This article was originallypublished in “The Heart of Healing—Inspired Ideas, Wisdom and Comfort from Today’s Leading Voices.” Elite Books, Author’s Publishing Cooperative, Santa Rosa, CA, 95403. © Allan Hardman, 2005
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Introduction
Romantic relationship has been both a blessing and nightmare for many people in this new millennium. In the past, the rules of relationship were relatively structured and well enforced by families and cultures. Many relationships were based on the need for security and financial well-being in an uncertain world. Often, mates were chosen based on others’ expectations, class, race, or religious backgrounds.
Now, with financial independence being available to most, and ethic and cultural distinctions blurring, men and women are left more to their own discernment and integrity for choosing mates and establishing the rules and expectations of relationship. Along with this freedom has come increasing confusion and uncertainty in relationships of romance and marriage.
Only our soul can guide us towards our true destiny: the life we were meant to live when we were born. Often referred to as our true, authentic self, our soul knows what kind of life will make us feel whole and complete. Unfortunately, for most of us, this original, natural, self, has been buried under layer upon layer of social conditioning, programming and learned, “unnatural” behaviour, responses, desires and needs.
Instead of an authentic self we have a false self, a self that suits the requirements of others and the larger society we are a part of. If we are ever to fulfill our true potential, feel whole and complete within ourselves, or reach enlightenment, we need to begin searching for our “lost” soul. Read the rest of this entry »
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Excerpt from The Heroine’s Journey
From the Introduction
There is a void felt these days by women and men—who suspect that their feminine nature, like Persephone, has gone to hell. Wherever there is such a void, such a gap or wound agape, healing must be sought in the blood of the wound itself. It is another of the old alchemical truths that “no solution should be made except in its own blood.” So the female void cannot be cured by conjunction with the male, but rather by an internal conjunction, by an integration of its own parts, by a remembering or a putting back together of the mother-daughter body.
—Nor Hall, The Moon and the Virgin
Working as a therapist with women, particularly between the ages of thirty and fifty, I have heard a resounding cry of dissatisfaction with the successes won in the marketplace. This dissatisfaction is described as a sense of sterility, emptiness, and dismemberment, even a sense of betrayal. These women have embraced the stereotypical male heroic journey and have attained academic, artistic, or financial success; yet for many the question remains, “What is all of this for?”
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1. Body aches and pains, especially in the neck, shoulder and back. This is the result of intense changes at your DNA level as the “Christ seed” awakens within. This too shall pass.
2. Feeling of deep inner sadness for no apparent reason. You are releasing your past (this lifetime and others) and this causes the feeling of sadness. This is similar to the experience of moving from a house where you lived in for many years into a new house. As much as you want to move into the new house, there is a sadness of leaving behind the memories, energy and experiences of the old house. This will pass.
The return to popular consciousness of the Sacred Feminine is symptomatic of a new wave of energy sweeping over the planet. Some people refer to this energy as the Magdalene Energies, others just talk about the return of the Goddess. Whatever you call it, this great awakening of feminine energy will change and affect everything and everyone on the planet. Even now, for many of us, the awakening Goddess is already making her presence felt in very real and often turbulent ways in our lives.
Goddess energy will clear everything away that is not in alignment with it in order to redress the existing imbalance on the planet between Masculine and Feminine energy. What this means is that as this new feminine energy grows and swells, it will affect more and more people who will begin to feel the need for a new set of goals, a new set of values and a new way of behaving. There will also be a desire to see and think in completely new ways - in the ways of the Goddess!
We grow and develop as human beings whenever we master new skills, acquire new knowledge and understanding, and become more aware of the true nature of things, including ourselves. All too often, however, instead of understanding that each new challenge, trial and difficulty that presents itself in our life is an opportunity to transform into a newer, more powerful, confident and capable self, we go into resistance or avoidance mode, so losing an opportunity to transform our identity, and as a result, change our life for the better.
Yet, if we are to achieve our full potential as human beings, we do need to undergo a whole series of psychological transformations whereby we exchange our “old,” limited identities, for “new,” more expanded ones. These psychological transformations allow us to break through certain attitudes, beliefs, fears, patterns of behaviour and delusions, that restrain and restrict us, preventing us from pursuing our dreams, from being all that we can and yearn to be.
The dictionary defines the word “soul” as “spiritual essence,” or “that immaterial part of us that survives bodily death,” and for a long time, this “spiritual,” “immaterial” aspect of ourselves has been what the world has regarded as the most valuable part of our identity: the, holy, sacred part. Our physical body on the other hand, has been regarded as a mere “shell” which houses this important, divine aspect. In the last few years, however, due to Dan Brown’s popular novel, The Da Vinci Code, the unequal status between the physical and the spiritual realms has been challenged, as humanity remembers that we once recognised the existence of a feminine component to spirit.
This feminine aspect to spirit, known as the Sacred Feminine, was said to be imprisoned within physical matter. Trapped inside matter, the divine light of the Goddess longs for release so that She can once again be re-united with her Beloved, her divine male counterpart: God.
The idea that there is a God and Goddess, equal in status - two halves that make up the divine Godhead – forces us to re-think the status of the physical, material world, and how we think about it. Stripped of its sacred nature when the existence of the Goddess was rejected and banished from mass consciousness, the planet, (and indeed, all things physical) have been regarded as being so much less important and valuable than the spiritual realm. The earth has been something to be subjugated, dominated, used and exploited for our own ends. Now, with the return of the Goddess to our awareness, the earth, and all of Creation, must be regarded not just with loving respect, but with reverence because of its divine nature.
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