Shakti Woman: Feeling Our Fire, Healing Our World
10 best books like Shakti Woman: Feeling Our Fire, Healing Our World (Vicki Noble): Northern Mysteries and Magick: Runes & Feminine Powers, Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Loba, Ariadne's Thread: A Workbook of Goddess Magic, Shamans Through Time, The Woman in the Shaman's Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine, Buddhism After Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism, The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects, Awakening Shakti: The Transformative Power of the Goddesses of Yoga, Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood: A Treasury of Goddess and Heroine Lore from Around the World
Northern Mysteries and Magick: Runes & Feminine Powers
| Author | Freya Aswynn |
| ISBN | 1567180477 |
Bring the power of the ancient runes into your life for divination and magic with Northern Mysteries & Magick (revised edition of Leaves of Yggdrasil) by Freya Aswynn.
The runes are more than an ancient alphabet. They comprise a powerful system of divination and a path to the subconscious...
| Author | Jane Hirshfield |
| ISBN | 0060925760 |
A combination of spiritual poetry and history of the poets. Really expansive, beautiful, informative collection.
My favorites were:
p 21, Zi Ye
All night I could not sleep / because of the moonlight on my bed. / I kept on hearing a voice calling: / Out of Nowhere, Nothing answered...
| Author | Diane di Prima |
| ISBN | 0140587527 |
Loba is a visionary epic quest for the reintegration of the femimine, hailed by many as the great female counterpart to Allen Ginsberg's Howl when the first half appeared in 1978. Now published for the first time in its completed form with new material, Loba, "she-wolf" in Spanish explores the wilderness...
| Author | Shekhinah Mountainwater |
| ISBN | 0895944758 |
Using the figure of the ancient Goddess Ariadne as a metaphor, Mountainwater unravels the mysteries of a woman-centered spirituality. She offers gentle guidance through the cycles of a woman's life; the phases of the moon; the yearly nature holidays; and the aspects of divination. She concludes...
| Author | Jeremy Narby |
| ISBN | 1585423629 |
A survey of five centuries of writings on the world's great shamans-the tricksters, sorcerers, conjurers, and healers who have fascinated observers for centuries.
This collection of essays traces Western civilization's struggle to interpret and understand the ancient knowledge of...
| Author | Barbara Tedlock |
| ISBN | 0553379712 |
A distinguished anthropologist–who is also an initiated shaman–reveals the long-hidden female roots of the world’s oldest form of religion and medicine. Here is a fascinating expedition into this ancient tradition, from its prehistoric beginnings to the work of women shamans across the...
| Author | Rita M. Gross |
| ISBN | 0791414043 |
This book surveys both the part women have played in Buddhism historically and what Buddhism might become in its post-patriarchal future. The author completes the Buddhist historical record by discussing women, usually absent from histories of Buddhism, and she provides the first feminist analysis...
| Author | Barbara G. Walker |
| ISBN | 0062509233 |
This fascinating guide to the history and mythology of woman-related symbols features:
Unique organization by shape of symbol or type of sacred object
21 different sections including Round and Oval Motifs, Sacred Objects, Secular-Sacred Objects, Rituals, Deities'...
How do you live a life of spiritual awakening as well as outer abundance, inner freedom as well as deep intimacy? How do you serve the world selflessly, yet passionately celebrate your life?
The sages of Tantra have known for centuries that when you follow the path of Shakti--the sacred feminine...
| Author | Merlin Stone |
| ISBN | 0807067512 |
I really like this book, but that might surprise people who know me well. That's because I studied Classics and ancient Greek goddesses, and this book does not provide a balanced academic portrayal of the deities. Which is not to say its not well researched, but neither is that the book's point, I suspect....
| Author | Luisah Teish |
| ISBN | 0062508598 |
Be Thou Forewarned...I am incapable of being non-biased when it comes to this book. I'm simply too close to the material it explores, and after reading it, I feel a strong connection to Ms. Luisah Teish herself. And that, in short, is why I adore it.
"Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal...
| Author | Demetra George |
| ISBN | 0062503707 |
Exploring the mystery, wisdom, and power of the dark phase of the moon's cycle--a lunar-based model for moving through the dark times in our lives with understanding, consciousness, and faith in renewal.
The moon's dark phase has traditionally been a time of fear and superstition, a time...
| Author | Zsuzsanna E. Budapest |
| ISBN | 0062501097 |
I consider myself a strong feminist, so I was excited for this book. There are inaccuracies throughout. In several places I found myself having to just walk away dumbfounded. The mythology and history of nearly every section has a fifty-fifty chance of being just wrong. (Pallas Athena is Greek, not...
The Twelve Wild Swans: A Journey to the Realm of Magic, Healing, and Action
| Author | Starhawk |
| ISBN | 0062516698 |
As if I didn't love Starhawk's work enough already, then she came out with a book exploring magic and spirituality via my all time favorite fairy tale, The Twelve Wild Swans. As I understand it, this book is designed to be a book version of the magical work involved in a Reclaiming Witchcamp. It journeys...
Sophia: Goddess of Wisdom, Bride of God
| Author | Caitlín Matthews |
| ISBN | 0835608018 |
Anyone interested in the feminine face of God throughout the ages will find Sophia an illuminating experience. Caitlin Matthews' scholarship connects us to past, present, and future in the very depths of our femininity. ----Marion Woodman, Jungian analyst and author of Bone: Dying into Life. Sophia,...
| Author | Michael Harner |
| ISBN | 0195016491 |
This is a collection of ten anthropological studies that explore the use of hallucinogens in shamanism. Michael Harner serves as the book’s editor, and does a good job of including studies that provide different sets of information to the reader.
I think I first heard about this book from...
| Author | Ted Andrews |
| ISBN | 1888767340 |
Nature speaks to us every day but we have forgotten how to listen. From the author of the best-selling Animal Speak comes the next step in understanding the meaning and language of animals. Discover the meaning of animals in dreams and life. Learn how to interpret the signs of nature. Find your animal...
Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality
| Author | Judith Plaskow |
| ISBN | 0060613831 |
This book made my mind explode when I read it in the early 1990s. This book connected me to a history of women in religious life and to a more fuller and complex understanding of God's nature that I had ever previously thought possible. Would it hit someone with the same impact today? It depends upon your...
| Author | Arnold Mindell |
| ISBN | 0062506552 |
The first suspicious thing I found reading this book was a fact that the author so many times mentions Don Juan' teachings. This is not good, because The Shaman's Body is positioned as a book about the culture research of shamans, not a retelling of some artwork.
The second is about the practical parts...
The Superstitions of Witchcraft
| Author | Margaret Alice Murray |
| ISBN | 0766144550 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving,...
Star Woman: We are Made from Stars and to the Stars We Must Return
| Author | Lynn V. Andrews |
| ISBN | 0446385662 |
I am rediscovering Lynn V. Andrews Medicine Women series. I read her books in the late 1980s and early 1990s after finding her books through synchronicity at a Seattle library. I was drawn to the woman empowerment and shamanic themes and at the time I first discovered Lynn's books, I was exploring Native...
Kissing the Hag: The Dark Goddess and the Unacceptable Nature of Women
| Author | Emma Restall Orr |
| ISBN | 1846941571 |
Kissing the Hag is a wonderfully intelligent, earthy, cosmic diary of the feminine life... this life-soaked book remains close to the fluids of body and soul... It's an obvious gift-book for women going through a life passage, but it could also be important for men, who are closer to the mysteries presented...
