Judith
Laura's audiobook,
Goddess Guided Meditations, is available at audible.com,
amazon.com, and iTunes. (For direct links click on link above or on
book cover.) She decided to do the audiobook of her writings,
which she narrates, after receiving comments from
readers of her books,
Goddess Spirituality for the 21st Century and
She Lives! The Return of Our
Great Mother, about the usefulness of the guided meditations that
appear in those books' rituals. After hearing particularly from people
who were either using the meditations alone or leading groups that used
the meditations, Judith decided to make their use easier by producing
a book in a format where the people didn't have to read while meditating.
Goddess Guided Meditations contains 20 meditations from those two print
books, plus 5 new meditations not previously published. To see a list of
which meditations are new and which books the others are from, go to
judithlaura.com/ggmeds.html Goddess Guided Meditations is also available as a
Kindle e-book.
Two
Finalist Awards From International Book Awards 2012
for
Goddess Matters The Mystical, Practical & Controversial
Judith Laura's most recent Goddess book, Goddess Matters: The
Mystical, Practical, and Controversial received Finalist Awards in
two categories: "Spirituality," and "Women's Issues," in the International Books Awards 2012. The book gives an
in-depth look at today’s global trends in Goddess
spirituality and emerging Goddess religions, covering a wide
range of topics, some of them rarely discussed in other books. Read more about
the book, including reviews and excerpt.
Award Winner!
Goddess Spirituality
for
the
21st Century
Study Guide for Kabbalah Chapters
of Goddess Spirituality for the
21st Century
A study and discussion guide to the four Kabbalah chapters in Judith
Laura's award-winning book
Goddess Spirituality for the 21st Centuryis now available
as alow-priced
e-book,
titled "Exploring Re-Visioned Kabbalah: Study Guide...". This new
guide is in addition to the shorter study guide for all chapters of
the book included in the Combined Second Edition of the book. The
new, separate, e-book guide is meant for readers, teachers, and
discussion leaders who want a more extensive guide to the book's chapters
2-5
describing and giving the history of the metaphysical forms known as Jewish Kabbalah
and Hermetic Qabalah, and proposing a re-visioned, more egalitarian kabbalistic
Tree of Life.
Available as a
Kindle E-Book, a
NOOKbook, and at
Diesel eBook Store,
Sony
Ebook Store, Smashwords
in multiple formats, and at other ebook vendors.
Combined Third Edition of
She Lives! The Return of Our Great Mother
The Combined Third Edition of Judith Laura’s book
She Lives! The Return of Our Great Mother is now available in
most parts of the world. A trailer with Judith reading excerpts from the
book and other goodies is right under this article. She Lives! remains unusual among
books on Goddess spirituality. Its material doesn’t fit neatly into any one
category. Rather, especially in its myth-like stories, it describes how
female divinity might return to people on diverse paths, and addresses a
variety of issues in a number of different religions and in secular
settings. This Combined Third Edition has all material from the first (1989)
edition. In addition to the stories, there are seasonal and personal
rituals, and a variety of meditations. The seasonal rituals include 30 songs
with notated music for 26 of them. (The four songs for which notation is not
included in this edition have well-known melodies. The 1999 second edition
had notation for only 11 of the songs.) This new edition also includes
material added in the second (10th Anniversary) edition, such as two new
story-myths, guided meditations for each of the seasonal celebrations, and
an entirely new section, “Reflections on Seasonal Celebrations,” with
background information on holidays of a number of different traditions.
There are also some changes and additions found only in this edition.
For more complete info on the book's contents and links to
excerpts, go to
judithlaura.com/slgm.html
Muliply-Awarded
Print Novel Now Available as Audiobook and E-Book
Judith Laura'snovel,Beyond All
Desiring , recipient of three awards in its print
version, is now available in an audiobook version
narrated by Christy Lynn on audible.com,amazon.com,
and
itunes.com
The book is also available as an e-book in many different
formats.
The trade paperback edition of
the triple-award winning novel, originally published in 2005, was reissued in
August 2012 in a lower retail-priced yet high quality edition. The trade paperback
version received the top honors in the
Ulysses Award competition and received finalist awards in both the USA Best Book Awards, and the Media Darlings Book Award,
all in 2006. You can print out a free
Reading Group
Discussion Guide from this site. For more information, reviews and excerpts, go to
http://www.judithlaura.com/beyond.html
Judith Laura's Poetry
Receives Awards
Although she has received many awards for her
fiction and nonfiction and her poetry has been published in many
journals and anthologies, for the first time, individual poems
by Judith Laura has received awards. They were given in November
2018 by the contest Maryland Writes! sponsored by
Montgomery Magazine and the Maryland Writers Association to two
of her poems. Her bio appears on the a pdf of the print version
of the Magazine through
this link. Names and titles of winning entries in all
categories (fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry) can be
viewed on the Magazine's website
here. Scroll down for the link to the works themselves
(hint: poetry is the last category shown). The links are in
small type at the end of the description of each winner. Or, you
can read Judith Laura's winning poems on this website on
http://judithlaura.com/poetry2.html which also has a bit
more info on the competition.
