Surfing the Wave of #RisingoftheDivineFeminine

Sunday 10/16/22

I’m THRILLED these days by the fact that everywhere I look, I see more evidence of people surfing this wave of the #RisingoftheDivineFeminine. Today, I listened to an NPR interview with Tricia Hersey, author of the just published book, Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto. https://www.npr.org/2022/10/14/1128960386/its-hygge-season-how-to-embrace-the-danish-lifestyle-of-rest-and-coziness 

"I refuse to donate my body to capitalism!" she tells the interviewer. Hallelujah for more women’s voices being raised in expression of our liberation and freedom from the patriarchal paradigm that has dominated our culture for too long.  And again, we don’t want to swing the pendulum too far the other way—our planet needs a middle way: a balance of the energies of the sacred masculine and the divine feminine.

This author, Tricia Hersey, also received a great write up in the New York Times, The Nap Bishop Is Spreading the Good Word: Rest.

Tricia Hersey, founder of the Nap Ministry, sees rest as a revolutionary way to push back on America’s obsession with productivity at all costs: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/13/well/live/nap-ministry-bishop-tricia-hersey.html 

And earlier this year, the Washington Post published, A soundtrack for rest, curated by the Nap Ministry’s Tricia Hersey https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/04/29/rest-soundtrack-tricia-hersey-nap-ministry/ where she is quoted saying, “I believe rest is anything that slows your body and mind down and allows them to connect with one another. And music is definitely a portal to connect that.”

YES!  We want to cultivate this interconnectivity of mind, body, emotions, and spirit. It does not serve us, our societies, or Mother Earth to try to separate any of these aspects of our whole human experience.

Perhaps this is innately understood by anyone who has direct experience of the connection between spirituality and creativity. 

This subject is touched upon in a recorded conversation between the respected Jewish Buddhist psychiatrist, Dr. Mark Epstein and the psychic medium Laura Lynn Jackson, in the Rubin Museum of Art, in New York City in 2018. The YouTube recording of their conversation has 1.2 million views. People all over the world are waking up. And perhaps this is in time to save our planet. Here is the link for the recording of their conversation, and I offer a transcription of my favorite part below.

Dr. Mark Epstein: What about art and music and creative work of all kinds?

Laura Lynn Jackson: I love this question. I have a lot to say about art that I’ve learned from the other side. … When we bring art into our energy it’s like turning the brightness up on our connections to each other, to the universe. When somebody creates a work of art, whether it’s a painting, or a song or whatever it will be, there’s this beautiful channel that has come through them. No artist works alone. Every artist works with this beautiful team of light and this download from the other side.

For example with a literary work, JK Rowling talks about how she got the entire download—and she called it a download—for the Harry Potter series in this flash on a train. 

I thought that made perfect sense. That was the team of light giving her the download. Even sometimes when you write a book, instantly it comes through. When you’re painting something it comes through you, you’re the vehicle it comes through. But it’s connecting and creating with a much higher realm.

And then when we experience art, whether we’re looking at a painting, or we’re listening to a song, and music is one of the greatest ways to experience this (I’ll explain that in a moment) we connect with this grand grid of light, to the creator of it, this artist here, to the team of light on the other side, and to everybody else who has viewed it and enjoyed it.

And what the other side has told me is that the way to heal and advance our society is to embrace art. … In a way, art is the answer to everything. We bring it into our energy and it lights us up and we can become a better version of ourselves. 

Music will shift your energy completely. It will clear your vibration. It can shift how you’re thinking. It influences and effects you. And even if you’re the worst singer in the world, please go sing a song you love. Because when that vibration comes through you, it’s incredible. 

So art is truly so necessary and so needed. Both creatively allowing yourself to explore and also drinking as much art as you possibly can.

Amen, sister! ✨🌟💖🙏🕊