The Zen Priestess and the Snake
Part of any shamanic awakening must include an opening of the dream channels and the uprushing of amazing and illuminating material from the unconscious.
Vicki Noble • Shakti Woman: Feeling Our Fire, Healing Our World
‘ From my first meetings with World Weary Woman, it was clear that she could work. She could analyze, psychologize. But she had not learned how to play ... It is in pausing to connect with her own inner wisdom that World Weary Woman learns to create ... to cultivate what brings joy, to savour her connection with cosmos. Thus she transforms her suff... See more
Dr Sharon Blackie • The psychology of midlife
The secret of our identity does not lie in the outer form or in how successfully we manipulate the forms of the sensible world. Rather, it lies in how we are able to set them (and ourselves) aflame to reveal the inner quality of their aliveness. The names of God lie coiled within the physical forms of things; our particular and uniquely human task
... See moreCynthia Bourgeault • Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm
the mother principle in Buddhism is associated with emptiness
Judith Simmer-Brown • Dakini's Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism
It is in this light that the wildish woman can inquire into the numinosity of her own body and understand it not as a dumbbell that we are sentenced to carry for life, not as a beast of burden, pampered or otherwise, who carries us around for life, but a series of doors and dreams and poems through which we can learn and know all manner of things.
... See moreDr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
The result of such an encounter may be a radical life change, especially to seek a teacher or a set of teachings prophesied by the ḍākinī,