recognize each other in one glance. She’s aware there are people who have the same sense of the other dimension and can recognize it, and others think you’re crazy!
“There is a dimension that makes this world and life a miracle!” You just know that that’s there between you, just as when she’s planting her garden. If she’s doing it with the love that is coming through her hands, it’s going to be a different garden than if she hires someone who doesn’t care much about tulips. There’s a harmonic that goes on with nature and human beings, and it’s very healing. It’s Mother Earth, and it brings out Mother Earth in your body and that whole feminine dimension of being home – your body as home, the gar- den as home, the tree as home, it’s not crazy. We live in this body for however long, and if we don’t sense it as home, it won’t respond the same way as when we accept it.
Our body that is be- ing lived in will carry various tensions and various sounds, and its vitality – vital meaning
life –is powerful even if it’s an old person, you can feel the vitality that has kept them
on the earth this long.
You can inherit this as well, if you’re brought up where the garden is important, and has been home for you. You are at home in Mother Earth and that vitality, there is life in there, there is life in the earth – leaves and flowers. Living on ce- ment as we do in our cities – we walk on cement, drive on cement – we are cut off from the vitality of the soil.
Marion and her husband had an island in northern Ontario, Canada, and it brought health to them along with strength, happi- ness and a return to the body. It was a wild place, that very wildness was so refresh- ing, to feel the pulse of the earth that was there made her feel at home.
“Nature is to be lived in, cherished, there’s the feminine.” What happens to the body when it lives in a foreign environment, liv- ing on cement? She stated how the body
needs to go back to the earth, the garden, and feel the vitality that is in the soil. If you’ve experience this, or the loss of it, you know that it is true, even if you have a small garden.
Marion says this is the loss of the feminine in our culture; she’s talking about the fundamental loss of the feminine, the rhythmic heartbeat of the earth, the vital- ity of the soil.
She believes it is fundamental because there’s a rhythm in the earth. She could feel that in the drive from the city to her island the minute she crossed over into the water, the green, the smell was so rich and she could take in the air into her lungs and not cough. It provided Marion and her husband a balance to their life for when they lived in their city dwelling during the wintertime.
This also relates to how she deals with her fears of her health and when she went through surgery. She speaks to her body as if it were a frightened child, telling her body it’s going to be all right and they will work together in their totality. When she’s frightened, depressed, or not breathing properly, she literally takes the beat of her heart, which she is always in touch with, and tells her heart, here is your beat, stay with this. It’s a slow, strong beat – it’s her life force.
She also does that in frightening situa- tions, such as when speaking before many people. “Here is your beat.” She stands quietly until the heart adjusts to that beat and she states it has to be done with love.
I imagine this heart beat to be very similar to the rhythm in the earth that Marion speaks of. When our bodies can be in touch our heart beat and with that beautiful, grounding rhythm of the earth, we can live our life with vitality, joy and wonder!
I believe what Marion is speaking of is important for all of us to be aware of if we are to reclaim the feminine that has been lost, which Marion claims is Mother Earth. We need to be in tune with the Earth’s rhythm and our own heartbeat. So in essence we’re talking about spiritual healing – a healing of our physical bodies
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connecting to our spirit or our soul through Mother Earth.
Marion says our soul is connected to our unconscious mind, which we can access through our dreams. Her work involves helping people get in touch with their dreams because they come from a deep place in the psyche. It’s your unconscious speaking to you; the soul speaks through your dreaming, so dreams are important to remember.
This communication in dreams comes through symbols so you need to work with the symbols. You may not understand them at the time, but if you keep watch- ing the pattern of the dreams, you’ll see they’re all linked. There’s some energy within us that guides it, some people call that God, or Sophia (the feminine form of God). Once you start living from that space it becomes your spiritual guide.
As Marion states, “We are more than just flesh, we have imagination, and a brain that thinks in many different ways, and has powers, strength and healing. Our vitality comes from our soul; our own creative power as a human being comes from soul. If you want to live your life, your vitality comes from your soul.”
Just as when the feminine, Mother Earth, is destroyed when trees are cut down and the earth is massacred and covered with cement, when we do this to our bodies our psyche will get sick. The message from Marion today is to reconnect with the feminine within us, and we can do that through touching Mother Earth. We need to listen to our unconscious minds. We need to listen to our bodies, listen to our own heartbeat and the rhythm of Mother Earth.
Kris Steinnes, spiritual leader, medita- tion teacher, and author, is the vision- ary founder of Women of Wisdom Foundation and for 18 years has produced a life changing, empowering conference for women in Seattle. She is the author of the Amazon best- seller, award winning boo: Women of Wisdom, Empowering the Dreams and Spirit of Women. Learn more at
www.womenofwisdom.org
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