Sacred Feminine Archetypes, Samyama Meditation, Spiritual Awakening : Temple of the Sacred Feminine

The Flame Bearer
is only as large as she is small.
You remember this saying?
It means no one is ever worthy to do what she is called to do.
No one is ever significant enough.
The mission is always larger than the one who goes out on the mission.
The Flame Bearer is made up of the same clay that makes every woman.
She is a Flame Bearer only because she knows, in the clay lives the spirit of The Mother. If Chochma waited for one woman who was more worthy than another,
how would The Mother do her work in this world?

~Kim Chernin, The Flame Bearers

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Samyama: Alchemy of the Heart

Near your breastbone there is an
Open flower.
Drink the honey that is all around
that flower.
Waves are coming in:
There is so much magnificence near the ocean!
Listen: Sound of big seashells! Sound of bells!
Kabir says: Friend, listen this is what I have to say:
The guest I love is inside me!
~Kabir

Samyama is an ancient meditation practice from Raja Yoga that appeared in my meditation one day about 17 years ago, to my great surprise. I was unfamiliar with this form of meditation at the time, so I simply followed the detailed instruction I was given on the inner levels in how to turn toward my heart. This radically changed my life and my work with others, and the lives of the many it has touched, as you will see when you read what others say about Samyama below.

Samyama makes it possible to directly experience life as it is, be in the present moment, and meet ourselves in our own precious hearts, no matter what is happening in any given moment. It is also a path and a portal to the realization of our essential being, the pure awareness that is the unified field. The practice also offers a profound level of healing for our deepest wounds. From my own experiences, as well as witnessing so many others doing Samyama, I see that it is an amazing gift of Grace that keeps on giving, endlessly, and an exquisite vessel of receptive devotion.

Samyama is truly Alchemy of the Heart. This means that when we learn the skill and cultivate the practice, amazing changes occur within our hearts so that healing of painful emotional states occurs and we open to the silence and peace of our essential nature.

The instruction given to me was simple: no matter what was arising, I was directed to bring my attention back to my heart and hold my focus there on whatever what happening in my heart. It sounds simple, and it is, once you learn the skill involved. We all can feel what is in our hearts, and we do. What we don’t understand are the subtlties of attention that are involved to activate the Alchemy of the Heart.

Once I began using the practice several times a day, I became more peaceful in general, and this was remarkable to me at the time, as I was going through a divorce. Ever since, I have used Samyama daily for meditation, self healing, for simply being with what is. My center of consciousness has shifted from head to heart, as it does with most of the people who practice Samyama daily.

Twelve years ago I suffered an unspeakable loss with one of my children, and it is by the grace of Samyama that I was able to meet it and continue to live with it. I truly don’t know what would have happened for me had I not had this precious gift of Samyama to get me through the hard moment.

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Blog: Samyama and the Mysteries of the Heart
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Archetypes of the Sacred Feminine

It gives me great delight to offer this this little e-book, Archetypes of the Sacred Feminine, the first fruit from a large body of work that is now being harvested into words. This download is a 33 page excerpt from a larger book, Sacred Feminine Initiation: An Archetypal Journey. This e-book is a 33 page excerpt that includes one chapter on Sacred Feminine initiation, and five chapters describing each of the five core archetypal energies I have been working with since 1980: the Mother, the Amazon, the Lover, the Medial, and the Queen. Enjoy!!

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This small book is the first written fruit from a 30 year journey that documents the first days of my own call and initiations into the Sacred Feminine Mysteries in the early 1980's. It includes dreams, Jungian psychology, kundalini awakening, the arising of the women's mystery school, and information about the archetypes of the Mother, the Amazon, the Lover, the Medial and the Queen.

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