Jeff wrote this in 2010, as he is an awakening man and he had already tapped into the grief that men feel inside but at times act out in callous indifference or simply denial. Reading that letter by Jeff changed the course of this blog, and I have decided to send something I wrote a while back called A Letter To The Divine Masculine.
As a couple’s therapist, I have seen the destructive ravages of women unsconsciously wielding excessive Kali energy in their relationships and with their children. The operative word when working with such powerful energies is “conscious”—is the energy being expressed conscious or not? The powerful Kali is not only deeply transformative, but extraordinarily loving, and able to bring an end to things that need to be destroyed for the sake of evolution. In her book, Awakening to Kali: The Goddess of Radical Transformation , Sally Kempton says “Whether Kali seems terrifying, fascinating, or loving depends on our state of consciousness and our level of both emotional and spiritual development. But she always invites us to a radical form ego-transcendence.”
What is this powerful love that doesn’t require us to do anything, or be anything other than who we are, in all our messy glory? The closest thing on earth would be a mother’s love of her child, and it is a love some have had, and others not, but that we all both need and long for. It is the gift of deep acceptance for who we are.
Once a year, tens of thousands of people gather in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert to create Burning Man, Rock City, a community dedicated to art, self-expression, and self-reliance. In this crucible of creativity, a particular sculpture caught people’s attention this past year, inviting them to interpret its meaning.
Every fear is a fear of the self inside, including the fears we have about the world. Those fears present challenges that are what you need to reclaim yourself as Source. You cannot be the light and hold another person or situation in fear. Facing your fears changes everything! You eventually come to see them as friends.
