It’s Easter – a significant time that warrants a ritual. Unfortunately, if we think Christmas has lost all meaning these days, there isn’t much hope for Easter. Jesus’s birthday is at least celebrated on the same day each year, whereas the anniversary of his death changes with the cycles of the moon – a political masterstroke to keep both Pagans and Christians happy. Things were just so much easier when the electorate couldn’t read or add up.
Christians could be offended by this analogy. Jesus wouldn’t be offended, because he lived at a higher altitude. And of course, because he wasn’t a Christian.
Christians came along afterwards. And, by interpreting his high-level, mystical truths through the lens of low-level, budget consciousness, they created a religion. Just as the Jews did 2000 years earlier and the Muslims did 500 years later.
We could go so far as to say that unless we deconstruct all these literal, left-brain interpretations and make the leap to a higher level of consciousness, the world truly will go to hell and there may not be enough handbaskets.
We are creative spirits, temporarily inhabiting human form. Thanks to science and microscopes we understand that we are more energy than matter. Energy changes, but it doesn’t die. Water, when frozen becomes ice, when heated becomes vapour. Without science, we would think that the water, when heated, disappears. Primitive man might think “Wow it’s a miracle!” But with the benefit of a neo-cortex, we know otherwise.
So, it stands to reason that if we continue to evolve, seemingly miraculous events could become everyday occurrences. We kind of know this as well, which is why we are drawn to stories of transformation and magic. We love the concept that we are highly creative beings but we don’t trust ourselves to fully embrace our creativity. We fall in love with the creative expression of others, but we create rules and rituals around our own creativity. These rituals attempt to impose order on chaos. They take things from the energy world and anchor them into the physical one.
We don’t trust our fledgling creativity because (like Bella in Poor Things) it might make us do impulsive things. We might lose favour or lose money. We might be judged or humiliated. We might be labelled crazy or whore. And so we acquiesce to an arranged marriage with our inner patriarchy.
Our creative right-brain is obedient to our rational left-brain. We say I’ll be creative when… I’ve finished my emails; the kids have left home; my bank balance has the right number of zeros. We want safety. We learn to dance in secret, so that when the public event happens we know all the steps.
In energetic terms this translates to “I can be creative in the privacy of my home, but I’ll wear a burka in the outside world”.
Pagan rituals around Easter honour the cycle of death and rebirth because on the physical plane we can’t have constant birth without death… whether that relates to plants, animals or humans.
The Christian ritual features the death and rebirth of a messiah. Symbolically it means that energy takes precedence over matter – the body dies, but the creative spirit lives on.
Unfortunately it’s the Capitalist rituals that seem to prevail – the mass consumption of chocolate, or the roasting of a baby lamb with mint and rosemary. We’re interested in eternal life for the body, not the soul. Come up with a product that holds back the ageing process and venture capitalists will fight to throw money at you.
We need new rituals if we’re going to liberate our creative spirit and put the left-brain in its correct place. Einstein considered the intuitive mind (right-brain) a sacred gift and the rational mind (left-brain) a faithful servant. He observed that “We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
This Easter we could embark on a new kind of ritual. A Bohemian rhapsody. A sacred union between left and right. A marriage that asks us to love, honour and obey our energetic gifts of intuition, imagination, feeling, flowing, laughing and loving.
Because when we say “I wish I had more energy” this is the energy we’re searching for. We shouldn’t be fooled by our left-brain suggestion of the need for Starbucks. The left brain is clever. It’s good at strategy. But it’s rubbish at interpreting desire.
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“We’re interested in eternal life for the body, not the soul.” ❤️🩵💜
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