These are times for the Divine Masculine energies to be honoured and acknowledged. And this is Siva, the dance, the dancing body and the dancing cosmos.
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The proposition about spiritual practice is that it is a serious thing. We have to have a rigid routine, control the mind, control the senses, control the body, be contemptuous of frivolity and come to stillness. We have had this dominant view of spirituality for centuries across most major traditions. And in these days of chaos and breakdown, we may be able to consider whether these paradigms have served us well to live in a Reality which is complex, ambiguous and sensory.
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In these time Dhumavathi reminds me that dissolution is also a dance and the Goddess. As much as manifesting and coming into form. There is a suspension of breath in dissolution that is almost ecstatic, even while it is tinged with trepidation. And there is unconditional freedom in wandering the wasteland, stepping between the decay, meandering without purpose and meaning. This is also Reality.
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Here we are in these times when we do not know where we can find “solutions”. No longer is it easy to bring the age old duality paradigm to bear upon life—right/wrong, good/evil, light/dark and known/unknown. These divisions have become intimate now. I hear from many of you that in the last two years your relationships with families, friends and workplaces have changed fundamentally. As also your confidence in what has been presented to you as reality for all of your life.
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Many women I work with tell me that they are deeply challenged in these times. Some of them speak to me about the way in which the divisions of the times affect them in intimate relationships. Some of them say they do not know who they are any more, what their lives are going to be and how they can find a spiritual practice that does not bypass the everyday reality of these times.
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For some days now, the Goddess has been in Her play or Lila mode- receding into avahitta or the dance of play, trickery and mystery. These are all loaded words, with values our minds have attached to them as good or bad. In Goddess tradition this is Lila, the dance of the Divine Feminine Consciousness that eludes labeling, understanding and, inevitably, control of reality through our narratives.
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