Sublime

This is a rare moment when the females and not the males are named in the lineage.

Tantrikas believe that our life-force energy is the Kundalini spiraling up our chakras.

With the wild jubilation of nature, you are in correspondence.

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.

We are using the voices of our minds, our lives, and our souls to call back intuition, imagination; to call back the Wild Woman. And she comes.

Invocation Gaṇeśa-graha-nakṣatra-yoginī-rāśi-rūpiṇīm | Devīm mantra-mayīm naumi mātṛkāṁ pīṭha-rūpiṇīm || I humbly bow to that supreme Devī who is the embodiment of the gaṇeśas, planets, stellar configurations, yoginīs, constellations, mantras, the matrix of language, and sacred sites. –Nityā Śodaṣikārṇava 1:1

Maria the Jewess, who lived in Alexandria sometime between the first and third centuries CE; she is similarly credited with the invention of several kinds of chemical apparatuses and is considered to be the first true alchemist of the Western world.

Aimee Semple McPherson (the evangelist) was the charismatic faith healer and pioneering radio preacher who, courting both scandal and fanatical devotion, founded her own religion and cemented southern California’s reputation as a national hub for seekers of unorthodox spirituality and self-realization.