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Recieved: 2000/12/17 09:25
Subject: [K-list] Sympathy for the Devil
From: Divine Goddess
On 2000/12/17 09:25, Divine Goddess posted thus to the K-list:
it is a truism in new thought circles that we cant
empathize/sympathize with others unless we carry the same wounds.
some would call that 'mirroring'....
its an awful feeling when I am feeling awful and someone trys to hold
a mirror up to my face
i know a gentle empath who can feel the suffering of the whole world
he also can feel the wonderful things that come from this world...
he once let me feel what he was feeling....all those voices crying
for attention...like standing in a giant cave hearing echo upon echo
pounding my heart with a physicality of feeling....
its a double edged sword....
its difficult to do when you are standing in the Pacific Ocean of
emotions during a hurricance and tell the waters, "Peace, be still".
If there is a Devil how she must suffer....feeling the wounds of the
wounded.
Even the sinless Christian Jesus on the cross felt the sufferring of
the whole world and was in sorrow.
Inanna, the sumerian Deity, Goddess of light and life, descended into
the Underworld to be killed by the Dark Goddess, Ereshkigal, her
sister, and to be born again. This is a representation of a mystery
of
initiation for women.
I love Ereshkigal. She is more like me than that goody two shoes
Inanna. She's powerful, cranky, demanding, ureasonable,deeply feeling
the darkness of women's emotions and has a hunger to be satisfied and
appeased like the hell mouth of a black hole.She is the dark phase of
the moon, the ruler of the land of the unconscious, below the
patriarchal consciousness. She, I can identify with even more.
Ereshkegal, raped by gods and husbands, knows what it is like to be
the mother of the world and feel the sufferring of its children and
to be angry at them for doing so. This goes way beyond the simplistic
notion of mirroring.
Sometimes I think compassion is overated when a good screaming anger
fit cleans the soul like a hot brush fire clears a prairie and
prepares it for new growth and life.
Knowing and embracing my darkness adds a spicy depth to my light and
bliss.
merry christmas....
bringing to the misfit feast the dancing satyrs and the luminous
nymphs
blissful love
Susan
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