Hindu Shakta Tantra & Ancient Female Blood Mysteries

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$15 on line, $20 at the door

In this presentation Kimberly explores the three most potent components of Hindu Tantric ritual: blood, sex, and death, and suggests that this trinity of magical practices reveals that Tantra's origin might be located in ancient pre-patriarchal Women's Mysteries. She will discuss what this means and how this might be important and powerful knowledge in modern times. Come and unveil the aspects of the Goddess, and women, that is so sacred it's considered taboo and kept in consecrated darkness!

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Kimberly Gibbons has a B.A. in Classical Civilizations from UC Irvine, a Master’s degree in Women’s Spirituality from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, and is currently a PhD student in Philosophy and Religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is published in the anthology, Unto Herself: A Devotional Anthology for Independent Goddesses, and has presented at conferences for the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology and the American Academy of Religion. She is currently working on her dissertation, which focuses on a comparative analysis of divination technology at the Delphic Oracle and modern West African cultures. Kimberly is also a voice and stick diviner initiated in the Dagara tradition.