The Feminine "Other"

GODDESS • CONSCIOUSNESS • JUNG

"SELENE" Albert Aublet 1880

Author: R.R. Shakti, PhD

Imagine a culture that collectively recognizes equality for all people, demonstrates a sustainable engagement with the Earth’s resources, and honors the human body as sacred. Human survival may hinge on the realization of this vision. Recent events, however, ensure us: we are not there yet.
 
What is required is a new level of consciousness
—one that embodies the recovery of the feminine principle.
—one that embraces the individual and cultural wounding from her suppression.
—one that celebrates a sacred marriage of opposites.
 
I’m skipping to the punch line here, right up front, because my focus on the recovery of the feminine principle is for the sake of sacred marriage: a vision of unified duality for the realization of psycho-spiritual wholeness.
 
And there can be no wedding without the bride.
So, my work seeks to find her, to unpack centuries of suppression and reclaim her power for the world today.
…a task I was frankly terrified to undertake.  

Listen to the introduction to my doctoral dissertation defense, entitled "The Other:"
(You can also find the meditation practice further down the page).

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