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Writing :: The Letter Series :: Ascension Discourse on Love :: The Ascended Life l. Amera Ziganii Rao
Okay. The most romantic thing I can tell you Twin Soul, is this. Every time I walk away from you, my digestive system goes up the spout. Isn't that romantic.
Alignment with destiny indeed. You already know don't you.
My beautiful Ascension Twin Flame, as he will be known from now on. I already miss him.
What a soap opera, not to dismiss any of the feelings whatsoever. These are magical times.
So, Twin Soul, you are pissing about in the 'Whore and Madonna' trilogy, as my Ascension Twin Flame probably is and every man on earth and every Lemurian on earth too. Okay. So, my theory has to change. Apparently, the whole woman can come from that 'Dirty Havana Trilogy' (Guttierrez). She does come from the merging of the 'Whore and Madonna' triangle. Okay.
Not much more to say right now. You will continue in what you are doing and to find yourself and to master, what I now see is the key to your healing and indeed The Ascension Twin Flame and The Other and everyone. I was reading Nancy Qualls Corbett again and will repeat the copy here.
Basically, from what I get so far, 'I' and I can see that in killing The High Priestesses and indeed, High Serpent Female Priesthood, the TAMING of the sexuality, the SACREDNESS of the sexuality was taken away. So, you killed your only source of love. The taming of the real.
The 'Whore' is the frightening woman who can make you lose SEXUAL control. Got it. The violence, the propensity, the addiction, the Lolita thing, the suffocating another person and not letting them out of your sight, the '9 and a half weeks' syndrome of controlling addiction.
Because The Sacred Whore Society doesn't exist. Other than in women like me. High Serpent Priesthood.
Okay. So, in finding peace and a formula and your healing and my sanity and finally, a life, we can focus on that. You probably all are. I have to renew my knowledge on that area in particular. I thought I knew male sexuality. I do, but not the context of course, in what you have lost, in carrying out your forefathers orders to kill High Serpent Priesthood.
So this is the area of salvation as well as the reason why the 'Whore' is hidden in a cave and denied life.
Got it.
Back later. You carry on with your 'Dreamgirls' plot.
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....and as for my Ascension Twin Flame, you are gorgeous. Unfortunately (!), so is he.
I don't think I am wrong am I. You have also opened up my vista professionally (whether either of you like it or not!) with New York. I am grateful and can visualise that market easily now. In the confines of my political prisoner as a sexy mistress, banished out of sight, life, that is very very helpful. Believe me.
And I know you. Don't forget that. Psychic soul friendship. Apparently - and don't I sound blase - that is what we do. I miss our vision already.
Thank you.
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So, in light of what has been said about sex, your lack of control, your terrible lack of education for lifetimes and what the Tribe truly wants to happen to women like me, here is my favourite mantra redeveloped for the times:
The Dark Angel of Truth. Hekate. The Whore. The Wife. The Woman. The Girl. The Mother. The Daughter. The Sister. The Friend. The Slut. The Saint. The Whole. Amera Ziganii Rao
I am the greatest threat to The Patriarchal Toilet Tribe Civilisation ((I use that word loosely), since the beginning of time. I am Hekate, Lilith and Kali. I am the Dark Angel of truth and I and my kind will have vegeance on this earth. In this lifetime or the next. It is called justice. The justice of true love. It's called love. It's called abundance, justice and care. Fecund, sacred love. Love. I am the greatest threat and I will get it. It is my destiny. To be neither 'Whore or Madonna'. To be a real woman, with a real man. A man freed from the confines of his desexualised passion, his non sexual, women hating violence, his rage and his fear of the forefathers. A man who has mastery over his own primal power. A man who loves the Hekate. And is not afraid to say it. He won't be afraid to say it, because he won't be afraid to do it. Have sex. Real sex. Real love. The pre courtship is sexual training. Sacred sexual training. To clear 8000 years of unconscious shit. I will have my justice. In this lifetime or the next. I am the Dark Angel of truth. The Dark Angel of the primal. Primal power. The only kind of power there is. Real, primal power. The Self. The SACRED Self. The real Sacred. Not the made up kind. The real.
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Master Quotes
Nowhere can man (woman) find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his (her) own soul. Marcus Aurelius
If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration. Nikola Tesler
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man (woman). Fyodor Dostoevsky
You've already made the choice. You're here to figure out WHY you made that choice. Matrix Reloaded
What would love do now? This is a marvellous question. It washes away all doubt. It bathes the mind with the wisdom of the soul. Neale Donald Walsh
Soul is a way of life, but it is always the hard way. Ray Charles
All you need is love. Love is all you need. The Beatles
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness. Eckhart Tolle
When you know yourself you are empowered. When you accept yourself you are invincible. Tina Lifford
The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough. William Blake
Free your mind from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.
Bob Marley
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein
"Know thyself and thou shalt know all the mysteries of the gods and the universe". The Delphi Oracle
The Friendship of Love. Amera Ziganii Rao
Just tuning in. Devotion and friendship, despite everything. And still, dreaming of Cuba. Okay.
One thing I am appreciating is this; becoming a new person again, after such a great, great war. Grounding into myself and my work and the vastness of it. The mountain feels incredibly enjoyable, despite all the circumstances.
And despite everything, I feel you. I'm thinking about relationship and commitment and what one actually does in life with another. I've lived with one set of rules for 32 years. The transcension of 'The (Sacred) Whore and the (Tribe) Madonna'. Your job. Mine is being done. Entering life. The macho intellectual dollybird Sacred Priestess Disir Educator/Healer/Artist. An artform in itself. Like The Sacred Pimp.
That's nice. Time is finally manageable. There's a lot to do. Still hate my life and still blame you. But I am okay. I think you are too.
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....and yes, I was visiting New York too. Very nice. Thank you. I'm watching you and already relying on you.
Talking generally too, I am contemplating the difficult task of explaining the psychic. I am going to enjoy it though. These are new times on earth. We are in the sixth sense. Extremely powerfully. I look forward to exploring the details of what these gifts are. Through 'direct apprehension' of The Universe, my Hierophant and High Serpent Amazonian Priesthood job, (known to the ordinary world as prophet work) and through all the teachers who have come before. It is all part of our return. The return of magic on earth.
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Supernatural Intelligence. Amera Ziganii Rao
Amera Ziganii Rao :: Supernatural Cosmic Intelligence + Supernatural Intelligence. Training to be a world class educator in Consciousness + The Politics of Rape/The True Love Journey + Human Rights + Purpose + The Lost Knowledge + Inner and Outer Power.
And talking of psychic, that is what level we work on. In other words, you, my dear(s), have Supernatural Intelligence too. The path to BECOMING conscious, is to MANIFEST that into the real. Into conscious intelligence. Which is why this confirmation of all that we 'feel' (supernatural cosmic psychic intelligence) is so good. As well as the wheel of the bid for love and union being oiled, it is also the confirmation and growth of what I had to confirm so much too and do still have to all the time. Supernatural Cosmic Psychic Intelligence™. Be proud. I am.
The biggest factor to remember in becoming conscious is this. Real Supernatural Intelligence cannot be attained without love. Love is the energy of The Great Mother Divinity Universe. Hate is the base element. Very sexy. Very forceful. Very powerful. But hate. Hate is the lower debris of the Universe. Love that converts hate into love is the most powerful on earth. Because it is conscious becoming love from hate.
The return to innocence. I forgive everything. I forgive men. I forgive Lemurians. I forgive the mothers who fuck up Atlanteans, long before any man comes along. I forgive the fathers, the brothers, the sisters, the cousins, the friends, the whoevers.
That is love. Love is also the state of self love before anything else. I am watching the profound gift to humanity as far as I am concerned, this film.....Precious....
Precious (full title: Precious: Base on Nol by Saf (Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire)) is a 2009 American drama film, directed and co-produced by Lee Daniels. Precious is an adaptation by Geoffrey S. Fletcher of the 1996 novel Push by Sapphire. The film stars Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, and Mariah Carey. This film marked the acting debut of Sidibe.
The film, then without a distributor, premiered to acclaim at both the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, under its original title of Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire. At Sundance, it won the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize for best drama, as well as a Special Jury Prize for supporting actress Mo'Nique. After Precious' screening at Sundance in February 2009, Tyler Perry announced that he and Oprah Winfrey would be providing promotional assistance to the film, which was released through Lionsgate Entertainment. Precious won the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. The film's title was changed from Push to Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, to avoid confusion with the 2009 action film Push.[6] Precious was also an official selection at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival (particularly the un certain regard section).
Lionsgate gave the film a limited release in North America on November 6, 2009 (the release was expanded on November 20). Precious received largely positive reviews from critics; the acting, the story, and its message were generally praised. In the film's opening weekend in limited release, it grossed $1.8 million, putting it in 12th place at the box office. As of February 2010, the film had grossed over $47 million domestically, ranking no. 65 for 2009, recouping its $10 million budget, and making it a box office success.
Precious received six nominations, including one for Best Picture, at the 82nd Academy Awards. Geoffrey Fletcher won for Best Adapted Screenplay. Mo'Nique won the award for Best Supporting Actress, for which she received a standing ovation at the ceremony, along with numerous other accolades.
In 1987, obese, illiterate 16-year-old Claireece Precious Jones (Gabourey Sidibe) lives in the New York City ghetto of Harlem with her dysfunctional, abusive, unemployed mother, Mary (Mo'Nique), who has long subjected her to physical, mental and sexual abuse. She has also been raped by her father, Carl (Rodney "Bear" Jackson), resulting in two pregnancies. The family resides in a Section 8 tenement and survives on welfare. Her first child, "Mongo" (short for Mongoloid), has Down syndrome and is being cared for by Precious' grandmother, though Mary forces the family to pretend that Mongo lives with her and Precious so she can receive extra money from the government. When Precious' second pregnancy is discovered, her high school principal arranges for her to attend an alternative school, where she hopes Precious can change her life's direction. Precious finds a way out of her traumatic daily life by escaping into daydreams. In her mind, she has created an alternate world where she is loved and appreciated.
Inspired by her new teacher, Blu Rain (Paula Patton), Precious finally learns to read and write. She meets sporadically with social worker Ms. Weiss (Mariah Carey), who learns about incest in the household when Precious lets slip who fathered her children. While Precious is in the hospital giving birth to her second child, Abdul, she meets John McFadden (Lenny Kravitz), a nursing assistant who shows her kindness. After her mother hits her and deliberately drops 3-day-old Abdul, Precious fights back and flees her home with Abdul. As they set out, she stops at a church window and watches the choir singing a Christmas hymn inside, imagining that she and her fantasy boyfriend are together and singing a more upbeat version of the song. Precious breaks into her school classroom because it is cold and she has nowhere to go. Upset and extremely frustrated at the sight, Blu contacts several people regarding where Precious can stay. Later that night, Precious stays with Blu and her live-in partner (leading Precious to speculate that Blu is a lesbian). The next morning, Ms. Rain takes her and Abdul to find assistance for them. She tells Precious that she will be able to continue her schooling while she raises Abdul in a halfway house.
