The New Hampshire Goddess Chronicles, Vol 1: Light Your Torch! is a riveting and rollicking spiritual safari taken with a pantheon of goddesses as guides. With torches raised high, this group of women journey with Voluntary Simplicity down the long brown path together. Around every corner something new is illuminated: an Agawam chief’s grave, a trip to inner space, a lover’s soulful kiss, the magic of herbs, the joy of Beltane. You laugh, you cry, you see yourself mirrored in the torch-time adventures. This goddess guidebook helps you find your intuitive inner goddess.
Greetings goddesses! If you are looking for your Inner Goddess, perhaps you may find her in this book. Journey with me through the intersection of spirituality & sustainablility, and see how you can craft for yourself a new and simple lifestyle that honors the Earth. Upcoming talks, book groups, and book signings are posted to my Facebook page "NH Goddess Chronicles." Recent adventures and tips are posted on my blog at http://nhgoddess.wordpress.com. Please join me there, or follow the tweets by RM Allen@NHgoddess. Either way, we are going to have some fun going green together!
~ RM Allen
Marie, a 40-something woman, reinvents herself through opening up her awareness to messages from the universe. Finding herself working in a church office, she sees an opportunity to find the answer to THE big question “what is the purpose of life?” - right from the horse’s mouth. She looks high and low in that church for the answer. After thorough investigation, and a trip to the bell tower, the answer begins to reveal itself, but not in the way she had imagined. Armed with the combination of Voluntary Simplicity and Dr. Doreen Virtue’s deck of Goddess Oracle Cards, Marie goes on romping spiritual safari and is joined by a bunch of goddess friends who show up along the way. They recognize synchronicities when they happen (even if it is disguised as a big bowl of ugly), and they allshout out raucously “Boom shaka –lucka!”
RM Allen is a green goddess who lives simply in Southern New Hampshire, and works in a very traditional church office in a quintessential New England village. She holds a masters degree in business communications, and is on orgasmagical spiritual safari. The combination of all of the above contributes to her fun and unique writing style, which is inspiring to her sister goddesses.
This book was written with the hope that you may find your own intuitive inner goddess, or feminine power. There comes a certain time in a woman’s life when she may feel stale and outdated. She may know it is time to reinvent herself. She is wondering what to do now. She may wonder if all she has experienced so far is all there is. She may wonder the biggest question of all – what is the meaning of life? So many questions! While this book gives no solid answers to those questions, it can be used as a beginner’s guidebook to help you find your own way. The Torch-Time exercises within may help you to develop your own intuition. I hold myself up as a mirror for you to see parts of yourself reflected. This book uses a fun deck of Goddess Cards as the vehicle for the journey.
As the famous mythologist Joseph Campbell often said, you must “follow your bliss.” “To each their own” I say. You may find your own inner goddess through the Catholic church, a Hindu retreat, reading tea leaves, or in your own backyard herb garden. Or you may get your own deck of Goddess cards and join me on the long brown path lit by goddess torches. The point is to be receptive to new experiences, and to let those experiences open your heart, and in there, patiently waiting, you will find your own intuitive inner goddess. Wait ‘til you hear what she has to say to you!
In no way does this constitute a new religion. This book will not cure all that ails you. This book is simply about an ordinary woman on spiritual safari. You can safely follow along through the
cosmos from the comfort of your couch or beach towel.
“Don’t pick up this wee book unless you want more peace and bliss. Don’t read these torch-lit words unless you want to remember yourself as a green goddess. Whatever you do, don’t take its message to heart. Or you may find yourself humming a chant, walking a labyrinth, picking wild weeds for a salad, or even attending a moon lodge. And don’t peek either.”
~ Susun Weed, herbalist, author of the Wise Woman herbal series, and voice of the WiseWoman Tradition
"I loved reading this book! It is an openhearted, inspiring and supportive account of one woman's spiritual adventures. I hope her journey will inspire others to embark on their own quests for depth and joy, because our world needs more people who are so fully alive."
~Rev. Frank Clarkson, Unitarian-Universalist Minister
RM Allen is a green goddess who lives simply in Southern New Hampshire, and works in a very traditional church office in a quintessential New England village. She holds a masters degree in business communications, and is on orgasmagical spiritual safari. The combination of all of the above contributes to her fun and unique writing style, which is inspiring to her sister goddesses.
