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 Century is now available as a low-priced ebook, 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

 

 

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Goddess Spirituality
for the 21st Century
Receives Top Award

The Second Enlarged Edition of Judith Laura's book, Goddess Spirituality for the 21st Century, from Kabbalah to Quantum Physics, was named Award Winner in the "Religion:Comparative" Category of the National Best Books 2009 Awards, sponsored by USA Book News. 

The book contains the entire contents of the original edition, plus a number of additions, including a Foreword by Rachel Pollack. For full contents details see http://www.judithlaura.com/gs21cont.html
For other book info, including reviews and excerpts, go to http://www.judithlaura.com/gs21.html

Award-Winning Print Novel, Beyond All Desiring, Now Also Available
in Multiple Ebook Formats

Judith Laura's novel Beyond All Desiring , originally published in 2006 as a trade paperback, and available as Kindle E-book since January 2011, is now also available as a B&N Nook Book, ITunes IBook, Sony Ebook, and in most other ebook formats.The trade paperback version received the top award in the 2006 Ulysses Award competition, and received Finalist awards in both the 2006 Best Book Awards, and the Media Darlings 2006 Book Award. A free Reading Group Discussion Guide is available on this site. For more information,reviews and excerpts, go to http://www.judithlaura.com/beyond.html
 
New Edition of
Three Part Invention, a novel

A  new edition of Judith Laura's novel, Three Part Invention,  is now available both trade paperback and Kindle E-book.Three Part Invention a "highly recommended" from the Midwest Book Review and praise from other reviewers. For more info, reviews, excerpts  go to http://www.judithlaura.com/3PI.html

Mary Magdalene Portrayal
Joins Judith Laura's Other Art

Judith Laura's digital art honoring Mary Magdalene is now available on cafepress.com/judithlaura7m and zazzle.com/judithlaura as posters, prints, and greeting cards. The upper half of the full-length figure is shown here.

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 same sites.For a preview of some of the zazzle items, see the bottom of this 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 available on zazzle.com and cafepress.com 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 or 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.”  Judith believes that while this may be correct, a more accurate meaning, taking into consideration the likely difference in colloquialisms between ancient Ugaritic and contemporary English would be “Great Athirat of the Sea” or “Great Goddess Who Moves the Sea.” 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.

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