Elizabeth, 

Thanks for sharing your book and spirit with us---- 

We have done hundreds of events throughout the years and this one was certainly one of the best. 

You are most welcome here any time!! 

I will pass along your greeting to John -----

 

Mac's Backs ~ Books on Coventry

1820 Coventry Rd.

Cleveland Heights, Ohio  44118

216-321-2665

www.macsbacks.com

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Dear Elizabeth - thank you so much for this wonderful book about Maeve and Jesus and their merry band.  The characters are so wonderful and believeable.  Your vision has been an inspiration to me and has deepened my faith. How awesome you have made the whole story. Reading the passion during this passion week has been very meaningful for me.

Ruth

 

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Blog entry from Sue after the performance at Quest:

 

Maeve

Katelan and I went to hear Elizabeth Cunningham, the earth goddess/shaman from High Valley at Quest Bookshop today. I hardly know how to describe it - but I was very moved by the new old story of the Celtic Mary Magdalen. It is described simply as "a novel". It WAS, in fact, a deep understanding of the divine in human beings and our place in the spiritual development of others - not religious, but SPIRITual. One story's pivotal moment came when a "Voice" said: see the god in him (a boy who "came of age"). Maeve was a prostitute, a whore, and became the embodiment of the priestesses of the temples in Greece who made love to men in the vein of the Divine Rite. Those who read "The DaVinci Code" will find this very satisfying, I believe. And it is in three, stand-alone parts: a Magdalen Chronicle.

Maeve may have been the "speaker", but Elizabeth was the vessel: she was luminous, lit from within by the spellbinding gospel she told (She called it archetype*.) of the story of real love, divine love, human love. With all its sloppiness and expletives and casualness and heartbreak and intimacy. Why do I say "love" instead of "history" or "fable" or "spirituality" or even "legend"? For this, I will quote 1 Corinthians: 8-13 (Yes, Elizabeth, ordained Interfaith minister and daughter of an Episcopalian minister, I do own and READ a bible. **):

Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a [man], I gave up childish ways. for now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Although she'd obviously done her thorough research, both historical and biblical, Elizabeth had Maeve speak in modern language, deliberately sounding anachronistic because she wanted the full effect and MEANINGS of the words so the character of the people and their actions lived for us. When she wrote this exquisite work, I can only know that she channeled Maeve - and the "others", one of which was Jesus (yes, THAT Jesus). Elizabeth's explanation? "They (as in, the "characters" in her novel) spoke to me." Exactly.

Thank you, Elizabeth, for this all-around labor of love. Please keep going.
 

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Yep, You have the voice that drew me to you long ago. Like the waves crashing to the shore, we all keep returning to your shore..
So much healing in the tone of your voice. 

Vicki after hearing a radio interview

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I had a wonderful time in your class and enjoyed all that shameless singing........and my first very successful guided imagry...................thank you so much!  I feel like im more on my personal journey now.........

From a participant who took Shamelessness 101 at AkashaCon March 25, 2006

 

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So much to admire, Elizabeth:  your courage, stamina, poise, wisdom,
commitment, singing too.  It was a privilege to be there, a memorable
afternoon for me.  Thank you! 

rw - Lexington Depot Gallery event March 26, 2006, Lexington, MA

 

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Hey Elizabeth,

You were so koooool!
No one, I mean NO ONE has been able to go toe-to-toe
with Brother Blue, (excepting his wife Ruth) and keep
his feet to the fire.
The way you fashioned your reading/performance was
perfect as well.  It really worked!  So I'm jumping in the book
with joy.
Keep on Truckin

Richard  -re: Club Passim 3/27,  Cambridge, MA

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I was so honored to be there at your reading.  I was really blown away by your delivery.  I had tears in my eyes many times while I was there.   Laura Cobb re: 4/1 Merritt reading

Beautiful! ...Chris and I decided that it wouldn't be a bad thing if Maeve ended up Broadway bound. ...(complete with Relish!)
With Lots of Love,

D&C.   -re: Oblong Books & Music reading 4/8  Rhinebeck, NY

 

Thanks again for last night.  It never stops being a joy to witness you
and Maeve center stage where you were born to be.

Jo  after Oblong Books & Music reading 4/8  Rhinebeck, NY

 

I LOVED your performance/reading/embodiment of the divine last night.  It was so terrific to experience live in person.  I loved the book, but now I deeply understand why you have such a fan base.  There’s something in how you allow yourself to be so free, so full, that women who’ve closed off parts of themselves see you/Maeve as a role model.  And in a world sorely lacking of role models – particularly for women, and especially for grown women – it’s a real gift.

 Linda  after Oblong Books & Music reading 4/8  Rhinebeck, NY

 

thank you for your performance yesterday evening at oblong. it was inspiring, refreshing and tremendously moving. you were wonderful.

Claude after Oblong Books & Music reading 4/8  Rhinebeck, NY

 

Loved your show yesterday at Oblong. I have never seen anything to compare by an author plugging her book. There really was a sense that you were embodying your character and that you were offering an entire response to the world: you offered us the book as serving that vision, rather than serving up the performance to market the book. It was great to see you with a home crowd. I did wonder how you would approach a crowd who are completely ignorant of your life and work and Maeve.

Dave after Oblong Books & Music reading 4/8  Rhinebeck, NY

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Thank you so much for such an inspired reading last Sunday.  It was such good medicine.  I should love to know when/where you will be reading in New Jersey so I might pass the information along to my friend Millie, so that one healing may lead to another...
 Gratefully,

Rochelle after Quest Bookstore performance 4/9   NY, NY