In our society, women are denied a safe space to vent their rage. The anger we carry at the sacrifices and losses we accrue over the years in order to survive is treated as unfeminine, negative, taboo. Left to fester in the shadows, this pain perpetuates through generations, and it has been called the Mother Wound.
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Moments of grace—of opening to the numinous, to the Great Mystery—often happen in the wake of crisis. In times of great desolation, something may spontaneously crack within us. The veil that divides our mundane, everyday experience from a deeper perception of reality—what we might call universal reality—becomes thinner and more porous.
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In college, I developed a mysterious illness. I experienced myself as happy, yet in the afternoons...
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In speaking recently with a friend, I was reminded of the great bias in our culture toward the...
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The Braided Way is a framework to see every faith tradition as a strand, braided into a larger whole of spiritual awareness. In the Braided Way, combining spiritual practice from various faiths allow us to explore sacred experience and wonder in forms that resonate with our personal spiritual needs and sacred intuitions. In today’s culture, many people shun religious dogma, but yearn for spiritual connection. The Braided Way allows the ceremonies and practices of multiple faiths to be available without the confinements of cultural dogma.