Remembering
Western culture has woken up in a strange world, only we can’t even remember where we began. Our surroundings feel out of place and time, but we have forgotten how to get back to where we came from.
We have collective amnesia. Our original surroundings have been lost, forgotten. We feel disoriented, knowing that we don’t quite belong in these new surroundings.
Some of us feel it. Some of us crave something we can’t even name or describe. We have a weird feeling we are missing something, that something doesn’t feel right. We just can’t put our finger on it. We feel all we have lost even though we could not feel our way around all that is missing from our world.
Living in this world, this reality, feels disorientating, disconcerting. We know this is not the only reality. We don’t feel like we belong here.
We feel out of step. We feel like spectators in this world, in this reality. But without remembering our original surroundings we wake, yawn and get on with it. We make the best of it. We do our best to fit in.
With our memory erased, we struggle on detached from our past. We are no longer tethered to the source of the wisdom that once flowed freely through the world. Groping blindly for the light, we seek the lost power of our collective past, trying to keep the darkness at bay.
I offer you a glimpse into the world we left behind, a world rich with women’s spiritual paths. Learning about these spiritual paths will illuminate some of what we left behind, long forgotten by history.
We will remember.
Something of this world, this reality, lingers in the crevasses of our mind. We can reactivate the cellular memory of our body, helping us to access all that has been lost to the mists of time. These spiritual paths for women are familiar, even if we have spent thousands of years without them.
A battle broke out long ago, waged against the divine feminine. It began as guerilla warfare then outright invasion and eventually all those who stood against the new world order were rounded up and either converted or murdered.
We have forgotten the feminine face of god. The Sky God won over the Earth Mother, the Great Mother who cared and nurtured us all. We lost the spiritual paths for women.
Our bodies were where the battle for supremacy took place, sometimes gently and sometimes violently.
Women’s bodies became the battleground. Spirituality split from sexuality so long ago. The Great Mother and her great goddesses were rendered powerless and destroyed.
Women lost her authority to choose her lovers, her power over life and death, and sovereignty over her body. How can we reunify our sexuality with our spirituality?
After millennia of darkness, we are ready to remember the truth once more. Each spiritual path was a search for truth. Truth has power.
This truth is written deep within us. When we hear the truth, even if we don’t understand it, we feel the truth resonate within us, vibrating with our conscious wisdom.
The truth is not learned but rather recalled, remembered, recognised as what is already within us.
When we reclaim the spiritual paths of women we experience a deeper essential truth. This is the truth of the innate spiritual power of women.
The women who walked the spiritual path before us have languished waiting to be remembered, for their stories to be brought to life and saved from oblivion. These were the goddesses, the priestesses and the women who praised and prayed for thousands of years.
Their voices were lost in the sacred halls of the temples and early churches of Christianity. These women lay abandoned, their graves so overgrown and built over that all memory of them was lost.
Remembering their story and the spiritual paths they walked helps call back all the lost and forgotten pieces stored with us.
The path of feminine spirituality feels so very mysterious and shrouded in mystery.
We have strayed so far from a spiritual path created for women that we don’t even know what that looks like anymore.
Sometimes it is helpful to see how other cultures, other sacred traditions navigated this path in order to remember what sacred union looks like.
We need to remember back to a time when women worshipped the Great Mother and the great goddesses.
Remembering feels like the veils are lifted and we are welcomed back home. Women have the potential to experience enlightenment. We can enter the spiritual path if you choose to embrace her innate power and wisdom.
This means cultivating self-belief in our own abilities without the need to prove anything, not even to ourselves, in the certainty that comes from embodying feminine principles. Women’s spiritual power as a missing piece in a world out of balance.
For too long women have been part of a dominant cultural paradigm that enshrines primarily masculine values like will power and self-focus as a means of achievement.
This fails to honour the tremendously powerful aspects of our collective feminine nature, like our attunement to relationships, longing, honouring the earth, and a natural capacity to nourish, all of which serve the community of life more than personal goals.
We can honour where the incredible wealth of teachings originated. We need to honour the teachers, the lineage they come from, and the spiritual teachings they originated from.
We need to honour the ancients who first explored the goddess and taught what they had learned through direct experiences.
This is an ancient spiritual path that honours the divine feminine and the divine masculine in equal measure.
We can all see what happens when we have one without the other. It leads to imbalance within ourselves, and our world.
To create balance, we need to remember the feminine face of god, to cherish and honour this aspect within ourselves and to create sacred union within our masculine and feminine within.
Only then can we create harmony and balance outside of ourselves.