Sophia's Children

New InspiraLogue - The Emerging Feminine (Jamie with Kathe Schaaf, co-founder of Gather the Women)

Greetings,

I just uploaded a new InspiraLogue that I recorded yesterday with Gather the Women co-founder, Kathe Schaaf. Kathe and I explore the Emerging Feminine, what it means, what it looks like, and how it's really different from old-paradigm ways of doing!

As with all of the InspiraLogues, there's lots of idea-sparking inspiration (listeners say they often listen to each one several times, and consider it one of their favorite sources of guidance and inspiration outside of actual sessions and project conversations!).

Pour a cup of tea, gather lunch (or breakfast, or dinner, or snack), or just get comfie with pen and paper and listen in.

You'll find the InspiraLogue here.

Love,
Jamie

Is the 'Anti-Abortion Movement' Domestic Terrorism?

I rarely blog on 'hot' political issues these days, for a number of reasons. In truth, I wish articles like this weren't necessary because people chose to cultivate and act from the 'higher angels of their natures' -- their Divine or higher, more evolved, heartful, wise, and conscious capacity. That's my wish, and the vision and cause to which I'm committed.

However, right here and now, one of several issues that's occupying more than a few headlines and sound bites is worthy of comment, and in dire need of true spiritually and philosophically mature contemplation, reflection, dialogue, and engaged action.

It's always deeply saddening to see evidence of how acceptable (though by no means natural) violence has become in our culture, and always alarming -- even as it has for too long been shockingly common -- to see violence done in the name of religion, and sanctioned by self-identified 'people of faith'.

Such violence is often condemned (or more tepidly 'not condoned') as the actions of the more fanatical fringe of various religious sects, though it continues because it is passively supported or tolerated by a much larger group of people.

This was the case with the recent assassination of Dr. George Tiller, a physician who did late-term abortions. For the record, late-term abortions are extremely rare, and are by law limited to 'non-viable fetuses' (such as stillborn fetuses, where the fetus is dead) and cases where there is a significant, verifiable threat to the health and life of the woman carrying the fetus.

Tiller was a several-time focus of orchestrated (not random) anti-abortion movement violence, as have many such clinics, physicians, and clinic employees been. Tiller, as many now know, was gunned down in church while serving as an usher, by a fundamentalist Christian anti-abortion 'activist'. Tiller had previously been threatened, stalked, and shot, and the clinic targeted for similar threats and harassment, by fundamentalist Christian anti-abortion terrorists.

At this point, it's ridiculous to view the anti-abortion violence as independent acts of violence by isolated religious fanatics. There is a significant history of organized and ongoing violence since Roe vs. Wade legalized abortion. It sure looks like a terrorist movement to me, and to many others. You shall know them by their fruits.

Imagine this: A group of religious extremists target a specific group of Americans for violence and execution. They stalk the designated group of people at their homes and places of spiritual worship; they follow them to work; they publish 'death lists' and 'hit lists' listing the specific individuals, along with their addresses, for fellow movement activists to see, and act upon; they plant and detonate bombs; they shoot, maim, and kill the individuals. They are supported philosophically and for their religious justification of their acts by those who share their worldview, and some of the perpetrators of the worst of the movement's violence are protected and hidden by sympathizers. Sympathetic propaganda-reporters and news anchors on certain networks actively justify the violence by focusing on how the specific group of Americans targeted are 'sinners' who violate the Will of God according to the movement's most zealous supporters.

In such an instance, there would be little question that the movement, its leaders, and its sympathizers would be targeted immediately as terrorists by the government, and hailed as terrorists by Christians and others in the United States. We've already seen it happen.

However, in the case above, as evidenced by the so-called 'pro-Life' anti-abortion movement involved in the systematized violence towards and killings of Tiller and others, these activities are carried out by often-White, usually male, fundamentalist Christians, so the 'justice' system works a bit differently, hesitating to call it the terrorism that it is.

Worse yet, the so-called 'pro-Life' movement leaders and talking heads are stumbling and falling all over each other (again) to vilify George Tiller -- using typically sensational and inaccurate information to serve their Egos, er, their agendas -- and to justify the ongoing fanaticism and violence, and murder.

