We
Are The Light And Love Of The World
Greetings
to you! As we enter this month dedicated to love, I would like to share
with you some thoughts and realizations that I had recently. My purpose
for beginning this monthly newsletter 18 months ago was to bring more
illumination and inspiration into conscious awareness for everyone.
That remains my purpose to this day. What I will be doing each month
this year is sharing ideas and realizations from books that deal with
the Goddess traditions. My purpose for doing this is because I realize
more than ever before that the Goddess represents the Spirit of equality,
respect, community, and cooperation that is so very greatly needed in
this day and age when we find ourselves so unconsciously divided against
ourselves and each other. It is especially fitting to begin this journey
now because February is the month in which many spiritual traditions
around the world celebrate the gifts of illumination and inspiration;
gifts of light and love, gifts from our heart and mind that celebrate
inner awareness, gifts that celebrate how we love and inspire ourselves
and each other for the betterment of our dear, precious world; gifts
of light and love that cast out all fear! Gifts of love and light that
cast out all fear is the part of that equation that is particularly
meaningful to me right now. I doubt that it is a mystery to any one
of us that we are at a transformational point in the development of
our world consciousness, our world psyche. The word “psyche” means breath,
soul, spirit. In the Greek myth, Psyche’s pivotal question was does
she light the light of illumination and understanding, or not??? What
are the consequences if she does? What are the consequences if she doesn’t?
This question is ever so relevant for us today. I have been reading
Layne Redmond’s book, “When The Drummers Were Women”. Even though I’ve
been studying and practicing the Goddess/Earth-Based traditions since
1987 this book made me even more consciously aware of some very powerful
ideas! I now understand more than ever why the Goddess traditions are
so frightening to men and to women, and I am saddened. The Goddess traditions
are such amazing practices of love and peace and respect! In a time
in this country when Roe v. Wade could be overturned I now understand
better than ever why there is such virulent hatred toward the idea of
a women having the right to choose what happens to her own body. In
a dominator culture, independence for anyone who is oppressed in any
way is not tolerated! In Layne Redmond’s book, she speaks of the womb
as representing the Goddess, the womb is the place where creation happens.
In stark contrast to the dualistic thinking of the present day, this
dark, vitalizing place inside a woman’s body is recognized as sacred
in the ancient and current Goddess traditions. All of life is honored
as sacred in the Goddess traditions. It is so important to consciously
recognize that in the dominator mentality of the last 5,000 years there
is no room for societies and different cultural practices to live side
by side because the dominator mentality is based on fear and they do
not allow another option to exist side by side because any other option
consciously represents another way of life! Another crucial piece of
this pattern that keeps a dominance pattern in place is the psychological
process in which the oppressed “identify with the oppressor” in order
to be safe; that is, the oppressed participate in the same practice
as the oppressor! I see this practice in place now in the women and
men who are so violently, passionately opposed to a woman’s right to
choose. They have joined with the oppressor to violate their own rights
and the rights of others. This same process happens when people who
have been abused become abusers. What is important to me in this whole
process is that change is happening. Women and men, by the millions,
are consciously embracing an awareness and practice based on mutual
love and respect, equality and consideration. The day is truly here
where the oppressor realizes they are as bound as the oppressed when
they attempt to rule by force, domination and fear! We are at critical
mass where we realize once again at a conscious level that the human
body is sacred! We do realize there is no true power in domination and
fear. We realize power only truly manifests as love and understanding
and respect for ourselves and each other. In this awakening month of
love and light I truly do give thanks for the new sense of loving, respectful,
peaceful, equal partnership and relationship that I see expressing itself
all over the world. We are in a time of extraordinary transformation.
As we consciously recognize once again that the cycle of birth/growth/death/rebirth
is an integrated whole that includes, and needs, both dark and light,
that is, times of receptivity and action, we open our hearts and minds
to the expression of peace and healing. We leave space for people to
live their own lives. We focus on our own spiritual development and
allow others to have this same sacred responsibility. In that spirit
of love and trust I give thanks that the Psyche within us all lights
the light of love, peace, respect, and understanding. Love and respect
to you!!!!
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