Sallie Ann Glassman
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 Glassman in 2009 |
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Sallie Ann Glassman (born 1954) is a Vodou practitioner, author, and artist, born in Maine of Jewish–Ukrainian heritage.[1]
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[edit] Vodou
Glassman has been practicing Vodou in New Orleans since 1977 and in 1995 became one of few White Americans to have been ordained via the traditional Haitian initiation.[2] She owns "Island of Salvation Botanica", a store and art gallery with religious supplies, medicinal herbs, and Haitian and local artworks.[3]
She was quoted in the New York Times in November 2003:
"It's nonstop 24 hours a day... I get people from all walks of life, from street people to professors to psychiatrists to political leaders. They aren't looking for hexes or charms to make someone's nose fall off. It's something much more basic. They turn to voodoo because there's an increasing desperation in our culture for spiritual meaning and direction."
[edit] Art
Glassman's art is both esoteric and syncretic. She has produced two major non-traditional Tarot packs: the Enochian Tarot is derived from the Enochian magical system of Elizabethan magician Doctor John Dee, and the New Orleans Voodoo Tarot replaces the standard four Tarot suits with depictions of the spirits of the major strands of Vodou (Petro, Congo, Rada) and Santería practices.[4]
[edit] Media
Glassman has lectured extensively and has received international television, radio and magazine coverage, including a front page article in the New York Times[5] and a feature on World News Tonight. She has received mention in other publications including Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal,, National Geographic and the Washington Post.
In an MSNBC interview Glassman claimed to have cured her own cancer using Vodou in 2003:
"I was willing to be healed and the essential nature of voodoo is to be healing, to heal cultures, to heal individuals,"[6]
She appears in the film Hexing A Hurricane. Her New Orleans Voodoo Tarot was also a major influence on the first album by the band SunGod.[7]
[edit] Bibliography
- Martinié, Louis; Sallie Ann Glassman (1992-07-01). The New Orleans Voodoo Tarot. Destiny Books. ISBN 0892813636.
- Schueler, Gerald; Betty Schueler, Sallie Ann Glassman (2000-09-08). Enochian Tarot. Llewellyn Publications. ISBN 1567186203.
- Glassman, Sallie Ann (2007-07-16). Vodou Visions: An Encounter With Divine Mystery (2nd ed.). Island of Salvation Botanica. ISBN 0979455405.
[edit] References
- ^ Miller, David Ian (2006-07-10). "FINDING MY RELIGION / Sallie Ann Glassman, a Vodou priestess in New Orleans, on what Vodou is really about". SFGate. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2006/07/10/findrelig.DTL. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
- ^ "Celebrating the Goddess Rising - Sallie Ann Glassman". http://www.goddess-rising.com/sallieglassman.html. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
- ^ "Island of Salvation - About Sallie Ann Glassman". http://www.feyvodou.com/services/about_sallie.htm. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
- ^ Jackson, Michele (1997). "New Orleans Voodoo Tarot". Tarot Passages. http://www.tarotpassages.com/voodoo.htm. Retrieved 2011-01-02.
- ^ Bragg, Rick (18 August 1995). "New Orleans Conjures Old Spirits Against Modern Woes". The New York Times. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60617F83D550C7B8DDDA10894DD494D81. Retrieved 22 September 2010.
- ^ Novotny, Monica (2003-12-30). "A voodoo revival in New Orleans - msnbc tv - Countdown with Keith Olbermann". MSNBC TV. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3748834/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
- ^ "Sun God". http://sungod.abrahadabra.net/. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
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