch,” and The History of Birth in the United States by Dr. Stephanie Mitchell, “Doctor Midwife,” Tarot for Pregnancy guides readers to better understand the history, mystery, and ritual of both Tarot and pregnancy. Throughout the book, Carmona-Holt helps reader to better understand, experience, and advocate for their soon-to-be baby by utilizing the magic of the Tarot to guide and empower them. Filled with illustrated pearls of wisdom, Tarot for Pregnancy offers a trauma-informed, antiracist, and evidence-based spiritual resource for folks wanting to make intuition-led decisions about their care during pregnancy and birth. Tarot for Pregnancy aims to inspire and ignite those who wish to utilize their journeys to birth as a means of activism, personal empowerment, and magical parenting. Brittany Carmona-Holt (aka The Birth Witch) is a full spectrum doula and instructor, community midwife's assistant, Tarot reader, poet, reproductive justice advocate, partner to Alex, and parent to Kahlo Sol. She received her education and from Mama Glow and is still constantly continuing her education on all experiences along the reproductive continuum. Her purpose is to help reignite the cellular wisdom in pregnant, birthing, and postpartum folks so they may reconnect with their innate power. Kimberly Rodriguez is a first-generation Xicana Indigena artist and the eldest daughter of two undocumented parents who occupies so-called Oakland, CA, land to the Ohlone peoples. Kimberly's art, inclusive of different body types, is rooted in her culture and her decolonizing journey. |
| conscious conception ritual: Sacred Feminine Practices - Ancient Practices of Womb Therapy Lily Cooper, 2024-10-24 Sacred Feminine Practices - Ancient Practices of Womb Therapy Within you lies a dormant power, an ancestral force waiting to be awakened. This path unveils the hidden secrets of the womb, the true center of creation and transformation, capable of healing not only the body but also the soul. Ancient wisdom, preserved for generations, now returns to guide you in the release of emotional blockages and the healing of deep traumas. In this compendium of sacred practices, each ritual, each meditation, activates an energy that connects with the primordial forces of the Earth and the stars. Through natural cycles, you will access the hidden potential of your womb—a gateway to manifesting a new reality. The wounds that once weighed down your spirit will be transformed into creative power, realigning body, mind, and spirit. The healing goes beyond you. As you access the ancestral memories stored in the womb, you purify not only your own journey but that of all the women who came before and those yet to come. This process of energetic and spiritual transformation invites you to reclaim the wisdom of the sacred feminine and shape your own existence, in harmony with the deepest forces of the universe. There is no more waiting. The path has already been laid, and the power of healing is within your reach. |
| conscious conception ritual: Conscious Conception Jeannine Parvati Baker, Frederick Baker, Tamara Slayton, 1986 In an age when modern reproductive technology is moving at a rapid and alarming rate, Conscious Conception is an alternative exploration into understanding personal fertility, as well as a comprehensive guide to discovering newfound meaning in our sexuality. Combining knowledge of myth and culture, authors Jeannine Parvati Baker and Frederick Baker offer a step-by-step manual of fertility awareness, depth psychology, and psychic birth control and interweave the five elements—Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Ether—as tools for discovery in the face of reproductive challenges. Including numerous contributions from experts in the field, the book investigates a broad range of topics, from the causes of infertility to the spiritualization of sexuality. Conscious Conception urges us to see all of the possibilities in life’s plan of continuation and to seek a clearer communion with our own reproductive experience. Over 20,000 copies sold. |
| conscious conception ritual: Crystal Healing for Women Mariah K. Lyons, 2020-10-06 Crystal Healing for Women A Modern Guide to the Power of Crystals for Renewed Energy, Strength, and Wellness Discover the physical, mental, and spiritual healing power of crystals and awaken the healer within. Believed to hold restorative powers over our health, crystals have served humanity for millennia. With Crystal Healing for Women, you can unlock the ancient secrets of healing and wisdom held within these stones. Crystal healer and Reiki Master Mariah K. Lyons shares her knowledge in this beautifully-illustrated, practical guide that helps women awaken to their feminine divinity and healing powers, and rekindle their instinctual relationship with nature. She also shows you how to select and care for crystals and incorporate them in rituals. You'll learn to intentionally utilize crystals, helping you to find deeper levels of spiritual growth, integrated healing, and sustainable well-being. Crystal Healing for Women features: • Crystal healing fundamentals: How crystal vibrational energy works as well as how to activate, charge, and cleanse your crystals. • 40 energetic self-care rituals: Daily and seasonal wellness practices plus focused healing and manifestation for fertility, pregnancy, the feminine cycle, anxiety, creativity, and love. • 50 healing crystal profiles: Modern interpretations, individual features, and beautiful photographs of stones with energetic properties and healing compatibilities. • 10 key crystals for women: An in-depth look at select stones chosen for their potency, healing power, and connection to Divine Feminine energy. • Crystals in everyday life: Where to place them in your home and on your body and how to work with them and create crystal-healing grids. |
