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July 4, 2016
A Round-Up of Jailbreaking the Goddess Reviews
From Melise, at Amazon:
Reading Jailbreaking the Goddess was like reconnecting with a long-lost friend. Every few paragraphs I found myself saying “Yes! She gets it!” or “Of course! That makes perfect sense!” The questions Lasara poses are challenging, because they require us to look deeply at our own spiritual practices and see if we are honoring or appropriating with our religious practices; if we are helping others for our own spiritual and political gain or because we are working towards a common goal.
Read more here.
Reader review at Amazon:
This book was one that caught my eye at my local bookstore. I’d been looking for something, I had a gut feeling that I might get lucky. I wasn’t wrong, I tell you, when I discovered Jailbreaking The Goddess. I devoured the book whole in only a few days’ time. I found the perspective on the faces of the divine feminine, the Goddess aspects, to be more relatable than the Mother-Maiden-Crone model. It’s refreshing to read some rejuvenating words on aspects of divine femininity that are often overlooked. I resonated so wonderfully with Femella’s archetype, the Divine Girl Child, finding her so sacred to me where I’d felt a small rift before. This book is healing and revolutionary, with plenty of activities to stimulate deep meditations on the five aspects of divine feminine.
I would recommend this book to anyone who is exploring their spirituality, especially those wanting to discover and define their divine feminine, their inner Goddess energy. This book is worth your time.
Railenthe Zeal, at GoodReads:
And for the first time in a long time, She began to feel real to me again.
As a non-binary person of color, this was a very important realization. Far too many interpretations of the Goddess and goddess spirituality take a strange, alienating stance on the transgender and gender-nonconforming, but not this goddess. In fact, a strong point is made on this, as after the examinations of the faces, the work on decolonizing and rewilding begins, with a focus on taking things back from the toxic influences that have had a hold on them for so many years—and yes, this includes the patriarchy (#smashpatriarchy). Exclusion has no place with the Goddess, and here we see that she can welcome and hold all, no matter where they stand in life and what they have to do. To feel welcomed again was phenomenal, a welcome change from what had happened.
Jenya T. Beachy:
Yes and more yes to this new model, which moves us out of the expectation of conformation to outdated cultural norms. One of the things I love most about this book is how it allows for other forms to exist within it (and you!) It’s an opening of possibility for all women to re-divine all parts of ourselves. Blessings on this beautiful book! May it grace many, many bookshelves all over the world!
Facing North:
To say this book is life changing does not fully encompass how truly liberating this book will be for many, many women. To say it is groundbreaking does not encompass the true revolutionary nature of it. To say that it is divine does not at all express that it was written by a woman who saw a need and met it. There truly is nothing I can say that will be fully appropriate for this book, so I will say only this: everyone who identifies as female, as a woman, really, truly, needs to read Jailbreaking The Goddess by Lasara Firefox Allen.
Broadway World:
Using a model that promises to turn traditional feminist scholarship on its head, Lasara Firefox Allen rejects the archetypal divinity systems that are tied to female biology and physical stages of life. The fivefold model presented by Allen welcomes all women, regardless of biology and liberates the female experience from the shackles of the reproductive model. This fivefold model is a new system that embraces the powerful, diverse, and fluid nature of the lived experience of women today.
The Guardian Bookshop:
A feminist spirituality book that is inclusive of intersex, transgender, and other women who cannot or do not procreate.
This Week in Heresy:
If you are looking for a new way to look at cycle of the Goddess, or looking for a more inclusive Goddess spirituality, you should get this book.
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Excerpt from “Jailbreaking the Goddess” by Lasara Firefox Allen
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July 2, 2016
Review Jailbreaking the Goddess!
Jailbreaking the Goddess (Llwewllyn, 2016), by Lasara Firefox Allen.
Hi friends! The launch date for Jailbreaking the Goddess is impending! We need some reviews up ASAP! Are you game to review the book? Drop me a note if you don’t have a copy yet, and are willing to read and review the book within the next few days.
