Body work must be approached with the same respect and attentiveness that one gives to dreams. Body work must be approached with the same respect and attentiveness that one gives to dreams. The body has a wisdom of its own. However slowly and circuitously that wisdom manifests, once it is experienced it is a foundation,…
This chapter is based on the experience of women in midlife who for most of their lives have endured the anguish of an addiction On a clear evening we look into the sky. We see a few stars. As darkness deepens, we see the separate stars relating to each other—the Big Dipper, Orion’s Belt, the…
They are blind to the insidious lies of the false goddess. In a culture whose media extols thinness as the great panacea that will bring happiness, sexuality, self-respect and social acceptance, they are blind to the insidious lies of the false goddess. Possessed by their own damaged instincts, and ironically driven by the same desire…
To refuse to enter into Kali’s dance of creation and destruction is to get stuck in a one-sided view of reality She faces us with our greatest fear and by showing us the treasure hidden away within it, she takes us to a place where love is born. Love is the true antithesis of fear.…
In our collective neurosis, we have disrupted the delicate balance of nature, and created phallic missiles of mass destruction. If we look at the English Romantic poets of the early nineteenth century, we see something very different going on. Essentially, their gifts made them outcasts from patriarchal society. Their genius opened them to the…