Three Part Invention
Becomes Available in More E-book Formats
Judith Laura's first novel,Three Part Invention,
which has been available in both print and as an Kindle e-book
for some time, is now available in virtually all other
e-book formats. For more information on this book, including
direct links to some bookseller sites, go to
http://judithlaura.com/3PI.html
Digital Art by Judith Laura
Posters, prints and greeting cards featuring Judith Laura's
interpretation of Mary Magdalene are among the products now available on
cafepress.com/judithlaura7m
and
zazzle.com/judithlaura The upper half of the full-length figure is
shown above.
Other of Judith Laura's designs are as prints
and posters, as well as on t-shirts, mugs, journals, and
many other products are available on the
cafepress.com/judith_laura and
sister sites linked below, as well aszazzle.com/judithlaura. For a preview of some of the Zazzle items, see the bottom of
this page's left-hand column.
Judith Laura's
depiction of Mary Magdalene is based on four different contemporary
interpretations: (1) The historical theory that she was a disciple/apostle,
had great intellectual and spiritual understanding and that her relationship
with Jesus was the closest of all the disciples but wasn't sexual. (2) The
historical theory that she was married to Jesus, that they had at least one
child, and Mary and the child(ren) eventually went to France. (3) The
mythological theory that she and Jesus were involved in a hieros gamos,
or sacred marriage. (4) The metaphysical belief of some current gnostic
groups who worship Mary Magdalene as the female counterpart of Jesus.
The symbolism in this work includes: a cup/grail inscribed with Magdalene's
name in the language she spoke, Aramaic; a downward pointing
triangle, a female symbol; a crown/halo above her head, embedded with 13
(the number of lunar months) egg-shaped rubies. (The egg is long associated
with Magdalene as a symbol of life and/or resurrection.) The entire figure
is composed of many oval and triangular shapes.
Other of Judith Laura's art include:
The Thunder,
Perfect Mind—3
panels of artwork inspired by the Nag Hammadi scripture, c.300-400 CE,
unearthed in the 1940s in Egypt. Scholars cannot clearly identify the text
as Christian or Gnostic and point out that it bears similarity to some Isis
texts. Panel
1 "I Am," is inspired by statements near the beginning of the
manuscript. The words of the text appear as a lightning bolt. Among the
human figures are a bride and a dancer-priestess. Panel 2, "I
Am She" shows an enthroned Goddess wearing the crown of Hathor, often seen
in Isis images. The words of the text are above and beneath the goddess
figure and emanate from her hands, which are raised in a traditional
blessing pose. Panel 3 "I Am
The One" whose text includes a promise of immortality, focuses on large
flame containing the Coptic Greek letters Alpha, Omega, and Tee (which also
appear in panel 1, representing the beginning and the end). The text appears
on one side as a lightning bolt, and on the other side, emanating from the
flame itself in a circular pattern.
Detail from "Asherah Enshrined"
Asherah Enshrined—Posters,
prints and cards portraying the Goddess called Asherah in Hebrew and
Athirat in Ugaritic. She stands in a shrine, between two deep
blue pillar- or scroll-like objects emblazoned with gold and silver symbols.
On the lower part of the shrine Ugaritic cuneiform spells out the Goddess’s
full title, “Rabat Athirat Yam." Because “athirat” is the feminine form of
the Ugaritic verb “to tread,” the English translation often given for this
phrase is “Great Lady Who Treads on Water.” You can see the artwork on
cafepress.com/judithlaura1a or
Judith Laura's Studio at
zazzle.com, Judith's other portrayals of Asherah can also be found at
these links.
Also:
–Goddess logo items
similar to the logo on the Goddess portion of this website; and posters that
can be used as
study aids for the
Kabbalah section of Judith Laura's book, Goddess Spirituality for the
21st Century: From Kabbalah to Quantum Physics.
–Wisdom logo
lavender and green design, with "wisdom" in English, Greek, and Hebrew.
–Products based on Judith's
Tarot Fool
which she originally created for the Tarot portion of her web site a few
years ago.