Ultimately, an organized group of people whose aim it is to satisfy a religious and often fanatical agenda through terrorizing, instilling fear, inciting violence via threat and propaganda (and the promise of righteousness and Christian Heroism), and perpetrating violence through stalking, vandalism, publishing 'kill lists', physical attack, bombings, shootings, and murder, is a terrorist group, and should be viewed as such by government agencies like the FBI and Homeland Security. To date, largely under administrations favorable to the anti-abortion movement and hostile to environmental or anti-corporate activists, these government agencies have focused more on Muslims, environmental, and anti-corporate activists as potential terrorists.

It's time to include the fundamentalist, fanatical Christian anti-abortion terrorism on the agenda, and call it what it is - terrorism. Perhaps the many Christians who don't align with hateful intolerance and terrorist violence of their fanatical fellow Christians, but who are complicit by their silence, will begin speaking out, refusing to watch or advertise on violence-perpetuating and/or Christian-terrorism-condoning news organizations like Fox, and refusing to tolerate or shelter terrorism and violence coming from within their own midst, from within their own churches.

Perhaps it's a simple yet revealing question: Are you 'pro-life' or not? If you aren't actually pro-life, you support and defend the tactics and outcomes common to the anti-abortion movement and the more fanatical, fundamentalist fringe from which it often festers. If you are pro-life, you may already be engaged with a truly pro-Life Christian agenda or progressive Christian community (or a similar life-valuing expression of your own religious or spiritual tradition) that loves, values, and stewards life in all of its magnificent expressions.

Again, my most genuine wish and preference would be for people to choose to cultivate and live from the higher, more evolved and loving consciousness -- it's inherent within us all -- rather than having such behavior legislated and policed by necessity because some choose to perpetrate hatred, harm, and violence in the name of a vengeful God whom they envision as requiring and rewarding that.

Perhaps a rising vibration and consciousness, like the tide, will indeed open hearts, liberate minds, and raise all people and benefit all beings, and we will find ourselves in a time when we don't have systemetized greed, harm, and violence, but it's opposite, because it's what we choose.

As we know, whether from the words attributed to Jesus, Gandhi, or others, it requires a change of heart, a change from within to be expressed in life, in action, on behalf of Life and Wisdom itself.

May it be so.

Blessings on the Way,
Jamie

Musings on the Sacred Masculine

In an April 30, 2009 KPFA radio interview with visionary activist, Caroline Casey, where they discuss the archetypes and current energetics of Venus and Mars, Daniel Giamario says this about the current energies and the higher potentials for the Masculine:

"I like to think right now there is a leading edge of the Masculine that really as a place of strength loves assisting and helping women, and families, and Nature, and animals be all they can be. The joy of being a giver, not from trying to control or giving to get. But having great pleasure and joy of being around those who are in their full power."

What Giamario alludes to is often ascribed to the Sacred Masculine, and sometimes 'the Green Man' archetype - the higher potentials of the Masculine that is healed and whole, and in kindred cahoots with Wisdom (aka the Sacred Feminine). This isn't the Masculine (or men)  appropriating the Feminine, or pretending (even to themselves) to be 'okay with' their inner Feminine (the truth is in the behavior). This is the Masculine at its best, it's most Whole, in Sacred Marriage with and devotion to the Feminine.

In some Taoist traditions, 'healthy Yang' (aka the Sacred Masculine) has attributes of generosity, blessing, beneficence, magnanimity, and protection (which is different from oppression or domination), as well as the more traditionally associated 'outwardly oriented' traits of action, expression, and assertion. These align with Giamario's comments, and are more aligned with the 'magnanimous Saturn' of the Golden Age than the post-Golden Age Saturn who became punitive, paranoid, and 'law and order' obsessed, and was ultimately deposed by a 'new Masculine' in cahoots with the Feminine. See? Myth is really both a cautionary tale and a primer, of sorts.

According to archetypal- and cosmic-energy observers like Casey and Giamario, and consistent with many Indigenous Wisdom prophecies, we're in a time when we're being asked to release the old, fragmented, unwhole, and unnatural stereotypes of the 'Marlboro Man' or 'Lone Ranger' Masculine and the Donna Reed - Virgin Mary Feminine (both of which repress significant aspects and thus manifest shadow qualities which, shall we say, doesn't create the healthiest experience for humans or anyone else).

In releasing the unhealthy, unhelpful, and unnatural prisons we've created around feminine and masculine, and opening to the wholeness that wants to express through each of us - who embody Feminine and Masculine, as well as express one of those more dominantly through gender - we open to the potentials described by Casey, Giamario, the Tao.

