Home to Her The Portal of the Divine Feminine with Sophie Strand
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- Sophie’s latest book is The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-flowering-wand-rewilding-the-sacred-masculine-sophie-strand/
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- We covered lots of ground in this episode! Here are links to some of the resources we discussed:
- This conversation with the late Barbara Ehrenreich, explores the fact that ancient cave art is primarily nature-based, which Sophie refers to: https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2020/jan/10/humans-were-not-centre-stage-how-ancient-cave-art-puts-us-in-our-place.
- “The Dawn of Everything”, by David Graeber and David Wengrow is an excellent, updated exploration of ancient history
- Sophie referenced the social change platform Advaya , with whom she offers coursework – you can learn more here: https://advaya.co/
- Sophie also mentioned many books and authors who explore the historical evidence of Jesus. These include: “Rabbi Jesus” by Bruce Chilton; “Gospel Q” and the “Gnostic Bible”; “The Gnostic Gospels” by Elaine Pagels; the work of Neil Douglas-Klotz; and “The Historical Jesus”, by John Dominc Crossan
- Sophie made the comment that mother myths become monster myths. One example of this is Tiamat, the ancient Sea Serpent Mother Goddess whose murder is described in the ancient Babylonia text the Enuma Elish. You can read this text in its full here: https://www.worldhistory.org/article/225/enuma-elish---the-babylonian-epic-of-creation---fu/
Past podcasts that are relevant to this conversation include:
- Sacred Activism with Ruby and Christabel Reed: https://hometoher.simplecast.com/episodes/sacred-activism-with-ruby-and-christabel-reed
- Rewilding the Rosary with Clark Strand and Perdita Finn: https://hometoher.simplecast.com/episodes/exploring-the-secrets-of-the-rosary-with-clark-strand-and-perdita-finn
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