Women’s spiritual power is a missing piece in a world out of balance. Human health, the vitality and regeneration of the earth, the maturity of our worldly systems so they can serve the needs of the whole and not just the few, and our collective spiritual evolution all depend on women living their power as women. Women are not, collectively, doing this yet. In part because so many of us simply don’t understand how our power works – how it’s different from men’s power, how it’s activated and strengthened, and how it serves life. And women who do have a sense of it still often don’t trust it. Women’s power is so at odds with the workings of our patriarchal world that to live it means going against almost everything that is modelled and expressed and valued outwardly, and internalized as ‘good,’ ‘important’ and even ‘spiritual.’ Many women feel hesitant to live as we are. But there are times when forces are in our favor – like now – to help us discover and create an entirely new territory of power and possibilities. To enter this new territory, women will need to reclaim aspects of our own nature that lie hidden in our psyches and bodies, which have been denied and desecrated by the society most of us live in. These ‘powers’ include longing, beauty, our synchronization with the earth, and our capacities to receive, nourish, purify, recognize life’s sacredness, know all life as community, and work with the mystery of creative space. These aspects of women’s nature may not seem like powers, but the more we live them consciously the more we come to know that they are tremendous forces of sustenance and change. And we will come to see how the world we live in now, which denies these powers, is like a shrinking shadow of what is possible. How do we reclaim and honor what is natural to us in a world that continually throws up distractions and substitutes? We can trust that just as life needs us to contribute to life as we are, it will show us how. For many women, it is happening already. We feel an unrest and unease with life around us and with how we, as individuals, are living. We feel an emerging and undeniable longing for something radically different. We long for lives that feel more natural. Women’s longing itself is tremendously powerful and will draw to each woman her own opportunities to wake up to what is real and shed what is false. Often, this happens through dreams with their capacity for revelation beyond the restrictions of the intellect or cultural conditioning. And many women are drawn to meet with other women – in circle and in ceremony – where they can feel something deep and true reflected back into their being. It takes so much courage to live true to one’s nature when one has been denigrated by society for so many centuries. Even when we catch a glimpse, usually in the simplest of moments, we look around and see no place for our experience, no reflection of it and no reverence for it. For women, life so often seems at odds with life – with survival, success, and simply being seen. It’s so easy to forget and to compromise ourselves. And at the same time, it’s so heartbreaking and destructive. Body of Wisdom - Women's Spiritual Power and How it Serves, brings together the dreams and experiences of women across the world with today's most visionary spiritual teachers. A chakra in our breasts that emits spiritual nourishment into life… a secret substance in our bodies to heal the earth… a direct connection from our wombs to the creative center of the universe… In Body of Wisdom, Hilary Hart identifies nine hidden powers alive in women’s bodies and instincts, waiting to be used in contemporary challenges such as the creation of community, healing of the earth, and the restoration of life’s spiritual nature. Based on interviews with the world’s most visionary spiritual teachers and on women's dreams and experiences, Body of Wisdom ushers in a new spirituality in which the body and the shared body of the earth are known as a seat of mystical power. In this new spirituality women take responsibility for the spiritual work that only they can do. Hilary Hart writes and teaches about women's spirituality. In 2010, she founded Women's Power Wheel, a growing movement of women's circles designed to help women uncover and use their power for global change. She lives in New Mexico, USA. Body of Wisdom is available from https://www.o-books.com and from wherever books are sold. BOOK LINK:https://https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/o-books/our-books/body-wisdom |
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