A Woman of Wisdom: Sera Beak By Kris Steinnes
The younger generation of women’s voices is here! Sera Beak, author of The Red Book, is one of these new, young voices. She speaks very authori- tatively and eloquently on this subject, as she has had years of studying theol- ogy and traveled around the world experiencing other religions.
As a child Sera was madly involved with God, and out of devotion of that love she left Catholicism at the age of twelve, because she felt it limited her love for the divine. She found she was being pulled away from the intimacy with the divine, and she wasn’t going to let that happen. Her personal expe- rience with the divine was so special she wanted to protect it.
Divine Intimacy
She devoted herself to explore religion, wanting to discover if any traditions welcomed that level of intimacy, as she strove to validate what she was experiencing inside herself. She was particularly fascinated with the mystics, who were considered revolutionary in their day and were pushed outside the boxes of religions. Sera had an attraction to those who shook up the traditional religions in their unique way. They just didn’t follow the tenants of the church; they were respectful but knew how to bust out of the normal thought.
Sera studied the history of religions, which gave her an appreciation, wonder and respect for all the tradi- tions but she didn’t find one religion
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she could stay with. Even though she learned from all of their wisdoms and teachings, as a woman she began to realize she had to cut off parts of herself to fit in. Sera’s most profound shifts occurred when she relaxed more into her experience of the divine, especially the Divine Feminine.
“Up to now in my life, what I consider the red facets of the divine is spirally ecstatic, erotic, creative – a life force. That is the facet of the feminine that has been spanking my ass for most of my life. I had to tease her out through the different mediums I studied in school.”
In her studies, she found mystics such as Rumi, Mary Magdalene, and other characters in the past who have this red stream running through them. She responded to this red color or feeling about them which for her emerged organically and naturally from her body.
The Shadow of the Feminine
Sera has been amazed at the explosive trend in the self-help movement to find your feminine nature. She feels the goddess language is used so much that it’s lost some of its innate authentic power. She acknowledges there are many women who are authentic in their work with the Divine Feminine but sees there are those who are using it because it’s popular now. Person- ally she’s had to unpeel other people’s opinions of the feminine off of her, and be with the feminine in her own way, by sharing her own story and remaining
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true to what’s coming through her.
Sera feels the feminine move- ment in her generation has a truth and shadow side, so it’s important to find what resonates with you. She finds it exciting to see the rise of the feminine, but she notices whenever there is a positive rise, anything that is in the way will get pushed up as well. We’ve been without conscious awareness of the feminine for so long, that there’s still a lot we’re all working through. In any movement, change in con- sciousness, it is important to practice discernment. For Sera it’s an energetic discernment of what doesn’t feel au- thentic to her. She calls this the false feminine, which can don the guise of
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