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Goddess Power: Awakening the Wisdom of the Divine Feminine in Your Life

Library of Congress Cataloging

ISBN: (print) 978-1-63353-673-9, (ebook) 978-1-63353-674-6

Library of Congress Control Number: 9781633536739

BISAC category code : OCC019000 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Inspiration & Personal Growth SEL021000 SELF-HELP / Motivational & Inspirational

Printed in the United States of America

Goddess Power is a fascinating herstory of the Divine Feminine, rich in heart, depth and wisdom. Isabella Prices intelligent and wellresearched book offers us an empowering message of hope and inspiration that provides a pathway toward a new, more integrated and healthy partnership between the feminine and the masculine.This is a necessary and urgently needed guide to move us toward the next stage of our collective evolution.

Katherine Woodward Thomas , NYT bestselling author of Calling in The One

Isabella Prices Goddess Power is an important book for the emergence of a balanced and embodied consciousness, highlighting the importance of the Divine Feminine. With solid research into history and mythology, this book is an essential bridge that weaves the fabric of reality back into its essential wholeness. True integration combines masculine and feminine in a way that understands the contribution of both. Goddess Power embodies that understanding in a style that is fresh, rich, and immediately accessible.
Anodea Judith , PhD, bestselling author of Wheels of Life ; The Global Heart Awakens; Eastern Body, Western Mind; Creating on Purpose; Chakra Yoga

This book speaks to a whole new generation of women who seek to know the energies of the Goddess or Divine Feminine. Isabella Price has done her homework. She knows the power of the Goddess in ancient cultures, and she shares the herstory revealed by modern women of the Goddess movement (Merlin Stone, Marija Gimbutas, Riane Eisler). Bless her for carrying on this sacred lineage of priestessesancient and modernaround the world.
Vicki Noble , cocreator of Motherpeace Tarot , author of Shakti Woman and The Double Goddess

Isabella Price distills and synthesizes a vast crossculture scholarship on the goddesses, making this growing body of scholarly work accessible for a popular audience. She bridges ancient beliefs and practices from the Goddess traditions to postmodern sensibilities, always writing in a respectful voice. Her perspective on Goddess spirituality is guided by the moral fruits that these spiritual teachings inspire, with an eye towards the highest values of the human spirit, including creativity, vitality, nonviolence, collaborative partnership, humane behavior and reverence for the Earth.
Karen A. Jaenke , PhD, Consciousness & Transformative Studies Program Chair John F. Kennedy University

Goddess Power is a substantial, insightful, and accessible book on the wisdom legacy of the Sacred Feminine/Goddess across cultures. Isabella Prices depth of knowledge, her dedication and passion for the Goddess steeped in her personal experience are felt throughout this treasure of a book. The wisdom of the Sacred Feminine is urgently needed in our times to restore the Earth and uplift humanity. Isabellas Goddess Power offers an empowering, joyful, and inspiring vision!
Corinne McLaughlin , coauthor, The Practical Visionary and Spiritual Politics

In Goddess Power , Isabella Price gives voice to a lost herstory. This book is a great read written with such heart and dedication to the path of the Divine Feminine. The Goddess is the essential backbone for the empowered Feminine to rise. For centuries, the wisdom legacy of the Divine Feminine/Goddess has been suppressed, ignored, or distorted. But her archetypal stories hold a golden key of how to stand in a greater truth. Isabellas profound insights and her substantial knowledge about the Goddess traditions help us to reawaken this power in ourselves.
Rev. Christy Michaels , MA, priestess, ceremonialist, seminary teacher at Gospel of Mary Magdalene

Goddess Power is an important and insightful contribution to scholarship about the Goddess/Divine Feminine and the role of how women have shaped our civilization and history. In her book, Isabella Price traces many paths that open the door for every woman to learn and celebrate her own legacy. Isabellas compassion and wisdom gleaned from her many years of research and walking the path of the Goddess surfaces on each page. She is a gifted storyteller. Goddess Power is a beautiful book that inspires us to remember and honor the wisdom legacy of the Goddess while also offering a new and empowering vision for our times. It is a book that I will reread and share with my students!
Tricia Grame , PhD, artist, curator, Womens Spirituality adjunct professor at CIIS

In the vast Goddess literature, Goddess Power stands out in several ways. With obvious appreciation and reverent delight, Isabella Price introduces us to both the lighter and darker aspects of the Goddess. Informed by her comparative, crosscultural perspective including Jungian psychology and integral theory Isabella helps us relate with both discernment and devotional recognition to numerous archetypes of the Goddess. Goddess Power is groundbreaking, highly accessible 21st century scholarship. I hope it finds many receptive readers!
Saniel Bonder , author of Healing the Spirit/Matter Split , Waking Down, The WhiteHot Yoga of the Heart

I have read Isabella Prices book Goddess Power with much joy. Steeped in the diverse and rich divine feminine traditions for two decades myself, I can confirm her depth of knowledge and her ability to write in an accessible and intelligent way. Each goddess deserves a whole book unto herself but Isabella Price was able to convey the essence of each in this gem of a book. Goddess Power reads smoothly, giving you a good taste of her manifestations, leaving you hungry for more. A worthy and beautiful book that I gladly recommend!
Nicola Amadora , PhD, psychologist, spiritual teacher, speaker, womens leadership educator

Table of Contents

Foreword

Isabella Prices leadingedge book Goddess Power takes us on an inspirational journey into the core of the rich wisdom legacy of the Goddess, worshipped throughout cultures and known by many names, symbolrich manifestations and archetypal narratives. Isabella is a gifted storyteller who has the ability to write in an accessible and intelligent way. The story of the Goddess is our story, the story of birth, childhood, adulthood, and death, the story of love and healing, and the story of renewal and evolutionary change.

In a world out of balance, teetering on the brink of disaster, we are in desperate need for words of wisdom to guide us. At the root of our problems lies the imbalance between masculine and feminine, apparent not only in the social standing of men and women, but in the archetypal values each domain provides our society. Without addressing the essential missing piece of the Divine Feminine, we cannot reach wholeness, individually or collectively, and cannot come into balance with the Earth. Without the Goddess to give birth to a new world, we have no future.