Divining the Body: Reclaim the Holiness of Your Physical Self by Jan Phillips

Author:Jan Phillips
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Spiritual Life; Spirituality; Self-Help; Women’s Interest; Body Image; Personal Growth; Embodied Prayer; Fear of Intimacy; Body Rituals; Body Acceptance; Meditation; Self-Acceptance; Connecting Physical and Sacred; Divine Presence; Finding Your Voice ;Physical Self
Publisher: SKYLIGHT PATHS Publishing

I can imagine that people looking back on our world from a hundred years in the future will be horrified that we allowed forty thousand children a day to die from hunger when there was plenty of food to go around and that we poisoned our rivers, destroyed our forests, and considered war a viable option. I can imagine them with furrowed brow, poring over documents of our devastating history, trying to understand the suicide of children, the stoning of women, the obesity of one nation and the starvation of another. Why we spent more on smart bombs than smart children. Why we killed people to show people that killing people is wrong. Why so many billions of dollars were spent on drugs, plastic surgeries, prisons, and weapons, when just a few of those billions could have met the basic needs of every person on the planet. We are all involved in one of the greatest mysteries on earth: Why don’t we care for each other?

We’ve created a high-tech civilization with a Stone Age mentality, expanding exponentially in the technical world while the heart goes unattended, the spirit unexpressed. For the past two millennia, we have experienced the masculinization of God, while the feminine aspect has been not only dispensed with but disguised and denigrated. God has been presented to us as a male from masculine authorities all the way down the line. Religion has been wrapped in the literal and the linear, at the expense of mystery and depth, and only now, when the whole system is in chaos and on the verge of collapse, are we collectively understanding the gravity of this oversight.

When the Nobel Prize–winning chemist Ilya Prigogine spoke about systems evolving, he said that as long as a system is stable, you can’t change it, but as it moves toward disequilibrium and falls into chaos, the slightest bit of coherent energy can bring it into a new structure. Referring to this in a recent radio interview, Joseph Chilton Pearce said, “We are islands of coherent energy which bring about the organized, entrained energy for a new situation.”

There never was a more holy age than ours, and never a less.

—ANNIE DILLARD

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