| conscious conception ritual: Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom Christiane Northrup, M.D., 2020-05-12 The New York Times bestselling guide to physical and emotional wellness for women of all ages—fully revised and updated for 2020 “A masterpiece for every woman who has an interest in her body, her mind, and her soul.”—Caroline Myss, Ph.D., author of Anatomy of the Spirit “I recommend Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom to all women and also to all men who want to understand and nourish the women in their lives.”—Deepak Chopra, M.D., author of Ageless Body, Timeless Mind Emphasizing the body’s innate wisdom and ability to heal, Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom covers the entire range of women’s health—from the first menstrual period through menopause. It includes updated information on pregnancy, labor, and birth, sexuality, nutrition, hormone replacement therapy, treating fibroids, avoiding hysterectomy, and maintaining breast and menstrual health. Fully revised and updated to include the very latest treatment innovations and research data, and reflecting today’s woman’s proactive involvement in her own health care, this important new edition will help women everywhere enjoy vibrant health with far fewer medical interventions. Filled with dramatic case histories, Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom is contemporary medicine at its best, combining new technologies with natural remedies and the miraculous healing powers within the body itself. |
| conscious conception ritual: Consciously Female Tracy Gaudet, Paula Spencer, 2004 Outlines a health and fitness plan that encourages women to listen to the rhythms of their own body when making decisions about birth control, pregnancy, mammograms, abortion, and menstruation. |
| conscious conception ritual: New Developments in Consciousness Research Vincent W. Fallio, 2007 Consciousness is a quality of the mind generally regarded to comprise qualities such as subjectivity, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and one's environment. It is a subject of much research in philosophy of mind, psychology, neurology, and cognitive science. This book gathers a compilation of new and significant research on many facets of consciousness research. These include memory studies, evolution of consciousness, paranormal experiences, phenomenal consciousness, meditation, human emotion and psychopathology. |
| conscious conception ritual: Birth as an American Rite of Passage Robbie Davis-Floyd, 2022-05-05 This classic book, first published in 1992 and again in 2003, has inspired three generations of childbearing people, birth activists and researchers, and birth practitioners—midwives, doulas, nurses, and obstetricians—to take a fresh look at the standard procedures that are routinely used to manage American childbirth. It was the first book to identify these non-evidence-based obstetric interventions as rituals that enact and transmit the core values of the American technocracy, thereby answering the pressing question of why these interventions continue to be performed despite all evidence to the contrary. This third edition brings together Davis-Floyd's insights into the intense ritualization of labor and birth and the technocratic, humanistic, and holistic models of birth with new data collected in recent years. |
| conscious conception ritual: Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages Jacques Le Goff, 1980 When I studied these manuals, a source then little exploited, I noticed that the academic, like the merchant, was justified by reference to the labor he accomplished. The novelty of the academics thus ultimately appeared to lie in their role as intellectual workers. My attention was therefore drawn to two notions whose ideological avatars I attempted to trace through the concrete social conditions in which they developed. These notions were labor and time. Under these two heads I maintain two open files, from which some of the articles collected here are drawn. I am still persuaded that attitudes toward work and time are essential aspects of social structure and function, and that the study of such attitudes offers a useful tool for the historian who wishes to examine the societies in which they develop.--Preface, page xii |
