Vanessa Paloma

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Vanessa Paloma is a singer, performer, scholar and writer specializing in Sephardic women's songs and their connection to women's spiritual expression. This piece is from her recently published book Mystic Siren: Woman's Voice in the Balance of Creation.

On the Power of Being Yourself

By Vanessa Paloma

Once upon a time, a baby girl was born to a man who came from the world of the earth, and a woman who came from the world of the skies. They wandered the earth in search of their happiness and dreams...

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Hanging By a Wick

By Vanessa Paloma

I attended Catholic school, and I was instructed by my parents not to believe anything they taught me but to follow along. To say the least, I was a spiritually confused child...

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