THE HEALING POWER OF THE SACRED WOMAN

The violations of sacred womanhood, says Dr Christine Page, go back more than 3,000 years, to the time when sexuality and spirituality became separated and a woman's naked body, especially her genital organs, came to represent a dirty and evil force. This disconnection from sacred sexuality and sacred femininity can been seen in the prevalence of sexual violence, pornography, rape, abuse against woman, not to mention the abuse of Mother Earth in the world's cultures today. By anyone's standards Dr Page is a remarkable woman. As a young child she was in constant communication with spiritual beings whose wisdom and knowledge she has learned to trust over the years. She trained as a medical doctor and worked in both allopathic and complementary fields for almost twenty years, but gave up medicine when she realised she had lost touch with her spiritual foundations. Now known as a mystical physician, she is an international seminar leader on healing and empowerment. In her attempt to 'lift the veil that shrouds the sacred purpose of womanhood'. this deep, affecting and healing book is made even stronger by including us in her own story. Diagnosed with breast cancer she realised that in her desire to fit in and be accepted she had become disconnected from her own true feelings and 'fallen out of love with herself'. "I seemed to have joined the ranks of all the 'nice' people who get cancer". But instead of devastating her, 'the turmoil released untapped sources of assertiveness and inner strength'. Illness, she says, is highly influenced by the perceptions and beliefs we hold about ourselves. In Listening to the Wisdom of the Body, she suggests – through the work of Dr Bruce Lipton - that inherited patterns of familial behaviour have the potential to manifest as physical disease – unless we decide to literally and figuratively change our minds! Dr Page hypothesises that the patriarchy subdued the feminine because they knew women possessed powers far more potent than physical strength and the accumulation of financial wealth. And over time women have denied their own inner urges and inner feminine guidance - often, as she did, to succeed in a man's world. This conditioning and programming of the female psyche continued over many generations and it is inevitable that the distortion of the truth will eventually present itself in physical illness; particularly in the breasts and fertility organs. The physical body acts as the soul's most perfect messenger; the body never gets the message wrong. Cancer she says, like all life-changing experiences, gives us the opportunity to stop and ask 'where am I not being true to myself' In Meeting Our Ancestral Grandmothers, she tells us that in prehistoric times women were seen as living representatives of the Great Mother, whose cyclical and potent energy gave birth to all existence. The feminine was seen as having not only the power to give life but also the ability to intercede with the supernatural world. Symbolically this continuous flow between the worlds of life and death is expressed through the menstrual cycle with the blood of menses being seen a mystically endowed with the power of purification and death as well as rebirth and renewal. A woman's power stems from deep within her being and once she connects to this core strength nothing can stop her achieving her destiny. She asks each woman to fall in love with the shape of her own unique body, with each precious organ and cells, which holds the memory of what it is to be a sacred woman. Sex is a sacred and healing act. Through the medium of the Dragon Queen Dr Page travels intimately through the process of a woman's sexual arousal, exploring how each aspect prepares a woman to receive healing energy and inspiration, which ultimately affects the fertility and evolution of the consciousness of this planet. Sex is a process of evolution and creativity that comes from our deep and eternal connection to Source whether it is called god or the Great Mother. Sexual arousal in a woman causes her magnetic body to light up, allowing her to raise her consciousness to the crown chakra as well as providing her partner with 'a transformational pathway that leads to transcendence and healing'. This is information we should all know – now. Through the Mother Cow she explains the mysteries of the sacred breast, surrounding the heart chakra and symbolising the power of unconditional love. A woman's breasts, she says, are the intermediary between the earthly world of the Dragon Queen and the spiritual world of the magnificent Queen Bee, who we experience through the crown chakra and the all-important pineal gland. As she tells us from her own inspiration, received from the archetypal consciousness of the Great Mother, the Queen Bee 'holds the door open to the Great Mother's void or primordial waters of no-thingness' The message of Christine Page's book - which includes personal stories and healing rituals as well as in-depth historical and archaeological research - is clear and authoritative. "When a culture decides to disregard or disconnect from the feminine, productivity cannot be sustained, economies become depressed, infertility levels increase and the land becomes barren and dry". We have reached a tipping point in the world today. Unless there is a rebalancing of the masculine and feminine energies our cultures and civilizations will also be drastically reduced or will die out. She calls on every single woman to begin to honour and respect her essential and sacred purpose here on earth, which goes far, far beyond mere procreation.