Looking into the world as it is, with its seemingly perpetual violence, cruelty, warring, corporate homogeneity, unbalanced Masculine and repressed Feminine -- and knowing that this is not sustainable, much less desirable -- we see the reason for healing and wholing, embodying and expressing, a healthier, more whole and natural Feminine and Masculine.

This is a choice, and a practice, but it's also a restoration of what's most whole and natural within and among us.

[*For one perspective on what the Sacred Masculine and Sacred Feminine - or restored Feminine and Masculine - might look like in business, read my 'Conscious Capitalism? Holographic Business' article.]

Blessings on the Way,
Jamie

Wisdom Rising - It's Coming Out of the Ground

I'm amazed by and grateful for what's coming out of the ground. I don't mean much of the food that nourishes us, or the abundance of Spring blossoms and greenery, both of which I'm deeply inspired by and grateful for. I also mean deep Earth wisdom, and literal treasures that tell stories thought to be forever lost.

As the French writer, Emile Zola, wrote, ""If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way." 

Well, bursting through it is, challenging the biases and assumptions of Patriarchal institutions and Empire -- including the ways that those very limiting and often life-negating biases and assumptions are woven into our own psyches, thought-patterns, beliefs, and habits.

Some of the deep-Wisdom treasures are exemplified by the Nag Hammadi library, a collection of writings discovered in upper Egypt in 1945, not to find their way to the public for decades. The texts, dated to the second-century AD , are thought to have been hidden away at a time when all non-approved writings were ordered destroyed. As is the case with many conquering cultures of Empire, there is great and often violent effort made to destroy all perspectives, teachings, and teachers/practitioners that run counter to the preferred story.

In the case of the Nag Hammadi gnostic (and other) texts thought to have been completely destroyed, along with their teachers, the eradication effort plunged the culture into the so-called Dark Ages - a regression, not a progression, and an arising of an almost pathological violence.

The effects of this loss of Wisdom have been staggering, and found their way deeply woven into the roots of contemporary culture (for one excellent perspective on this, see John Lamb Lash's work at Metahistory.org, and his book, Not In His Image).

Another example of Wisdom-rising is a wealth of archaeological evidence that cultures existed that were tolerant of diverse peoples and perspectives (including spiritual traditions), that were not organized around violence and warring, and that were inclusive of and sometimes organized around deep revering of and respect for the Feminine, women, and the Earth (see Riane Eisler's book, The Chalice and The Blade, for one summary of this). This directly challenges assumptions that men are inherently violent and that war is natural. Neither are true; both are choices, albeit ones many -- after generations of inculturation -- made unconsciously.

In other (and numerous) sites around the world, ancient figures and depictions of women, the Feminine, priestesses, shamankas, and goddesses are (or have been) springing up and meeting with a more balanced interpretation (just a few decades ago, a bias against the feminine -- stemming from deep Patriarchal assumptions -- resulted in immediate dismissal of such finds or perspectives, which, ironically, is not very scientific.). Thankfully, the evidence has mounted to a degree that's hard to ignore or dismiss with any credibility.

For example, in the most ancient shaman grave sites found, the buried shaman was female. This unravels previously held biases that shamanism was a man's domain. In fact, indicators are that the more recent masculine-focused traditions stemmed from earlier feminine-inclusive or feminine-centric traditions.

It doesn't mean 'women ruled' -- a common dualistic 'either/or' position, as in "if it's not patriarchal, then it had to be matriarchal, and if Patriarchy was violent to women, then a Feminine-centered culture would be violent to men." If anything, emerging evidence suggests strongly that even in Feminine/Goddess-centric cultures there was more of what Riane Eisler terms an 'equalitarian' way of being -- the more Feminine 'and/both' that honored Life, male and female.

The growing evidence of Feminine influence and participation does correct an ignorant bias favored in Patriarchal systems that women did not serve as religious or spiritual leaders, shamans, cultural leaders, and so on. This is important because it restores truth as well as balance to a culture in which the denigration of the Feminine (including the Feminine face of god) has resulted in violence and the denigration of women, girls, Wisdom, and Earth, and an amputation of men's Wholeness as well. These recoveries restore a vital Wisdom that has been left behind and is now essential for our survival and wellbeing.

