See Salon #1 (August 10) here.
Mago Academy is happy to announce the 9th anniversary online salon 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.
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!
The first salon was completed. Longer Ebook versions of the presentations are found here:
https://www.magobooks.com/salon-1-9th-anniversary-she-rises-trilogy-presentations/
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
Date and Time: October 26, 10AM PDT (for 90 min)
Presenters: Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Stephanie Mines, Louisa Calio
Presentation details are included at the end of this page.
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Registration: Fee of $10 per salon or Donation (enter your own amount) with your answers to below questions:
Registration Questions:
- Your name (and affiliation)
- Email address
- What makes you interested in the Salon #2 or the Movement of Goddess Feminist Activist Spirituality?
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.
Presentations
“Goddess Feminist Activist Spirituality as Pre-patriarchally Originated Ceto-Magoist Soteriology” by Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D.
Summary: What if we, Goddess feminist activist spiritual practitioners in the 21st century, are the scion of pre-patriarchally originated tradition of Ceto-Magoism (the Cetacean-caused Way of the Creatrix) taught by Goma, the Shaman Queen of Old Korea in the fourth millennium BCE? That is, we in modern times are not isolated from our pre-patriarchal cetacean-devotee ancestors in our advocacy. To recognize this bond requires an understanding of Ceto-Magoism and Goma, the Ceto-Magoist teacher, savior, and civilizer. Ceto-Magoism is not my invention but an entity with mytho-historical-cultural roots. Originating in the pre-patriarchal past, it refers to the consciousness of the cetacean divine and the Cosmic Mother (thealogy) conjured for the purpose of maintaining peace and prosperity on the planet. Ceto-Magoism is teleological. It was invented and advocated by Goma whose vision was to deliver humanity from the forthcoming disaster of patriarchy. Foreseeing the arrival of patriarchal usurpation one and half millennia years in advance, she implanted matriversal soteriology in human lives once and for all. Prompted by her cetological discoveries, she carved out the matriversal civilization to remind forthcoming generations of Great Unity of ALL in the Cosmic Mother. Goma’s discovery of the planetary aqua-sono-atmospheric influence maintained by whales marked a watershed in human history. Whales, 45 million years prior to the arrival of humans, cultivated the terrestrial environment for earthlings to thrive by generating and regulating the sonic resonance of the planet in harmony with the Cosmic Music, the metamorphic force of the Matriverse. Goma’s teaching aimed to awaken innate human intellectuality to recognize the Common Origin of ALL from Mago, the Creatrix. The veneration of whales took on the symbol of a dragon, representing the grace of divine cetaceans, if it was not demonized as a sea monster. Goma’s teaching of Magoism is indelible in that it is inscribed in the very civilization that she raised. She chiseled socio-politico-cultural institutions in the way that reflects the Cosmic Music, the interplay of sonically charged nine numbers. That Goma, the greatest deity born of a woman, manifests in myriad names and forms across cultures remains to be discussed. We, Goddess feminists, activists, and spiritual practitioners, are the sign of Goma’s Ceto-Magoist soteriology.
Biography: Dr. Hwang is a philosopher, researcher, author, publisher, and advocate of Magoist Cetaceanism, the matriversal consciousness of cetacean veneration embodied in the socio-historical-cultural expressions of traditional Korea and beyond. After earning her MA and Ph.D. in Religion with emphasis on Feminist Studies from Claremont Graduate University, CA., she pursued M.A. degree at UCLA, CA. Having founded The Mago Work and Mago Community, Hwang has recently launched the S/HE Conference and the S/HE Forum. Hwang’s publications include Reader: Toward Magoist Cetaceanism, S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies, Celebrating Intercosmic Kinship of the Goddess, Goddesses in Myth, History and Culture, Mago Almanac, The Mago Way, She Rises trilogy, Celebrating the Goddess series, She Summons Volume 1, The Budoji Workbook, and Return to Mago E-Magazine.
Contribution to the She Rises trilogy: Co-editor and contributor of all three volumes.
“The Bioelectricity of the Human Body: Sacred Site #9 as a Driving Force for Healing” by Stephanie Mines, Ph.D.
