How authentic sexual encounters can lead to more wholeness Author: Sabina Tschudi Our approach to our own sexuality significantly determines how we experience it. Sabina Tschudi shows that each of us has a right to a fulfilling, healing sexuality – and how this can succeed despite limiting values, norms and language. I would like to …
And they recognized each other
How an appropriate sexual relationship between the sexes can lead to more peace on earth Author: Dieter Duhm, Sabine Lichtenfels As long-time activists and founders of the community Tamera, Dieter Duhm and Sabine Lichtenfels are committed to the healing of love as well as sexuality and to the abolition of the separation of Eros and …
Encounter with living matriarchal societies
Two women share their experiences Author: Uschi Madeisky, Dagmar Margotsdotter Dagmar Margotsdotter and Uschi Madeisky have visited not one matriarchy but several. They experienced their “other” social and family structures, which put the maternal and caring at the center. These experiences had a lasting impact on their lives and their view of our humanity. They …
Family is at the center
In conversation with a woman from a matrilineal society Author: Illin Masar Illin Masar belongs to the indigenous Khasi people – derived from the proper name Ki Khasi, “Those born of a woman” – who form a matrilineal society. In this society, the clan, one’s own relatives and the relationships among each other are elementary. …
Enlightenment or demonic state?
Enlightenment or demonic state? Author: Rani B. Willems Painful awakening experiences, such as those described in Dr. Thomas Wachter’s article “Return from Transcendence” in Tattva Viveka 77, are considered by the author to be a misunderstanding that can occur when the people concerned have not been adequately prepared for the encounter with the Absolute. By …
Awakening of the Womb
Mayonah A. Bliss GODDESSES Womb awakening implies that a woman’s womb can be dormant, that there is potential in the womb space that is not yet awakened. I believe that this is the case for most women, and that we don’t even realize it, because we don’t know it any other way. Women don’t even …
Aspects of love
On the trail of our natural state Author: Dolores Richter Love is not just about our subjective feelings or the relationship between two people isolated from the outside world. The author takes a look at the spiritual, historical and social context of love. She speaks of her experience that a sustaining community is indispensable for …
At the beginning there was a mother
What can we learn from matriarchal societies today? Author: Heide Göttner-Abendroth The founder of Modern Matriarchal Studies, Dr. Heide Göttner-Abendroth, shares with us the findings of her decades of research on societies living in matriarchy. She dispels clichés and prejudices about these societies. Characterizing them is egalitarianism, grassroots democracy and a deep reverence for Mother …