Monday January 23, 2023
Hello Beloved Reader,
I’m at the end of a 5 week visit in Australia with my 85-year-old mother and 49-year-old sister and I feel so privileged and grateful to have had this time with them both.
Because both my mother and my sister are very well practiced in not blaming anyone else for how they're feeling, it's been an incredible space for me to dissolve whatever unresolved past trauma and/or hurt feelings that have come up in me around past family interactions. This wasn't easy, but it was necessary.
These past 5 weeks have felt like a time of healing and dissolving any old, remaining ‘pain body,’ which is the label Eckhart Tolle gives to unresolved trauma that resides in the body. And there is a growing public awareness of how The Body Keeps the Score, as shown by how the book of this name has been on the New York Times Bestseller paperback list for the past 221 weeks, i.e. more than 4 years!
During my first few weeks here in Australia, I actually found myself crying a lot. It was not that emotional kind of sobbing, but simply tears coming to my eyes and sometimes spilling over. It made me think of times I cried during interfaith seminary, and Rev. Dr. Stephanie Rutt would say, "Pay attention where you are brought to tears, as that is where your heart is." (I write more about this in Part One of my book.)
For me, this is what The Rising of the Divine Feminine is all about. Women—and men—all over the world, recognizing how we all need to be responsible for ourselves and not blame others for how we are feeling. And as one of the senior Buddhist monks from the monastery across the road named a book he wrote: Don’t Take Your Life Personally.
From time with both my 85-year-old mother and 49-year-old sister, and time with our Buddhist monk friends, my experience shows me the difference between emotional attachment (which often comes with expectations) versus impersonal or liberational love—the latter of which is like the sun shining on a flower. The sun doesn’t care which flowers it shines on, it just shines.
(photo: a blossoming tree in the backyard of my sister’s new home in Bulahdelah)
I’m also feeling gratitude to a friend who recently questioned me about what exactly is The Rising of the Divine Feminine, as it made me dig deeper. I responded to her:
Perhaps The Rising of the Divine Feminine is about more women (and men) gaining awareness of how they may be identified with their own Inner Patriarch, and in gaining that awareness, they are no longer identified with it, and are then able to claim their own inner authority and inner divinity and break from that conditioning we have all received to hand ourselves over to an outside (often patriarchal) authority.
It’s a kind of empowerment each of us steps into as we claim our own sovereignty. Does that make sense to you?
May it make sense to you, my dear reader.
And may we continue in our evolution of consciousness that goes hand in hand with The Rising of the Divine Feminine. ✨🌟💖🙏🕊️😘
I love the concept of emotionally unattached love, Camilla. The best and freest kind. Something I forget to give sometimes. How fortunate the visit with your family has been for you. xx Ryder
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