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Scrutinizing Script: Love and Power

Love & Power: Lynn V. Andrews

Power is what drives us. It is what generates the energy we require to propel our lives through the direction Love & Powerand accomplishment of our goals. Love is the creative spark, the divinity inside us and connection to God that gives us the ability to live in the centre of our hearts. It is what keeps us true to ourselves as our goals begin to manifest. Without one, we never reach a desired destination. Without the other, we lack the ‘joie de vivre’ that makes it all worth while.

We are called upon to hold within us the truth that we are all part of a oneness. This oneness is not a static state, but a movement of power through the abyss of chaos and striving into the world of compassion and understanding and love. Without love, in a sense, there is no life. Love can be manifested in many ways. It can be for another person—and what a beautiful, wonderful gift that is—but the most important thing of all is the love of self. The love of self is the most magnificent realization that can be. You are made of love, because God is love, and you are God in the sense that you are a reflection of the creation of all that is.

Andrews has studies Native healing arts and Shamanism more than two decades with the tutelage of several powerful medicine women. In this book, she takes us through the process of recognizing both love and power, and honouring the necessity they hold in our lives. She shares with us the importance of courage to evolve and claim what is ours. To be who we are meant to be and not get caught up in what we are doing. She teaches through personal stories and in a sequencial, easy to grasp manner that is accessable and inspirational. Included in each chapter are reflective questions so grab a journal, a hot cup of tea (or some wine perhaps), and prepare yourself for some honest interaction and revelation.

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Stuff Matters: Don’t be Scared

I’ve been thinking about ‘it doesn’t matter’ and ‘it’s no big deal’. Maybe, ‘It doesn’t mean anything’ sounds familiar? Those sentences have always really, really hurt me but of course, I’d never admit this because ‘I don’t care’. It’s always shocked me that people feel the need to say it at all. Is a statement of your indifference really necessary? And what are you proving through it? If it doesn’t mean anything, then it isn’t worth mentioning; words generate meaning, so why give something that’s meaningless meaning with vocabulary? Unless of course, it does in fact matter, then, what’s the problem? Will we suddenly loose ourselves if we accidentally show some vulnerability? Or maybe we’re worried that the ground will collapse with an influx of responsibility and expectation…whoa.

Have you ever considered how freaking incredible it is that we’re able to give a shit at all? Really. I can’t even begin to wrap my mind around the many chemical, neurological, and other reactions that have to take place, both simultaneously and in the correct order, for us to experience emotions like love, empathy, or excitement (spoiler alert: all of these are just love!). I don’t think many of us can begin to grasp what it takes for us to create that. That’s what makes it a miracle! It’s beyond comprehension or measurement to the average person. For us to be able to move beyond the basic flight or fight response of nature is such a gift, yet we trap ourselves in fear.

I suppose it is a bit of a jungle out there…

There’s also the fear that (heaven forbid), we think it means something just to find out afterwards it was no big deal. Now THAT would be a big deal…to admit to the miracle of human emotion just to have to turn around and feel a completely different, possibly unpleasant one; now that would be a shame.

If ‘it doesn’t mean anything’, then why do it? Why are we allowing things, people, or events we don’t care about occupy the space of our lives? Shouldn’t we be mad for life? Shouldn’t we want to fill ourselves with what’s worthy? Many of us feel empty, maybe lonely or lost, and would rather be in anything, with anyone, just to avoid facing ourselves. But have we considered the possibility that so many of us feel so terrible, because we’re filling ourselves with ‘it’s no big deal’ instead of raising personal revolutions and generating space for our passions?!

What a waste…. 

So, let’s agree to at least loosen that grip on the overpacked luggage we’re dragging around. Release whatever that person did or didn’t do to you when you were a kid. Let’s take responsibility for our personal healing and nurture that pouty inner child. We’re grown ups now! Many of us have children whom we love and tend to so why not send some of that towards ourselves! We are worthy. You are worthy. I am worthy. Heal that disappointed person you’ve neglected since you first realized stuff’s hard sometimes so we must protect ourselves at all cost. As you foster a relationship with yourself, your Self will start to shine and you’ll be free of mediocracy. We are meant to be bright and luminous. We are meant to thrive. And we are meant to play and dance our way through life’s most mundane moments. Let’s do that instead. Let’s do what matters.

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If You Want to Change the World, Love A Woman

By: Lisa Citore

If you want to change the world… love a woman-really love her.
Find the one who calls to your soul, who doesn’t make sense.
Throw away your check list and put your ear to her heart and listen.
Hear the names, the prayers, the songs of every living thing-
every winged one, every furry and scaled one,
every underground and underwater one, every green and flowering one,
every not yet born and dying one…

Man Woman Embrace

Hear their melancholy praises back to the One who gave them life.
If you haven’t heard your own name yet, you haven’t listened long enough.
If your eyes aren’t filled with tears, if you aren’t bowing at her feet,
you haven’t ever grieved having almost lost her.
If you want to change the world… love a woman-one woman
beyond yourself, beyond desire and reason,
beyond your male preferences for youth, beauty and variety
and all your superficial concepts of freedom.
We have given ourselves so many choices
we have forgotten that true liberation
comes from standing in the middle of the soul’s fire
and burning through our resistance to Love.

