Psychedelic Mysteries of the Feminine
A woman arrives in this world-between-worlds through yearning and by seeking something she can see just out of the corner of her eye. She arrives there by deeply creative acts, through intentional solitude, and by practice of any of the arts. And even with these well-crafted practices, much of what
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Menstruation is the perfect time to perform ritual, using your menstrual blood as the potent elixir of magic and visualization. Make a protective or healing amulet for yourself, and smear it with your own holy blood. Feed your plants. Wish for what you want in your life. Never use your blood for harm or to control anyone else; let the sorcerers hav
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3. Liminality as a re-structuring of consciousness and culture in the fragmentation and regeneration of worldview, and we (if we were to identify a role for ourselves, called to speak to these times) as healers, mediators, and threshold crossers, realizing fragments of integral futures in the present.
Jeremy Johnson • "Three Theses on Liminality"
Images of the devoted, peaceful mother have always been safe. Such images have always been acceptable in all cultures, even patriarchal ones; but there’s another level of reflection of the primal feminine experience that has not been present and that both men and women long for. And this is an experience that comes from the intuitive sacred feminin
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