If you’ve already been able to read Jailbreaking the Goddess already, I would be SO GRATEFUL if you would review it on Amazon and Goodreads! The more reviews the book has up, the easier a time people will have deciding to purchase it. And, if you’re feeling really inspired, I’d love to hear about reviews on your blog, in magazines, on your podcast, or anywhere else your heart desires!
The official launch date is July 8th. It would really help to get some reviews up there this week.
I truly value your time and energy, and want to offer a gift to thank you for making the effort to review Jailbreaking the Goddess: a pdf of the upcoming Jailbreaking the Goddess – the manifesta! A Zine! Once you’ve posted your reviews, please fill out this form. At the form you can give me an email address I can send the zine to. Also, there’s a space where you can paste links to your reviews so that we can boost signal on them.
Not sure what to say in your review? Here are some ideas that could help: just write a sentence about one area of thought that Jailbreaking the Goddess has shifted for you. Or, write a couple sentences about what was most inspiring to you.
If you found parts challenging, share that too. If you do share what you found challenging, I hope you’ll also share the resolution of that challenge. (I find –for myself and with my students and clients– the areas that feel the most challenging often deliver the biggest breakthroughs.) Also, did you know that you can video yourself talking about the book and post that as a review on Amazon?
I look forward to seeing what you have to say about Jailbreaking the Goddess! I’m grateful for your attention.
Love and power,
– Lasara
May 26, 2016
Give Jailbreaking WINGS!
May 24, 2016
New Goal For Jailbreaking!
We hit our first funding goal of $1250 in LESS THAN 24 HOURS! So I put the new goal in place because I know a bigger dream is possible. You all are making it possible for Jailbreaking to find whole new communities in which to stir revolutionary magick. Yessssssss! THANK YOU! VISIT THE FUNDING CAMPAIGN NOW at fundrazr.com/jailbreaking
May 23, 2016
Jailbreaking the Goddess
Visit my campaign at fundrazr.com/Jailbreaking and help get Jailbreaking the Goddess into as many communities as possible.
“Jailbreaking the Goddess: A Radical Revisioning of Feminist Spirituality is an important contribution to the writings on Goddess tradition and feminist spirituality. Allen brings the tradition firmly into the twenty-first century. I love her political savvy, her sensitivity around issues of diversity and cultural awareness and appropriation, and her unabashed celebration of pleasure, sensuality, and life!”
-Starhawk
Have you read the book already? (Yes, some dedicated souls got advance copies.) If so, what was the biggest AHA that Jailbreaking delivered for you? Please comment below!
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Jailbreaking the Goddess – the initiation
In Jailbreaking the Goddess: the Initiation, we will follow her five faces deep into the process of individual and collective undoing, and then start again, weaving from a space more co-creative, more conscious, more integrated. Together we will come to know her five faces intimately, and thus know ourselves in new ways. We will do magicks large and small, and examine the ways in which our Work informs our daily work and works, and we will dig deep under the foundation of patriarchy to uncover the root of the deep knowing at the core of what is, through this radical revisioning, being revealed.
Are you craving a space where you can dive more deeply into your spiritual process? Are you longing for a circle of sisters who will hold you in your process? Are you breaking into pieces? Are you spiraling and unspiraling, releasing and shifting, creating space and time within which to find your center? Are you READY to grow into and through your emerging edge?
If you are a serious seeker of the important truths and revelations who is ready to be part of this experience, SIGN ON NOW!
