Lasara Firefox Allen - Jailbreaking the goddess: a radical revisioning of feminist spirituality

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Jailbreaking the Goddess: A Radical Revisioning of Feminist Spirituality 2016 by Lasara Firefox Allen.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: FireFox, LaSara, author.
Title: Jailbreaking the goddess : a radical revisioning of feminist
spirituality / Lasara Firefox Allen ; foreword by Ariel Gore.
Description: First Edition. | Woodbury : Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd, 2016.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015049779 (print) | LCCN 2016013036 (ebook) | ISBN
9780738747972 | ISBN 9780738748900
Subjects: LCSH: Goddess religion.
Classification: LCC BL473.5.F57 2016 (print) | LCC BL473.5 (ebook) | DDC
201/.43dc23
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Contents

Part 1: A Radical Revisioning of Feminist Spirituality

: Starting Where We Stand

: More Than Our Biology

: Femella

: Potens

: Creatrix

: Sapientia

: Antiqua

: Rewilding: The Path from Here

Part 2: In This Together: Reweaving Our Magicks

: Its All About Relationship

: Magickal Conspiracy

: Decentralizing Your Working Group

: Building Divine Relationships

: Decolonizing Our Magicks

: Ritual Elements and Templates

Jailbreaking the Goddess is dedicated in memoriam to two strong and amazing women who passed on during the time in which this book was coming into form: Shannon Williams and Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart. Each loved the goddess in her own way. Each was the goddess in her own way. May they rise again in power.

It is also dedicated to all the ones who walked this wild path before me, my foremothers and comrades of blood, thought, and spirit: my mom, Marylyn Motherbear Scott; Starhawk, Macha Aline OBrien, Rosa De Anda. And to the visionaries, creatrixes, and harbingers of our collective liberation: bell hooks, Luce Irigaray, Trihn T. Minh-Ha, Arundhati Roy, Maya Angelou, Gyatri Spivak, Julia de Borgos, Dorothy Pitman Hughes, Gloria Steinem, Leslie Marmon Silko, Audre Lorde, Paula Gunn Allen, Amina Wadud, Wilma Mankiller, Sylvia Rivera, Assata Shakur, and innumerable others. Thank you.

And to my children, Aurora and Sol.

And to future generations. We will find our way together.

Foreword
by Rosa De Anda

In Jailbreaking the Goddess: A Radical Revisioning of Feminist Spirituality , Lasara Firefox Allen elevates us to living life as an incantation, mastering our full power as sacred magical beings and as women; born not for others but living life for ourselves. This book is pivotal in deconstructing the patriarchal myth of the Virgin, Mother, and Crone.

Lasaras writing honors the feminal essence in every living being. Her words challenge and change how we perceive and feel about ourselves as women, liberating us from the patriarchal synonymous construct of females as child bearers and/or females as comfort givers for the sole pleasure of men.

This scripture is a recipe for a sacred revolution and evolution of assigned or reassigned feminine power.

This creative blueprint is a roadmap with essential keys that will awaken and assert all of our senses as magical tools working with nature, as prayers to the universe, invoking the elements as working allies for directed and guided transformation. Regardless of class, language, or skin color, we are all part of this natural world and speak the language of Natureand through this language we are all nurtured. We all have the power to commune with the natural world around us. This book invites us to be the director, teacher, and the student of our lives not separate from but with the same magical powers as our natural world commands around us.

This rare book deconstructs oppressive language and gender bias, and it breaks cultural and ethnic linguistic barriers. Through the authors inventive morphology, she has liberated us from the dogma of patriarchal verbal consequence. The author has abandoned the language of the oppressor, breaking away from a proscribed male-dominated communication norm historically used to define and control a womans life. She gives us praxis; the practicum application on how to activate and create a magical life filled with beauty and limitless vision through the practice of ritual and/or new ways of thinking. We become the student and master of our own life interchangeably as needed.

This doctrine is a new code. A new way of communication which can be used with any other existing spiritual practice you may have. Whether your current beliefs are Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, atheist, agnostic, Wiccan, or any other spiritual combinationthis mighty book holds the knowledge to end xenophobia and make you a stronger, freer you. In Lasaras words, As we decolonize language, we decolonize thought. This is a challenging process. It will require rethinking, withholding judgment, and pulling up whole aggregations of thought by the roots. Jailbreaking the Goddess is a resounding cry to end xenophobia and claim your life as your own in a DIY application. This book will inspire women to claim sovereignty and move foreword collectively, learning to live life for ourselves and with one another.