| conscious conception ritual: Magdalene Mysteries Seren Bertrand, Azra Bertrand, 2020-04-07 Discover the Womb Rites and initiatory magic of Mary Magdalene, who was revered as a Priestess and human embodiment of the Goddess • 2020 Nautilus Gold Award • Reveals how Mary Magdalene was a sacred priestess of the ancient Womb Mysteries, connected to moon wisdom, sacred harlot archetypes, and goddesses in many traditions, including Sophia, Isis, Inanna, Asherah, Lilith, Jezebel, and Witches • Explains how the Magdalene Mysteries have been encoded in Gnostic texts, sacred art, and literature and unveils the secret Grail heresy of the Ghent Altarpiece • Offers rituals and practices to initiate you into the Womb magic of the ancient priestesses and access deeper dimensions of sexuality and feminine power A sacred priestess of the ancient Womb Rites, Mary Magdalene was at the center of a great and enduring Mystery tradition, one that touched on a stream of perennial spiritual wisdom as old as humanity. Worshipped as the human embodiment of the Goddess, the earthly Sophia, her womb was the spiritual luminatrix that anointed and empowered Jesus, transforming him into the Christ. As a priestess of the Goddess, Mary Magdalene knew how to embody the light and the dark, how to harness the magic potency of sacred sexual energy, and how to cleanse, awaken, and resurrect the soul. Yet, even though she sparked the creation of a worldwide religion, her story and teachings have been forgotten. Unveiling the lost left-hand path of the Magdalene, the Feminine Christ, authors Seren and Azra Bertrand explore how this underground stream of knowledge has been carried forward over the millennia through an unbroken lineage of Womb Shamans, Priestesses, Oracles, and Medicine Women. They explain how the Magdalene Mysteries, symbolized by the Rose, have been encoded in Gnostic codices and gospels and in the highest art, literature, and architecture of many ages, including most significantly the Ghent Altarpiece. They examine Mary Magdalene’s connection to moon wisdom, sacred harlot archetypes, and goddesses in many traditions, including Isis, Inanna, Asherah, Lilith, and Jezebel, and look at shamanic, tantric, and Cathar expressions of sacred feminine mysteries as well as the Witch and Templar roots of Robin Hood and Maid Marian. In this revelatory and magical text on the lost feminine mystery traditions of Mary Magdalene and the lineage of Sophia, the authors present encompassing theological, historical, mythological, and archetypal wisdom, with rituals and practices to initiate you into the Womb magic of the ancient priestesses and the path of the wild feminine. |
| conscious conception ritual: Reproductive Rituals Angus McLaren, 2020-01-10 Originally published in 1984 Reproductive Ritual examines fertility and re-production in pre-industrial England. The book discusses both through anthropological research and reviews of contemporary literature that conscious family limitation was practised before the nineteenth century. The volume describes a surprising number of rules, regulations, taboos, injunctions, charms and herbal remedies used to affect pregnancy, and shows the extent to which individual women and men were concerned with controlling the size of their families. The fertility levels in England – as in Western Europe as a whole – were a very long way from the biological maximum in these centuries, and the book discusses the various reasons why this was so. The book reviews traditional ideas concerning the relationship between procreation and pleasure, drawn from a range of contemporary sources and discusses ways in which earlier generations sought both to promote and limit fertility. The book also examines abortion and shows how much evidence there is for its actual practice during the period and of traditional views towards it. This book provides a detailed understanding of historical attitudes towards conception family planning in pre-industrial England. |
| conscious conception ritual: The Poet Prince Kathleen McGowan, 2010-07-08 The third book in the Magdalene Line Trilogy takes Maureen to Florence, where she begins training in the secret teachings of The Order of the Holy Sepulcher. Under the guidance of her new teacher, Destino, she discovers the fascinating story of Lorenzo de Medici - the godfather of the Renaissance and the greatest patron of the arts in history. But Lorenzo's obsession was not with culture alone. Instead, he worked carefully to create a body of work which would preserve a series of ancient secrets - secrets too powerful and dangerous to be committed to writing. But Maureen's most explosive discovery affects the person closest to her, as she realizes that her lover, Berenger, shares an extraordinary legacy with Lorenzo de Medici. Both men were born under the auspices of a prophecy found in the early writing of the Bloodline - the prophecy of the Poet Prince. But as Berenger and Maureen explore the daunting task of filling Lorenzo's place in the 21st Century, they find themselves the subject of an ancient vendetta hell-bent on destroying the heresy and ending Maureen's life in the process. |
