Wow - check this video out
Fascinating - I couldn't stop watching it!
However I do have to add my piece (courtesy of the New Internationalist) about Unilever who produce Dove.
They may have an politically correct and women empowering advertising take but they are not super ethical about their supplies. In spring 2006 Unilever was challenged to dissociate itself from a major Indonesian palm oil supplier accused of mass firing of union members, expulsion of children from their homes and criminalisation of legitimate trade union activity. They are also accused of eviction and harrassment of indigenous people living in the area of tea plantations run by their Indian wing and farms supplying cotton seed to the same Hindustan Lever were accused of using child labourers as young as 10 to work in fields doused in pesticides which caused nausea and convulsions.
Still - great video!
Monday, October 30, 2006
Monday, October 16, 2006
Drinking from the wellspring of the Goddess
Last weekend I went to a Goddess Conference.
It was a rich and delightful experience.
The conference was convened and beautifully held by the women of the Goddess Association In Australia (GAIA).
An intriguing mix of ritual, circle work, singing & dancing, experiential workshops and inspiring lectures, the event was filled with gorgeous invitations to connect with a bunch of beautiful women, delicious opportunities to indulge in that most sacred of goddess activities - shopping - and completed with hearty feasting, heartfelt celebration and copious quantities of chocolate.
It was enough to make a goddess wax a bit lyrical.
I hadn't realised I was so thirsty.
One of the many highlights for me was finally meeting Shekinah Morgan whose beautiful Moon Diaries I have been selling in the yOni.com shop for quite a number of years. Shekinah was one of three speakers, elders of the circle, who opened the conference by reflecting eloquently on the past, present and future of the Goddess in Australia. She urged us to take time to appreciate and experience the gifts of our natural womanly cycles, menstruation, mothering and menaupase. Shekinah has kindly allowed me to put a version of her address online in yOni.com. Titled 'Women's Spirituality - Ushering in the Sacred Feminine' it is well worth a read.
It was also wonderful to connect with Glenys Livingstone, author of Pagaian Cosmology. She describes her book as a resource for individuals or groups seeking new forms of devotional expression and an Earth-based pathway to wisdom within. The work grew from her sense of alienation from her place as female white European transplanted to the Southern Hemisphere. It is available to download at pagaian.org.
Altogether a total treat.
If you are in Australia don't miss it next year.
It was a rich and delightful experience.
The conference was convened and beautifully held by the women of the Goddess Association In Australia (GAIA).
An intriguing mix of ritual, circle work, singing & dancing, experiential workshops and inspiring lectures, the event was filled with gorgeous invitations to connect with a bunch of beautiful women, delicious opportunities to indulge in that most sacred of goddess activities - shopping - and completed with hearty feasting, heartfelt celebration and copious quantities of chocolate.
It was enough to make a goddess wax a bit lyrical.
I hadn't realised I was so thirsty.
One of the many highlights for me was finally meeting Shekinah Morgan whose beautiful Moon Diaries I have been selling in the yOni.com shop for quite a number of years. Shekinah was one of three speakers, elders of the circle, who opened the conference by reflecting eloquently on the past, present and future of the Goddess in Australia. She urged us to take time to appreciate and experience the gifts of our natural womanly cycles, menstruation, mothering and menaupase. Shekinah has kindly allowed me to put a version of her address online in yOni.com. Titled 'Women's Spirituality - Ushering in the Sacred Feminine' it is well worth a read.
It was also wonderful to connect with Glenys Livingstone, author of Pagaian Cosmology. She describes her book as a resource for individuals or groups seeking new forms of devotional expression and an Earth-based pathway to wisdom within. The work grew from her sense of alienation from her place as female white European transplanted to the Southern Hemisphere. It is available to download at pagaian.org.
Altogether a total treat.
If you are in Australia don't miss it next year.
Saturday, October 14, 2006
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