Vicki Noble

Vicki Noble (born 1947) is a feminist shamanic healer, author, scholar and wisdom teacher. Originally from Iowa, she arrived in Berkeley, California in 1976. In the 1970s she created, graduated with honors from, and subsequently taught in, the first women's interdisciplinary studies program at Colorado College. Noble worked for many years with noted archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, and has lectured and taught at the graduate level, both in the U.S. and abroad, on female shamanism and the healing arts [ [http://www.katherineneville.com/vnintro.htm Katherine Neville Website] ] . She has written several books, developed a ritual healing process, and led tours of women on pilgrimage to sacred Goddess sites around the world. She has been appointed to a halftime position as Scholar in Residence in the Women’s Spirituality graduate program at New College of California in San Francisco [ [http://www.motherpeace.com/index.php?loc=biographies Motherpeace Website: Biographies] ] . She also currently teaches at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and conducts tours of sacred sites of the ancient goddess cultures in such exotic locales as Bali, Greece, Turkey, and the British Isles. Her most recent research project has taken her into Russia to work with another noted archaeologist, Jeannine Davis-Kimball, director of the Center for the Study of Eurasian Nomads and founder of the Kazakh/American Research Project.

Noble has two daughters, Robyn and Brooke, and a son named Aaron Eagle, who was the subject of her book, "Down Is Up for Aaron Eagle".

Written Works

With artist Karen Vogel, Noble co-authored the Motherpeace Tarot Deck based upon the documented history and ethnography of female esoteric practices. Noble authored several highly respected books on female shamanism, such as "Shakti Woman", and "Uncoiling the Snake", and she is also publisher of the quarterly journal, "Snakepower", which received a coveted Utne nomination as Best First Publication.

Interviews

* Interview in New Connexion [http://www.newconnexion.net/article/09-03/hill.html]

Notes

References

* Matrifocus Website [http://www.matrifocus.com/Bios/bio-vnoble.htm]

Bibliography

* "The Double Goddess: Women Sharing Power by Vicki Noble" (June 19, 2003) Bear & Company ISBN 1591430119, ISBN 978-1591430117

* "Down Is Up for Aaron Eagle: A Mother's Spiritual Journey With Down Syndrome" by Vicki Noble (October 1993) Harpercollins ISBN 0062507370, ISBN 978-0062507372

* "The Four Elements of Change" by Heather Ash and Vicki Noble (June 1, 2004) Council Oak Books ISBN 1571781234, ISBN 978-1571781239

* "Manual of Emergency and Critical Care Ultrasound" by Vicki Noble, Bret Nelson, and Nicholas Sutingco (October 22, 2007) Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521688698, ISBN 978-0521688697

* "Mini-Motherpeace Tarot Deck" by Karen Vogel and Vicki Noble (June 1991) U.S. Games Systems (Mini Cards edition) ISBN 0880795131, ISBN 978-0880795135

* "Motherpeace: A Way to the Goddess Through Myth, Art, and Tarot" by Vicki Noble (Sept. 17, 1994) HarperOne ISBN 0062510851, ISBN 978-0062510853

* "Motherpeace Round Tarot Deck" by Karen Vogel and Vicki Noble (Cards - Dec 1988) U.S. Games Systems ISBN 0880790636, ISBN 978-0880790635

* "Motherpeace Tarot: Deck & Book Set" by Karen Vogel and Vicki Noble (July 1997) U.S. Games Systems (Cards edition) ISBN 1572810319, ISBN 978-1572810310

* "Motherpeace Tarot Playbook" by Vicki Noble and Jonathon Tenney (June 1986) Wingbow Press ISBN 0914728539, ISBN 978-0914728535

* "Rituals and Practices with the Motherpeace Tarot" by Vicki Noble (February 10, 2003) Bear & Company ISBN 1591430089, ISBN 978-1591430087

* "Shakti Woman: Feeling Our Fire, Healing Our World" by Vicki Noble (July 19, 1991) HarperOne ISBN 0062506676, ISBN 978-0062506672

* "The Triple Goddess Tarot: The Power of the Major Arcana, Chakra Healing, and the Divine Feminine" by Isha Lerner, Vicki Noble, and Mara (September 1, 2002) Bear & Company (Pap/Cards edition) ISBN 1879181940, ISBN 978-1879181946

* "Uncoiling the Snake: Ancient Patterns in Contemporary Women's Lives (A Snakepower Reader)" by Vicki Noble (April 1993) Harpercollins ISBN 0062505491, ISBN 978-0062505491

External links

* [http://www.motherpeace.com Motherpeace Website]