| conscious conception ritual: Birth as an American Rite of Passage Robbie E. Davis-Floyd, 2004-03-15 Why do so many American women allow themselves to become enmeshed in the standardized routines of technocratic childbirth--routines that can be insensitive, unnecessary, and even unhealthy? Anthropologist Robbie Davis-Floyd first addressed these questions in the 1992 edition. Her new preface to this 2003 edition of a book that has been read, applauded, and loved by women all over the world, makes it clear that the issues surrounding childbirth remain as controversial as ever. |
| conscious conception ritual: The Origins and Diversity of Axial Age Civilizations Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, 2012-02-01 This book presents a new and original analysis of the great ancient civilizations, focusing on the breakthroughs and their institutionalization in Greece, Israel, China, and India. The conditions under which these civilizations developed are systematically explored. For comparative purposes, the civilization of Assyria, where such a breakthrough did not take place is analyzed. Attention is given to the transformation of modes of thought and symbolism. Special focus is brought to the development of the great religions and the perception of tension between the transcendental and mundane orders and between rulers and other elites. |
| conscious conception ritual: Interpreting Sapiens’ Consciousness through Paleolithic Cave Art Gary J. Maier, 2023-08-08 This book is the first to identify an interpretive path through Paleolithic cave art that can provide plausible meaning to the animal figures in the Lascaux cave in France. The artwork was created during a period described as the Creative Explosion, spanning from 35,000 to 11,000 BC. The author has found that the artists, or shamans, have left clear evidence of aspects of their worldview and by using ethological evidence, such as a bison shedding its winter coat to identify spring as the season portrayed in a specific panel, he adds a level of certainty to his interpretations. In sum, this book argues that the cave art describes the journey of the soul from the spirit world to the natural world and back, and that it identifies a spectrum of consciousness involving the five traditional senses: sight, smell, touch, taste and hearing. Moreover, the book explores the hunting strategies employed early survival groups which are depicted in the cave art. The role of the shamans’ impact on the artwork is also addressed. |
| conscious conception ritual: A Time to Be Born , 1998 |
| conscious conception ritual: The Prenatal Shadow Cherionna Menzam-Sills, 2025-03-04 • Explains how babies remember their experiences from the womb and birth as implicit memory, impressions that are held in emotions, images, and the body • Examines scientific evidence of how preverbal memory works and how prenates are highly responsive to their mother’s perceptions • Looks at how to become aware of and acknowledge implicit memory from the womb as well as how to heal and prevent birth trauma In a world where it is believed that babies lack awareness, somatic pre- and perinatal therapist Cherionna Menzam-Sills, Ph.D., reveals that babies do perceive negative prenatal and birth experiences, which can easily become unconscious shadow, infiltrating the psyche and affecting personality, relationships, behavior, and perceptions throughout life. Drawing on scientific evidence of how preverbal memory works, the author shows how babies, even before birth, are exquisitely sensitive with remarkable potential. She explains how babies remember the intensely formative experiences from this primal period as implicit memory, and she looks at how prenates are deeply influenced by their mother’s perception of safety or threat, including during labor and birth, which affects their developing nervous systems. Examining the healing and integration of the prenatal shadow, the author presents body awareness exercises, reflection questions, and meditative practices for sensing the little one within and offering them what they need. She also shares stories about how clients were able to express their prenatal emotions, changing their lives with these techniques. By integrating the prenatal and perinatal shadow hidden just beyond conscious awareness, we can heal our relationships with ourselves and our loved ones as well as reconnect with our original potential. |
