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This is an online event.Contact
Amanda Hoover, Co-DirectorInstitute for Spiritual Development
607-434-3945
netofloveiam@gmail.com
Your Instructor:
Amanda Hoover is the Co-Director at the Institute for Spiritual Development in Oneonta, and is a student in the Ministerial Program. She has a bachelor's degree in Business Administration, a Masters of Science in Education and is a certified school counselor and school administrator. She has studied metaphysics, spirituality, and world religions at the college level. Amanda is a Reiki Master and is a certified life coach. She has received extensive professional development in mindfulness in education and training in meditation
Prayer Tool Box Series:
Book Club:"Jesus and the Lost Goddess"
w/Amanda Hoover
In our book club session, Amanda leads a presentation & discussion based on the book below, about the eradication of the Christian Goddess by the patriarchal Roman church, which left us as motherless children. The wisdom of the Goddess can be sought in prayer and through our daily thoughts and intentions to strengthen both the divine feminine & divine masculine aspects of ourselves for true union within & without.
You will want to obtain this book and read it:
Note that is also available on Audible, so you can choose to listen to it while you are driving or doing other things!
Register for only this class for $25 , or $20 for ISD Members, or for the Entire Prayer Tool Box Series at a discounted rate of $135 for all six sessions or $108 for ISD Members.
More Info:
Jesus & The Lost Goddess focuses on the Gnostic tradition of Christianity prior to the Roman Church removing the divine feminine from Christianity. It is the story of Jesus’ lover, the lost and redeemed daughter of the Goddess. Amongst the original Christians the divine was experienced as having a masculine and feminine nature. The book discusses how the eradication of the Christian Goddess by the patriarchal Roman church left us as motherless children. Women have been denied a sympathetic rapport with the divine feminine. In today’s society women tend to be extremely hard on themselves, often harshly judging themselves like a male authoritarian figure, not the divine feminine aspect of ourselves that we can connect to within. The loving mother, sister, friend who is unconditional lovingkindness. Men have been denied a love affair with the divine feminine as well. When this connection is sought she opens the heart and our intuitive nature to emotions and the acceptance and honoring of them. The wisdom of the Goddess can be sought in prayer and through our daily thoughts and intentions to strengthen both the divine feminine and divine masculine aspects of ourselves for true union. The Gnostics valued men and women equally as expressions of God and Goddess. The duality that when made one in the act of love brings the blessed union of gnosis, both within and so without. Embracing and transcending duality to ascend in consciousness to discover our true nature of divine love.