Transforming...with
Carol Lynn Pearson

May

2009

 

 

Dear Friends,              

 

Speaking of Mother’s Day, which is this Sunday–one of the reasons to rejoice in this day and age is that many are inviting back into the family our Divine Mother.

 

I had a fabulous time last weekend with a group of women at an intimate retreat in St. George, Utah, focusing on “The Feminine Divine.”  (If anyone would like to sponsor a retreat in your area, let me know.)

 

We traced  history through my one-woman play “Mother Wove the Morning,” sixteen women in search of God the Mother, visiting such places as--

            * the paleolithic, where the human family knew only the Goddess and the word “father” had not yet been devised

            * ancient Greece, where the thunderbolt god Zeus arrived and overpowered Athena and the other goddesses

            * the Gnostic community, whose scriptures recall Jesus speaking not only of his Father, but of his Mother, the Holy Spirit

            *the Christian community in 431, in which women were told they should be filled with shame at the very thought of being female and that they did not even have a soul to save

            *the U.S. in 1870 with orator Elizabeth Cady Stanton assuring her audience that even though it was not considered appropriate for women to ride that new amusement, the bicycle, “New forces are gathering, and soon–man and woman will reign as equals on earth, as the Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother reign as equals in the heavens!”

 

If we did not live in a Motherless House, what might the world look like today?  How might we as women show up differently in our private and public worlds?  How might the values of society—men and women alike-- be different if, on the mantlepiece of our religions and our individual psyches, there was a picture of the Divine Couple rather than the photo of a Single Parent beside an empty frame?

 

As Eckhart Tolle wrote in his recent A New Earth, “The suppression of the feminine principle especially over the past two thousand years has enabled the ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche...If the balance between male and female energies had not been destroyed on our planet, the ego’s growth would have been greatly curtailed.  We would not have declared war on nature, and we would not be so completely alienated from our Being.”  Reclaiming the feminine principle is not just a sweet indulgence–it is vital to righting the deadly imbalances in our world today.

 

While I was giving the 300 performances of “Mother Wove the Morning,” I presented the play under the sponsorship of Catholics, Evangelicals, Presbyterians, Unitarians, Congregationalists, the United Church of Christ, and Mormons.  I recently found a letter from a Catholic priest in Chicago:

 

“...I realized this morning what a gift you have given me, and I am ashamed of myself for not telling you personally and publicly...perhaps I was afraid because of the guilt that was stirred up as I remembered how I have treated ‘Mother’...for the first time it came home to me just how much we have lost by banishing ‘Mother.’”

 

But in my own life–as well as at the retreat last weekend–rather than dwelling on our loss, I choose to celebrate our ability to make things right, to insist that we invite the Mother back into the family.  Only with her presence can we truly know our divine heritage:

 

                                    THE FAMILY OF LIGHT      

 

                                    Kindled into the family that sparked the sun

                                    We came–with suns and moons and stars

                                    In us forever.

 

                                    And the Mother, who nurtures new light

                                    In the warmest of all wombs,

                                    And the Father, who holds in His hands

                                    The golden glow and blows it brighter–

                                    Together placed us in another room.

 

                                    It is dark here.

                                    Deep within element we dim and dim.

                                    And to slim the ray

                                    That might find its way out        

                                    We handcraft clever bushels     

                                    Of modest, fashionable fears.   

 

                                    But long darkness is untenable

                                    And we yearn for the burning to begin again.

 

                                    We have had too much night.

                                    Shall we–shall we together shed our bushels

                                    And stand revealed–

                                    Sons and daughters of light?

 

                                                                        –CLP, Beginnings and Beyond

 

 

BUY ONE DVD AND BOOK OF “MOTHER WOVE THE MORNING” AND GET ONE FREE.  For all orders for “Mother Wove the Morning” received by May 11th, a second DVD and book will be included free.  Additionally, give your self or your loved one a signed copy of Embracing Coincidence; In Love Again and Always; Beginnings and Beyond, or any of the other many Carol Lynn Pearson books available at http://www.clpearson.com/personal_gifts.htm.

 

 

TELEPHONE CONSULTATIONS.  Could you benefit from a telephone consultation/conversation with Carol Lynn about any of the issues in which she has experience?   http://clpearson.com/consultations.htm.    

 

 

 

FACING EAST  (play about Mormon couple dealing with suicide of gay son) will open next month at a terrific regional theatre in Long Beach.  For full information on all scheduled productions, see http://www.clpearson.com/facing_east.htm.

 

 

If you do not have a copy of No More Goodbyes: Circling the Wagons around Our Gay Loved Ones, you’re missing an important opportunity to better understand one of the pressing issues of our day.  Last week a friend left a message on my voice mail: “Carol Lynn, I just want to thank you for saving the life of my step-nephew.  I had been afraid we might lose him, but reading No More Goodbyes gave him new hope.”

 

 

“In the heavens are parents single?  No, the thought makes reason stare.  Truth is reason, truth eternal tell me I’ve a Mother there.”

            –Eliza R. Snow, Invocation: or the Eternal Father and Mother

 

At our table this Sunday, as we honor our mothers, may we give a moment’s remembrance to the Divine Mother of us all.

 

Love and blessings from your friend,

  

 

     Carol Lynn