The Magical Powers
Magical Powers
What is power? Men, and as a result many women too, have come to believe that power is the ability to control others and the environment. They have forgotten the real magical power of those ancient times when people worshiped the Great Nurturing Mother in her ability to sustain all life on Earth. The power to control is a false and destructive power that promotes distrust and resentment in those who are controlled and fear in losing control in the controller. The power to control leads to war and the destruction of the Earth, destruction that is leading to our demise.
Real power comes not from control but from listening to, respecting, and nurturing others. Real power is experienced magically in the depth of loving others and all that is of the Earth. Everything of the Earth is interdependent. Taking indiscriminately from the “natural resources” of Earth is bringing about our destruction. The Native American Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan of the Seneca Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy Oren Lyons has observed that the people of the dominant culture see everything around them as natural resources, but the indigenous people of the Earth see all as their relatives. Real power comes from treating all that is of the Earth as our relatives.
In the era of when people tried to explain the nature of the world around them through myths, this battle between the need to control and the power of nurturance and mutual respect was played out in the battle between the Asir and the Vanir, the two tribes of gods and goddesses of the ancient North. This battle led to a stalemate with Odin, Thor and the other gods of the Asir not understanding the power of the magic of love and nurturance of the fertility goddesses and gods of the Vanir, deities who venerated the Great Mother. But this stalemate eventually gave way to the destruction of Asir at the time of the final battle, Ragnarok. It is this magical power of the Vanir that I write about in my book, Baldr’s Magic, especially the second half of the book, and to which I return in my book, Beowulf’s Ecstatic Trance Magic.
Jean Auel, the Finnish-American writer of the Earth’s Children Series of books, concludes in her series that men took advantage of control when they discovered that they had an important and necessary role in procreation of the species. Until then women were in charge of life. Until then, during the matriarchal era, the nurturance of the Great Mother was the focus of worship.
Nick
What is power? Men, and as a result many women too, have come to believe that power is the ability to control others and the environment. They have forgotten the real magical power of those ancient times when people worshiped the Great Nurturing Mother in her ability to sustain all life on Earth. The power to control is a false and destructive power that promotes distrust and resentment in those who are controlled and fear in losing control in the controller. The power to control leads to war and the destruction of the Earth, destruction that is leading to our demise.
Real power comes not from control but from listening to, respecting, and nurturing others. Real power is experienced magically in the depth of loving others and all that is of the Earth. Everything of the Earth is interdependent. Taking indiscriminately from the “natural resources” of Earth is bringing about our destruction. The Native American Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan of the Seneca Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy Oren Lyons has observed that the people of the dominant culture see everything around them as natural resources, but the indigenous people of the Earth see all as their relatives. Real power comes from treating all that is of the Earth as our relatives.
In the era of when people tried to explain the nature of the world around them through myths, this battle between the need to control and the power of nurturance and mutual respect was played out in the battle between the Asir and the Vanir, the two tribes of gods and goddesses of the ancient North. This battle led to a stalemate with Odin, Thor and the other gods of the Asir not understanding the power of the magic of love and nurturance of the fertility goddesses and gods of the Vanir, deities who venerated the Great Mother. But this stalemate eventually gave way to the destruction of Asir at the time of the final battle, Ragnarok. It is this magical power of the Vanir that I write about in my book, Baldr’s Magic, especially the second half of the book, and to which I return in my book, Beowulf’s Ecstatic Trance Magic.
Jean Auel, the Finnish-American writer of the Earth’s Children Series of books, concludes in her series that men took advantage of control when they discovered that they had an important and necessary role in procreation of the species. Until then women were in charge of life. Until then, during the matriarchal era, the nurturance of the Great Mother was the focus of worship.
Nick
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