Shakti Woman : Feeling Our Fire, Healing Our World

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Summary: Incredible
Review: read this book it is amazin

Rating:
Summary: Incredible
Review: This book is a true guide to womens power and passion. It presents a little known view of life on Mother Earth as it was (pre patriarchal control), and as it could be if we were all prepared to listen to our hearts song. In the process of distributing it among women friends (and my husband who it would appear is one of the rare men who want to know what a real woman is) they have all felt it to be essential reading for women. They have requested that I get copies for their individual use and as a library source.

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Summary: A wonderfully empowering book for women and men too.
Review: This book is a true guide to womens power and passion. It presents a little known view of life on Mother Earth as it was (pre patriarchal control), and as it could be if we were all prepared to listen to our hearts song. In the process of distributing it among women friends (and my husband who it would appear is one of the rare men who want to know what a real woman is) they have all felt it to be essential reading for women. They have requested that I get copies for their individual use and as a library source.

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Summary: Interesting, well-written, but...
Review: this book, while absolutely articulate and compelling, is essentially Noble's memoir of goddess-conciousness. The commentary on the medical industry's stances on issues such as childbirth and gynecology were one of the highlights of the text. However, the constant referencing and hyping of the author's tarot system, The Motherpeace Tarot deck, while expectable, gets tedious, especially to those who, like I, aren't really "spoken to" by the system. Highly reccomended to those who are interested in politico-spiritual issues, especially those regarding women.

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Summary: Hoo boy....!
Review: Yet another white woman who says she's a "shaman," this one because she had some sort of psychotic break while sitting in the bathtub one day. She also says Filipino shamans "reach between molecules" to pull tumors out of people. Um, no, Honey, they use sleight-of-hand and chicken parts. Period.

This book contains a truckload of bad history about universal goddess worship, how all the shamans were once women, and other utter tripe.

I also don't have anything nice to say about anyone whose full-grown boa constrictor is under 3 feet long. She blames the former owner, but admits to feeding the animal only when it moves around a lot and "acts hungry," rather than keeping it on a regular feeding schedule. (She also can't distinguish between "acting hungry" and "predicting an earthquake" on the snake's part.) Boas are not "cool Goddessy Witchy woman accesories;" they grow to be ten plus feet long when cared for properly, and they need to be fed as soon as they have passed their last meal.