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Are cults of the Great Goddess Mahadevi  simply Bhakti with a feminine face? Deborah Irvine  University of Queensland 2018 Are cults of the Great Goddess Mahadevi  simply bhakti with a feminine face? In responding to the question, I will firstly examine bhakti with reference to Eck (1998), Brown (2002) Heers (2002) and Lorenzen (2004). Secondly, I will examine the term Mahadevi with references to key sacred texts, the Devi-Mahatmya (Agrawala 1963; Coburn 1991) and The Devi Gi

Four Directions for Healing: Spirit, Emotions, Body, Mind By Lewis Mehl-Madrona: “Remapping Your Mind” p. 5 Coyote Healing p. 99 Mind Body Spirit Community Emotions and Relationships Safety Social determinants of health (social sustenance) Well-being – The Center (Our Hearts) Medicine- Wheel Associations East: Spirit Land and place of Spiritual connections and the power of Spirit to sustain our lives and that we are never alone – Guidance and Direction is always available Con

Meditation: North Direction Hummingbird, White Buffalo Sacred Place of Elders, White Buffalo Woman, and Spirits of my Ancestors In Gratitude, I sing your praise. Bring me your Wisdom and Clarity And expand my wider Community for friendship and play. Lessons of the North Shield Teach Me: To listen to Mother Earth, Her children and her worth To know when to Forgive, and when to defend the Truth To Balance the Shields and Male and Female And to be Grateful for the beauty of The

West Direction and Jaguar Integrity and Impeccability to Myself, to Others Sacred Jaguar, teach me…. To wear my power lightly,  To walk with impeccability,  To approach Life with compassion,  And to live up to the integrity of my human potential. Jamie Sams -Sacred Path Cards Meditation See and Feel yourself retreating to the Jungle, deep inside where there may be a river and a cave and many trees to climb or hide behind. You are feeling the need to hide away and enter the Vo

Meditation to The South  by Jamie Sams Sacred Path Cards Birth and Childhood,  Imagination, Play, Wonder, Joy, Freedom Faith Trust Humility Intuition Beauty Snake, Coyote, Porcupine, Mouse South Shield and Coyote Red Earth, South shield Child filled with wonder, Coyote, Snake, teach me to yield. Laughter is your Give-Away, In innocence and Joy,  Bringing me into the place, Of little girls and boys. Coyote Medicine Dog The Trickster Teaching me how to yield To be less serious

Meditation: The East Door: Spirit New Beginnings, Illumination, Vision The Eagle Jamie Sams from "Sacred Path Cards" To the Winds of the East Great Eagle, Condor Come to us from the place of the Rising Sun  And keep us under your wing Show us the mountains we only dare to dream of To teach us to fly wing to wing with the Great Spirit. Share your medicine Touch me, honour me, illuminate me So that I may know you too That I may see my birth, my childhood, my beginnings as anew.

Medicine Wheel Four Directions 14 th  December 2019 SOUTH: Serpent, Wolf, Coyote Level of Physical Perceptions The Body Root Chakra We shed our Physical Limitations and Realities, our Personal Shadows, our Past and the Stories that prevent us from moving forward.  Snake sheds its skin; Wolf teaches us and protects us Coyote acts as our Shadow-Keeper and Trickster, breaking our limitations and perceptions apart. WEST: Bear, Jaguar Healing and Power Level of Perception of Thoug

The Elements Meditation 30 th  November 2019 Spirit of the Air , Winds of the East Door, Spring and New Birth, Eagle and Winged-Beings, Isis and Thoth, bring your Vision, Life-giving Breath, Thoughts, Inspirations and Movement to me that I may breathe in new Ideas, new Life, new Visions . May the Eagle, closest ally to the Creator, be my spiritual protector, as well as providing me with strength, courage, and wisdom. Like an eagle in flight, may I see broad truths that I can

Gratitude Ceremony We are grateful for the Gifts we gave ourselves from our own Hearts, Minds and Imaginations to put our Creative Visions and Dreams into reality. We are grateful for our strength, courage, patience, planning, saving and commitment towards making our dreams become this reality. We are grateful for the support, love and commitment towards each other and for friends, family and community at home and here in  …………for helping us bring this Vision and Dream into r

Into the Fire I Release You October 8 th , 2022  The moon rises full, round, white, from behind the ancient cedar trees that encircle us and from where the owl’s hoot their night-time songs. The cloak of night wraps us in her magic as we gather in a circle around the fire with our drums ready to take up the call for healing, guidance, and re-empowerment. Tonight, we twenty-two shamans and dream-teachers have come together to cast out into our ceremonial fire our negative atta

