With my interest in "Mothering and Spirituality," the theme for the April, 2010 parenting conference (see right sidebar), I wanted to share with you another interesting book I have found:
The Return of the Feminine and the World Soul by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee (2009. Available from www.goldensufi.org)
Vaughan-Lee writes:
"The feminine has a central part to play in the work of global healing and transformation. Her natural consciousness holds a deep understanding of the interconnections of life, how all the different parts relate together: how this awakening oneness can unfold. And every woman has in her spiritual center the sacred substance of creation that is necessary for life's regeneration. Without the full participation of the feminine nothing new can be born.
A relationship to the feminine is also necessary for the reemergence of the anima mundi, the soul of the world. Buried by masculine consciousness, the world's soul is crying out for our attention. She has the ancient wisdom and understaning of life's oneness that we need if the world is to be redeemed."
Over the past two decades Llewellyn Vaugahan-Lee has given different teachings on the feminine and the anima mundi. Adiditional resources, including free audio and video can be found online at www.workingwithoneness.org/feminine.html.
Anne Baring, co-author of the Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image [also a great book for exploring the feminine!] reviews this book:
"This book is the work of an alchemist--a vitally important contribution to the Great Work of rescuing the human soul from the darkness that currently shrouds it. In this dangerous transitional time, where ignorance, confusion and cruelty abound, its theme of the need for us to recover and comprehend the Feminine is of absolute and urgent relevance.
Few people are able to define and evoke the Feminine in the way that Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee does; in poetic and beautiful prose, he speaks directly from his soul to ours, acting as advocate for the longing of the anima mundi, the World Soul, to be welcomed once again into our lives and our culture. He knows that it is the time of humanity's awakening: each one of us participates in the mystery of the light hidden within us and within all nature that is being awakened. For exploring this mystery so directly and deeply and with such insight, he deserves our deepest gratitude. Women and men alike will welcome and treasure this book."
