Sublime

In a sense, the Goddess too turned sideways into the light. She immolated herself like Sati—surviving demurely in India as a consort of male deities. She was exiled like the Shekinah, the feminine divine of Judaism. In our time, the Goddess has come roaring out of her hiding places—for it is also the nature of the feminine to roar—and we are

true for a man in his Feminine as well).

I see the many Goddesses that have populated cultures across time and space as reflections of the greater Truth – that Divinity exists, and that it can (and should) be envisioned as feminine. While I don’t work with masculine deities in my own spiritual practice, I recognize the validity of envisioning Divinity as male – and as genderless, and as

The story of Sati’s disappearance tells a mythic version of a historical process that kept the Goddess underground for several millennia. We know from Marija Gimbutas’s archaeological studies that many Neolithic cultures in Europe and in the Indian subcontinent worshipped a mother goddess, and that the worship of the feminine was displaced in the

the divine is one, but manifests as two: masculine and feminine divinity,

Tantra is a series of practices and teachings that help us realize that the world is filled with divine energy, with Shakti.