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10 best books like When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm (Layne Redmond): The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth, Sun Dancing: Life in a Medieval Irish Monastery and How Celtic Spirituality Influenced the World, Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Quest for the Sacred Feminine, The Once and Future Goddess, Shakkai: Women of the Sacred Garden, The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image, Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life, The Feminine Face of God: The Unfolding of the Sacred in Women, The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects, A Woman's Journey to God

The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth
AuthorMonica Sjöö
ISBN0062507915
This classic exploration of the Goddess through time and throughout the world draws on religious, cultural, and archaeological sources to recreate the Goddess religion that is humanity’s heritage.

Now, with a new introduction and full-color artwork, this passionate and important...
Sun Dancing: Life in a Medieval Irish Monastery and How Celtic Spirituality Influenced the World
AuthorGeoffrey Moorhouse
ISBN0156006022
Visible on a clear day off the west coast of Ireland, the Skellig Islands, a cluster of cruel rocks, rise spectacularly from the Atlantic Ocean. A sanctuary to birds and seals today, for over six hundred years during the middle ages it was a center for a particularly intense form of monastic life, one that...
Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Quest for the Sacred Feminine
AuthorJean Shinoda Bolen
ISBN0062502727
A Midlife Quest For The Grail And The Goddess

Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen's extraordinary memoir celebrates the pilgrimage that heralded her spiritual awakening and leads readers down the path of self-discovery. In this account of her journey to Europe in search of the sacred feminine, she unveils...
The Once and Future Goddess
AuthorElinor W. Gadon
ISBN0062503545
A richly illustrated testament to the reemergence of the Goddess in the art and in the lives of contemporary women and men. In this beautifully illustrated and far-reaching history. Elinor Gadon vividly weaves words and images to demonstrate the powerful connections between ancient and contemporary...
Shakkai: Women of the Sacred Garden
AuthorLynn V. Andrews
"Words are a sacred tool and must be honored as such. When used carefully, words have magical healing properties. When used to judge, to hate, or to separate, words are deadly. The words you will be using in this workbook are your basic tools for healing on this journey. Treat them with respect. Honor...
The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image
AuthorAnne Baring
ISBN0140192921
A comprehensive, scholarly accessible study, in which the authors draw upon poetry and mythology, art and literature, archaeology and psychology to show how the myth of the goddess has been lost from our formal Judeo-Christian images of the divine. They explain what happened to the goddess, when,...
Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life
AuthorFrederic Brussat
ISBN0684835347
A book that belongs in every seeker's home, Spiritual Literacy answers the universal question, "How can I live a spiritual life every day?" Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat reveal a way to read the texts of our lives and of the world around us for sacred meaning.
Using more than 650 brief examples from...
The Feminine Face of God: The Unfolding of the Sacred in Women
AuthorSherry Ruth Anderson
ISBN0553352660
For many contemporary women, the old patriarchal models of religion are no longer relevant, forming a need to look beyond the male-oriented past to a wider, more fulfilling spiritual horizon. In this fascinating and thought-provoking book, Sherry Anderson and Patricia Hopkins show how many women...
The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects
AuthorBarbara G. Walker
ISBN0062509233
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'...
A Woman's Journey to God
AuthorJoan Borysenko
ISBN1573228354
“Women’s spirituality is as wild and free as that little girl. It is natural, earthy, relational, mystical, embodied, intuitive, sensuous, and compassionate. Slowly but surely, women’s poems, psalms, songs and liturgy are being written and prayed, sung and danced in a way of our own, suitable...
The Red Book: A Deliciously Unorthodox Approach to Igniting Your Divine Spark
AuthorSera Beak
ISBN0787980544
The Red Book is nothing less than a spiritual fire starter -- a combustible cocktail of Hindu Tantra and Zen Buddhism, Rumi and Carl Jung, goddesses and psychics, shaken with cosmic nudges, meaningful subway rides, haircuts, relationships, sex, dreams, and intuition. Author Sera Beak's unique hybrid...
Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness
AuthorMarion Woodman
ISBN1570623139
Dark, earthy, and immensely powerful, the Black Goddess has been a key force in world history, manifesting in images as diverse as the Indian goddess Kali and the Black Madonnas of medieval Europe. She embodies the energy of chaos and creativity, creation and destruction, death and rebirth. Images...
Circle Round: Raising Children in Goddess Traditions
AuthorAnne Hill
ISBN0553378058
In our rushed, stressed society, it's sometimes difficult to spend meaningful time as a family. Now Starhawk, Diane Baker, and Anne Hill offer new ways to foster a sense of togetherness through celebrations that honor the sacredness of life and our Mother Earth.

Goddess tradition embraces...
Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex, and Politics
AuthorStarhawk
ISBN0807010375
My edition is the old blue one with the white letters and it was part of opening the interior and exterior world for me back in the day. Starhawk's insistence on the integration of sexuality, politics and the personal power some refer to as magic has aged well, as has her vision of what we risk by not understanding...
Kali: The Feminine Force
AuthorAjit Mookerjee
ISBN0892812125
If you know absolutely nothing about female deities in Hinduism, this might be useful to read. But the focus remains much more on the images than the actual text and there is much less emphasis on Kali herself than the title would suggest. For both of these reasons, I will be seeking out another book on the...
New Self, New World: Recovering Our Senses in the Twenty-First Century
AuthorPhilip Shepherd
ISBN1556439113
New Self, New World challenges the primary story of what it means to be human, the random and materialistic lifestyle that author Philip Shepherd calls our “shattered reality.” This reality encourages us to live in our heads, self-absorbed in our own anxieties. Drawing on diverse sources and...
The Ever-Present Origin
AuthorJean Gebser
ISBN0821407694
The Ever-Present Origin is a translation of Ursprung und Gegenwart, a book which was published in German in two parts around 1949 and 1953. The central contribution of this book is Gebser's analysis of the history of culture -- mainly but not exclusively Western culture -- in terms of the predominance...
The Grandmother of Time: A Woman's Book of Celebrations, Spells, and Sacred Objects for Every Month of the Year
AuthorZsuzsanna E. Budapest
ISBN0062501097
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...
Glad No Matter What: Transforming Loss and Change into Gift and Opportunity
AuthorS.A.R.K.
ISBN1577319354
Though SARK has empowered millions to live their creative dreams, manage their businesses, and savor personal connections, the deaths of her mother and cat and the end of a treasured relationship tested her ability to walk her talk. But as Glad No Matter What shows, she journeyed through the spirals...
Conscious Dreaming: A Spiritual Path for Everyday Life
AuthorRobert Moss
Every once in a while, I'll go to a bookstore and buy a book with no clear reason why or even a notion of when I'll read it. This book was one of them. After a few weeks of it on my shelf, I started it. I think its subtly changed my life or, at least, my relationship to my dreams.

Moss offers a very sane view...
Philosophies of India
AuthorHeinrich Robert Zimmer
ISBN0691017581
The volume is divided into four sections: The introduction places the position of the Buddhist Tantras within Mahayana Buddhism and recalls their early literary history, especially the Guhyasamahatantra; the section also covers Buddhist Genesis and the Tantric tradition. The foundations of...
By Oak, Ash, & Thorn: Modern Celtic Shamanism
AuthorD.J. Conway
My main problem with this book, and most books about Celtic spirituality in general, is that it's all on speculation. Very little is known about how the Celts practiced their religion, and it varied between regions and tribes. Modern people love to try and lump things into catagories, and so to them,...
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