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It's on page 85! 2 Ladyslipper Catalog The New Spring Crop Women's Spirituality • New Age Shekhinah Mountainwater Songs & Chants of the Goddess I Back in print — yay! Songs, chants, invocations, prayers, Deb Criss Marianne Williamson spells, and magic from among this priestess/ teacher's most well-known work: Lady Mother oi All, We Are the Flow, Charge Heartbeat On Intimacy of the Goddess, Pentagram, Parthenogenesis, Tho They Are From our neighbor in Asheville NC, a tape featuring sweet In her lectures Intimacy and Control and Real Intimacy, Only Breath (based on a poem by Sappho), and many more, harmonies and chant-like songs, celebrating earth, elements, Marianne challenges us to focus not on "getting" the perfect for ritual and singing alohg. (MSP2) CS: 9.98 womanspirit, and cooperation. Simple percussion and accom­ partner but on becoming the perfect partner. She tackles mod­ paniment, with some environmental sounds blended in, and ern romantic ideals when she communicates the idea that a wonderful rhythms to convey the cyclical nature of things. Very relationship with one person cannot fulfill all needs, and illus­ Shekhinah Mountainwater refreshing. (CLS002) CS: 9.98 trates how our primary relationship is with the universe. By Songs & Chants of the Goddess II removing the barriers to intimacy which we've created in the More favorites: Power Spot, Triad, The Witches Are Here, Nine past and through fear, we can live our lives fully and experience Million Witches, Circle and a Rainbow, 23 in all, which she SHEKHINA, HEBREW GODDESS true intimacy — in love, at work and with friends. (HRP10001) encourages you to use at your rituals and gatherings. (MSP5) Desert Win<3 CS: 10.98 CS: 9.98 Marianne Williamson Shekhinah Mountainwater On Communication Witch-A-Way These lectures entitled Excellence In Communication and Kris Aaron of Circle Network News said, "With the voice of the Listening with Love explore the need for open, clear com­ Crone and the soul of the Goddess, this veteran musician has munication with all people in our lives and methods for achiev­ created an exciting, resonant album of new Witch songs. ing this goal. By working to share our personal truth, we can "Gothic jazz' may be the only way to describe her magical find harmony in relationships — even when we disagree — by between-the-notes style... this tape is women's Pagan liturgy listening and not reacting judgmentally. To really communicate, at its best!" Includes Crone O' the Hawk; Cosmic Cowgirl; we must really go behind our masks and speak from our essen­ Witch's Choice, a ballad of the Burning Times when the women tial selves. It is by knowing our feelings and telling the truth walked into the sea, and more. 18 original songs in all, recorded that people come to truly know and love us: we can then let live in concert, approx. 90 min. (MSP7) CS: 12.98 go of the illusion of separateness and our fear of loss. (HRP10011) CS: 10.98 Susan Berman What the Mother Pot Sings Here's what our friend Maida Tilchin, who years ago was the women's music reviewer for Boston's Gay Community News, wrote us after meeting Susan: "Her voice blew me away (editor: "me too) — a small Jewish woman who sounds like a big African-American woman. She has been influenced by an Aztec dance and percussion group, creating perhaps the world's first Aztec Jewish music, played on indigenous instru­ ments such as Aztec clay pots. She brings together many diverse musical cultures to create her own unique and enter­ taining style. She has a song based on an Elie Weisel story, and a protest song about the rapes in Bosnia that has a great overdubbed Balkan holler. I especially liked Mung Bean, which Sfc.ert Wind is whimsical with great percussion." If we had the space, we T&ekhina, Hebrew Goddess could write pages of description and accolades about this .nis late 1993 release, subtitled Restoring the Balance, is exquisite collaboration of women's acappella vocal tradition. scheduled to arrive by the time this catalog reaches you, dear global politic, MesoAmerican, pre-Columbian tradition and the readers. We're informed that it's about Shekhina, the Hebrew indigenous voices of world flutes and percussion (a multitude Goddess of the Kabbala, and that the music and lyrics contain of world instruments are played by Larry Sargent and Susan). a blend of Middle Eastern, Spanish, Celtic, and Hindustani Suffice it to say, we very highly recommend this deeply emo­ influences... about half in Hebrew and half in English. Sources tional and spiritual resonance of women's songs, poems, are Old Testament, Talmud and Kabbalistic writings, showing chants, dreams and stories — It's one of the year's true treas­ the survival of the triple goddess in the basic foundations of ures. (FT101) CS: 9.98 ... CD: 15.98 Judaism. Extensive liner note; a full 79 minutes in length... from this tidbit of information, it sounds wonderful and intrigu­ ing! (DW1005) CS: 9.98 ... CD: 15.98 Earth Dance Singers Songs of the Sacred Wheel This circle of 7 women is inspired to sing these songs in honor of the Earth they love... and over 50 chants and circle songs are included here!!! Titles such as Mother/Daughter Circle Dance Song, I Am the Goddess, Mother I Feel You, Ocean Mother - by authors such as Starhawk, Z. Budapest, Lisa Thiel, Adele Getty, Charlie Murphy, Brooke Medicine Eagle, Nana Simopoulos and Kate Wolf, as well as members of this ensemble — flow easily from song to song, to song. One of the most complete Gaia's Dream recordings of women's circle songs we know about! (ED1) CS: Our highest recommendation goes to this exuberant 1992 9.98 recording which represents the music of our Mother Earth. The listener travels from the uplifting 'Afro-Greek rhythms of the celebratory Koula Koula to the deep Byzantine chanting and Evaleon Hill/ Institute of Goddess exciting halleluiah chorus of Artemis' Silver Bow. The Journey Daily Spiritual Program is a spiritual quest to the soul (includes some subtle male This recording contains anirmations, relaxations, meditation, voices); Many Moons breaks the barrier of time; and Like You exercises, guided visualizations, and prayers from the Irish- and Raphael send the listener to an upward celestial travel.