Katia’s Esoteric Christianity Blog

I have never been to a Mormon church, but my Mormon and ex-Mormon friends have said the Heavenly Mother is hush-hush, even poo-poohed in LDS. They don’t talk about her. Might give the women and girls too much self esteem, maybe? I don’t know…
Here is a good cover of the Mormon Goddess, including an article [...]

This is a great listen!
Margaret Starbird writes:
The CD of a 39-minute sermon I gave yesterday for the
Unity Church of Bellevue (WA) is posted on their website
for anyone who is interested.
The subject was “Embracing the Sacred Union”:

http://www.messageshare.com/messages/memberID370/062710B.mp3

peace and light,
Margaret

Italy to have first woman priest
A married teacher is poised to become Italy’s first woman priest when she is ordained later this month in an Anglican church close to the Vatican.
Maria Longhitano, a member of the breakaway Old Catholic Church, says she hopes her ordination will break down “prejudice” in the Roman Church.
The event may [...]

Being able to honor both genders in Deity, yet also realizing the beyond-gender nature of the Everlasting/Source may seem like a contradiction to some, but hey, it is possible to believe both.
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Author Jennifer Reif wrote to goddesschristians@yahoogroups.com
God-Goddess, and the Sacred Balance
Hi All,
Every once in a while I go out on a limb, and here I [...]

Oh wow, this letter from Satan to Pat Robertson (below) is really a hoot.  I was just reading (in Myth and Ritual of Christianity by Alan Watts) about the arena Lucifer aka Satan really works in. According to Watts, Satan doesn’t even engage in lesser forms of evil like violence and war, he is far [...]

Rah, rah, Deepak Choprah, “King of Woo Woo” for taking on Skeptic Michael Shermer (former fundamentalist Christian) now the “King of Pooh Pooh”. Here’s the very latest volley in the ongoing war between religion and science…(a useless war since they actually coexist and overlap, ya know!)
WOO WOO IS A STEP AHEAD OF (BAD) SCIENCE
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This is really intriguing stuff — in ten years we will not stare at glowing screens on our computers or iPods or whatever  because special glasses will beam the information/screen/images directly onto our retinas. It’ll be just like Star Trek where you see holographic worlds and it feels like you’re really living it.  In just [...]

Author Margaret Starbird writes:
The infamous arrest of the Knights Templar was carried out on Friday the 13th of October, 1307. The day lives in the memory of Westerners, though they may not know why it is so “dangerous.” It actually goes back to the Hebrew Bible, the book of Esther, when the evil Haman persuaded Esther’s husband, the [...]

We must make this article required reading for Mystery School members.
DO SHAMANS HAVE MORE SEX?
NEW AGE SPIRITUALITY IS NO MORE PURE THAN OLD-TIME RELIGION
By Robert Wright
Slate
July 29, 2009

Wouldn’t it be great to be back in hunter-gatherer days? Back before the
human spiritual quest had been corrupted by the “relentless onslaught of
Western scientific materialism” and “dogmatic male-dominated [...]

Today, July 22, is Mary Magdalene’s Feastday as observed by the official Church for centuries.  Now it is a holiday for alternative Christians and I like to call it Magdalene Day, taking out that “Catholic” word “feast”.  I guess it’s my fussiness. Hah.
I have my red egg on its little stand on my home altar [...]