The Earth, Wisdom, and her allies are revealing her treasures, because the times and the peril of them require a restored Feminine, a restored Wisdom -- not simply dug up and re-enacted, but reinterpreted for our times. Rather than this denigrating the Masculine and men, which many fear because it would be the 'either/or' of Patriarchy, it restores Wholeness to all - Earth, women, men, the Natural world - and makes possible a more whole, conscious way of being.

The great work and great calling of our time is to reconnect, remember deeply, and embody Wisdom, Divine Love, in the world once again.

Purpose and Patterns in Deep Transformation

We are, individually and collectively, all being called well past old, established comfort zones and ways of being that have been centered in fear, scarcity, and competition (which itself is an outcropping of a fear-and-scarcity world view). This is beyond change, and more the territory of deep transformation. Yet there is both purpose and pattern in the seeming chaos.

You'll find more about this notion in the Energetics of Change & Transformation portal I created, but suffice it to say, this is the domain of the Deep Feminine, and also one that we, in Western Culture particularly, have long been severed from.

As a result, we've forgotten the Wisdom and greater meaning of transformation, including the uncomfortable deconstruction that occurs in order for energy to be born anew, in new structures and new forms. A deep remembering is underway; Wisdom is calling to us, calling us from the barren wasteland of Marketplace values of greed and fear into new, green, fertile lands.

In the old paradigm that's passing, there has been a false belief that the movement of energy could be contained and constricted, that forms and structures -- including thought forms and belief structures -- could remain static, unchanging, and that there was some sort of 'security' in this. The laws of Nature don't work this way, and the energy wants to  move even if that means shattering that which resists change.

It all sounds terrifying, doesn't it? That's only because we've forgotten that transformation precedes rebirth, just as Spring follows Winter. Earlier cultures had myth, story, and context for this, and we can draw from the well of that wisdom to guide us now.

Though it's still challenging, it can also be approached with a sense of adventure rather than dread, knowing that energy freed from stale forms that don't allow for the magic, joy, and vibrancy flows creatively into living forms.

The Feminine ways and wisdom have been marginalized, at best, and are now calling to be remembered -- re-membered -- so that a new pulse of life and a harmony that has been much lacking can be born. The Feminine works quite differently from the Masculine ways which have dominated our culture -- not male and female, mind you, though there can be some links there, but Feminine and Masculine, archetypes and ways of being.

Many of us are finding that in the challenges we face, the call to transformation and remembering, old ways of thinking and analysis, ordering and lining things up, no longer work. We can't think our way to the solutions and pathways we seek, we must open space, cultivate receptivity, ignite and explore our Divine gifts of imagination and intuition. And then employ our wonderful working minds in service of Heart and intuition so that our actions are wise.

In freeing 'stuck' energy from old forms that don't serve Life, or the living, we also free passion, joy, and a beautiful sense of magic and abundance that flows freely in all things, including us!

Take heart. Something beautiful is wanting to be born, in you, through you, and around you. Do you hear, or feel, the call?

Blessings on the Way,
Jamie

The Divine Feminine & Abundance

 Join me for an upcoming tele-class on The Divine Feminine and Abundance, the perfect antidote to tax-season stress and stories of economic woes. There is so much more to abundance, and to us, than that!

In this tele-class, we'll explore the Divine Feminine tradition and how to connect with and cultivate an awareness and experience of abundance that goes beyond dollars-and-cents (though includes that, too).

You can also schedule personal or organizational consultations centered around this or other topics related to vision, intention, inspiration, and weaving new-consciousness practices into your life and business.

Learn more about the Divine Feminine and Abundance tele-class and register here.

Blessings,
Jamie

Sophia, By Any of Her Names

As with many things, there are many ways people reference the Divine Feminine. Some connect with Her as The Great Mother, others resonate more with Isis or Mary, or the Black Madonna, and a host of other 'faces' from traditions that grew from the earliest traditions. For me, Sophia seems the most powerful.

I was born on St. Brigid's Day, named after the Christian Saint who Herself grew out of the Goddess Brigid revered by Celtic peoples. Brigid was a fire goddess, and seen as the patron of healers, poets, craftspeople, and blacksmiths. She provided the fire of inspiration and transformation of one thing to another, whether metals to tools, sickness to wellness, or inspired ideas to writing and poetry and craft. She has her roots in earlier fire goddesses whose roles were closer to the Whole Feminine, the spark or flame at the center of the community, the home, or within us.

