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The Mago Way: Re-discovering Mago, the Great Goddess from East Asia (Volume 1)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ebook: (US$5.00)<\/a> (E-Book, available upon request for lifetime)<\/p>\n

B\/W Print Book ($25.00)<\/a><\/p>\n

Publication date:<\/strong>\u00a0Oct. 3, 2015 by Mago Books<\/p>\n

Author<\/strong>: Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D.<\/p>\n

Description<\/strong>:\u00a0In\u00a0The Mago Way: Re-discovering Mago, the Great Goddess from East Asia<\/em>, I have shared my personal, scholarly, and spiritual discoveries concerning the Great Goddess known as Mago in East Asia. Comprising eight essays researched, some published, between 2000 and 2015,\u00a0this book is a crystallization of my feminist intellectual\/spiritual\/activist endeavor (1) to search for my own East Asian\/Korean gynocentric cultural and historical background; (2) to dis-cover the overall features of Magoism, the mytho-historical-thealogical matrix that venerates Mago as the supreme divine; (3) to reinstate the pre- and proto-patriarchal mytho-history of Magoism from the perspective of Old Korea; (4) to assess cross-cultural parallels with worldwide Goddess traditions; and (5) to delineate the metamorphic nature of the Magoist Cosmogony. Due to the complexity of the Magoist Cosmogony, however, Volume 1 can only treat the first part, which is prior to the self-evolution of Mago Stronghold (Earth).<\/p>\n

Eliciting the Reality of the whole, the Magoist Cosmogony tells us that HER Beginning is not a thing of the bygone past but the Work of WE\/HERE\/NOW. The ultimate agent, time, and space are the unified One. It informs us that the natural process of autogenesis takes place as the universe reaches HER sonic equilibrium. All things are self-born through the sonic movement of the universe. Mago too has come into being through the very music of Eight Tones, also known as \u201cthe music of the spheres\u201d in the West.<\/p>\n

Surviving unbridled by patriarchal censorship over the course of time, the Mago Cosmogony redefines the Holy Text as necessarily gynocentric. It awakens a deep knowing in us. It may be called a vision in that it is about dis-covering truth, to be precise, the gynocentric nature of Reality. The symbol of the Female (S\/HE) is not a sex indicator. Encompassing the All, the Female is the Way of the Universe. I intend to use \u201csex\u201d in place of \u201cgender\u201d in this book. First of all, the context (the Divine Realm of the Great Goddess) is prior to the bifurcation of the sexes. Thus, the notion of gender for \u201cthe Female\u201d is irrelevant. Secondly, it is to restore the discussion of \u201csex\u201d in place of \u201cgender\u201d for feminist discourse. \u201cSex\u201d is the original factor that precedes and gives rise to the notion of \u201cgender.\u201d It is the biological nature of women and men that Magoist Feminism concerns, as it seeks the empowerment of \u201cthe female\u201d rather than \u201cthe feminine\u201d and the balance between \u201csexes\u201d rather than \u201cgenders\u201d across time and space.<\/p>\n

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About the author<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Helen Hye-Sook Hwang<\/strong><\/p>\n

Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D.\u00a0\u00a0is scholar, activist, and advocate of Magoism, anciently originated tradition that venerates Mago as the Great Goddess. She earned her MA and Ph.D. in Religion with emphasis on Feminist Studies from Claremont Graduate University, CA. She also studied toward an MA degree in East Asian Studies at UCLA, CA. Hwang has taught for universities in California and Missouri, U.S.A.\u00a0Since 2012, Dr. Hwang has founded and directed The Mago Work whose branches include the\u00a0Return to Mago\u00a0<\/a>E-Magazine (http:\/\/magoism.net<\/a>),\u00a0Mago Academy\u00a0<\/a>(http:\/\/magoacademy.org<\/a>), and\u00a0Mago Books\u00a0<\/a>(https:\/\/www.magobooks.com<\/a>). Together with Mago Sisters, she also founded\u00a0Gynapedia<\/a>(http:\/\/www.gynapedia.com) and\u00a0Mago Pool Circle<\/a>\u00a0(http:\/\/www.magopoolcircle.net) to broaden The Mago Work. She co-edited and published\u00a0She Rises: Why Goddess Feminism, Activism, and Spirituality?<\/a>\u00a0Volume 1 (Mago Books, 2015) and\u00a0She Rises: How Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality?<\/a>\u00a0Volume 2 (Mago Books, 2016). Also authored\u00a0The Mago Way: Re-discovering Mago, the Great Goddess from East Asia<\/a>(Mago Books, 2015).\u00a0For more, see here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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