Thursday August 10, 2023
Good morning beloved reader.
First I want to shine the light how much gratitude I feel at being able to have a conversation with the community that’s forming around this Substack. Thank you for being here and being interested in the rising and re-claiming of the Divine Feminine energies that exist in all sentient beings.
I’m also grateful for the awareness that our liberation as a human species is interconnected, which is also known as “inter-being,” as written about extensively by the beautiful soul and Vietnamese Buddhist monk, Thich Nhat Hanh.
Perhaps this is why I love topics that are controversial and provocative. If a topic triggers you, or hooks you in, you know there is some unconscious material to work with—my intention being to shine the light on what is unconscious and bring it into the light with the ultimate goal of easing suffering in ourselves, which then ripples out to easing suffering in all of those around us.
For example: the idea of being unapologetically lazy. Does this horrify you? Is your inner judge triggered and you want to condemn anyone who you judge to be lazy? If yes, great. Perhaps we can bring whatever is being unconsciously hooked, out into the light of consciousness.
If you resonate with the idea, also wonderful! Perhaps this points towards having aware and free choice around how and when you take action, and that you are perhaps not identified with your Inner Patriarch or Inner Pusher, which I write about here.
Perhaps I’m shining the light on topics where there may be unconscious conditioning that causes people to suffer, especially women. The topic of being lazy of course brings up “the seven deadly sins” which is part of our unconscious conditioning simply by growing up in a culture with the present dominant patriarchal religion. Elise Loehnen tackles this in her new book, On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good and discusses in her Substack, Pulling the Thread with Elise Loehnen.
Speaking out against a mainstream patriarchal religion can be provocative and controversial, but perhaps we’re at a point in history where this is necessary. Perhaps Mother Earth needs the human species to relax a bit! Look at the positive effects on our planet when human beings were required to stay still in early 2020 as a pandemic raged around the world; a simple Google search will remind you.
“Religion is the politics of God, and it’s time to dismantle the politics and get to the core mystical truths.”
—Caroline Myss
I have also been delighted to read more and more men writing about the rising and re-claiming of the Divine Feminine. For example, I recently read this on a Facebook post from Marc Allen, the publisher at New World Library:
How to save the world
Our only hope is to rediscover the power of the feminine.
Let’s face it:
Men have been in charge for the past 3,000 years or so,
and we’ve totally blown it.We’re on the eve of destruction.
The masculine traits of competition, fierceness, domination, and violence
have nearly destroyed our beautiful Mother Earth.It’s time to summon the power of the feminine
to once again restore the balance so vital to sustained life.It’s time to worship the feminine in all her forms.
It’s time to be compassionate to all beings,
loving to all forms of life,
respectful to everyone who walks on this earth.It’s time to let our hearts lead us —
that is the only hope for our species.It’s time to love one another
and stop this violence, killing, domination and exploitation.It’s time to open our hearts
and let anger, greed, hostility and defensiveness
fade into oblivion.It’s not that hard to do.
Every child knows how to love, love, love
with total enlightened acceptance
of what is.
I was also tickled to discover this recently published book, From the Core: A New Masculine Paradigm for Leading with Love, Living Your Truth, and Healing the World by John Wineland. Amazon’s description:
A respected leader in men’s work shares a practical guide to redefine, heal, and re-embrace masculinity in our world.
Men today face a crisis of identity. While we can see how the old paradigm of patriarchal dominance needs to go, is the solution really to deconstruct the very idea of masculinity out of existence? No—that’s not the answer. As John Wineland writes, “We need a generation of conscious men who can provide guidance and direction in their communities, just as we need to support and encourage women to do the same.” With From the Core, Wineland sets out a clear roadmap for men who want to live, love, and lead from the most profound places within them.
All this to say that when all human beings — women and men — become aware of our Inner Patriarch we also then get a free and aware choice as to if we want to engage our Inner Patriarch or the Divine Feminine, depending on time and place. As we make these conscious and aware choices, we walk further along the path of liberating ourselves and feeling good about resting and/or being “unapologetically lazy.” We get to let go of shame and guilt. Like Ecky says:
“Guilt is a strong way for the ego to strengthen itself.
The ego LOVES guilt."
—Eckhart Tolle
The brilliance of Substack is that we get to engage with others interested in similar topics. I’d love to hear how you feel about resting and practicing the art of extreme self-care, or the idea of being “unapologetically lazy.”
Hi Camilla! First of all, I love the cute picture of the koala sleeping in the nook of that tree! :)
Secondly, I found myself with the self-talk of not doing enough or not being productive enough. Then a friend reminded me that I was able to still write with my current process of not really having a process...lol. Sometimes, I do find myself being lazy but with the inner critic or Inner Patriarch saying "but after sitting around you gotta get back to work so you can do more x, y, z."
I want to be more unapologetically lazy! Give myself the permission to rest when my body is already telling me to rest or even beforehand, so I don't wait until my body is screaming to rest.
Thank you for the wonderful reminder and the permission to be unapologetically lazy! Also, I get to give myself permission to just be instead of do. Thank you!
Love this! I think so much of reclaiming the divine feminine has to do with relearning a non-linear framework. And I find that there's so much juicy, delicious REST when we step out of having to always push forward. Thank you for bringing my attention to these writings by men too. They sound fascinating! 💖