Brigid was celebrated at Imbolc, the early February celebration of the spark of fire, of Light, in the midst of Winter. She reminded people that the returning light and life of Spring was already taking root and growing beneath the soil, even in the middle of the darkest season. She reminded that the flame of illumination and light is found at the center of darkness -- the very depths.

Given that I was born on Brigid's Day, and that there is no small alignment between what she symbolized to people in those times (and perhaps to some still), you'd think I might resonate with the Great Feminine by that name and face.

And yet it's to Sophia that I'm called, and return to, again and again. Whether in the power or vibration of the name itself, or because some deep, ancestral, ancient part of me aligns deeply, I am strongly and instantly connected to a power beyond myself, or at least beyond my smaller self.

The connection with Sophia goes beyond any intellectual description of Her, who she was to ancient peoples or in ancient, long-standing traditions, though that's all very interesting. It's always good to know the tradition, while realizing that to get to the core of it we  have to sift through layer upon layer of misrepresentation and ultimately allow it to carry us within, and through our inner connection, to the deep wellspring of Feminine Wisdom.

And that's what the name, or word, Sophia means, stemming from the Greek: Wisdom. Feminine Wisdom. The tradition itself finds its roots in earlier times, with earlier peoples, and She is referenced in 'the Wisdom texts' of the bible, and in other traditions as well, by that name or another.

Yet these are just words that try to capture that which cannot be contained by them. Words allow us to communicate with one another, and name something, yet some things, some great energies, are far beyond words.

As with many things in the Way of the Feminine, we're called beyond words -- though we may use them to describe and connect -- to a deeper knowing, a more embodied experience of that which one name can't possible contain or truly describe. She speaks in a richer, deeper language that was forgotten long ago by most people.

It's difficult for me to find words to describe the connection, the energy, because it is so much a 'full bodied', experiential, energetic one. For me, the connection is powerful, grounding, empowering, and clear, amongst other things. Other people notice the energy as well, though I've not done anything other than connect in some way with Her.

For any of us who are called, and do find our way back to that garden from the cold, dry, linear world of the intellect, it's a tangible, palpable energy, a very real 'conversation', with very real effects.

Though we might find inspiration from all around us, and She is that, too, to truly find Her we must go within, deep within, to the very wellspring within. We must experience Her to know Her, and knowing Her we're transformed and inspired.

Blessings,
Jamie

Tele-Classes: Intuition and Energy, Feminine and Abundance, Imagination Lab

I'm happy to share news about three new tele-classes coming up, including one that will be one in a 'Way of the Feminine' series.

* Intuition and Energy Management for Work, Life and 'Crazy Times'

* The Way of the Feminine and 'The Mother of All Abundance'

* Imagination Lab: Using Your Imagination-Power to Track and Energize Purpose and Vision.

Find more information on each of these -- and registration links -- at Ivy Sea Online.

See you there!

Blessings,
Jamie

Coming back to center, heart and soul

With all of the seeming chaos happening in the world, particularly the Western World, with its imploding institutions and often-scandalous unveilings of the 'man behind the curtain', there is a soft yet strong undercurrent pulling us back to our own centers. We have the opportunity to notice where we've given away our power, and where power has been abused in a 'power over' paradigm.

I don't say this lightly, nor is it simply an intellectual observation. I've been called to notice it again and again in my own life, almost unrelentingly. Recent experience has been no different.

Individually, as culturally, the rumblings and shakings of the foundations we built our houses upon -- where we put our faith and trust, and what we constructed our identities around -- offer the blessing-in-disguise of questioning just what that foundation was, and where it was. As a mentor told me years ago, "If you've built your identity and confidence on something that can be shaken, it will inevitably be shaken." Ahhh, those simple  yet sometimes painful truths.

For me personally, this has led to a growing (yet by no means 'finished') awareness of how it feels when I've identified too much with what's going on 'out there', or I'm allowing external things too much power. I find that I feel like I'm dispersed, feeling a bit too thin and more susceptible to the fear and anxiety that seems pervasive now in the collective mind and energy field. As esoteric as this might sound, I assure you that it's pretty tangible. We give ourselves signs, and if we read them they offer invaluable insight and guidance.

