award-winning author, poet, philosopher, historian, and traveller
In Russia, there are different transliteration rules. The author’s name was at first transliterated as Zinovia. Then it has been transliterated as Zinovya.
Zinovya is closer to the Russian name Зиновья. Therefore, we decided to use Zinovya as well.
Over time we will update the author’s first name everywhere.
The Ascending Goddess by Zinovia Dushkova has won the Silver Medal of the 2020 Nautilus Book Awards in the category “Religion & Spirituality of Eastern Thought.”
Established in the USA in 1998, the Nautilus Book Awards is considered a major book award and has been conferred to prominent authors including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Desmund Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, Deepak Chopra, Eckhart Tolle, Rhonda Byrne, and Marianne Williamson.
The Nautilus Book Awards winners are carefully selected in a unique three-tier judging process by experienced teams of book reviewers, librarians, authors, editors, book store owners, and leaders in the publishing industry.
Awards are given to print books of exceptional merit that make a literary and heartfelt contribution to spiritual growth, conscious living & green values, high-level wellness, responsible leadership and positive social change, as well as to the worlds of art, creativity and inspiration.
I wish each of you to enter 2021 with a shield and to come out crowned with victor’s laurels! Victory over fears, illnesses, losses and, eventually, over your human weaknesses, addictions, and passions is the highest of all victories.
The New Year bestows upon us new opportunities for self-improvement, and the rays of all celestial orbs compose new formulas and combinations of currents, which envelop our entire planet and each of its dwellers. And blessed be all the opportunities unfolding before the eyes of those who look optimistically into their future, associating their best dreams and hopes with the New Year.
Wishing you, my dear ones, health, unclouded happiness, and inexhaustible joy of Existence in the boundless streams of Universal Love!
May your march through life be victorious from now and ever and unto ages of ages!
With Love,
Zinovia Dushkova
Merry Christmas!
I congratulate all the Christians of the world, as well as all those for whom the Greatest Image of Jesus Christ is an example to be admired and constantly imitated! And as St. John Chrysostom said, “The veneration of the Saints consists in imitating them.”
In childhood, we often follow the example of our parents, copying our mothers and fathers in some way or another. And aren’t we, Humanity, God’s children, made in His image and likeness? And He, the Creator, wants to see in us not just copies, but unique creations, marked with the seal of individuality and uniqueness in His divine reflection.
And God grant that on this festive day of the Nativity of Christ, a divine child appears in the hearts of each of us, who will always encourage us to follow the path of Love and Compassion, to the joy of our Heavenly Father and His Son — Jesus Christ!
With Love,
Zinovia Dushkova
Our fourth book, The Ascending Goddess, has been released as an audiobook.
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