07 Jan
Benedictas Veritas
This woodblock print that you see here, Benedictas Veritas, carries the essence of what this blog is about. For the green expresses what I understand as a woman’s sacred relationship to life and to the divine.
I once had a dream in which I see a vibrant, healing green stream that runs through women from head to toe. I am told that women need to find and recognize it in themselves, so that it can flow out into life.
I have heard variations of this dream reflected in the dreams of other women, including the newly homeless. At the meetings with groups of homeless women, I see how their wisdom surfaces, like frozen water, melting, allowing them to drink from a clear place deep within them.
During one of these meetings, a young woman living in a shelter shared, “I don’t know what it means, but I heard these words inside of me when we were meditating: Display the green of life on your resume."
She might not be able to live this wisdom right away, but it is alive - and she can return to it again and again. What touched her most, and the women at the meeting, was the reality and power of this inner knowing.
The artist, Connie Butler said, “Did I tell you about the inspiration for the Benedictus Veritas? It is a pregnancy of inner greening, rebirth, renewal and ease from our collective sense of isolation.”
Recently I heard a woman’s vision that touched me with its directness. In the vision a woman rose out of the sea and said, “Women are to meditate on the color green.”
So I come back to this greening, and how we are each drawn to living this love, this devotion.
Comments
I just had a dream about green two nights ago....I was shown a lovely green color with a hint of blue in it. I was told it was a gift and that I needed to nurture it. One way to nurture this color is by being careful about how I speak.
Thank you Allie for sharing your dream. This is such a valuable insight, linking how we speak to our relationship to this sacred quality within. The first dream I ever had about the feminine way of relating to life also specifically directed my attention to speaking. I was told, "Do not speak badly about a single kernel." The kernel, in the dream, was about human relationships.
thank you anne...this is so wonderful to hear!
I had a dream a few months ago about being in a store where all of the products were a very special shade of green, which pleased me because green is my favorite color.
I've always been deeply drawn to the shade of green depicted in the woodblock print and recently was compelled to buy a healing mandala that had an especially vibrant green color in it. I felt like I wanted to drink the image into my being as if it were a liquid. I think that impulse was inspired by an inner knowing that the vibration of this shade of green could, in fact, help me heal. It is, as you say, the green stream of life, and when we "thirst" for it, that is a sign to pay more attention to our inner life, to our heart...
Several months ago I had a dream in which women were weaving window treatments in earth tones, beige and brown and a beautiful shade of green. I was watching it all in awe for I was fascinated by the women's work and felt very drawn to the colors. I was told that the green thread was very important.
Thank you so much Petra. The dream carries such a deep understanding of how women can work, how we can bring something into life. This is very powerful, and somehow also so simple.
The varied color and shapes of green in these lovely dreams speak to me very profoundly. I hear the feminine affirming her role as co-creator. I feel the feminine being called to reclaim her sacred role in the cycle of life. We give birth, nurture and heal, and by being present to death we witness rebirth. We are being called now in our dreams to come forward. Together we open ourselves to this new energy, this greening, and witness rebirth for ourselves and for the earth. In acknowledging and honoring these dreams, we honor this sacred role of the feminine as co-creator.
Dear Anne,
reading your post reminded me of two experiences; one by David Spangler: ' I found myself immersed in verdant life, surrounded with varying shades of green. It was like being in the middle of a green fog and in the midst not of living creatures but of the power and vitality of life itself. I had a sense of an immense presence, a bit like being at the base of a mountain, only more so. I felt a multitude of impressions and images pressing in on me, more than I could process or interpret.
Then the fog parted, and I gained a different perspective. Things began to fall into place, or at least, my mind began to fashion an image it could comprehend and use to organize what I was experiencing. I was seeing the world from a distance, but it did not at all resemble the images of the planet from space. Everything remained green, and there was no differentiation between oceans or continents. It was like looking at the biomass of the earth presented as a collage of images of various life-forms, from microbes to moose, from protozoa to pinewoods, with fish, birds, animals, humans, plants all represented. This was very impressionistic, with a few sharp details, including landscapes such as forests and mountains. And underneath the green light was a deeper core of light that to my sight was a reddish gold, conveying a sense of love.
Quite beyond the imagery, however, was a sense of presence. It felt vast, but at the same time it felt intimate. I did not feel diminished by its vasteness. I felt that whatever this was, I was part of it, and it was part of me.
"This," John said, "is the World Soul. It is the life and consciousness that infuse the world, giving of itself to support all the other lives that are evolving on this planet. Humanity is helping it to incarnate, but its gift back is to enable you to develop a planetary consciousness. This is an essential part of your destiny as a species, a destiny which you are confronting at this time in history." '
~David Spangler, "Apprenticed to Spirit"
...the other, by Geoff Oelsner:
"Vibratory Night Near Sparta (1975)
Greece: Leslie and I rent a car and drive from Athens to the
Peloponnesian Peninsula. We stop in a remote mountainous region above the ancient site of the city of Sparta. There’s a bright full sweep of stars. We get out of the car to rest and relieve ourselves.
The entire earth is vibrating at a low but quite audible frequency.
There are no visible towers or power stations, no human habitations, no artificial lights, no other traffic on the highway. The hum deepens; the earth itself seems super-sentient. The vibration comes up through the soles of our feet and legs direct from the soil, which feels to us as if suffused with a dense, magnetic energy. It’s like we’ve stepped into another dimension, a more highly resonant realm.
Now the energy continues to lift and the bass buzz becomes more audible. As this happens our own bodies take on a more charged, bioelectronic quality. Silence deepens in our minds like a reservoir fills with water after heavy rain. We stay until it feels like it’s time to go, then drive away into the night, our bodies full of sparkling darkness, like the star-fields floating overhead.
"A Country Where All Colors Are Sacred and Alive:A Memoir of Non-Ordinary Experience and Collaboration with Nature" by Geoffrey Oelsner
I think the more we share with each other first hand experiences happening to "normal " people - without glamourizing - the more we are doing a kind of cognitive activism,catalyst urgently needed...
A big hug, Jose
Dear Jose,
Thank you for sharing these two powerful experiences. I was especially touched by the awareness of a planetary consciousness that is part of our evolution. And how we are being given help to open to the unity of the world. I had a radio interview a few months ago, speaking about dreams and wisdom. Something very wonderful happened, because after the interview a listener wrote to me of a dream she had.
In her dream she was flying high above the earth on a horse. She looked down at the earth and felt an overwhelming love for the world. 'I love the world,' she said in her dream. And she felt such joy!
This feeling of love for the earth went directly against her religious conditioning, so this was new and startling to her. Love burst right through all her past conditioning, and filled her with a new awareness. We are truly being given help to live in a different way.
So grateful that you wrote.
Love,
Anne
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