Harvard-trained theologian Meggan Watterson marched out of her
church at age ten. With little-girl clarity, she knew something
tremendously crucial was missing...the voices of women. Watterson
became a theologian and a pilgrim to the divine feminine to find
the missing stories and images of women's spiritual voices. She
knew women's voices had never been silenced, just buried. But what
she truly sought was her own spiritual voice inside her--the one
veiled beneath years of self-doubt. At a sacred site of the Black
Madonna in Europe, Watterson had a revelation that changed her.
Rather than transcending the body, denying or ignoring it, being
spiritual for her meant accepting her body as sacred. Only then,
Watterson realized could she hear the voice of unfaltering love
inside her- the voice of her soul. With passion, humor, and brutal
honesty, Watterson draws on ancient stories and lesser-known texts
of the divine feminine, like The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, making
them modern and accessible to reveal the spiritual process she went
through. She suggests that being spiritual is simply about
stripping down to the truth of who we really are. Through her
extensive work with women, Watterson found that she was not alone.
There are countless women who long for a spirituality that
encourages embodiment rather than denies it, that inspires them to
abandon their fears but never themselves, and to be led by the
audacious and fiercely loving voice of truth inside them. No matter
where you rest on the spectrum of spirituality; religious or
secular, devout believer or chronic doubter, freelance mystic or
borderline agnostic, this story is about the desire in all of us to
want to shed everything that holds us back. Reveal provides what
religions have left out--the spiritual voice of a woman who has
claimed her body as sacred--a woman who has found the divine
insider her. In essence, this is a manual for revealing your soul.
I have spent the majority of my life gathering stories of the
divine feminine. Each time before getting my masters degrees in
theology and divinity, I went on a pilgrimage to sacred sites of
the divine feminine throughout Europe. The first one was with a
group and the second was on my own... The stories of the divine
feminine, of Christianity's Mary Magdalene, Catholicism's Black
Madonna, Hinduism's Kali ma, and Buddhism's Green Tara for example,
allowed me to begin to see that I wasn't as much of a spiritual
misfit as I had thought. There was a red thread that became visible
to me that ran through so many of the world religions, especially
through their mystics, relating that the way to find the divine is
to go within. And, that our potential to be transformed by going
inward is exactly the same whether we are a man or a woman. The
real barometer of our spiritual potential is not our sex, but the
commitment of our desire to want to encounter the divine. Excerpt
from Reveal
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