Mago Academy and Mt Shasta Goddess Temple are happy to announce 2020 Magoist Studies Online Salon to be held monthly! Join Dr. Helen Hye-Sook Hwang (Mago Academy Center Director), and Ms. Yeshe Matthews (Mt Shasta Goddess Temple Priestess) on a series of intriguing and novelty topics on Magoist Studies on a monthly basis. What is Magoist Studies? In short, Magoist Studies is an intellectual/spiritual undertaking about Mago, the Creatrix, and Magoism, an Original (read Pre-patriarchal) Matrix of the Great Mother known through traditional Koreans/East Asians. It is a life-long learning project established by Dr. Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, scholar on Magoism and advocate of the Mago Work.
Topics To be announced each month from the following: The Magoist Cosmogony (Creation Account of Mago, the Creatrix); Sonic Numerology (the Cosmic Music and Nine-Numerology); The Magoist Genealogy (the Mago Triad and Eight Daughters); Mago Pilgrimages; The Magoist Calendar (13 Month 28 Day Calendar) and its annual Mago Almanac; Magoist Cetaceanism (Magoism and ancient Korean Whale totemism); The Mytho-history of Magoism (the pre- and proto-patriarchal mytho-history that connects all); Goma and Magoism (Shaman Queen of Nine Hans and Her Teaching of Mago, the Creatrix); The Gynocentric Civilization of the Goma; The Cetacean Code of Korean Temple Bells; Dragons and the Myth of the Pacifying Flute; Dragons and Cetaceanism; Rise and Establishment of Patriarchy in East Asia known as Ancient China; Chiu, the Magoist Shaman Warrior Queen; Manifestations of ancient Korean Magoist Cetaceanism; Whale riding homecoming Journey; The Budoji (a full-fledged matricentric text to be known to the world), and more.
Host Organizations Mt Shasta Goddess Temple & Mago Academy
When Sunday 10-12 Mornings of Each Month (1/26, 2/23, 3/15, 4/5, 5/17, 6/14, 7/12, 8/16, 9/27, 10/18, 11/15, & 12/17 Midnight Vigil) Subject to change upon notification.
How Via Zoom Conference Meeting, URL: https://zoom.us/j/5103557912
You may join us by audio, video, or phone. For the meeting ID or phone number for you to join, please find the current month announcement.
Open to the Circles of Goddess Feminists/Activists/Spiritual Practitioners Reserve your participation by emailing to Dr. Hwang (magoacademy@gmail.com) with the following information. Your questions or comments may be taken to be discussed for relevant months.
- Name & contact email:
- Topics that I am interested:
- Organization or personal info (website, blog, or a short bio):
- Questions or Comments:
For Mago Work participants and Mt. Shasta Temple participants: Your free-will donation of $10.00 will be appreciated but no one will be turned away. For the public, please make a donation of $30.00 for the first meeting together with the registration information. From the second attendance on, you will be considered as a Mago Work participant. Please indicate it for Magoist Studies Online Salon, upon making a donation. You may like to make a bulk donation up to $120 for the whole year. Mago Academy Center practices Maternal Gift Economy, a non-capitalist way of sharing one’s available resources.
Go to the Details for Monthly Meeting Topics
Topics for 2020 Magoist Studies Online Salon
Passage I
#1 January The Magoist Cosmogony
#2 February Sonic Numerology (the Cosmic Music and Nine-Numerology)
#3 March The Magoist Genealogy (the Mago Triad and Eight Daughters)
Passage 2
#4 April Mago Pilgrimages
#5 May The Mytho-history of Magoism (the pre- and proto-patriarchal mytho-history that connects all)
#6 June Goma and Magoism (Shaman Queen of Nine Hans and Her Teaching of Mago, the Creatrix)
Passage 3
#7 July Chiu, the Magoist Shaman Warrior Queen, and the Nine-headed Snake/Dragon
#8 August Rise and Establishment of Patriarchy in East Asia known as Ancient China
Passage 4
#9 September Magoist Cetaceanism (Magoism and ancient Korean Whale totemism)
#10 October The Cetacean Code of Korean Temple Bells
#11 November The Myth of the Pacifying Flute and Dragons as the Messenger of Whales
#12 December Whale riding home-coming journey; Ringing the Whale Bell at midnight to welcome Year 4 in the 13 Month 28 Day reconstructed Magoist Calendar
Go to the Topic Discussions, if you are a participant (Password given via email).
Meet Cohosts
Dr. Helen Hye-Sook Hwang
Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D. is scholar, activist, and advocate of Magoism, anciently originated tradition that venerates Mago as the Great Goddess. 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, directed, co-edited, written for the Return to Mago E-Magazine (https://magoism.net), Mago Academy (https://magoacademy.org), and Mago Books (https://magobook.com).
She has co-edited and published Goddesses in Myth, History, and Culture, Celebrating Seasons of the Goddess (Mago Books, 2018), She Rises: Why Goddess Feminism, Activism, and Spirituality? Volume 1 (Mago Books, 2015), She Rises: How Goddess Feminism, Activism, and Spirituality? Volume 2 (Mago Books, 2016), and She Rises: How Goddess Feminism, Activism, and Spirituality? Volume 3 (Mago Books, 2019). Also authored The Mago Way: Re-discovering Mago, the Great Goddess from East Asia (Mago Books, 2016), Mago Almanac: The 13 Month 28 Day Calendar (Mago Books, 2018 and 2019). Dr. Hwang leads Mago Pilgrimage to Korea annually and gives lectures internationally.
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Ms. Yeshe Matthews
The Priestess of the Mt Shasta Goddess Temple is Yeshe Matthews, a goddess devotee, dharma practitioner, and licensed minister ordained and initiated in several different mystery traditions. Her vision for the Temple is to serve Mt Shasta spiritual pilgrims and goddess devotees worldwide with online and in-person classes, ceremonies, and retreats. Yeshe has dedicated her life to female mysteries, sacred healing practices and the ways of the Goddess. With a Master’s degree in Women’s History from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, she has studied women’s mysticism, shamanism, and matriarchal communities for over twenty years. She brings more than a decade as a Priestess and soul guide to the Mt Shasta Goddess Temple. Yeshe is an experienced, legally-vested wedding officiant, and she would be delighted to perform your perfect Mt Shasta wedding.
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