Precious's mother soon returns to inform her that her father has died of AIDS. Precious later learns that she is HIV-positive, though Abdul is not. Feeling dejected, she steals her case file from Ms. Weiss's office. As she shares the details of her file with her fellow students, she develops a new outlook on life. Precious and her mother meet for the last time in the office. Ms. Weiss confronts her about her abuse of Precious, pointing to specific incidents going back to when Precious was 3 years old. The mother begs Ms. Weiss to help her get Precious back, but she refuses because of the extent of the abuse. The film ends with Precious in a changed frame of mind, focused on improving life for herself and her children. She severs ties with her mother, takes custody of Mongo, and plans to complete a GED test to receive a high school diploma equivalency.
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Atlanteans cannot watch stories or read stories like this without feeling physically sick and extraordinary pain. This is the first time I have seen something like this for a while and have long forgotten how utterly magnificent and blessed I am, for having made the momentous journey out of the cruelty of all that is Lemuria. Extraoardinary. What the work is about of course, for my people and anyone - you - who wants to love them/us/me.
Even now, I am watching it in chunk bites. It's easy of course to look at the literals and think class, race, culture, whatever. Bullshit. This is about as upper middle class as it gets. This is the basis of psychological warfare. The polite killer on earth.
But that's not the point. I've expressed much about this and will be for the rest of my life. That is not the point. The point is that the first thing the film portrays from the offset is Precious's astounding level of ability to survive and thrive. She utilises Supernatural Intelligence from the beginning. It's called daydreaming, to numb herself from the immense pain around her and the vicious malice that is being meted out on her. She is talking to herself all day like a personal development coach, willing her right to be worth something even though everyone tells her she is worth shit.
Self love is the only thing you need. But real self love. Like that. Self parenting. I see now, especially as I am watching it, how gifted I am. How gifted Atlanteans are and this only proves the fantastical but true theories. You suffer so much and frankly, make others suffer because you have a much smaller version of the gift. Of course. You can't have everything. And self love is like courage. It is grown.
So take the forgiveness, especially Cuba of course - great euphemisms - and also New York and also....and now take the responsibility to self love. To just be love. Be a state of love and then the hate can be tempered. The more you love yourself, the more you can love. Humanity. Really love. And the more you can love humanity - and believe me I have to work on this all the time - the more you can love when it is personally so painful. Two people loving each other is about self love. And self love is not just a gift. It is a huge discipline, acquired over time.
The harder you work, the more it will come. The discipline comes from being super intelligent to begin with, while possessing Supernatural Intelligence, and, suffering. Be hated, be bullied, be used and abused and self love will go through the fucking roof.
That is not an advert for the legitimacy of anything Lemurian that has not been cleansed.
But it is me understanding. And remembering how fucking awesome I am. It's been a long war and I have found myself apologising when I shouldn't and maybe not, when I should. But I watch that film and prepare for the first book, and know that I have been in such a long war. Self love comes from self worth. I am proud of myself.
Now, in Supernatural Intelligence people, the Wizard class that we all are, with the High Serpent Amazonian Priesthood at the top, with the responsibilities to go with it, that means, meeting 'your maker'. Hearing The Universe, the same way you hear me. Getting out of the way to hear it. Letting it speak for you. Letting it CHOOSE LOVE for you in any moment. That is soul.
Enter that, you enter GOD, The Great Mother Universe energy. Enter that, you begin to love. You convert hate to love in each moment. With women, or anyone you need the most. With life.
And finally, hopefully, with me.
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And I just want to say something I have been meaning to share for a while. Cinderella. You know what to me is the most unanswered question in that story....if Cinderella had been made into a slave by the ugly stepmother and stepsisters, that is one thing. But why didn't the father know?
That has always been my question. Because Cinderella is an Atlantean. Atlanteans have to be ignored, kept quiet, enslaved and just used. Atlanteans have no place of power or worth on a Lemurian earth. That is your responsibility to know that, if you aim to love an Atlantean. We need protection. You, from you. Atlanteans can forgive. Can Lemurians love. Yes.
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'New York, New York, so good, they named it twice'. Amera Ziganii Rao
I don't actually know what to say. But I am feeling the truth. All our truths. Now, it takes huge courage. To believe in the Supernatural Intelligence. Consciousness made conscious. Life.
I feel it is chosen. I feel it is right. I feel the tyranny will never change. I feel that that was for a reason. I was to fly bigger. And fly the nest. And you need total command. And you can't merge the Sacred Whore and Tribe Madonna. With me. It seems that your truth may now be done.
New York is more. New York also shares. New York is the new. New York could want me. I'm watching. And beginning to weep less. We have made a momentous journey. We will always be. But, not it seems, on earth. Let us prepare. It could be the truth. And I want to live as well as love. I may just get the chance this time. Let us prepare for that possibility. Life has to come with the love. One guardian has to hand over to another. In a big life.
That's how it looks so far. The new ultra profound. To follow the old. Love is truly 'a many splendoured thing'. Which is why love is always enough. Love is the truth. The many splendoured truth. Many more than we thought perhaps. But certainly, always, the many splendoured truth. Even if it makes us cry.
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Freaking Out and Not Before Time. Amera Ziganii Rao
And actually, on another level entirely, I am releasing anything to do with my personal life. I can't cope with any of this anymore and frankly, don't see why I should. I did it because I believed in something and because I am clearly psychic. As are both you, Cuba and you, New York. I truly cannot believe I am doing this.
I have had enough of this plane. I get that neither of you nor anyone wants to be my friend, other than in the intentions of the future or this or that or shake it all about. I honour that. But I am also not going to give a fuck about any of it anymore. I have to earn a life now and no man is going to share. I am no longer therefore in the business of entertaining millionaires. I intend to become one myself. And maybe we will converge by then. I release the harvest that was the goal and I release you and I release you and I release everything.
I begin a new life tomorrow. A simple and single one in a shithole in London. I am going to build greatness from my bedroom. And forget all about men.
If anyone has anything to say, you are welcome. Anything else, I think I would have to safely DEMAND that it be communicated on the earth plane. Sometimes that really does help. It's called life.
Thank you. I'll stay in touch. About life.
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A Poor Life. Amera Ziganii Rao
It never occurred to me that I would be long term poor. I am now waking up to seven years of being on the outside and believing that I would attain mutual abundance, in terms of love and of course, everything that comes with the expansion of two people together, especially if one of those people is more successful materially or financially.
I am long term poor. As Gandhi says, 'poverty is the worst form of violence'. I agree, especially as the reason I am poor is so much to do with men. It is also to do with the fact that I did not factor 15 years of illness with the care of this disability and that I would come from people who couldn't care for too long and without conditions. I'm a very talented and disabled person who cannot attract love. I didn't know it would hit me so pragmatically, for real.
I certainly also never factored for another seven years without productivity. With such a vast and profound subject, I can only go with the truth of it. I am poor because I pursue truth and the truth is you, Cuba and all men. Lemuria if you like. Truth is your hell.
And what it is to be on the outside, rejected and unloved.
So, I am not going to let it drown me, but whatever happens to me with men from now on, Cuba, New York, to use the euphemisms or indeed, anyone else, I am going to accept that it has nothing to do with my life and that I am long term poor.
It's weird. It's been so long but the shock is only hitting now. I suppose that is why, shamanically, I have ended up in this shithole of a flat and been crying out about it for so long. It seems that the biggest part of not being loved, would be financial, for me. How strange. How apt. How generic.
I'm a poor artist and a poor shaman and a poor, disabled person. Attractive. So, another long journey now. To finally, not be poor.
I accept that there is no love and that if there is, it has nothing to do with life.
Peace.
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....of course, New York, I am talking about Cuba. My faith however is smashed. But yes, him and not you.
I do not however have any confidence in any man now. I don't know what is allowed. I only know what is not allowed. Care is apparently not allowed. And I am poor and therefore have nothing to offer relationship. Care is not allowed. My life has proved that. I didn't know that and would be terrified of ever hoping or asking for that again. A mistress doesn't even get divorce rights. She just gets dumped after 7 years of neglect. So, not too optimistic about any of it. But yes, it is about him, not you. And I don't want to be a mistress again anyway and that would be another major reason why.
So, yes, it is about him and not you. You, I have just 'met'. Sure.
The rest of the 32 years of being on the outside however are no different. So I do not apologise for complete cynicism or lack of faith in anything but male madness or cruelty. I never have to pretend again. My life is the proof of all the abuse.
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Women can't afford to love men. Men do not make money to buy women. Men make money to financially abuse women. Therefore, women cannot afford, to love men. Men are financially dangerous. They take up all your energy, demand to take up all your energy. And give nothing for it. Women cannot afford to love men. Unless they want to remain poor.
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No, I don't think so, Cuba. For instance, even if you look at it creatively, you could have donated. You are just mean. Mean. You are not even Robert de Niro's The Good Shephard anymore, because you didn't even mind if it was made public, even though my work is not exactly well known. And I have to come to terms with the fact that I have truly been financially violated for four years, while you decided what you wanted to do, and that you brought in wife number 2 at the same time and just forgot to tell me. Because you hadn't made up your mind and that my only recourse now, was to be financially violated more, while you decide what you want to do. Because you cannot love me, even though you love me.
Now, on a true level, I know what we have/had is as profound as it gets. And that you gave me emotional support. I needed you and you needed me. But please. Look at the work I have done. Yes, sure it takes me forward eventually into my own fiscal life, and that it is a massive work and not just for you, but it doesn't matter how you look at it, you are mean and a Sacred Whore abuser. The sad thing is that we both know you abuse your 'wife' too. You are a misogynist. You can only abuse. The Sacred Whore and Tribe Madonna syndrome is fascism, under the guise of love. Fascism and cowardice about the tribe, sure. And a thousand other things. The sad thing is that you don't get it and you know what, Cuba, I no longer believe you ever will. You cannot enter Atlantis. You don't have what it takes. The past four years have proved it. And that is why I can let you go, as I sit here, reeling at all that you have done and not done.
I believe you believe you can. I just don't believe you can anymore. And I think the affirmation is coming back from The Great Mother Universe. We were about love and sex. The 'Sophia' Holy Grail relationship is about much more than that. It is about like. You just don't like me. You haven't, since I showed that I wasn't 25 and at the beginning of my career. That is not love. That is fascism, alongside the truth that you do not seem to be big enough for me. At least, not in yourself.
Anyway, I think the main thing for you to know is this. I am now in violation recovery. I am tentatively feeling that New York can enter the Sophia Holy Grail. That he is ready to stop the Sacred Whore and Tribe Madonna syndrome. That gives me real hope. He and I are as profound as it gets too. And I think it may go further. I think he actually likes me.
