See Salon #1 (August 10) here.
Mago Academy is happy to announce the 9th anniversary online salons of the She Rises: Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality trilogy co-hosted by Girl God Books represented by Ms. Trista Hendren. This year, 2024, marks the 9th year of the first volume, She Rises: Why Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality? We, the planning committee, invite you to join us (registration is open below), while calling for presentations.
In celebration of the 9th year, Mago Books offer E-books for free of charge with the option of donation. Go to Ebooks here.
9 years is a symbol for the Cosmic Music (Sonic Numerology), the metamorphic force of the matriverse, which refers to a ceaseless interplay of sonically charged nine numbers. We have completed the first full cycle of nine years!
Date: October 26 (Saturday). 90 min. Time to be determined.
Theme: She Rises: Tell the World Your Journey of Goddess Feminist Activist Spirituality
Planning Committee: Dr. Kaalii Cargil, Ms. Trista Hendren, and Dr. Helen Hye-Sook Hwang
Introductory Words: Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D.
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Call for Presentations: Please send your presentation proposal by September 30 (primary deadline) as follows:
- Your name (and affiliation)
- Title
- Summary (up to 150 words)
- Biography (up to 100 words)
- Are you a contributor to the She Rises Trilogy? If so, please list the volumes of She Rises.
Registration: Fee of $10 per salon or Donation (enter your own amount)
What are the She Rises trilogy?
She Rises Volume 1
She Rises: Why Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality? (Mago Books, 2015)
Description: This book may be seen as a guidebook to the consciousness of the Great Goddess, the primordial consciousness of WE in S/HE, by contemporary Goddessians. The question, “Why Goddess Feminism, Activism, and Spirituality?” taken as the warp, is interwoven with the weft of the answers provided by 92 contributors from around the world. She Rises puts forth ever-unfolding patterns of Goddessian thoughts, experiences, and visions expressed through a variety of works including short writings, poems, essays, artworks, and research papers. Our authors take us far and near, from the cosmic horizon to the very political site of one’s inner feeling. Probing the very foundation of one’s thinking/feeling/sensing, She Rises collectively re-members and re-stores what has been forgotten or rather erased in the mind of people under the advancement of patriarchal times. The acoustic/semantic/visual chorus of this book sometimes whispers and other times trumpets the premise that knowing the Goddess is a beginning of one’s action to re-create the self and the world. More to the structure, She Rises taps into the gynocentric power of the numeric symbolism of three and nine by (1) calling Parts as Mothers and Chapters as Sisters and (2) inventing the Nine Sisters under the Three Mothers.
She Rises Volume 2
She Rises: How Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality? (Mago Books, 2016)
Description: She Rises: How Goddess Feminism, Activism, and Spirituality? is a proud sister book to She Rises: Why Goddess Feminism, Activism, and Spirituality? Inheriting the legacy of Volume 1, this book continues to interweave the warp (the theme of the book) and the weft (our stories). What we present in this book is a tapestry collectively interwoven by the twenty-first century Goddessians/Magoists. As many as ninety-six contributors from around the world have provided captivating motifs in prose, poetry, research, and/or art. This tapestry is no ordinary one; it stands as the genome map of the primordial consciousness of WE in S/HE to those who encounter it. It charts out ways to undo patriarchal programs at personal, cultural, and cosmic levels and to enter the Way of the Primordial Mother, or the Creatrix. She Rises Volume 2 distinguishes herself from her predecessor in several ways. Most apparently, the warp, the “how” question, that is, “How one is committed to Goddess Feminism, Activism, and Spirituality?” summons us, our authors and readers, to put in action our answers provided to the “why” question, “Why one is committed to Goddess Feminism, Activism, and Spirituality?” in the previous volume. And the weft, our stories, consolidates our roots in the inseparable one ground of feminism, activism, and spirituality of the Primordial Mother. The horizon is widened with new markings. Voices are emboldened, exposing the hidden patriarchal ruses. And our images whisper deep awakenings. This book works at multi-levels. Structured as Nine Sisters (Chapters) under Three Mothers (Parts), like her predecessor, this book takes on another layer of meaning that it restores the Nine Goddess/Mago Movement in our time. Experience our book that awakens minds, provides sanctuaries, heals wounds, cures diseases, crosses borders, and connects the isolated. Fully charged with fresh insights, e-motions, and aspirations, it sends out the metamorphic power of Goddessians/Magoists.
She Rises Volume 3
She Rises: What Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality? (Mago Books, 2019)
Description: She Rises: What… Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality? is the third volume in the She Rises trilogy after She Rises: Why Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality? Volume 1 (2015) and She Rises: Why Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality? Volume 2 (2016). The present volume continues on the path prepared by the two earlier volumes and takes the Goddess feminist activist movement to a new horizon. Creativity and connectivity are the hallmarks of this volume. Our 59 authors have tailored the question, What… Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality? to convey their insights and to address the importance and urgency of Goddess feminist activism amidst the current crises on the global context that affects all beings within the very eco-system. We in this volume collectively embrace a capacity of connectivity with other sisters and brothers across borders. Our message is that Goddess feminist activists are healing, nurturing and transforming ourselves and the world. We are born stronger. We are ever more grounded, committed, daring, creative, and fiercely focused. We are the trees that are crisscrossed at the root! This book presents a loom that interweaves colorful tapestries of insights, experiences, visions, research articles, poems, artworks, rituals, plays and creative activities across disciplinary boundaries. Our readers may sense a phenomenon through this book.