With the Neteru Adapted from Nicki Scully & Linda Star Wolf: Shamanic Mysteries of Egypt p. 188-190 Imagine yourself in your Sacred Garden, lying on the grass under your favourite tree, under its shade in the cool evening air, beneath the stars. Feel your body connect with the firm Earth and begin drawing in deep, slow breaths up from the heart of the earth, through your feet, your legs, and into your Root Chakra,  your perineum and sacrum. As you do, you feel the movement of

With beauty before me I walk. With beauty behind me I walk. With beauty below me I walk. With beauty above me I walk. With beauty around me I walk. It has become beauty again. Today I will walk out. Today everything negative will leave me. I will be as I was before. I will have a cool breeze over my body. I will have a light body. I will be happy forever. Nothing will hinder me. I walk with beauty before me. I walk with beauty behind me. I walk with beauty below me. I walk wi

(Edited from David Spangler & Jeremy Berg Card Deck of the Sidhe Manual) Debbie Irvine South Direction: The Gate of Earth: The Power to Conceive I Welcome You and Give Thanks, Spirits of Earth for the Power to Conceive Through this Gate and Portal “I answer The Call of the World and enter my body and the primal Earth.” East Direction: The Gate of Dawn: The Power to Bring Forth, to Manifest I Welcome You and Give Thanks, Spirits of Dawn, for the Power to Bring Forth, To Manife

1) My Master of Counselling Research Results Auto-Ethnography of The Role of The Wounded-Healer U.Q. 2016: PDF Below 2) 3-Minute Oral Thesis U.Q. 2016: UNDERSTANDING MY ROLE AS THE WOUNDED—HEALER Debbie Irvine ( M. Co unselling) U.Q. 2016 My Presentation today centres on the common problem of Wounds and understanding how I took on the role of The Wounded-Healer as a student Counsellor. Certainly I know I have wounds, many in fact. I suffer primarily from Common Variable Imm

How Can the Sidhe Help Us in These Times? Mariel, Sidhe Priestess, via David Spangler: This is an excerpt from his book "Engaging With the Sidhe" by David Spangler with Mariel who is a Sidhe Priestess, who made contact with him over several years to help him learn about The Sidhe (at the same time as other Sidhe Beings were making contact with other people in other countries, such as Jeremy Berg in America who is a friend, writer and spiritual practitioner working with David

Prisms of Light Flash Memoir Debbie Irvine Set I Temple, Abydos Egypt On an ordinary Saturday in February 1972, inland from Dunedin, a city in New Zealand’s south, I sit on the slatted wooden bench in our back garden after lunch. I am wearing my halter-neck, green, paisley print dress my mother made, fashionable in the late 1960’s, my hair, parted in the middle, tied back in a ponytail. The silky synthetic fabric of my dress absorbs the summer’s heat and soothes my thighs. S

Jung’s Approach to Dreams, Visions, and Personal Spiritual Experiences and the Journey into the Divine furnishes us with a living, working experience and methodology for re-connecting religiously with our inner being, our life purpose, and the Divine. Religiously, referring to religio,  Jung’s approach   “re-connects and links us back” to the connective roots of our primordial evolution and Collective Unconscious as understood through the  archetypes ( CW 9 i, para. 271).   A

Celebrating Goddess Festivals in Ancient Egypt Throughout the Year   “Feasts of Light: Celebrations for the Seasons of Life based on the Egyptian Goddess Mysteries” by Normand Ellis provides the history, context, practice, meaning and purpose for re-engaging with these ritual celebrations once again in our lives.   1. Continuity and Change in Egyptian Festivals  Over 5,000 years of Egyptian history, the names, dates, practices, and meanings of many festivals changed. Despite

Below is an overview of the key themes and topics explored in this work, centered on the Goddess, The Divine Feminine, Her qualities, archetypes, historical presence, and the personal journey toward spiritual balance and integration. This is an enormous subject, and I am presenting a brief introduction to key aspects with a summary of my personal experiences and trainings in it. It has been a key part of my healing and transformation. Other sacred writings inspired by my inte

To Dea Matrona: Modron, Cerridwen, Danu,  To all my Deae Matres, my Great Mothers, I Sing Your Praises! I Give Thanks! In Lamentation and Gratitude for the Loss and Gifts of our Beloveds I join with Isis and Sing: To all my Mothers -Dea Matrona - and Lineage of Mothers I Sing Your Praises! I Give Thanks! To Dea Matrona Modron, Cerridwen, Danu,  To all my Deae Matres, I Sing Your Praises! I Give Thanks! The Triple Spiral turns From Maiden to Mother to Crone From being birthed