First love indeed. A woman has to be abused anyway. Even if she stays right away from the slavery marriage of the tribe. She still has to be abused as a mistress slave. That leaves a bad taste in my mouth. You are mean. Like my family, you loved me. But you are mean spirited and you just don't like me. Don't. I do. And maybe, just maybe, he will too.
I remain however, poor, recovering from a massive abusive involvement, and alone. And brilliant, loving, loveable and a whole woman. And I am still alive. Without you.
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Good question, New York. Fascism is a broad word. Fascism because The Sacred Whore is about emotional healing. And if housework in the Lemurian world is not something that is paid for and that is compulsory for wifehood, as it seems to stand in life, so is emotional healing (I am not doing housework by the way!)
I am in the business of personal development, literary though I am and aim to be. My business is love, family, slavery, unpaid labour and Atlantean Holy gifts, violated in a Lemurian world. And the way Atlanteans have to educate everyone in how to honour them. Because that dishonour was deliberate to make my people slaves. Sounds fantastical? Really?
And then there is the sex. Sex is taboo in a Lemurian world. You are sex and I am sex. 'The Good Shephard' is about what leads to the fascism of existence, where someone doesn't feel, someone demarcates women into different lives and does it all for reputation, polite society and so he or she doesn't have to declare themselves as real in a Lemurian world.
For instance the Bible. Every second prophet gets condemned for having sex. Real sex. Not the reproductive, punishing Eve and 'forceps' culture of Lemurian (or indeed, Draconian, but we go very far there into the theories of the theories of the real beginnings of this world) life. But real sex. You know the kind.
But I see something different in you, whatever stage of that exodus you are at. I see Atlantis in you. I see Lemuria in me. That is hope. Here's a piece that may help. The path to Sophia. The whole woman.
As for the rest, yes, times are new. But make sure you want to transcend the Sacred Whore and Tribe Madonna please. I cannot go through that again. I want a partnership. Not a psychic hovel of a life anymore. Please. No more.
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...and sorry, fascism, because if a woman doesn't want to obey a man, she is made into the whore. If she obeys and obeys the rules of the tribe, she is allowed to be a wife. That is fascism, pure and simple. Fascism to serve a fascism regime. First, his and then, his father's. That is not marriage. That is just one form of the two slaveries. Sacred Whore or Tribe Madonna. Slavery. Slavery has to make way, for love. Love is the whole. The non Eve woman. As New Eve. Hekate, Lilith and Kali. The whole woman. Sophia. The woman you desire and the woman you like. At the same time.
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First, men who don't believe in love....
http://ameraziganiirao.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/men-who-dont-believe-in-love-susan.html
Second,
http://ameraziganiirao.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/psychology-sacred-prostitute-second.html
Hierophant Knowledge: The Psychology. Men and Women. The Sacred Prostitute. Nancy Qualls - Corbett
The Sacred Prostitute in Masculine Psychology. Nancy Qualls - Corbett
All saints revile her, and all sober men
Ruled by the God Apollo’s golden mean –
In scorn of which I sailed to find her
In distant regions likeliest to hold her
Whom I desired above all things to know,
Sister of the mirage and echo.
Robert Graves, The White Goddess
Anima: Man’s Image of Woman
She has many faces, many guises. She has lived in the mind’s eye of man throughout the ages. The anima, man’s inner image of woman, manifests in each male according to his individual psychology.
“Every man carries within him the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image. This image is fundamentally unconscious, an hereditary factor of primordial origin engraved in the living organic system of the man, an imprint or ‘archetype’ of all the ancestral experiences of the female.” (Jung. Marriage as a Psychological Relationship)
Like a witch, she can cast spells of moodiness, irritability or depression. Like the Greek Sirens or the German Lorelei, the anima can lure a man to destruction. On the positive side, she brings joy, excitement and a sense of well-being. Like the woman who tamed Enkidu in the Gilgamesh Epic, she may be seen as a reflection of a man’s inner woman capable of leading him out of ‘the wild life’.
Down through the ages men have attempted to unravel the mystery of their eternal image of woman. Her sexuality and spirituality inspire a unique fascination. Her exotic image has been captured on the canvas of Goya as the elegant, reclining nude. The Naked Maja or as the Sleeping Venus by Giorgione whose pose expresses pure innocence without a trace of immodesty.
A similar enchantment with the feminine image is observed in the recently revealed series of the mysterious Helga by Andrew Wyeth. Rembrandt used his mistress as his model for the portrait he called Juno, and in his inspiration elevated her to the realm of the goddess. Titian’s image was the bare-breasted, golden-haired woman full of rapture whom he named Mary Magdalene. Man’s inner reflection of the feminine glows in the countless paintings and statues of Aphrodite and the equally numerous portrayals of the Virgin Mary.
Today, man’s idea of woman continues to be displayed, though not often with the grandeur and reverence characteristic of classical art. Pornographic films and centrefolds in slick magazines reveal the inner woman of some modern men. Another of her images, coming from the far side of reality, is often mirrored in the poetry of contemporary song, as in ‘Suzanne’ by Leonard Cohen;
Suzanne takes you down by her place by the river,
You can hear the boats go by.
You can spend the night beside her.
And you know that she’s half-crazy,
And that’s why you want to be there,
And she feeds you tea and oranges
That come all the way from China.
And just when you mean to tell her
That you have no love to give her,
She gets you on her wave length and lets the river answer
That you’ve always been her lover.
The male’s internal image of the feminine ranges from the sensuous and the exotic to the divine. Since the anima is a personification of the male’s unconscious, it is her image that men regularly project onto the women in their lives.
The feminine in man not only excites him but acts as soul guide on his inner journey. She is Dante’s Beatrice, for whose sake he embarks on a heroic adventure in the lower and upper worlds; in so doing, he exalts his lady’s image to the mystical image of the Mother or God. Or the soul guide can be more earthy, like the prostitute Hermine encountered by Harry Haller, the protagonist of Herman Hesse’s Steppenwolf. Haller is a professed pacifist, but inwardly a devouring wolf. He lives secluded in a tiny room and is brought back into the tempo of life by Hermine. She teaches him to dance and to feel the harmonic rhythm of life’s forces as she leads him from isolation to the throbbing world of emotions and appetites. Through her his inner wolf is made conscious. Hermine instills wisdom in Harry as she acquaints him with the neglected areas of his life.
Although great strides have been made in recent years to grant women equal status in the world, the patriarchal system continues to prevail and to impose masculine viewpoints and values on the image of woman. These values reflect the relationship the collective masculine world has both to external woman and to the internal anima. From this point of view, it appears the feminine has three faces – she is mother, whore or virgin – and often a combination of all three. The face the individual man sees is a reflection of his anima.
“When projected”, writes Jung, “the anima always has a feminine form with definite characteristics. This empirical finding does not mean that the archetype is constituted like that IN ITSELF.” Elsewhere he points out that “most of what men say about feminine eroticism, and particularly about the emotional life of women, is derived from their own anima projections and distorted accordingly.”
The woman may be viewed as “property”, someone who exists to serve the man’s sexual need. In that case, she is his whore, his profane prostitute. In most instances such an attitude would be consciously denied; however, it regularly erupts in locker-room expressions, in the sexual harassment found in work situations, and in the privacy of the marriage bed. The repressed notion of woman-as-whore is frequently the manifest or hidden element in marital problems. The man who expects sexual gratification on demand from his wife, as his right and her duty, consciously or unconsciously envisions woman as his whore.
Quite the opposite is the situation where woman is elevated to the heavenly heights of The Virgin Mother; she is all things pure and holy, and consequently is untouchable. “Goddesses and demigoddesses”, writes Jung, “took the place of the personal, human woman who should carry the projection of the anima.” In such cases, relationship with an actual woman is not possible. The projection shatters when the man discovers she is human after all. He then finds fault with his partner, leaves the relationship or becomes impotent. He may remain disheartened, disenchanted to the extent that he finds all women disreputable.
A classic example of this took place on a grand scale in the Middle Ages, when at the same time as magnificent cathedrals were being built to glorify the Virgin Mary, human women who stood solidly on the ground were being persecuted as witches.
The third face of man’s inner feminine composite is that of the mother-wife. “For the son,” writes Jung, “the anima is hidden in the dominating power of the mother, and sometimes she leaves him with a sentimental attachment that lasts throughout his life and seriously impairs the fate of the adult. (Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious)
Typically today, a man in the first half of life leaves the parental home and takes a wife to establish a home of his own. This is undeniably an important first step, for it is an active effort to free oneself from the anima fascination initially carried by the mother; however, sometimes the wife becomes simply a substitute mother.
As mentioned earlier, the image of woman as maternal is the element or static aspect of the feminine, associated with conservative and unchanging attitudes. The security furnished by the stable situation presents a danger, for the man then lacks the experience and emotional challenges that foster anima development. Jung writes,
“The overwhelming majority of men on the present cultural level never advance beyond the maternal significance of woman, and this is the reason why the anima seldom develops beyond the infantile, primitive level of the prostitute. Consequently prostitution is one of the main by-products of civilized marriage. (Mind and Earth. Civilisation in Transition)
It is not uncommon to hear a man speak of the change in the personal relationship he has with his wife once there are children. The man’s image of the feminine, which previously had excited him in love-making, now regresses back to the static maternal model. He feels stuck, often without vitality or a sense of creativity.
Escalating divorce rates in the Western world reflect the route some men take to escape the domination of the wife-mother. Present day societal norms offer no alternatives except divorce and secret affairs to alleviate the frustration and stress men feel when the passionate, dynamic aspect of the feminine is mired down in static maternal security.
The Anima in Dreams
The feminine within is literally the stuff dreams are made of. Most often the anima in dreams takes the form of an actual woman whose personal characteristics are significant to the dreamer. She may be someone with whom he is associated in outer life or someone totally unknown. From a still deeper realm of the unconscious come archetypal images of feminine nature, symbolic forms overlaid with emotion.
In the following dream, the goddess of love herself comes in symbolic form, as a dove. Paul was a forty year old Swiss man who had been twice divorced and was increasingly unhappy with a third partner. The dream illustrates on an archetypal level the denial of both the actual women and Paul’s own inner feminine, symptomatic of his unconscious attitude toward her goddess and her gift of love.
Paul’s dream
I was walking with E. I feel something in my hand I found in the street. I get the feeling that it comes to life. I call to E. Who is now D. It turns into a pigeon. It blows itself up and walks around looking for some food. I have some crumbs in my pocket and give them to it in my hand. Later it changes into a white dove. I tell a young man, “You see it’s like you, as near to death as to life.”
Later the dove is dying again. I’m in a room and the young man brings it in. “Look at your pigeon-dove.” It’s dead again and he throws it on the table. It’s alive again and jumps to the floor. I think it’s looking for a place to die calmly. The young man does not seem to have any feelings for that. I don’t quite remember the next scene but there seems to be a link between the white dove and D, who is lying somewhere, dead.
