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qosI spent all day yesterday processing the ritual and descent experience, and it's going to continue to preoccupy me today -- which is going to be tough, given some high demand tasks I have to complete at work.
Ereshkigal is quite serious about me, and I'm both excited and unnerved by that. I trust her, but she's scary.
There was a lot of rich material in my meditation with her this morning, far too much to post here when I need to get ready for work. The key point I'm going to be pondering today, however, is this:
I need to get around my cultural tendency of equating light to goodness and dark to evil.
Intellectually I know they do not automatically correlate. Intellectually I know that deities of darkness and death are not evil; they have been perceived as evil and frightening by humanity because we fear death and the unknown. And as Ereshkigal pointed out to me this morning with one of her unnerving smiles: For several years now, I've consciously and deliberately stood for understanding as a tool against fear. Time to practice what I preach.
Ereshkigal is quite serious about me, and I'm both excited and unnerved by that. I trust her, but she's scary.
There was a lot of rich material in my meditation with her this morning, far too much to post here when I need to get ready for work. The key point I'm going to be pondering today, however, is this:
Intellectually I know they do not automatically correlate. Intellectually I know that deities of darkness and death are not evil; they have been perceived as evil and frightening by humanity because we fear death and the unknown. And as Ereshkigal pointed out to me this morning with one of her unnerving smiles: For several years now, I've consciously and deliberately stood for understanding as a tool against fear. Time to practice what I preach.
