One of my favorite songs is the BLACK EYED PEAS’ “Where Is The Love?”
It’s a great song to dance to, run to and simply to listen to. The lyrics are powerful.
As I listen to the song, the two lines that keep grabbing my awareness are:
“What’s wrong with the world, mama
People livin’ like they ain’t got no mamas”
I love this description of people’s behavior today. There is so much violence, greed, pettiness, fear, distrust, lack of love…you name it, it seems as though the collective Ego is fighting for dear life to hang on in this time and sea of change. While there is much to smile about in this world, the line
“People livin’ like they ain’t got no mamas”
keeps ringing in my ears. What does it mean to live like we ain’t got no mama? What popped into my head is the stark clarity of what has happened as a result of the suppression of the Sacred Feminine.
In his very-popular current book, A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle speaks of the shunning of the Sacred Feminine that began centuries ago, and that has been internalized by humans to a degree, some lesser, some more. The Sacred Feminine was ‘rendered powerless’ through the developing male ego, and in time, became internalized in all humans to some degree.
What we see now is a world gone mad because it is out of balance. The Big Mama, the Sacred Feminine, has been silenced and put into darkness. The world has run amuck without a mama to keep balance with the Sacred Masculine.
When I hear this line, I realized it’s like we all know Mama is missing, but we don’t know where to find her.
But she is here…right here. She never left. We simply put her away into the dark recesses of our psyches so that we could stay alive.
We, as women, are more of the body and the earth, and less identified with our minds. As Tolle says, “Because the ego was never as deeply rooted in woman, it is losing its hold on women more quickly than on men.” (pg 157)
What would our world be like if we let the Mama, and our own Sacred Feminine mama within, out again? How might we be different? How might the world be different? How might men change? How might our children grow up to see gender and love differently?
What if you were to begin to trust your own Sacred Feminine nature and the body in which She lives and breathes?
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