In his associations, Paul identified E as a playmate whom he had first met when he was five. Their friendship lasted throughout adolescence. She was his first girlfriend, and he recalled her with much fondness. With her he first became aware of love – Aphrodite, who is traditionally symbolised by a white dove. In the dream it is first a pigeon, of the same family as the dove yet not so evolved or refined. Paul’s associations with pigeons was that they ate and mated all the time. Pigeons would be related to the overwhelming passion that adolescents feel.
The young man in the dream was an aspect of Paul’s shadow, a puer aeternus or eternal boy. This shadow side could not enter a mature relationship and denied the deeper source of love, the goddess. There was potential for life but also for psychological death. The alternately live and dead or dying dove is related to the way Paul experienced his relationships with women.
In the dream there seems to be a possibility for love to come into his life, but the puer, Paul’s shadow side, has no feeling for it, for what love is. Psychologically this points to a primitive stage of anima development.
D was the woman Paul was living with, but she was also an inner anima figure appearing in a positive form in previous dreams. She was the human woman who brought the goddess’ love into effective earthly contact; that is, she brought Paul down to earth – which of course his shadow puer did not like. The lysis of the dream speaks directly to Paul’s conscious thoughts about leaving his partner once again. Not only would the inner soul mate lose its vitality and its connection to the goddess of love, the feminine aspect of the Self, but the actual woman would also experience a kind of death.
Young men can bear the loss of the anima without injury, for it is their masculine side of consciousness which must be developed and recognized. But in the second half of life, a new appreciation for feminine nature, both internal and external, must be established in order for a man to be capable of a mature love relationship and also to connect with his inner life. Where there is no sacrifice of immature ego demands or purely collective masculine values, a certain rigidity sets in, a stoniness toward the joy of life; all that is left is a compelling drive for power or material gain.
Paul’s dream indicated a regressive position as it shows no feeling, no remorse for the death of either the goddess as the bringer of divine love, or the human woman, who in this man’s psychology would be the equivalent of the sacred prostitute.
Speaking of the anima, Jung notes that “if the unconscious figures are not acknowledged as spontaneous agents, we become victims of a one-sided belief in the power of consciousness.” Ruled only by a conscious masculine position, a man is cut off from his soul. The principle of Eros, the feeling of relatedness, is not operative; consequently, the man remains detached, unable to experience either his own emotions of his spiritual nature.
In such a situation, ego consciousness, in its rational, orderly manner, becomes fortified against what it experiences as the disorienting effect of the feminine.
“Self – control is a typically masculine ideal, to be achieved by the repression of feeling. Feeling is a specifically feminine virtue.....A man is trying to attain his ideal of manhood represses all feminine traits – which are really a part of him.” (The Secret of the Golden Flower. Alchemical Studies)
If the ego feels threatened by the other – worldy character of the feminine, there develops a strong defence which results in over-identification with masculine persona roles. These roles may be culturally defined, or related to the mask one wears in professional life. Often a man fails to differentiate between his essential identity and his persona, becoming only the mask.
This was Charles’ psychological situation when he first began analysis. He was an ordained minister, skilful in his role and as an administrator. His clerical collar was the emblem with which he identified himself. Publicly, he was admired for his capabilities, but he was profoundly lonely. There were perhaps one or two trusted relationships where he allowed his true feelings to show. Moreover, his relationship with himself felt like an endless, hopeless mess.
His presenting concern was a deep hollow feeling and a certain barrenness in his life. His marriage of twenty – five years offered more anxiety than solace; as he approached retirement age, he wondered what he would do for the rest of his life if the current superficial connection with his wife continued.
Charles was an educated man in his mid-fifties. He lived a well ordered life. He had been raised in a rural community amid extended family ruled by his paternal grandfather, a typically patriarchal environment. As was the custom in his family, Charles frequently attended church and revival meeting. Neither family members no preachers could satisfactorily answer the young man’s burning questions about his religious feelings; his personal God was trapped in the strong admonitions of revivalist Old Testament preaching the patriarchal authority of church, community and family. The feminine was acceptable only as mother or wife, otherwise she was identified with sex and sin.
The mother-wife, static aspect of Charles’ unconscious feminine was evident in his dreams.
Dominating consciousness, it prevented any connection to the image of feminine nature as moving, dynamic. Here are two of his dreams during the early stages of analysis;
“My mother and I were in my car going to get fuel. We discussed how far I could travel on one tank, like from this city and back. We were standing behind the car when a couple of guys in an old model car jumped the curb and ran between me and my mother. I tried to scream out Help! Help! But I was too frightened. (I awoke terrified with stiff arms and hands).
I was eating dinner with my wife and a female friend. We were seated at a table in a large church convention hall. We were having some conversation but my wife kept cutting me off. I got up and left.....We were apart physically and emotionally after the efforts to talk at the table.”
Fuel is energy, which psychologically is associated with libido, the psychic energy available for life. The car represents the dreamer’s persona, that is, his role as a minister. The beginning of the first dream thus shows Charles’ energy and persona tied up with the mother. This refers not to the personal mother, but to the static, elemental feminine, reflecting an attitude toward life that goes with what is safe, guarded and protected. In this case is also related to Mother church. The dreamer’s fuel or source of energy therefore seems to be derived from the mother-bound component of his psyche.
Two reckless male figures come between mother and son, breaking their strong alliance. As shadowy figures they are incompatible with the dreamer’s image of himself, yet a potentially healthy eruptive force. Of course, the threatening loss of the dreamer’s source of energy, the security of an undisturbed life, is absolutely terrifying; yet at this point in the dreamer’s life, it is necessary. It is also significant that there are TWO shadow figures, an example of the doubling motif, which points to something new on the brink of consciousness.
The situation is symbolically similar in the second dream; however, it lacks the redeeming feature of something breaking through. The dreamer feels only estrangement and separation. Now it is the wife aspect of the mother-wife image which prevents communication with the other faces of the feminine. Eating in the church hall – being nourished within the walls of collective Christian thought – points to the dreamer’s conventional attitudes. In effect he is in a safe container, but that is the very situation in which he feels cut off, “apart physically and emotionally,” from the feminine other.
Along with such mother-wife dreams illustrating an alienation from the full dynamic of the feminine, other dreams indicated a rigid spiritual function. Both kinds of dreams occurred during the same time period.
“I was making a journey with another man to a chapel – the church of my youth. When we got there we had to detour and come from the back due to high water. The water was almost over the road. There was a crust of snow over the edges of the water and vegetation and the churchyard. The flood water was yellow and dingy. We decided there would be no gathering because of the high water.
I was fishing. I caught no fish but saw large fish frozen in big blocks of ice.”
The burning religious quest of Charles’ youth was sinking into the high flood waters of the unconscious. The fish, most notable as an early Christian symbol (one often marked at the bottom of the pages in his dream diary) is symbolic of both the Christ image and new life, but here the life is frozen. The icy starkness, empty church, no greenery, no gathering, all point to an absence of life. On the other hand, there is now a male travelling companion; the safe, approving mother attitudes have been replaced by a new, yet unknown, masculine attitude.
Other dreams contained images of the inner feminine as sick, old or bedridden:
“I was with this woman. She was rather undeveloped or slow witted. We had intercourse and during this time it was discovered that she had need of radical female surgery.
An old hag drives up the hill where I am in a special rigged car so that she can drive. She is very old and very much a hag. I had been friendly to her before but now I am tired of her whiny demands and dependence.
There is a selection being done for a chaplain. An old woman in bed was conducting it. Several of us to be chosen are gathered around. I went up to her bed to ask if I might say a word.”
In these dreams the image of the feminine lacks vitality; sick and disabled feminine figures parallel the inertness of the desolate churchyard and frozen fish. In this comparison we can see the relationship between the feminine and the spiritual. There is nothing to suggest a dynamic feminine presence; however, the dreamer is beginning to be conscious of the demands of his inner woman. He seems to be aware of the power she has over him, yet at the same time wants to be her chosen one.
In time the image of the feminine began to change, as did Charles’ attitude towards his persona and his sexuality. The transformation was mirrored in subsequent dreams:
“ I was with a young, sexually immature male. I was telling him about his sexual organs and about to achieve sexual intercourse with women. He or I or we had some type of drink – wine or liquor.
I was riding in a car with three very attractive girls, with a male driver. One of the girls was talking to me and in a nice way propositioned me. I realised they were prostitutes, and politely refused their offer in that I am a minister. I reached over and touched all three with my hands.
A tall, well-built black woman wearing a brown sweater turned into the office in front of me. She asked me, “Who do you kiss?”
I was lying with a woman. She was hidden from view, but I was fully open to the public. A black woman recognised me as the ‘Reverend’ and began telling me about her grief. Then she realised what was going on and became upset with me; still, she accepted me. Before she left, we embraced each other. I kissed her and a small baby she was holding.”
After the dreamer’s psychologically immature masculine side (perhaps related to the new travelling companion in the third dream) became open to instruction and they celebrated with the drink of Dionysus, the active feminine could approach ego consciousness. The dreamer, although still in his ministerial personal, is not offended at being propositioned by prostitutes and can even reach out to touch these provocative new images of the anima. Then he has an encounter with a black woman, personifying the chthonic feminine – dark, earthy and mysterious.
In the last dream of the series, having become more accepting of his sexuality and now aware that it need not be in conflict with his public image, he could show genuine affection for this earthy side of himself and her child, symbol of his own new life.
The principle of relatedness, antithetical to Charles’ earlier patriarchal stance, now had a firm foothold in consciousness, energising him in a new and exciting way. As the following dreams show, this active principle added an adventurous new dimension to his life, one which could take him to places heretofore unknown.
“I was going up on top of a low building to preach and a very attractive red-haired girl was going with me. She was to be my soloist. On the way up, I kissed her. She was very responsive and we kissed some more. She suggested we go to her place afterwards.
I as in a boat with a woman (in real life she is a chaplain). We were discussing our appreciation for each other and felt alive sexually with each other. She was driving the boat and I was sitting behind her. We crossed over the main river and stopped on the other bank. She was showing me around. This place was almost like an enchanted land. The houses and people were all very neat.”
Charles had arrived at a new psychological place. The active, moving feminine, loving and erotic, was being integrated into consciousness, no longer in conflict with his spiritual side. Moreover, she was leading him into new, unexplored places in his own psyche the neglected inner world of his emotions.
DH Lawrence’s THE MAN WHO DIED
The awe experienced by a man in meeting with his anima – the inner guide who can contain the mysteries of sexuality and spirituality – is illustrated in D H Lawrence’s short novel, THE MAN WHO DIED.
It is a story of a wanderer in Jerusalem, a Christ figure who has had a tormented, public life and now seeks something more fulfilling. His situation is analogous to that of many men who in the second half of life feel compelled to turn inward.
As he sets out on his journey with painful, open wounds, he meets a woman who is a priestess of Isis. He says to himself, “This girl of Isis is a tender flame of healing. I am a physician, yet I have no healing like the flam of this tender girl. But dare I come into this tender touch of life? Oh, this is harder.”
