Virgin Born - Parthenogenesis and Fertility Cults - Dr. Marguerite Rigoglioso interview (excerpt)

Today we'll be discussing parthenogenesis - divine birth, virgin birth. Is Christianity the only religion to have believed in the virgin birth of its religious leader? Or is this a theme that runs through nearly all ancient religions? What were the ancient practices of the divine birth cults? Where did these ancient beliefs come from? How do these ancient practices tie in to entheogens and astrotheology? Is parthenogenesis really possible?

My guest is Dr. Marguerite Rigoglioso, PhD, author of The Cult of Divine Birth in Ancient Greece - whose book is out today, April 27, 2009. I've had the fortune to have already read her book, and I highly recommend it for anyone interested in these areas of study.

Marguerite Rigoglioso [pronounced REGAL-yo-zo], Ph.D., is a member of the faculties of Dominican University of California, the California Institute of Integral Studies, and the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, where she teaches courses on women and religion. Her pioneering research on female deities and womens religious leadership in the ancient Mediterranean world and beyond has appeared in various anthologies and journals, including Feminist Theology, The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, Societies of Peace, She Is Everywhere, Trivia, and the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, where her paper on the cult of Demeter and Persephone in Sicily received an honorable mention for the New Scholar Award. She is also the editor of Where to Publish Articles on Womens Studies, Feminist Religious Studies, and Feminist/Womanist Topics.

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[immayhem]

ooh, wow - jan irvin is a hot daddy.

...and she's brilliant btw.

[GnosticMedia]

;-)

[mlr2112]

Which part of this presentation do you think is rhetoric, and are you saying parthenogenesis in religion outside of Christianity has no proof?

[Surah72]

@blaziermissy

You cannot have a male child without the chromosomes of the sperm.

The sperm determines gender, not the ovum.

Parthenogenesis is possible, but not for a male child.

Peace.

[MushroomedAnymore]

End Intolerant Monotheism: It oppresses our true religion of SEX-MIND-ENTHEOGENS.

[ShaktiMind]

Sacred and Powerful~ though the first 3:30 minutes of this video are wasted on unnecessary introduction

[TempleofTheola]

templeoftheola.weebly.com/divi­ne-feminine-returns.html

[1010bree]

virgin means independant sovereign as in virgin queen not a sexual virgin people

[EndlessT]

Cnemidophorus uniparens, these American desert lizards reproduce despite the fact that they’re all female. Interestingly, some of them simulate sexual acts (above, left) with each other just like male and female lizards, and it’s been discovered that when they do they reproduce more successfully than their abstemious sisters.

[polopowers1]

If this were true it negates nothing of Christian belief. Because Christians believe nothing of Mary constituted Christ formation. What the speaker is declaring is birth by strength of women miraculous. None of those unions mentioned have anything to do with biblical account. Mary being overwhelmed with child her eggs were not used to form Christ to grow into a child. Mary had no relationship to formation in genes or cells or flesh unlike mythology or true "accounts of parthenogenesis".

[Haudenosaunee4]

"Keep in mind, Bertrand Russell stated that Jaques Loeb invented this reproductive technique over 35 years before the book "The Scientific Outlook by Bertrand Russell" was published."

[Haudenosaunee4]

[friend sent me this ........] Bertrand Russell, The Scientific Outlook, first published in 1931.

P. 89

"Jaques Loeb, over thirty-five years ago, discovered means of fertilizing an ovum without the intervention of a spermatozoom. He sums up the results of his experiments and those of other investigators in the sentence: "We may, therefor, state that the complete imitation of the developmental effect of the superspermatozoom by physicochemical agencies has been accomplished."

[Haudenosaunee4]

J. Craig Venter, AKA Darth Venter, is a guy to keep an eye on !? see his ted talks ........ look @ what one of his projects is named ..... [ Archon Genomics X Prize ] offering $10 million to the first team that can sequence the DNA of 100 people within 10 days......... why is this High-speed sequencing of the DNA of multiple persons needed ? for the Global DNA Database ? also see...... IBM and the Holocaust - Edwin Black ................ Archons = Evil Malevolent Entities = Macrobes ???