There is only one Goddess.
Look into Her eyes and see-really see
if she is the one to bring the axe to your head.
If not, walk away. Right now.
Don’t waste time “trying.”
Know that your decision has nothing to do with her
because ultimately it’s not with who,
but when we choose to surrender.
If you want to change the world… love a woman.
Love her for life-beyond your fear of death,
beyond your fear of being manipulated
by the Mother inside your head.
Don’t tell her you’re willing to die for her.
Say you’re willing to LIVE with her,
plant trees with her and watch them grow.

Divine Mother

Be her hero by telling her how beautiful she is in her vulnerable majesty,
by helping her to remember every day that she IS Goddess
through your adoration and devotion.
If you want to change the world… love a woman
in all her faces, through all her seasons
and she will heal you of your schizophrenia-
your double-mindedness and half-heartedness
which keeps your Spirit and body separate-
which keeps you alone and always looking outside your Self
for something to make your life worth living.
There will always be another woman.

Shiva Shakti

Soon the new shiny one will become the old dull one

and you’ll grow restless again, trading in women like cars,
trading in the Goddess for the latest object of your desire.
Man doesn’t need any more choices.
What man needs is Woman, the Way of the Feminine,
of Patience and Compassion, non-seeking, non-doing,
of breathing in one place and sinking deep intertwining roots
strong enough to hold the Earth together
while she shakes off the cement and steel from her skin.
If you want to change the world… love a woman, just one woman .
Love and protect her as if she is the last holy vessel.
Love her through her fear of abandonment
which she has been holding for all of humanity.
No, the wound is not hers to heal alone.
No, she is not weak in her codependence.

Divine Feminine
If you want to change the world… love a woman
all the way through
until she believes you,
until her instincts, her visions, her voice, her art, her passion,
her wildness have returned to her-
until she is a force of love more powerful
than all the political media demons who seek to devalue and destroy her.
If you want to change the world,
lay down your causes, your guns and protest signs.
Lay down your inner war, your righteous anger
and love a woman…
beyond all of your striving for greatness,
beyond your tenacious quest for enlightenment.
The holy grail stands before you
if you would only take her in your arms
and let go of searching for something beyond this intimacy.
What if peace is a dream which can only be re-membered
through the heart of Woman?
What if a man’s love for Woman, the Way of the Feminine
is the key to opening Her heart?
If you want to change the world…love a woman
to the depths of your shadow,
to the highest reaches of your Being,
back to the Garden where you first met her,
to the gateway of the rainbow realm
where you walk through together as Light as One,
to the point of no return,
to the ends and the beginning of a new Earth.

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If You Want to Change the World, Love A Man

~ by Lauren Wilce

If you want to change the world love a man; really love him
Choose the one whose soul calls to yours clearly who sees you; who is brave enough to be afraid
Accept his hand and guide him gently to your hearts blood
Where he can feel your warmth upon him and rest there
And burn his heavy load in your fires
Look into his eyes look deep within and see what lies dormant or awake or shy or expectant there
Look into his eyes and see there his fathers and grandfathers and all the wars and madness their spirits fought in some distant land, some distant time
Look upon their pains and struggles and torments and guilt; without judgment
And let it all go
Feel into his ancestral burden
And know that what he seeks is safe refuge in you
Let him melt in your steady gaze
And know that you need not mirror that rage
Because you have a womb, a sweet, deep gateway to wash and renew old wounds

the Lovers Way

If you want to change the world love a man, really love him
Sit before him, in the full majesty of your woman in the breath of your vulnerability
In the play of your child innocence in the depths of your death
Flowering invitation, softly yielding, allowing his power as a man
To step forward towards you…and swim in the Earth’s womb, in silent knowing, together
And when he retreats…because he will…flees in fear to his cave…
Gather your grandmothers around you…envelope in their wisdoms
Hear their gentle shusshhhed whispers,
calm your frightened girls’ heart
Urging you to be still…and wait patiently for his return
Sit and sing by his door, a song of remembrance,
that he may be soothed, once more

Wolves Wisdom

If you want to change the world, love a man, really love him
Do not coax out his little boy
With guiles and wiles and seduction and trickery
Only to lure him…to a web of destruction
To a place of chaos and hatred
More terrible than any war fought by his brothers
This is not feminine this is revenge
This is the poison of the twisted lines
Of the abuse of the ages, the rape of our world
And this gives no power to woman it reduces her as she cuts off his balls
And it kills us all
And whether his mother held him or could not
Show him the true mother now
Hold him and guide him in your grace and your depth
Smoldering in the center of the Earth’s core
Do not punish him for his wounds that you think don’t meet your needs or criteria
Cry for him sweet rivers
Bleed it all back home

SoulMates

If you want to change the world love a man, really love him
Love him enough to be naked and free
Love him enough to open your body and soul to the cycle of birth and of death
And thank him for the opportunity

As you dance together through the raging winds and silent woods
Be brave enough to be fragile and let him drink in the soft, heady petals of your being
Let him know he can hold you stand up and protect you
Fall back into his arms and trust him to catch you
Even if you’ve been dropped a thousand times before
Teach him how to surrender by surrendering yourself
And merge into the sweet nothing, of this worlds’ heart

Golden Wolf Devine

If you want to change the world, love a man, really love him
Encourage him, feed him, allow him, hear him, hold him, heal him
And you, in turn, will be nourished and supported and protected
By strong arms and clear thoughts and focused arrows
Because he can, if you let him, be all that you dream
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