He is absorbed and enmeshed in new sensations as the woman goes into the shrine and gives herself to the feelings and the urge of Isis. She is lovely to him with the mysterious fire of a potent woman, and he is touched by her desire for him. He trembles with fear and with joy, saying to himself, “I am almost more afraid of this touch than I was of death. For I am more nakedly exposed to it.” His wounds begin to cry again, the cry of regret and guilt.
The priestess anoints his scars, saying, “What was torn becomes a new flesh, what was a wound is full of fresh life.” He tells her of a woman who once washed his feet and wiped them with her hair, pouring on precious ointment.
(The Priestess asked) “Did you love her?”
“Love had passed in her. She only wanted to serve,” he replied. “She had been a prostitute.”
“And did you let her serve you?” she asked......”Did you let her serve you with the corpse of her love?”
A vivid shame went through him. “After all” he thought, “I wanted them to love with dead bodies.”
The man who died also felt the pain and death inside his own darkness. In this new consciousness, he felt the stir of something coming, a new dawning. “Now I am not myself. I am something new.” And he said, “Lo, Isis is a kindly goddess; and full of tenderness.....She is dear to me in the middle of my being.”
This is a moving example of a man meeting the anima in the image of the sacred prostitute, one who is able to mediate between the wounded body of denied instinctual energies and the numinous experience of the divine. Although fearful that his wounded masculine nature would be more exposed and subject to more torment, the man opened himself to the tender healing and beneficial way of the priestess of Isis.
Here the sacred prostitute, as one aspect of the anima, functions as mediatrix between consciousness and the unconscious, bringing instinctual forces into harmony with the divine. Without an appreciation of this image, contemporary man experiences a major split between the spiritual and sensual aspects of Eros. Sexual acts devoid of an attitude of tribute to the goddess become merely instinctual performances without connection to the inner being.
Many modern men experience this split. “Man cannot come to a positive connection to his anima until this split is reconciled and healed.” Writes Robert Stein. (The Animus and Impersonal Sexuality) Conversely, it may be that this split cannot be healed until a man has found a positive connection to his anima. What is necessary in a man’s psychological development is for him to experience the transformative, active side of the anima. Only then can he abandon conventional, constricted attitudes towards the feminine and enter into the world of full emotional involvement with another.
Stages of the Anima
As a man’s consciousness widens, his attitude towards both his own feminine side and women in general is altered. Jung describes four stages of anima development, analogous to historical images of the feminine personified by Eve, Helen of Troy, the Virgin Mary and Sophia:
The first stage – Hawwah, eve, earth – is purely biological; woman is equated with mother and only represents something to be fertilized. The second stage is still dominated by the sexual Eros, but on the aesthetic and romantic level where woman has already acquired some value as an individual. The third stage raises Eros to the heights of religious devotion and thus spiritualises him; Hawwah has been replaced by spiritual motherhood. Finally, the fourth stage illustrates something which unexpectedly goes beyond the almost unsurpassable third stage; Sapientia (Sophia)......this stage represents a spiritualisation of Helen and consequently of Eros as such. That is why Sapientia was regarded as parallel to the Shulamite in the song of songs.
At first glance, Jung’s description of anima figures in their progressive stages seems restrictive, as if to imply that only when the anima advances out of the instinctive stage, negating sexual feelings, can one develop spiritually. We ask ourselves whether this is yet another echo of the morality of our culture where sexuality is considered the antithesis of spirituality. If we interpret it in this way, “small wonder then that a wild and confusing conflict arises between man as an instinctual creature of nature and man as a spiritually conditioned cultural being.” (The Psychology of the Transference.)
A more careful consideration of the passage, however, suggests that Jung is actually emphasising the presence of Eros, in its broadest sense, at every stage of anima development. Elsewhere he writes,
“Sexuality is not mere instinctuality; it is an indisputably creative power that is not only the basic cause of our individual lives, but a very serious factor in our psychic life as well.” (On Psychic Energy. The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche)
At the apex of the anima’s development, then, her spiritual aspect encompasses her sexuality. It is contained in the very nature of Sapientia (Sophia) who was the bride of God. In the Bible she says, “I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.” (Proverbs) According to an alchemical text, the Rosarium philosophorum, “On her robe is written in gold lettering.....I am the only daughter of the wise, utterly unknown to the foolish.” (Religious Ideas in Alchemy)
The erotic nature of the highest order of the anima is also seen in the image of the Shulamite, and through this image we find a connection to the sacred prostitute. The Shulamite was a priestess of Ishtar; Jung says that she signifies “earth, nature, fertility, everything that flourishes under the damp light of the moon, and also the natural life-urge.” (Adam and Eve. Mysterium Coniunctionis)
The sacred prostitute, then, while not synonymous with the anima, is a feminine image relevant to every stage of development of man’s inner woman. She offers pleasure, excitement and vitality, a personification of both spirituality and earthiness. She is a lover whose beauty is exciting, whose virginal nature brings forth new life and leads to Wisdom – which is more than simply intellect.
Each successive stage of the anima brings new realizations and an altering of attitudes; at the same time, paradoxically, the influence of the preceding stage is not diminished but rather enhanced. Initially, as Eve, the sacred prostitute is in tune with her biological, sexual nature. She desires physical pleasure. In her wantonness, she desires not THE man but A man. She is not only the giver of sexual pleasure but the receiver. She is matter and body and earth.
As Helen, whose beauty and charm have been idealized as a prototype of erotic love through the ages, (All is dross that is not Helen – Marlowe) the sacred prostitute has these same attributes. She is the beautiful one whose dress and perfume, whose awareness of her rounded form in the movements of her dancing, charms the male and excites his passion. At this stage of anima development, she is seen as more than body – she is an individual in her own right, experienced as the feminine Other. She takes on a particular personality.
The sacred prostitute also has certain characteristics in common with the Virgin Mary, although this is difficult to comprehend because our current cultural image of Mary is clouded by a foggy notion of purity and piety. That is the effect of the split between the sexual and the holy. But there is another image of Mary – as a ‘black’ Madonna – which contains and appreciates these apparently contradictory concepts. Like Mary, the sacred prostitute is considered virginal (psychologically); just as Mary’s virginal womb brought forth the Christ child, so does the womb of the sacred prostitute, as anima, give birth to man’s Christ – like nature, his higher consciousness.
In Roman Catholic tradition, Mary is seen as the intercessor between God and man, leading man to God to assure his immortality. In a similar manner, it was the sacred prostitute who, in welcoming the male into her sacred room and entering into the worship of the deity, was the intercessor, the mediatrix, between the deity and man. The inner woman, through various developmental stages, performs the same function as the mediatrix, notably in the act of sexual love where the physical and personal are transcended.
As described above, Sophia (Sapientia/the Shulamite) parallels aspects of the anima, yet she should also be considered as an aspect of the divine being, analogous to the archetype of the Self. Sophia is Wisdom. In Bibilical tradition she is both the bride of God and the mother, the lover who was with God before Creation. (Proverbs) She is the feminine being who is “a friend and playmate from the beginning of the world, the first born of all God’s creatures, a stainless reflection of his glory and a master workman.” (Jung, Answer to Job. Psychology and Religion, West and East)
Jung quotes from the Wisdom of Solomon to describe her;
“She is ‘the breath of the power of God,’ ‘a pure effluence flowing from the glory of the Almighty,’ ‘The brightness of the everlasting light, the unspotted mirror of the power of God,’ a being ‘most subtil’ who ‘passeth and goeth through all things by reason of her pureness.’ She is ‘conversant with God’ and ‘the Lord of all things himself loved her’......She is sent from heaven and from the throne of glory as a ‘Holy Spirit’” (Ibid)
We have seen earlier that the sacred prostitute, in the celebration of the sacred marriage, embodied the goddess and was identified with her. She was the bride of God, represented by the king. In the union of the sacred marriage, she brought the regenerative power of Wisdom into effective contact with the lives of men.
In each of these stages a man becomes aware of a different aspect of his own feminine nature. He is led, as it were, by one anima image or another through life’s experiences. Ideally, on his path of individuation, he will come to incorporate the full continuum of his instinctive energies and his spiritual essence, an experience that culminates in the hieros gamos, the sacred marriage or uniting of the opposites. (On the Nature of the Psyche) Such a man enters into the sexual act not from a desire for power or the need to control, but with a feeling of honour for, and devotion to, the mystery of the feminine.
In this affective contact with the anima, invariably mirrored in his relationship with actual women, masculine ego consciousness attains an essential enlightenment. Like the stranger who entered the temple of love, a man gives up an aspect of ego consciousness in order to join with the Other. This union itself symbolizes the equality of male and female; neither is dominating, demanding or possessing. Through this positive relationship with the anima a man experiences an exciting, moving vitality in his life; old ideas and values which have become burdensome are lifted from his shoulders.
Yet this new consciousness is not achieved without frustration, conscious suffering and fear, for it is invariably accompanied by disconcerting changes.
Anima Development in Middle Life
Discontent, boredom and a general lack of enthusiasm are common symptoms of an anima problem, especially in the second half of life. If a man experiences the feminine only as the maternal – and therefore as something to be fertilized or feared – can the transformative influence of the sacred prostitute be realised? The endless sameness of a comfortable and predictable relationship is often the Scylla and Charybdis which provokes the inner search for, and development of, the anima.
Such was the case with John, a man in his mid-forties. He spoke of a deep dissatisfaction with his life; he lacked energy and interest both at home and at work. He was an extremely hard worker, but he did not view his work as successful and was very pessimistic because of frequent setbacks. This pessimism was also reflected in his marriage of eighteen years, for he felt that all he did was to no avail. Most often he felt a morbid resignation to his ‘unhappy fate’, yet on occasion there was a glimmer of hope that his life might be different.
As his analyst, I initially experienced John as rigid and obstinate, clutching old values in an inflexible way. He has a growing need for alcohol, which on several occasions had resulted in drunkenness. This in turn created guilt, remorse and depression. Such symptoms are among those described by Jung as indicative of the need to make contact with the anima.
After the middle of life......loss of the anima means a diminution of vitality, of flexibility, and of human kindness. The result, as a rule, is premature rigidity, crustiness, stereotype, fanatical one-sidedness, obstinacy, pedantry, or else resignation, weariness, sloppiness, irresponsibility, and finally a childish ramollissement (lethargy) with a tendency to alcohol. After middle life, therefore, the connection with the archetypal sphere of experience should if possible be re-established.
Jung also pointed out the similarity between the concept of ‘loss of soul’ among primitives and what happens to a man who loses contact with his anima;
Loss of soul amounts to a tearing loose a part of one’s nature; it is the disappearance and emancipation of a complex, which thereupon becomes a tyrannical usurper of consciousness, oppressing the whole man. It throws him off course and drives him to actions whose blind one-sidedness inevitably leads to self-destruction.
