The Tao of the Goddess

Posted by Lisbeth Cheever-Gessaman Sep 30, 2007

I'm not certain where or how I even came across this little gem of a book. If memory serves it may have been on one of the discounted tables at Barnes and Noble, a lazy Saturday afternoon purchase coupled with teas and maps of foreign places perhaps. Regardless, The Tao of the Goddess [Berkley Trade, May 1, 1999] remains a constant presence in my spiritual repertoire, despite its simplicity of wisdom (or in fact, likely because of it).

What is absolutely appreciated is the emphasis placed upon embracing the inherently sensual, passionate side of the feminine path, particularly as joined intimately with the spiritual. In extant religions and spiritual belief systems, there is a prerequisite to desexualize the very essence of being a woman in order to achieve spiritual enlightenment, Tarpley rather embraces the aspect of a womans passion and honors that as something sacred to be incorporated rather than eschewed in the worship and wisdom of beliefs.

This is not any mere how-to book, either. Rather than being something to sit and read over studiously, the voice of the book is seperated into smallish bits and bytes of jewels of wisdom, with subsequent pages of interpretation both by the author and the reader. While not quite deeming it a book of channeling, it is a true attempt on Tarpleys part to listen and transmit the essence of the unseen being, the aspect of the Feminine Godhead.