| conscious conception ritual: Contemporary Relevance of The Hindu Way of Life Volume I Jay Ranjalkar, 2025-02-01 Discover Timeless Wisdom for Modern Challenges Are you seeking clarity in a chaotic world? Wondering how ancient principles can guide contemporary living? This book bridges the profound teachings of the Hindu way of life with today's pressing questions, offering you practical insights for personal growth, societal harmony, and spiritual fulfillment. Through its engaging exploration of 14 foundational concepts; like Dharm, Puruṣhārtha, Yog, and Vasudhaiva Kutumbakaṁ—this book provides a roadmap for managing life's complexities. Whether you're striving for balance, searching for purpose, or simply curious about applying ancient wisdom to everyday situations, Contemporary Relevance of The Hindu Way of Life Volume I is your guide. Learn how to adapt, grow, and thrive in alignment with enduring principles that transcend time. What's Inside? Dharm: Explore the universal order and your place in it. Puruṣhārtha: Discover the four goals of life and their practical applications. Yog: Embrace paths of discipline for spiritual and material growth. Vasudhaiva Kutumbakaṁ: Learn how to cultivate a global family mindset. And much more, including insights into emotions, time, rituals, and our sacred connection with nature. Whether you’re a spiritual seeker, a lifelong learner, or someone yearning to find balance in today’s fast-paced world, this book is for you. Start your journey toward clarity, harmony, and fulfilment today! Take the First Step Towards a Balanced Life! |
| conscious conception ritual: The Heart of the Yogini Andre Padoux, 2013-12 André Padoux offers the first English translation of the Yoginihrdaya, a seminal Hindu tantric text dating back to the 10th or 11th century CE. |
| conscious conception ritual: The Truth About Witchcraft Scott Cunningham, 2023-12-08 Now available with an updated cover, Scott Cunningham's Truth About Witchcraft provides a wonderful introduction to Witchcraft and Wicca for those new to the craft. Exploring the history of folk magic and the contemporary practices of Witchcraft and Wicca, this highly accessible book shares simple rituals for love, prosperity, raising energy, and more. You will also discover helpful tips and techniques for utilizing crystals, herbs, candles, cauldrons, and wands. Dispelling the many myths and misunderstandings that surround Witchcraft, this convenient guide shows how to work with timeless rituals and natural energies in order to create positive changes in your life. Whether you want to learn about the Goddess and the God or the special holidays known as sabbats and esbats, you will discover these answers and much more in Scott Cunningham's Truth About Witchcraft. |
| conscious conception ritual: From Models to Drawings Marco Frascari, Jonathan Hale, Bradley Starkey, 2013-09-13 This edited collection addresses the vital role of the imagination in the critical interpretation of architectural representations. By challenging the contemporary tendency for computer-aided drawings to become mere ‘models’ for imitation in the construction of buildings, the articles explore the broader range of methods and meanings at stake in the creation and interpretation of architectural drawings, models, images and artefacts. These critical – and often practice-led – investigations are placed alongside a range of historical studies considering the development of representational techniques such as perspective, orthography and diagramming. By also addressing the use of visual representation in a number of related disciplines such as visual arts, film, performance and literature, the book opens up debates in architecture to important developments in other fields. This book is key reading for all students of architecture and architectural theory. |
| conscious conception ritual: Imagining Japan Robert Neelly Bellah, 2003 Bellah is a sociologist with a grand vision of history, deeply concerned with the twists and turns of religious values, weaving pre-modern religious thinking into the debates of modernization and modernity. He takes a reflective turn with Imagining Japan, evidencing his profound concern with religious evolution.--Tetsuo Najita, University of Chicago One of the most original attempts to understand some of the psychological and symbolic roots of the central problems in Japanese history. Bellah masterfully brings together intellectual and institutional dimensions of Japan, making a very important contribution to Japanese Studies.--S. N. Eisenstadt, Professor Emeritus at Hebrew University and author of Japanese Civilization: A Comparative View |
| conscious conception ritual: Ariadne's Thread Shekhinah Mountainwater, 2018-12-06 According to ancient myths, the Goddess Ariadne fared poorly. But is that simply the story the Ancient Greeks wanted retold in their myths? In Ariadne's Thread, Shekhinah Mountainwater argues that reclaiming womanhood and seeking spiritual liberation from patriarchal limitations can change the world--not by flipping the tables to a hierarchical matriarchy but in working toward a peaceful, egalitarian, sustainable society that embraces the traditionally feminine values of compassion and nurturing regardless of gender. She looks carefully and with wisdom at the old stories, and skillfully tugs the loose edges of old paradigms. A pioneer of the Goddess feminist movement, Mountainwater employs powerful archetypes and a feminist ethic of care to challenge our assumptions and draw us from the mundane into the mysterious in our own lives. Considered a classic of women's spirituality and goddess worship, Ariadne's Thread offers a magical path of discovery into the mysteries of the Goddess. It includes detailed explorations of the Maiden, Mother, and Crone guiding the cycles of life, as well as rituals to affirm our lunar and natural cycles in the world. As the Library Journal writes, this well-written book encourages women to find their own spiritual path. Offering her own thread to guide our labyrinth, Mountainwater has illuminated a powerful, poetic, and joyful initiation. |