Though the daily effects of this are evident in being called into a more conscious awareness through experiences with things like livelihood or job, financial affairs or money, relationships, it tracks itself back, ultimately, to a common source -- what we believe, and what we ultimately trust, which has everything to do with what we think and do.

This is very much part of the Great Work shift that's happening -- the shift or transformation of consciousness that comes about with both inner and outer prompts, and leads back from 'inside out' to a shift in our beliefs, thinking, and action. Be the change, and be renewed by the renewing of your Mind.

If we do engage, ask into it, and notice, we track our way back to the essential cosmology: do we believe in a world of separation, in which we're 'lonely little molecules' bobbing around disconnected from all else in a hard, cruel world, in which fear and scarcity are the impetus behind all systems, thought-habits, secondary beliefs, and actions?

Or do we call forth from the deepest recesses of our ancient memory and present knowing our unity with all that is, a basically friendly Universe (according to Einstein, Taoists, and many others) in which all co-arises and mutually and plentifully supports us and all other beings? The old duality or unity choice, or the Return of the Feminine Way to harmonize a system out of balance. Sacred texts have long suggested that whether we experience and see 'heaven' or 'hell' has everything to do with this lens.

The esoteric becomes extremely personal and experiential, which perhaps has always been the heart of it ... the great opportunity.

This seems to be the ultimate calling: to track back, to see anew, and to allow a renewed awareness to transform us. We find this within us, at our center, not through complexity or externals but through simple practices that unveil our connection to all things. To One, even as It expresses itself in so many varied ways.

Facets of the Feminine, and the Role of Men in the Emergence.

This morning I received an inquiry from a kindred-spirit brother about the facets or characteristics of the Feminine, and the role of men who feel called to participate in the emergence of the Divine Feminine.

The question about the facets of the Feminine is one that I've been inquiring into, and living, for awhile. The Feminine is highly experiential and adventurous that way, to put it mildly!

First, there is the re-emergence, and in some ways new emergence, of the energy and awareness that gets called the Divine Feminine, and goes by a few other names as well. Then there is the work we have as women and men, gender, in this great birthing.

For me, there are facets of being that are associated with the Feminine or Divine Feminine, and then there are those that we discern through our own connection with that energy of being.

Some facets include intuition, receptivity, allowing, spaciousness, trust, synthesis, inspiration, vision that comes from within, unity or One (versus the duality, and also connected as a personified expression as individual facets of One energy with which we're connected and co-creating), compassion, and allowing intuitive or divine guidance to guide the action we take. It's the place from which creativity springs. In the Tao, it's the Way of Water. Think of water flowing, inexplicably softening things, carving things out. It's a soft yet powerful energy and dynamic.

What's been feared about this, particularly in the Western or patriarchal culture, is that it requires us to release the control of willing things, engineering them, from our trained thinking minds. It feels like being 'out of control', like chaos. And of course as physics has been showing, and some of the Great Wisdom traditions have long taught, there is a pattern and an organizing principle within this 'chaos'. There are also multiple possibilities, rather than just the limited ones that our Thinking Minds know and act from, creating loops rather than spirals of life. We allow for the flow of Grace, the unexpected, to happen.

Masculine facets have become out of balance in the culture due to separation from the Feminine, which together create wholeness. Some of the facets associated with the Masculine are analysis, categorization, organization around what we've received from Wisdom, will, action, structure (material, in the world), thought -- that which is more active and moves outward.

Albert Einstein said that the intuitive mind is the master and the rational mind the servant, but we've allowed the servant to become the master. The Masculine separate from the wise intuitive influence and guidance of the Feminine, from compassion, from that sense of connectedness.

Neither is 'bad' -- that argument distracts and derails us now. Both ways, working in greater harmony, are very necessary. With the reclamation of the Feminine, we are remembering and embodying what's been too long set aside, restoring harmony, and that birthing and reclamation or re-embodying can be messy. Like art of any kind. :)

It's really important to have Kindred-Spirit brothers active in this work, both protecting and holding the space for women to do the work we have in it (as the Sufi teacher Llewellyn Vaughn-Lee shares), but also to do the work of reclamation within and sharing that. There are men who will only see and hear this from other men, like Llewllyn Vaughn Lee and perhaps you and others (one of my own teachers, Andrew Harvey, comes to mind as well). What's important is that this work by men not be separate from the Feminine work of women, but supportive of and complementing it and honoring it.