So it was with John, for there was a strong masculine ego and considerable conscious development but little recognition of the earthy, irrational feminine base of the unconscious.
Early in the analytic process the anima began to present herself, as in the following dream:
“I was at a farm, in a pasture, and decide to carry a gun and hunt. There were some buildings of a school-type. My wife was there but all the others were very conventional, even ‘goody-goody’ type men. I carried a pint of whisky in my hand but felt uncomfortable so I put it in my pocket. There was a round storage bin for grain. I go into it but it is below ground level. A girl is there whose name is Lola. She is a whore. I wanted to make love to her but when i started she said, “I don’t do that” but I knew she did and we did. Several men stopped by, one from the power company and one from the conservation department. We did not finish the act and I awoke frustrated and unfulfilled.”
The open pastures belong to the Earth Mother and here is where the dream-ego seeks the female (in the vernacular, goes “hunting”) with phallic symbol in hand. This presents an image of a rugged outdoor-type man, a shadow side of John not often apparent in his gentlemanly manners. John’s persona was in fact related to the “school-type buildings” in the dream: rational, intellectualising and conservative. This was the image with which he identified (and apparently the one his wife saw and supported). The “goody-goody” side of himself is apparently not compatible with his strong, erotic “hunter” nature, which was repressed and therefore consciously incongruous to John. The whisky-from-the-bottle aspect of the shadow was in fact being acted out in bouts of drinking.
In John’s associations to the dream, he related that in his youth he had known a girl named Lola who had been a prostitute. He described her as “wily but clean”. He also thought of the musical, Damn Yankees, in which the female lead, Lola, is a beautiful woman in league with the devil. She sings a song, “Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets.” Another association was that his wife was a school teacher, and that there was a striking difference between the two dream women, wife and whore.
The storage grain bin where the girl is found is related to Demeter and the Kore (Persephone) – Demeter, the maternal image associated with grain, and the Kore, Demeter’s daughter, who was abducted by Hades, the devil. Here the dream-ego (John’s hunter shadow) finds Lola (the dynamic aspect of the feminine, his own inner Kore) “below ground level” which psychologically points to her being contained in the maternal womb of the unconscious. Lola is undifferentiated woman, an object to be used. The sexual act is like a rape, since Lola does not enter into it freely. For a man to take a woman more or less by force, not honouring her “no”, is indicative of a primitive sexual attitude, which here, apparently, is a characteristic of John’s shadow. It is true that a woman might say “no” ambivalently, both fearing and desiring the penetration of the masculine. However, this fine distinction is for the woman to reflect on; it does not justify intercourse without consent.
The men from the “power company” and the “conservation department” are analogous to those self-regulatory psychic components which monitor the flow of psychic energy – libido – and warn against the misuse of natural resources. The sexual act was entered into for instant self-gratification, with no respect for the “otherness” of the woman or for the goddess of love. The appearance of the men and their interruption of the sex act leaves the dreamer feeling frustrated and unfulfilled.
This dream troubled John and led him to wrestle consciously with his shadow side and repressed attitudes towards the feminine, which held his anima at the Eve stage – like a young girl still closely connected with the mother. The image of the feminine as prostitute is promising, but at this point she is simply used by the shadow and there is no sense of the sacred.
In struggling with his shadow, John also became conscious of hostility and even fear towards women. Again this side of himself was so incompatible with his conscious self-image that it had been repressed. Using the technique of active imagination, he became friends with his inner Lola, who at one point said to him, “You didn’t love me enough.” On one occasion he had a compelling urge to play music for her, as if to create a feeling of harmony between them.
Gradually there was a transformation in John’s conscious attitudes, as reflected in the following dream.
“I was looking for calves up on a hill. I came to an old house and went in. There were four or five women there. A young girl was sitting at a reception desk and another one was behind her. We talked and I brushed my lips against hers. The second girl whispered she wanted me to go with her. I followed her through several rooms. She was nude and absolutely breathtakingly beautiful. We came to another room with straw on the floor as in a loft. My feeling was she was a bitch and lover in one.”
“Looking for calves” indicates John’s growing awareness of the love goddess, who as mentioned earlier was often imaged with a crescent-moon headdress, related to cow horns. The calves, an image or representation of the “newly born” goddess must be found. This search leads the dreamer to the house of women.
The house in the dream is reminiscent of a brothel; the fact that it is old may point to the dreamer’s outdated collective attitudes towards sex and women. But because of the erotic atmosphere it may also indicate a growing differentiation in his personal attitude towards the feminine, a movement towards seeing and appreciating them as sexual beings.
Often when a man dreams of several women, one comes forwards and presents herself; she holds a special quality and is particularly attracted to the dream-ego. Here such a woman becomes the dream-ego’s guide through an unknown labyrinth. This alluring and charming woman is receptive to his masculine potency; she is neither overwhelmed nor forced as in the previous dream. There is a humble and unpretentious atmosphere, denoted by the straw on the floor. John is still ambivalent, perceiving the woman in the dream as both bitch and lover. At the same time, he is fascinated by her beauty, charm and promise of love.
The dream depicts the beginning of the Helen stage of anima development, which manifests through John’s efforts to seek an inner connection to the love goddess. Fascinated, he follows her into the unknown places of the feminine realm. Now he shows a certain respect – he is awe-struck by her sheer beauty, an attitude quite different from that in the earlier dream, where the masculine had the “right” to ravish the feminine.
The anima now becomes more receptive, more accessible. Here we find a strong parallel with the stranger who seeks to honour the goddess; John comes to the sacred prostitute and is welcomed by her. She, in being receptive to the masculine, brings the dreamer to a new acknowledgement of the Other, his own inner woman.
In John’s outer reality, he was experiencing much confusion, as he expressed it. “My world is turning upside down.” As new psychic elements began to be known, others were in a stage of transformation; naturally there was a sense of disorientation. The crusty barnacles of old attitudes were slowly dissolving, while only fragile outlines of new ones had formed. Yet even within this chaos, John was accepting new dimensions of life in which he felt a certain excitement and exhilaration. There was an unwanted courage, far from his former resignation, to pursue new avenues of self-expression in writing and music, and the rediscovery of classical literature, thereby balancing his overzealous attachment to work.
Several months later another dream showed the further development of the anima:
“I was at a church service and was sitting between two older obese women. I go to take communion and the two celebrants were women dressed in white. One has the host which is wrapped in silver. She asks if I want to look at it or will I have it. I tell her I will have it. The other has the chalice but she hits it against my forehead and wine spills on my head like a baptism. I go back to my seat and there an attractive blonde is sitting next to me. I do not think it is my proper place and move back between the two older women. Now I feel squeezed and move back to the girl. As I go towards her, she stands up and walks towards me. She has a big lump on the left side of her head which I had not noticed before. It is a third eye. I was shocked by that. “
The two older, obese women suggest the static, maternal aspect of the feminine, which continues to colour John’s attitude towards women in outer reality; however, now he is willing to approach the altar, the place where ego demands and old attitudes are sacrificed. In doing so he is freed from the maternal influence.
At the time of the dream, women had not yet been ordained as priests in the church John attended, therefore the priestesses here are archetypal elements emerging spontaneously from the unconscious. The priestesses stand before the altar, the sacred precinct – as did the sacred prostitute – to offer the Eucharist, the sacrificial elements for the strengthening and renewal of life. The dreamer does not enter into the service vicariously, just by looking, but is receptive to emotional and spiritual involvement with the divine.
The host wrapped in silver, the metal of the moon and therefore of the goddess, is symbolic of body or matter. The chalice, associated with the Holy Grail, is the feminine vessel containing the essential soul substance from which the spirit emanates. The baptism of wine, symbolic of blood is associated with the ancient rites of passage during which the initiate was covered or marked with the blood of the sacrificial animal. Wine is also associated with the ecstatic worship of the god Dionysus by his women followers. It was considered the inspiriting drink of divine ecstasy.
By participating in this ecstatic religious experience, ingesting or internalizing the symbolic form of matter or sensuality, and being bathed in the renewing spiritual element, the dreamer is led to a new position. After communion with the priestesses, he cannot return to his previous orientation but finds a new image of the feminine – the moving, transformative aspect of the anima who comes forward to meet him.
Both the priestess and the attractive blonde are images of the sacred prostitute, although they appear to be different, just as the sacred prostitute when she stood before the altar did not appear the same as when she was in her sacred chamber. The third eye is an archetypal image of wisdom and insight into the spiritual mysteries. It is quite the opposite of rational intellect, which was John’s forte and on which he automatically relied.
Jung writes of the Eucharist as a symbol of the individuation process. (Transformation Symbolism in the Mass) It is reminiscent of the ancient new moon festival, dedicated to the goddess, where moon cakes and libations of blood were served to re-strengthen life. In the role of mediatrix, also the role of the sacred prostitute, the priestess is ministrant of the sacraments. She mediates between the deity and man by offering the symbolic elements of both body and spirit. This development of the anima parallels that of the role of the Virgin Mary as mediatrix between earthly man and God. This anima image embodies the profound spiritual essence of feminine nature.
The dreamer now becomes aware of an inner feminine image that is woman but more than human. This touches the facets of the feminine aspect of the Self, the highest expression of wisdom. Her “third eye” brings illuminating insight rather than abstract or fragmented knowledge. Hers is a responsive wisdom which comes from a loving connection with the divine.
Near the end of the analysis, John had the following dream.
“I am in a green farm house. There are phonograph records on the bed. Several were broken records and had been taped together and I thought how can anyone play those and threw them away. Then I leave and enter into a large crowd. It is a wedding party and it is to be my wedding. I don’t know anyone in the wedding party. Now across the street, I am preparing for my wedding. I notice my shoes are not appropriate and I wonder about them but then I realise I have a new pair and those will be fine.”
Green is the colour of spring, of new life and also the colour associated with the goddess. In her shelter (which is now above ground, thus more conscious as compared to its underground location in the first dream), the initial preparations for the sacred marriage take place. This involves discarding old collective attitudes, which like broken records are no longer useful. The bed is where dream life is activated, thus a place where one becomes more intimate with one’s unconscious.
Now the dreamer must leave the green house, the sphere of the earth goddess, in order to arrive at a new dimension, that of uniting with – integrating – more developed aspects of the feminine. The bride-to-be, whose features are as yet unknown, may be thought of as the more human aspect of the goddess. This parallels the ritual marriage of ancient times where the sacred prostitute, as the incarnation of the goddess, was the bride.
For this inner marriage, the dreamer’s shoes, related to his stand point in life, are not appropriate. However, the dream ends with the reassurance that a new standpoint is available. This realisation portends a fresh conscious attitude grounded in a new awareness of the feminine. The next step in the dreamer’s process of individuation would be to proceed to the sacred TEMENOS, the chamber where the opposites are united in the sacred marriage, where feminine nature is truly integrated with the masculine principle.
