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The Divine Birth Mystery Teachings:

Reawakening the Ancient Mediterranean Priestesshoods

A Five-Month Program of Study and Priestess Preparation for Women

Led by Marguerite Rigoglioso, Ph.D.

Author, The Cult of Divine Birth in Ancient Greece and Virgin Mother Goddesses of Antiquity

Four Thursday evenings (6:30–9:30 p.m.) and three Saturdays (10–5 p.m.), March 1 – July 28, 2012 (see attached document for dates & modules)

PLUS, FREE INTRODUCTORY LECTURE: Awakening to the Cosmic Womb — Thursday, January 19, 2012, 7–9:30 p.m., free & open to all genders (see attached document)

Location for all sessions: Hillside Swedenborgian Community Church, 1422 Navellier Street, El Cerrito, CA USA 94530

For tuition and more information, contact Marguerite at [email protected] or 415-457-7008. EARLY BIRD SPECIAL FOR TUITION PAID BY FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Course may be taken for Independent Study units for those enrolled at the California Institute of Integral Studies and the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology; please speak with your program advisor.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM:

• Have you had a calling or a curiosity to explore the priestesshoods of the ancient Greek world –– the oracles of Delphi and Dodona, the holy women dedicated to the various deities –– and find out more about who their goddesses really were?

• Do you suspect that this time and place in the West was one of your “homes”?

• Do you feel there is a deep, untapped well of information there –– and within yourself –– that holds the key to your own inner growth and the wisdom of the emerging age?

• Have you had a special feeling or secret events related to erotic encounters with non-embodied beings, unusual conception experiences, private or unexpected “tantric” engagements that have taken you to higher levels, or questions and conflicts concerning What Virginity Is All About?

• Do you have a love for the Virgin Mary that you don’t quite know what to do with, or a “knowing” that there is something more to virgin birth than we have been told?

In this unique and unprecedented five-month program, Dr. Marguerite Rigoglioso offers you a sacred journey that will provide you with “missing link” information to help you integrate your longings, leanings, and learnings into a coherent spiritual understanding –– and help you establish or refine to your own path as a grounded priestess who draws from the authentic Greek spiritual tradition.

With a focus on the role of the holy women of Mediterranean antiquity, the program centers on Dr. Rigoglioso’s pioneering discovery that at the core of women’s shamanic work was divine birth –– an actual practice considered the most elevated form of spiritual service possible. Its purpose? To bring individuals with elevated consciousness to the planet who could serve as guides and helpers to humanity.

Most people assume that virgin birth was Mary’s alone. But in this remarkable course of study and spiritual unfolding, you will explore Dr. Rigoglioso’s well-grounded theory that Mary was just one woman among many who was devoted to this practice in Western antiquity, a priestess who was part of a lineage of holy women who actively sought to attempt miraculous conception. You will find out how such priestesses were used, abused, and “disappeared” over time, how and why the idea of divine birth has been relegated to the realm of pure fantasy or personal “faith.”

The “divine birth” piece allows us to comprehend the full picture of women’s priestessing in the ancient world and make sense of many previously inexplicable and mysterious beliefs and practices. It also lets us see women’s important –– but hidden –– role in Christianity, Judaism, and other world religions with stunning new clarity.

By embarking on this sacred program, you become the first of a new generation of women to restore the womb mysteries as they relate to women’s visionary and oracular powers. You come to understand how uterine energies may be used for healing, divinatory communication, and sacred transmission. At the far reaches of this study, you become nothing less than a pioneer in re-opening the portal to divine birth –– women’s greatest form of holy service designed to bring elevated guidance to our world. The journey will address your personal and collective longing to See, Know, and Act with the sacred intention and wisdom in the tradition of our ancient Mediterranean foresisters so that we may become holy women birthing the new paradigm of consciousness. This will be a sacred COLLECTIVE process designed to allow each woman to be both learner and transmitter. Every woman who attends brings a critical piece of the vessel of wisdom to be reconstructed.

IF YOU ARE FEELING CALLED, TRUST THAT YOUR PRESENCE IS NEEDED.

THE APPROACH

Dr. Rigoglioso’s approach is the way of the mystery schools of the ancient Mediterranean world, which united both right and left brain, intellect and intuition, to cultivate the integrated spiritual seeker and leader. She offers a solid grounding in research and the sharing of her spiritual teachings so as to spark your own fascination, “memories,” and information. From there, we enter the mysteries in an experiential way, accessing our own knowing and the guidance available on the inner planes. Between classes, Dr. Rigoglioso holds a womb container for private consultation and integration.

On the spiritual level, you will come away with:

• knowledge of how to integrate into your life, work, and spiritual practice your sacred female ability to facilitate healing and communicate with the otherworldly realms in mind and body;
• validation and strengthening of your own inner knowing, intuitions, and “memories”;
• a clearer sense of your own mission as a spiritual leader and how to manifest it in the world;
• a community with which to continue the work;
• official ordainment as a minister (with the legal authority to conduct weddings, baptisms, and funerals) through the Universal Life Church.

On the intellectual level, you will come away with: