Shakti Woman: Feeling Our Fire, Healing Our World

Life itself, with all its seeming concreteness, is really a dream in which we have the possibility of making choices in every moment and changing the dream: flying, making love, shape shifting, experiencing the impossible. The amazing synchronous connections between what we dream and what we experience in the daylight hours should be enough to conf

I use a simple system for coming into relationship with the dreams, easy ways of working with them that fit many different needs and impulses. I hope, ultimately, that my students will come to experience their dreams as numinous realities or messages from the invisible world, as guides for living and preparation for dying.

A man coming into your psychic field would have felt honored to be in your presence because you are a woman.

So the difficulty in raising children from instinct, in a culture that is much more dangerous for them than wild animals in a more “primitive” setting might be, is that you don’t really have any external rules of thumb to follow. Everything must come from within, creating a constant trial-and-error process in which you run the risk of finding out,

As esoteric teacher Alice Bailey points out, what we call thinking is nothing but regurgitated programming in our brain-consciousness.

Ecology came out around the same time, suggesting that the “patriarchal foreground” of the visible world can be overcome by contemporary women “moving beyond the boundaries of patriarchal space” into the “matriarchal background” of our re-membered ancient past.

The oracular is not a rational communication but comes often as a metaphor, needing to be moved delicately from one plane of existence onto another, without losing the thread of meaning.

She will never be the same person she was before she began. She is on a path that requires her death, the end of her identity as she has known it.

Artist Judy Chicago, originator of the Birth Project, points out that there had been no images in Western art of women giving birth for two thousand years!