| conscious conception ritual: Goddesses & Wise Women Anne Carson, 1992 |
| conscious conception ritual: The Creation of Feminist Consciousness Gerda Lerner, 1993 In its emphasis on the force of ideas, the struggle of women for inclusion in the concept of the Divine, the repeated attempts by women to form supportive networks, and its analysis of the preconditions for the formation of political theories of liberation, this brilliant work charts new ground for historical studies, the history of ideas, and feminist theory.--Jacket. |
| conscious conception ritual: Purifying the Consciousness in Hebrews Joshua D. A. Bloor, 2023-02-23 Joshua D. A. Bloor argues that the purification of the consciousness of sin, via Jesus' perpetual heavenly blood offering, is a vital motif for understanding Hebrews' sacrificial argumentation, and vice-versa. Jesus' 'objective' earthly achievements are many, yet only his 'subjective' heavenly blood offering purges the heavenly tabernacle and subsequently the consciousness of sin. Bloor views the Levitical cult as having a positive role in Hebrews, with Levitical 'guilt' foreshadowing and informing Hebrews' notion of the 'consciousness of sin'. Levitical sacrifices could purge the consciousness, but only Jesus' heavenly blood can offer complete perpetual purgation. This blood is a qualitative type of purgation which continually speaks in heaven, offering eternal assurance for the recipients regarding their consciousness of sin. Bloor begins with the 'defiled consciousness' and situates the world of Hebrews within cultic defilement, enabling the consciousness of sin and its cosmic implications to be properly understood. From here, the solution to a defiled consciousness is explored by examining Hebrews' cultic argumentation. Bloor highlights the distinctive purposes inherent in both Jesus' earthly and heavenly achievements, with the latter concerned particularly with Yom Kippur imagery and the purgation of the consciousness. Bloor concludes by differentiating between Jesus' session, present heavenly activity and perpetual heavenly blood offering. Throughout this volume, Bloor engages, critiques and advances current discourse concerning the nature and timing of Jesus' offering in Hebrews. |
| conscious conception ritual: Ways of Knowing about Birth Robbie Davis-Floyd, 2017-10-11 There is no other living scholar with Davis-Floyd’s solid roots, activism, and scholarly achievements on the combined subjects of childbirth, midwifery, obstetrics, and medicine. Ways of Knowing about Birth brings together an astounding array of her most popular and essential works, all updated for this volume, spanning over three decades of research and writing from the perspectives of cultural, medical, and symbolic anthropology. The 16 essays capture Robbie Davis-Floyd’s unique voice, which brims with wisdom, compassion, and deep understanding. Intentionally cast as stand-alone pieces, the chapters offer the ultimate in classroom flexibility and include discussion questions and recommended films. |
| conscious conception ritual: Rethinking the Body in South Asian Traditions Diana Dimitrova, 2020-12-14 This book analyses cultural questions related to representations of the body in South Asian traditions, human perceptions and attitudes toward the body in religious and cultural contexts, as well as the processes of interpreting notions of the body in religious and literary texts. Utilising an interdisciplinary perspective by means of textual study and ideological analysis, anthropological analysis, and phenomenological analysis, the book explores both insider- and outsider perspectives and issues related to the body from the 2nd century CE up to the present-day. Chapters assess various aspects of the body including processes of embodiment and questions of mythologizing the divine body and othering the human body, as revealed in the literatures and cultures of South Asia. The book analyses notions of mythologizing and othering of the body as a powerful ideological discourse, which empowers or marginalizes at all levels of the human condition. Offering a deep insight into the study of religion and issues of the body in South Asian literature, religion and culture, this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of South Asian studies, South Asian religions, South Asian literatures, cultural studies, philosophy and comparative literature. |
