NEW MASTER'S PROGRAM IN WOMEN'S SPIRITUALITY
at Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
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Judy is Associate Core Faculty and co-director;
Judy’s thought for the moment: “I think of spirituality as the various ways in which we engage in dialogue with nature across time and space.”
Women’s Spirituality gained momentum in the early 1970’s as women gathered in the countryside to formulate their own relationships to spirit and nature, and as critiques of patriarchy and explorations of women-centeredness revealed spirit. Poets are, in general, spiritual warriors, so it’s not surprising that Judy’s early poetry contributed to this grassroots movement, especially her series “She Who” which Alicia Ostriker has described as “the goddess as a verb”.
During the 1980’s Judy wrote several books with a spiritual basis: two book-length poems, The Queen of Wands, and The Queen of Swords. Gay and Lesbian spiritual boundary-crossings as historic and indigenous “offices” are at the forefront of Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds. In The Highest Apple, Judy compared the spiritual aspects within poetry of contemporary lesbian poets with the overtly spiritual fragments of Sappho.
She also completed her ecotopian novel, Mundane’s World, which embeds human and creature/plant beings in the same wordscape with the intent to create delight.
But all of Judy's work can be seen as a critique of what needs to change as we reinvent our world, and reach across to spirit, nature, and our capacity for re-creation.
By the end of the 1980’s Judy was teaching the sacred texts of the Sumerian goddess Inanna, in addition to her own work. Then she wrote Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World. This work, the basis of her philosophy, Metaformic Consciousness, is a new origin story that moves beyond the male-only limitations of Darwinian descriptions, moves beyond the blaming of Mother Eve as All-Woman in Genesis, and moves beyond the polarization of gender in standard feminism. Judy entered a Women’s Spirituality graduate program at CIIS under the direction of the art historian and indologist Elinor Gadon, and graduated in 1999 with a degree in Integralism with a concentration in Women’s Spirituality. Judy traveled twice to India with colleague Dianne E. Jenett, to apply Metaformic consciousness to Goddess and menarche rituals of Kerala, South India, the subject of her dissertation.
JUDY TEACHES WOMEN'S SPIRITUALITY
http://www.itp.edu
Her courses are her own Metaformic Theory,
Cultural Obversity (Uncommon Kinship)
Creative Writing, and Women's
Sacred Texts.
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