Summary: According to ancient wisdom, transmitted to Dr. Mines from her teacher Mary Iino Burmeister, who received it from her teacher, Jiro Murai, and which has now been scientifically demonstrated by Dr. Kim Bonghan, the human body is a network of fluid-filled, bioelectrically charged channels. These channels respond to genetic and epigenetic influences, beginning in utero. The health and balance of these channels are read through pulsation. Pulse listening is a medical art taught in a variety of respected traditions such as Chinese Acupuncture and Ayurveda. Dr. Mines, a neuroscientist and embryologist, who carries on the Art of Compassion that she learned from Mary Iino Burmeister, speaks specifically to Sacred Site #9 and its role in the evolution of consciousness.
Biography: Dr. Stephanie Mines is the founder of the TARA Approach for the Resolution of Shock and Trauma (www.tara-aproach.org) and Climate Change & Consciousness (www.cccearth.org). She is the author of numerous books including the recently published Secret of Resilience and The Great Physician. Her forthcoming book is Maata: A Māori Model of Women’s Leadership, due to be released in 2025 from Inner Traditions. For more information about Dr. Mines’ publications go to www.stephaniemines.com.
Contribution to the She Rises trilogy: A member of the She Rises… group. Participant of Salon #1.
“Women Poets as Initiates” by Louisa Calio
Summary: In my talk I would like to share my journey as a poet initiate and the journey of several predecessors who laid the groundwork and manifested what one could call a reclamation of something lost or forgotten, certainly something distorted and suppressed. It comes by many names: Moon Goddess or Divine Mother, the feminine consciousness and yin spirit. It is the half of divine consciousness omitted in traditional worship of the Father God. SHE is reemerging today as the result of the inner work of a growing number of women artists who, while in search of themselves, amid confusion of masculine and feminine roles in their own time, came upon a larger vision for all time – a mystical feminine revelation being born. Women poets of the spirit, as I call them, often began their journey unconsciously. Whether the quest is for love in friend or mate, a struggle to survive or to understand herself, each poet eventually finds she is locked into a spiritual initiation. Like mythic heroes of old, the poet ventures innocently into the cave of her own sleeping dragons and rouses demons of the soul. Once awakened, these denizens of the deep are not easily controlled or put back to sleep. They churn up unconscious feelings and challenge the basic personality, the poet as she thought she was. Risking everything, the poet must go more deeply to face the most ugly inner feelings. Although she has no mystery school to teach her and is therefore unprepared for a spiritual ordeal, she plunges ahead courageously, spurred onward by an energy larger than the self. If she passes the tests that often appear most difficult as she nears the end of her search, she will find, as these poets did, that the Goddess awaits her! Here she finds the true sources of the self. Thus are the poems contemporary testament to the experience of initiation into the feminine divine consciousness. I will refer to Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, then Ntozake Shange and Diana Di Prima as examples and share my own initiation by Isis in 1976 leading to performances of her Rites publicly.
Biography: Louisa Calio is an American poet, writer, multimedia performance artist and teacher. She has directed the Poets and Writers’ Piazza for Hofstra University’s Italian Experience for 12 years. Calio’s writings have appeared internationally in anthologies, magazines and journals. She was honored by Barnard College, as a Feminist Who Changed America Second Wave 1963-1975. Co- founder of City Spirit Artists, Inc. in New Haven, Connecticut, she has traveled to East and West Africa, lives in the Caribbean and documented her journeys in photographs and the written word, completing an epic poem, Journey to the Heart Waters (Legas Press, 2014.) Author of In the Eye of Balance 64 pages of visionary poetry, Calio wrote, produced and performed in with dance, art and live jazz. She attended SUNY Albany, graduating magna cum laude with special honors in English and Temple for a Masters. Winner of the Ct Commission of Arts for Writers, First Prizes in Messina and Canacatti Sicily for her poems, and 2022 the Renaissance Award in New York, some of her have been translated into Korean, Tigrinya, Russian, Sicilian, and Italian.
Contribution to the She Rises trilogy: She Rises Vol. 3