The sacred season that follows Samhain, the feminine womb-time of darkness, is the time of the Cailleach, the Ancient Crone, the dark mother who calls on us to change our ways, to turn away from destructive behaviours that harm our planet and all that lives within and upon her. It is ...
The names "Ormuzd" and "Ariman" are derived from the Avestic or Zoroastrian religion of the Ancient Iranians and modern Parsees, although Schreber makes no other explicit allusions to this religious system. "Ormuzd" is the title given to the Zoroastrian god, also known as Anro-Mainyus, ...
Here, Issy appears to absorb the patriarchal language which circumscribes her as she refers to herself in the third person as both a cat and a filly: "Pussy is never alone, as records her chambrette, for she can always look at Biddles and talk petnames with her little playfilly" (FW...
It considers this experience in the general sense with regard to the Sufi tradition, but in its analysis, the article primarily draws on examples from the classical period of Sufi history. Based on an analysis of the thought of key Sufi figures from that period, the assertion is made that ...