A Woman of Wisdom: Hilary Hart
Women’s Spiritual Power
By Kris Steinnes
Hilary Hart’s inspiration for her new book coming out Spring, 2013, Body of Wisdom: Wom- en’s Spiritual Power and How it Serves, came to her after hearing a talk by Sufi teacher, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee. He stated women have a specific spiritual sub- stance in their chakras that men don’t have. This has to do with women giving birth and their bodies being a vessel for a soul to come into physical form.
Llewellyn said this substance in women’s chakras has a function beyond the birth process. Hilary began to explore this concept, which she found mysterious and full of potential, to see if she could find more descriptions of
women’s esoteric make up. She started looking for people and traditions that might identify and describe these gendered spiritual realities.
For Hilary it was like discover- ing a new world, living in a total new world, like finally seeing something that’s really been there forever but you’ve forgot- ten about it. Hilary wants women to become interested to see our own embodiment as an un- charted new mystery. “Gender matters,” she says, “because mat- ter matters. The body, the earth, have a spiritual nature we have denied for so long. As we come to know the spiritual nature of earth, we must also consider the
August/September 2012 spiritual relevance of gender.”
There’s infinite power in our bod- ies and the shared body of the earth that we’ve yet to discover. This power has relevance in women’s roles in society and in our collective evolution.
What Hilary found so important was this idea that women are really spiritually unique and that uniqueness is grounded in how our energy and life force and divine energy moves through our bodies and energy systems.
Hilary acknowledges that the feminist movement strived for and helped women become equal to men, but points out
Photo Credit: Dorie Hagler
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