This example of one man’s encounter with the Other demonstrates the developmental stages of the anima in which a man’s inner feminine nature is made conscious, accepted and honoured. Typically, as happened in John’s case, such a process is accompanied by a significant change in the man’s external relationships with women and in his general outlook on life. Contact with the dynamic aspect of the anima has a transforming effect, bringing a sense of joy and humour and suffusing the personality with a noticeable enthusiasm.
In Geothe’s FAUST, one sees a similar transformation of the anima as she changes from Gretchen to Helen, and finally to the Mother of God. As Jung points out, Faust’s nature “is altered by repeated figurative deaths” until he attains the highest state of consciousness represented by Dr. Marianus.
Indeed, John experienced considerable suffering through the “death” of those rigid, collective attitudes which stress an orientation toward material values and deny the inner reality of the feminine. Yet this death was also his offering, the sacrifice of known values, of outer stability and maternal comfort. He came as a wounded man with open psychic sores – as a stranger to the unknown place. There he met the anima in her various guises. She guided him through the neglected world of emotions, of Eros and ecstasy. She taught him to feel the harmonic rhythm of life’s forces; she was the mediator between the sensual and the spiritual aspects of his life, both of which had for many years been neglected and repressed.
To summarize, the sacred prostitute in masculine psychology corresponds to an aspect of the anima that functions as a moving and transforming psychic force. She is directly related to a man’s conscious understanding and integration of his own CONTRASEXUAL nature. She modifies a man’s self-image, conscious values and attitude towards women in outer life.
The sacred prostitute aspect of the anima brings joy and laughter and enables the man to see beauty and to feel the emotions of love. As a soul-image connected with the goddess of love, the divine feminine aspect of a man’s Self, she transforms instinctive sexual expression into LOVE-MAKING, an exhilarating experience that is in no way incompatible with its spiritual nature.
In our modern world, the image of the sacred prostitute is buried under the religious, political and economic values of the patriarchy. She lives still, however, and may be rediscovered as a soul-mate by any man with the will and courage to sacrifice stereotypical masculine persona roles and outdated collective values. They are the offering he brings to the sacred prostitute in the temple of love; there she waits, ready to initiate him into the meaning of his life and awaken his consciousness to a new wisdom.
End of chapter.
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The Lolita Healing. Amera Ziganii Rao
Here we go again. It's okay. He's got four years on you. But this is very painful and painful for me.
When I healed my ego, I accepted male vulnerability. I accepted that there was no man who would love me so that I would feel safe, in the sense that he would be invincible and kind all at the same time, all the time.
Now, when I look at the past four years, it's like I had to pay penance for that. I had to, in a broken hearted way some of the time, yes, but otherwise, in patient, repetitive and tolerant ways, look after male vulnerability. Which is why I became his friend and let him not contact me for four years, while, as it happens, being with wife number two. And Sacred Whoring me again, without my knowledge.
I did it because I had emotionally accepted that all my needs from being a broken and wounded child, would never be met. I had to meet them myself, as he was vulnerable, all men were vulnerable and there was no one man who wouldn't be.
Now, your ego is the opposite. The Lolita ego needs to accept the following; that a woman is not perfect, that no woman is perfect, because women have power.
The Lemurian ego has to accept that people are not perfect, because they HAVE power and not because they don't.
In other words, when I see kindness and invincibility in a man, I am pleasantly surprised, honoured, and happy that I am being given that. I don't demand it. Now, looking back over the website, one could say I have demanded it. I have not. In my ego as was, if I had been in ego, first, I would probably not have made it past the first hurdle and would have killed myself, and second, I would have been blustering and demanding all the way through and would never have taken the trouble to create a whole website to heal the broken and vengeful and dream state ego of a man. As I had my own.
I do not demand kindness or invincibility, by writing to you now for instance.
I just am so happy when I see it.
Now, you have to do the same as men. You have to be happy to see a woman's vulnerability and know you are being given a gift. The rest of the time, to go with male non invincibility, she is invincible. She is power. You have to accept it and more importantly, you have to find it attractive. I had to find male non invincibility attractive. I did and do. It was not easy. I did it.
Now, this is different from dehumanisation. I can slip into that easily. Cuba lives in it. And so do you, in ego. The dehumanisation is that there will be somebody better, somebody else will have that, so might as well keep it as a dream, rather than be disappointed. It is not the person, it is the ego belief that a Lolita woman is always a Lolita woman.
Just as a forceful sexual and confident take control man is always going to be invincible. Do you see? Ego is the biggest disappointment we will ever have. Actually, that's not true. There is not a day gone by in the past four and a half years that has not been bitterly disappointing. I would say that ego to soul is absolute and utter self crucifixion. Absolute. Self crucifixion. Giving up the broken heart, from long, long, long ago. Accepting that no one else is ever going to make up for it. That we all human and frail and certainly not perfect. Women ARE powerful. Men ARE weak and corruptible and selfish. Mmm, didn't know I was going to write those three words, so I'll leave them. But yes, men are not invincible by any means and therefore, women are unfortunately really really powerful and confident in themselves.
That is the Lolita ego healing. Vanity disappointment I think. But understandable. Everyone has programmed you to believe that women need you. That you are there to look after women and that a REAL woman will want you to tell her what to do and guide her throughout her whole day and want you to control her and be with her in every second. It seems. Or, that a real woman will always want you around to help her. That sort of thing. Or, that a real woman will need you to guide her as a father would guide a small child. Probably because you are taught that women are stupid children. For instance. The mind boggles. But whatever it is, better language than that or not, these are all tribe beliefs to keep you in the loop of prison. The reproductive marriage where men and women are stuck together. In other words, slavery. For both.
Exactly. It does not just take wisdom or sacrifice to love. It takes nothing less than pure self crucifixion, to push the spiritual DNA through the roof and change your vibrational being so that ego can stop stopping you from loving. Ego has a dream. That dream is killing you. Kill the ego. Face the killing of the dream that has led you nowhere. And then you find love. All women are Lolita. All women are powerful. The one you like is standing in front of you. No woman is an anomaly. We are all powerful. We are all Lolita.
If you have the courage to face the truth, the courage, because that is what it is, and therefore the will to love and therefore heal, because that ego is sickness, you will face the truth, face yourself and accept that it is not the person but the issue. Then, you face the issue. Yourself and your false dreams.
Then you see me.
And you can decide in fairness. Not, in ego.
And then you can decide if you want to rescue me or not. I am only asking. I am not in ego.
And talking of power, yes, I am THE Disir. The one to reach as many as possible. To share everyone's right to be well, with powerful human rights to call their own. The gnostic path to power. Alchemy & Liberation & Humanity. Ego to soul. Delusion to reality. The inability to love, to the ability to love, by BEING love. The ability to love unconditionally. The ability to face that self crucifixion and be able to love, who you love.
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The self discovery that took us from female slavery and male confusion and fascism into a society that was left behind a long time ago, when The New World Order took over and put men in charge, when they didn't even want it, by all that I have seen. Other than in sex as is the primal partnership. Our exploration is here. The world of Bluebeard Male Supremacy™ through to the Sacred Whore and High Female Esoteric Serpent Priesthood Society™, again, with men as the beloveds. Equality, Liberty, FRATERNITY. The New New World. Again.
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There is no love on earth. We are all here to fight for it, or be hate. We are here to be profound, or to be shallow. To be adventurers of the soul, or turgid and needing security, to be humane or greedy, to BE love, or BE hate. Earth is hell. Hell, created by hate, for hate, of hate. Free will is to choose which way to go. Love, or hate. That is Existentialism. That is evolution. That is the advancement of the soul. Hate to love. And nothing less. The conquering of evil by good. The light must push out the dark. The light must win.
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Feminism is not feminism. Feminism is anti slavery. They call us control freaks and that has to be watched. However, in the context of the truth, it is a ridiculous statement. It is the oppressor, calling the courageous campaigner for freedom and equality, the terrorist.
Feminism is not 'man hating'. Feminism is not feminism. Feminism is the movement against slavery. Humanitarianism is the same. Slavery must not exist in any form on earth. Slavery is everywhere.
From unpaid work in marriage to unpaid work in the family, to minimum wage in the market to a hundred other arenas, slavery is the way of earth.
Feminism and humanitarianism are the movements against it. Slavery is fascism. Fascism is everywhere. We just don't know it. They made sure that we don't know it. Now we do. And we will forever.
Society calls it bullying. Society calls it unfortunate, while propping it up in every single second, across the world. Fascism must die. Fascism will die. Fascism is to die.
That is World Ascension. The end of fascism.
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The compassion to go with the passion. The discipline of mind, to know your darkness and the education of a post patriarchal man. Love. And changing the very matter of your spiritual DNA. Ascension. I can feel it coming. The build up is your job. The rest I can help with.
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Avatar (James Cameron)
My daughter will teach you our ways. Learn well, Jake Sully. Then we will see if your insanity can be cured.
Mo'at
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Misogyny is sadism against women. An unconscious hijacking and a conscious will to maintain it.
Tyranny and sadism. Misogynists. Slaves of Sauron (Tolkein's Lord of the Rings). Wifebeaters.
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An Hierophant is an interpreter of sacred mysteries and arcane principles. 'Jake Sully' (Avatar) is her Sacred Warrior Protector™
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A Natural Born Mystic™ is primarily a Sacred Whore Healer as a Cinderella Warrior™. As a woman. A High Priestess Wizard™ is a Sacred Whore Healer and Enlightener. That has specific duties and challenges to do with men and their immense madness (Mo'at - Avatar) and their profanity (killing God The Mother, The Triple Goddess) and monetising the slavery of emotional care. A Sacred Whore Healer has to do this against all the odds. She does it because she and they, the Sacred Whore Healers and High Priestess Wizards™ are the strongest.
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'Respect' as fear.
'The Accomplished Female' = the only thing that the male patriarch can deliver as 'love'. Men do not tolerate women earning money. They want slavery to instil FEAR. Fear as 'respect'. Fear is not 'respect'.
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The secret enemies of psychological warfare. From within and without. Bringing the darkness of evil into the light. Immense self belief, intelligence and courage, plus wizardry. In other words, 'naming it and shaming it and letting it go' and re-programming the mind from any belief to another. To evolve.
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Sexuality, non religious 'Wizard' and 'Witch' spirituality (the Gnostic intelligence of esoteric and consciousness exploration, ie wisdom and love) and human rights are the least fashionable things and the most uncomfortable things on the planet. And the things human beings have been damning and condemning for 8000 years. And the things that most people are absolutely fascinated by. What a shame. How bourgeois. How ordinary. How ego.
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The Sacred Whore High Priestess Society™. When we were giants. All of us. When you did more than rape me.
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Witches are healers. Witches are the Love Healers and SOURCErers of The Lost World, when we were the giant warriors. We were good and so were were you. 'The World of Men'. The Tribe of Misogyny and Bourgeois™.
Gives us all a bad name. And poisons all hearts.