| conscious conception ritual: Information and Behavior in a Sikh Village Murray J. Leaf, 2023-11-10 This is the first major study of a Sikh community in Central Punjab to appear in the modern anthropological literature. Perhaps because this historically and economically important people and region have been so long neglected, they present certain important contradictions or paradoxes in terms of commonly accepted generalization about Indian village life. Thus, the villagers describe their Sikh religion as Hindu, yet insist that it forbids observance of caste restrictions. They are sincere in their beliefs and scrupulous in their performance to ritual, yet retain caste identifications and in certain contexts use caste terms for address. They have a strong factional organization, but it cuts across both kin and caste lines; moreover, many villagers remain aloof from factions, and those sho do belong frequently forget their quarrels and cooperate. Finally, the villagers are intensely concerned with trade and profit-making, yet resort ot many practices in a labor-intensive system that scholars have termed characteristic of a subsistence or traditional economy as distinct from a market or a traditional one. Instead of attempting to resolve these contradictions or to attribute them to a process of social breakdown, Leaf takes the view that they represent a stable, pervasive condition of social life. He capitalizes on their clarity in a particular village to draw attention to two elements of social theory that he regards as of general importance. His overall strategy of analysis places each seemingly contradictory element in its proper context, and then ascertains how these contexts are related to one another and to the behavior of the villagers. The first of the theoretical concepts that he develops for this purpose is a modified version of the idea of a message source, used in information theory, permitting observation and isolation of socially defined conventions that result from behavior and affect it in turn. The second concept is a view of behavior as individual actions that respond to such social constraints, obtain support, and ultimately feed back into the social system--a cyclical model of social communication on an individual level. Use of these two concepts sets aside total system theory, which has attracted mounting criticism by social and cultural anthropologists, in favor of what may be termed a multiple system theory. Two important practical results of this shift in perspective are general heightening of empirical accuracy of analysis and an enhance insights into the ways that dynamica change, cooperation, and competition inhere in all social organization. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972. |
| conscious conception ritual: Dream Trippers David A. Palmer, Elijah Siegler, 2017-11-27 Anthropologists David A. Palmer and Elijah Siegler explore the globalization of Daoism: the interactions between international spiritual tourists, traditional Chinese monks, and American scholar-practitioners at the sacred Daoist mountain of Huashan, China. Palmer and Siegler show how the spiritual and religious histories of China and the West intersect, collide, and interpenetrate, revealing the paradoxes and dilemmas of the search for spiritual authenticity in a globalized world.--Provided by publisher. |
| conscious conception ritual: Sex, Death and Witchcraft Douglas Ezzy, 2014-05-22 Faunalia is a controversial Pagan festival with a reputation for being wild and emotionally intense. It lasts five days, 80 people attend, and the two main rituals run most of the night. In the tantalisingly erotic Baphomet rite, participants encounter a hermaphroditic deity, enter a state of trance and dance naked around a bonfire. In the Underworld rite participants role play their own death, confronting grief and suffering. These rituals are understood as shadow work - a Jungian term that refers to practices that creatively engage repressed or hidden aspects of the self. Sex, Death and Witchcraft is a powerful application of relational theory to the study of religion and contemporary culture. It analyses Faunalia's rituals in terms of recent innovations in the sociology of religion and religious studies that focus on relational etiquette, lived religion, embodiment and performance. The sensuous and emotionally intense ritual performances at Faunalia transform both moral orientations and self-understandings. Participants develop an ethical practice that is individualistic, but also relational, and aesthetically mediated. Extensive extracts from interviews describe the rituals in participants' own words. The book combines rich and evocative description of the rituals with careful analysis of the social processes that shape people's experiences at this controversial Pagan festival. |
| conscious conception ritual: Tantric Buddhism and Altered States of Consciousness Dr Louise Child, 2013-05-28 This book explores the role of altered states of consciousness in the communication of social and emotional energies, both on a societal level and between individual persons. Drawing from an original reading of Durkheimian social theorists (including Mauss, Hertz, and Hubert) and Jungian psychology, Louise Child applies this analysis to tantric Buddhist ritual and biographical material. She suggests ways in which dreams and visionary experiences (including those related to the 'subtle body') play an important and previously under-explored role in tantric understandings of the consort relationship. |
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