Category: Salon Recordings

Patriarchal Capitalism/Capitalist Patriarchy is an artificial and pernicious system that is destroying Mother Earth and her children. We need to return to the deep economy of the human mother, based on the model of unilateral giving to needs, a model that every child has to experience in order to survive. Economic theorist Genevieve Vaughan explores issues related to maternal gift-giving.

Ecologist Cristina Eisenberg shows how combining Western Science and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), which is based on Indigenous matriarchal wisdom, can create solutions to our most pressing conservation and social justice problems. Salon Recordings are a member benefit of Association for the Study of Women and Mythology.

“The Fire of Umai, a call to our sacred Indigenous power” with Apela Colorado Thursday,  February 10, 2022 Moderated by Kathryn Henderson As told in the final chapter of her recently released book Woman Between the Worlds, Apela Colorado, PhD, and a group of healers were hiking a mountain in Kyrgyzstan 12 years ago, passing …

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Scholar Salon 35: "Listening to the Land" Novelist Elizabeth Cunningham shares how her encounters with place shaped The Maeve Chronicles, a series of award-winning novels featuring a feisty Celtic Magdalen. During her twenty years of research and writing, Elizabeth traveled to the Hebrides, Wales, Italy, Israel, France, Turkey, and England. Over and over, she discovered that the land itself has stories to tell to those who will listen

Dreaming the Presence with Rabbi Jill Hammer. In sacred texts from the Bible to the Descent of Inanna, dreams have been a source of prophetic wisdom and profound inspiration. In contemporary times, our dreams may offer us surprising and moving images of the sacred feminine that come to inform and guide our lives. Rabbi Jill Hammer explores dreams of the sacred feminine, some from kabbalists of sixteenth century Sfat, and some from contemporary dreamers who are discovering the Presence in their nightly visions, in feminine forms