You have two payment options:
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In our seven months together, we will:
• Immerse ourselves in the fluid, nonlinear, multivalent, rich, beautiful complexity of a fivefold model for the feminal divine
• Experience opportunities for feminal empowerment, experience, and honoring
• Conjure the space and framework in which to experience these five aspects of the divine feminal in you and as you, us and through us: the fivefold goddess allows new ways of knowing, encountering, interacting with, serving, and working with the feminal divine. Femella – the child, Potens – the powerful, Creatrix – the maker, Sapientia – the wise one, and Antiqua – the old one offer us opportunities to know and understand the divine feminal current, to understand women as complex conduits of the divine, and to see ourselves reflected in goddesses who are born to this new aeon
• Help you to claim your body as your OWN, free of concepts of biological and sexual utility – you will come home to the full awareness that you are more than your biology. Your uterus is not public property. Your sexuality is not for other people. In the trajectory of this course you will come to know these truths in a radical and abiding way.
• Hold a strong container of (non-gender-specific) sisterhood – a cauldron of changes – which will house our psychological, spiritual, personal and collective transformation
• Reveal and acknowledge the overculture/dominant culture values that form the foundation of our development in both our interpersonal and intrapersonal development
• Find our roots in the rich loam of ancient, timeless, fertile soil that exists under and outside of contemporary structures of socialization
• Create a dedicated, shared, virtual space within which we will confront, deconstruct, and move through ideologies and patterns of action that reinforce disempowerment
• Find deep transformation in the process of releasing, centering, and renewing
SIGN ON NOW if you are READY to commit to this Work!
You have two payment options:
CLICK HERE to make one payment of $777
OR
Click here to commit to seven installments of $123
Things you should know about Jailbreaking the Goddess: the initiation before you commit to this Work (and play):
This work is deep. The potential for transformation here goes all the way to the root. In order to grow you must let go of old beliefs, habits, and patterns that are holding you back. Are you ready?
Our circle is inclusive of all women and gender nonconforming people. Inclusive in this case means people of all genders except for male are welcome. If you are not comfortable with inclusivity, this space is not for you. But if you have been looking for this space, then WELCOME!
We hold a “safer spaces” agreement together in order to maximize the growth potential and minimize the possibility of interaction-based trauma. Our circle will be a space where we create safety with a mind toward the social ills instilled by patriarchy – homophobia, transphobia, racism, male supremacy. Living within the patriarchy as we all do, there is always the chance of transgression. Part of creating safer spaces is agreeing to protocols for addressing said transgressions. Safer space must be created with active participation from all participants. If you do not trust yourself as capable of agreeing with us to hold safer space, then this circle is not for you. But if you have been looking for a spiritual circle with a safer spaces container, you have found it. Welcome.
I look forward to diving deep in our work together!
The course includes:
• Two interactive, confidential, sacred, sometimes silly, face to face, online gatherings per month (via Zoom) – a total of 14 live, online gatherings
• 14 workbooks designed to help you make the most of each gathering
• Video recordings of gatherings
• Audio recordings of gatherings
• 24/7, confidential, safe, strong online group space available for updates, process, support, sharing pix, prayers, rituals, discussing rough spots and breakthroughs in our personal and collective Works
• Recorded visualizations for rituals
• Access to the Jailbreaking the Goddess manuscript as soon as you sign up
• BONUS: two 30-minute, one-on-one coaching sessions (via the Zoom platform) to be used during the course to support your personal work
• PLUS recordings – both video and audio – of those sessions
• AND MORE to be revealed
Our gathering schedule:
November 1 – Intro
November 15 – Diving In
November 29 – Femella
December 13 – Femella
December 27 – Potens
January 10 – Potens
January 24 – Creatrix
February 7 – Creatrix
February 21 – Sapientia
March 7 – Sapientia
March 21 – Antiqua
April 4 – Antiqua
April 18 – Closing Session
May 2 – Final Ritual
The Bottom Line:
You know me. And you know the work. You have already taken in, internalized, and moved in accordance with the spiritual self-revelations and personal epiphanies that are present in my teachings. You know the deep and transformative value of the journey I am dedicated to guiding you on.
SIGN ON NOW if you are serious about committing to
the this growth!
CLICK HERE to make one payment of $777
OR
Click here to commit to seven installments of $123
Join me.
I look forward to going ever deeper with you.
Love and power,
– Lasara
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