I often wonder if the skepticism that I notice in the western world is somewhat equivalent to a modern-day witch hunt.
The denial, and gas-lighting, of not only the intuition, multi-sensory phenomenon, and the yet inexplicable experience of other individuals — but also how the denial of this kind of phenomenon might occur within ourselves.
Perhaps these themes also represent an archetypical version of the unintegrated masculine energy (the patriarchy) playing out within the collective.
Having lived in Bali for almost 2 years, I feel grateful to have encountered so many people overall, especially men, with not only the ability to acknowledge the intuition, and higher feminine aspects found externally – but also the willingness to acknowledge and cultivate these aspects within themselves.
It was refreshing — and validating.
I can’t begin to tell you the amplification of psychic perceptions I experienced during my time there. It was revelatory, and expansive in a beautiful way — but it was also alot.
At times, people would come into my dreams to have conversations with me and share their stories — only for them to have the same conversations with me shortly thereafter in real life.
Although I did feel a significant connection to these individuals — I wouldn’t say that much of it ‘was under my control’.
There were also many episodes with spirits, and otherworldly beings — where at times, I had to ask myself — ‘’am I going crazy, like actually?’’
But I knew that that question, in and of itself, implied that there was indeed a stronger aspect of sanity, serving as an underlying foundation in the protection and grounding of my psyche as a whole.
And again, I was grateful to be surrounded by men, who for me, were representations of integrated masculine energies, to not only validate my own experiences — but also to ultimately validate a higher projection and understanding of reality, found within the phenomenon of those experiences.
I had been doing psychic-intuitive readings since 2018 — so this kind of thing isn’t new to me.
But from time to time, even despite my very real experiences — doubt has a way of creeping in — often due to being met with skepticism on the outside.
This really isn’t anyone’s fault — as it is ultimately a reflection of the integrity of one’s own boundaries around one’s perceptions, values, and way of life — right?
In this case my own.
Yet — through my own experience, I’m realizing that it is a different story, living in a Western world, versus an Eastern one.
And I’ve also noticed a projection of the ‘witch wound’ being perpetuated, not only onto those practicing energy healing modalities, and other forms of divination — but also for those who aren’t abiding by, or buying, everything they’re observing on the mainstream media.
This realization was amplified by a wonderful conversation with my Human Design coach, and friend, Annita Keane.
I believe many individuals, within the entire spectrum of feminine and masculine, regardless of class, occupation, and belief system, are now experiencing this.
Nowadays, many of us are paving pathways, creating structures, and living lives that might be in opposition to the greater patriarchal paradigms that have been prescribed to us.
We’re no longer needing validation from the fixed, dogmatic structures.
I feel that the greater lesson here, is in complete personal ownership of one’s gifts, skills, and abilities, despite what any skeptics might think they know to be true.
When really — It is most likely just an incomplete perspective.
Either they don’t care to know it — or they’ve been told to fear it — so they don’t bother trying to understand it.
This has been particularly obvious to me in subtle ways, especially upon my return to the states.
The sentiment of devotional prayer, connection to the realms of the spirit, and the feminine mysteries — are in many of our roots, passed down from our ancestors, and embedded in the DNA.
And yet, the Western world has only recently been un-earthing the fruits of these seeds.
Although it has been primarily Eurocentric religious ideologies that have perpetuated many of the paradigms that are currently ruling the Western world — I also feel that it goes deeper than that; the Druids, the Theosophists, and the ancient Slavics, practiced these divinatory arts, too.
Instead, I think of it as a kind of virus — perhaps one to disconnect the heart, the womb/hara, and the mind.
One, of course, to not only perpetuate our forgetting of where we came from and the holistic nature of what we are — but also to convince us to deny the intuitive intelligence and feminine aspects of ourselves — that do remember.
To repress, exploit, or disempower our emotional, intuitive, and extra-sensory awareness, and to seed the denser energies of separation and divisiveness.
But gratefully — there are so many of us waking up to this.
Waking up, to understanding our inner-truth.
Connecting to our inner realms, learning to strengthen our intuition, seeking empowerment, empowering one another — seeding the mutations of benefic change from a place of heart-centered awareness.
Understanding, that in order to be a sacred warrior against ‘evil’ — we must first recognize and reconcile these frequencies within ourselves.
And although the material energies of feminine and masculine are becoming more fluid — might we still understand the feminine and masculine as fundamental mechanisms of the universe.
Because at the end of the day — everything emerges out of the void.
Light — and not light.
Darkness — and all that is being lit.
Modern-day science is traversing the unveiling edges of the dark.
And then, there are some that can already see in the dark.
I believe that this is the power, the nature, of the feminine.
That which we have forgotten — yet also that which is being remembered, again.
And I don’t think that any of these perceptions can fall under the category of right or wrong.
I think that this is beyond that.
There are many — awakening to this reality, understanding what it means to see in the dark, seeing through the illusory frameworks of what we’ve been told to think and feel, and taking the inward journey through love to find the answers for ourselves.
Here’s to lovingly speaking our truth.
Fully owning our power.
And to transmuting the witch wound.