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Writer, Speaker and Enlightener, Amera Ziganii Rao, is now putting together a comprehensive and unique programme of Alchemy & Liberation & Humanity™. A programme of learning that is specifically about one particular kind of woman. And one particular kind of man. The Sacred Whore High Priestess™ and the Sacred Whore High Priest™, and the true society that they come from and the one they, in particular, she can and has to return to and that anyone can join her and him in. This is about Paradise on Earth.
This is about The Sacred Whore High Priestess™ and the Sacred Whore High Priest™, and the Alchemy and Liberation and Humanity that is for all as a result of their healing and in particular, hers. This is about the kind of woman who is at the bottom of the pile in a Patriarchal Toilet Tribe from Hell Society™, the norm, the conventional world and the world of the Tribe. This is about the kind of man who is next in line from the bottom. The sensitive man and the female chattel. The High Priestess and High Priest of a profane society, that has long forgotten who they are.
This is about being at the bottom of the pile, for the forgotten and strangled shamans, and for her, the story of escape. Abused by her family, her friends, her men, her whole society, by the very nature of who she is and who they are and what has happened on this Earth. It is about women of love, of Spirit and of sex. It is about men of love, of Spirit and of sex. It is about the Cinderellas of this world. It is about the The Sacred Whore High Priestess™. Who she is and how, loving her is the secret to Paradise on Earth and how we have been living a lie for 8000+ years. A lie of male (non High Priest) religion with a male ‘God’ and with Patriarchs and Patriarchal types and Matriarchs and Matriarchal types ruling over us and making our lives hell, all in the name of family, the tribe and the way things are and should remain. Hate, fascism and profanity. A sick society that vilifies, more than anyone else, the The Sacred Whore High Priestess™, just because it was told to. A sick society that calls her Eve. A sick society that has forgotten who we all are, let alone the The Sacred Whore High Priestess™ and the Sacred Whore High Priest™. This is about us remembering and knowing who WE are.
This is a programme of healing for the The Sacred Whore High Priestess™, and the Sacred Whore High Priest™, to take them and particularly, her, from monstrous levels of low self esteem and lack of self knowledge, back to herself and it is a programme for all those who truly want to love her, and indeed, him. This is a programme for the greatest carers on Earth, who are vilified, destroyed, ridiculed, ignored, abused, used, misused and hated for being everything that those who would steal from us are not. This is a programme to turn Cinderellas into The Sacred Whore High Priestesses and for anyone who wants to love her or live by the values of the The Sacred Whore High Priestess Society™. And this is a programme to turn sensitive men into Sacred Whore High Priests™ and for anyone who wants to love him and live by the values of the The Sacred Whore High Priestess™ and High Priest Society. Love, humanity, Spirit and sex. This is a programme to reverse 8000+ years of witch burning, women hating and healer ridicule. This is about the The Sacred Whore High Priestess™ and all those who would love her and live by her values.
This is about the chance for Paradise on Earth. This is a programme for the most beautiful, kind hearted, wounded women and men on this planet. A programme of how to implement a system of how to beat life, how to survive life and how to resurrect from the grief that is a true life. Alchemy and Liberation and Humanity of the lower mind into the higher mind, the soul and the inner heart and therefore one's true, confident, ‘happy’, successful, creative, sexual, sensual, individual, intelligent, emotionally healed, capable of loving and being loved self. How to turn grief into creation and survive and thrive, despite all the shit, all the pain and all the hurt. How to live in a world of madness, hollowness and cruelty and how to be a winner. How to stand up for oneself and to take back the power that has been stolen from anyone with heart, Spirit and sex. The art and science of Alchemy.
This is a programme, based on my scholarly and non scholarly work over 15 years (so far), if not for my whole life, and my extensive and intense, visceral experiences of self transformation from resignation, cynicism and despair to a state of relative bliss, and above all, the right to be. The programme and the courses and my speaking and indeed my forthcoming book, will cover the method of change. The psychological, sociological, spiritual, cultural, political, emotional and physical and even anthropological methods of change. Why we are here. Who the Sacred Whore High Priestess™ is and why she is here. And who the Sacred Whore High Priest™ is. Why we are here. Who we are and what we are and why we are. The beauty and glory of the truth. The meaning of life, no less. This will be on offer in the future.
My first book of consciousness, my first book of the spiritual politics of humanity, of authentic power and of self love and strength. A comprehensive series of online courses, live events and audio and visual material. Books, live events, CDs and DVDs. And one on one personal empowerment consultations. The Amera Ziganii Rao Method of Change™. The right to be and the way to have the right to be. And indeed, how to maintain the will to live without love. How to BE unconditional, self sufficient, self caring, self love. The right to be and the will to be and the unparalleled success that comes with that. The Lost Knowledge™. HOW to live. And how to heal others, the profane and the sick and the soulless. The others. My Business and that of any Sacred Whore High Priestess™ and Sacred Whore High Priest™, is Human Rights, The Right to a Sexual Society, Self Actualisation and Freedom.
My Business is To Overthrow Fascism, in the Home and in the Country. My business is also mastering destiny. Overthrowing the ultimate 'fascism'. Our journey on Earth and The Return To The Source. Our healing, our ascension and our redemption. Fate. The daily crucifixions of a true life, the challenges and the fury of being healers and people of love on a planet like Earth.
Submitting to the journey to liberate and evolve oneself, through following one's heart, however much heartbreak and devastation it leads to on the long long long journey to freedom and then the longer journey to happiness. 'Long Road to Freedom', as Nelson Mandela says. My business is always taking risks, never giving up and making the endless sacrifices it takes to become whole. Enlightenment, Nirvana and then Parinirvana and beyond. My business is pain. My business is bliss.
My business is seeing the truly glory of Spirit on Earth. The Sacred Whore High Priestess Society™ and all that it is. Spirit, humanity, sex and love again at last. And the end of our legacy as either servants or witches or unpaid carers or indeed, ignored mistresses, other women, other men even, and the weirdos that are at the bottom of society. This is our world and it is time to take it back and I can show you how. And that makes my life, truly, worth living.
I want you to feel the way I do. Alive, with the right to be and the belligerence to exist in this profane and male ‘God’ led world of male supremacy, female supremacy, domestic, casual fascism, tribe rules from hell, with beautiful and kind, love intelligence laden, female and male Cinderella warriors at the bottom, caring for everyone else and getting nothing but hatred, ridicule and isolation for it. The meek are already inheriting the Earth and I can show you how.
Amera Ziganii Rao © 2012
I enter the magical hours of pure feeling, pure thought, pure imagination and I think and I write and I 'mysticise' the Universe. I escape at will, the truth of my humanless, Samurai solitude, and I pursue the truth of love in myself and in everyone else. I am philosopher. I am shaman. I am alone. I frontier the Soul to be spirit on Earth.
Amera Ziganii Rao © 2011
To trust your soul is to have courage. The courage to ‘get out of the way’. It takes a commitment to courage, a changing of the very matter of one’s access to courage, one’s relationship with courage and becoming the total renegade of an individual you have to, to become soul. It is that rare. ‘Getting out of the way’ takes a commitment to love and loving and being of love, no matter what. And frankly, that means redefining what love is, EVERY STEP OF THE WAY. Finding out what love really is and getting rid of the bullshit we think it is. Love. Soul. Power. It takes courage to be soul. Courage, courage and courage. The rest is easy. Soul is soul. Finally it is an absolute relief to get out of the way. The life of soul may be hair raising, treacherous and mind numbingly arduous. But it is a life of no regrets. Courage. The key to soul. Just give it a go. Wear that hat, say what’s on your mind, dream your dreams again, dream your dreams at all and just smile through the hate. Including one’s doubt. Courage. ‘Kill’ when you have to, especially yourself, and smile the rest of the time and cry when you need to. Always cry. Earth is a battlefield and crying is the way to win. Soul is a way of life. The natural way. Courage is ‘all’ it takes. We learnt the rules, only so we could break them. The rest is the art of life. Creation. Creating oneself again and again and again. Soul. The only way of life worth anything. Otherwise, we are just waiting to die. We don’t need to. We can live. It’s called soul.
Amera Ziganii Rao © 2013
Self esteem. True, authentic, self knowing, self esteem. The one that includes the sex, the primal, the primitive, the animal, the real. The one that includes humanity and a state of unconditional love. Non needing, non greedy, non controlling, non afraid, non negative and non inhumane and non angry. Self esteem. What ego really is, in its true essence. The physical vehicle of self esteem. The physical vehicle of action, reaction, mastery, ‘misstery’, love and war, tenderness and sexuality. Humanity and human. The beautiful, crafted, styled, educated, aware, sincere, active, visceral, sexual, super sexual, heart led, sensitive, humane, courageous and ethical, hopeful ego. The instinct. The intuition. The magic. The primal. The whole. The whole Soul.
Amera Ziganii Rao © 2013
I can feel your sexuality. I love it. My beautiful, filthy, dominating, obsessed, possessed, hedonistic, nihilistic, Sacred beast of a man. Because those of us who are the most sexual, what do we think, in the truth context of the The Sacred Whore High Priestess™, and The Sacred Whore High Priestess (Priest) Society™, that means? We are the most spiritual. The most sexual are in fact the most spiritual. Spirituality being the communing between Mortal and The High Priestess (Priest) to reach ecstasy. Orgasm. Bliss. The most active, dirty minded, passionate, non reproductive, hedonistic, glorious, worthwhile, point of life, meditation or prayer or communing on Earth. THE way to reach God, The Mother, The Universe™. THE way to happiness. Humanity. Joy. Hope. Love. Sex. Sex. Our sex. Sex.
Amera Ziganii Rao © 2011
Love takes courage. Love takes being ready. Love takes love.
Amera Ziganii Rao © 2011
Amera Ziganii Rao is a former hard news journalist who is now turning professional with her art forms and indeed, her healing forms, after a long journey of inner searching, self teaching and exploring many layers and areas of both craft and wisdom. She is now working on her first book of philosophy and esoteric thought, and social, cultural and spiritual commentary. She is also showing her first photography collections. And last but most definitely not least, she is building a business to share her Sacred Whore High Priestess Society consciousness and empowering explorations to reach as many people as possible across the world. She is in her forties and currently lives in London.
Amera Ziganii Rao © 2011
In the meantime, please enjoy this website. I have included many of the subjects I am covering, areas of experience and insight that I will be exploring to the fullest in my book, the courses and all the other work that is to come as a dramatist, novelist and essayist. I also of course, include many of the wise people on this planet, who have come long before me; authors, screen dramatists, playwrights, film makers, artists, and other enlighteners and grand carriers of the wisdom I have found the most helpful on my journey, to find peace and become enlightened. The seemingly impossible journey, in the face of oneself and one’s circumstances. People who have contributed massively to my healing on this mad journey called life, in this insane existence called The Universe. People who have helped to make me as good a carrier of wisdom as I in turn, can be. Thank you.
Amera Ziganii Rao © 2011
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Thank you to outside sources for original photography.
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