Reframing the Easter Story

Simultaneously terrified & excited to be presenting a short paper about my second book @girlgodbooks Making Love with the Divine: Sacred, Ecstatic & Erotic Experiences at the Society for the Study of Theology Conference.

May women's lived experience of Divinity be truly heard & lead the way in making theology relevant.

More info #SST24 @sst_theology

The Future = #embodimentspirituality #embodimenttheology

#educateevolveembody #inandthrough #fleshyknowing #tangibledivinty #spirituality #makinglovewiththedivine #livedexperience #livedexperiencetheology #nowordstheology #prayer

Big thanks to all who contributed to the research, art & offered anonymous lived experience shares.



When enough of us:

A) recognise the abusive & oppressive overarching culture & structure we live in

and

B) work on our nervous system regulation - moving out of functional freeze & dissociation, collapse & fawning - digesting sympathy energies of flight & fight which result from the thawing

The solidarity, belonging & safety between us will result in a humane, humanitarian, humanity - in which such revolutionaries are the leaders, pioneers & visionaries of new society structures & global order.

#goodfriday #crucifixion #trauma #nervoussystemhealth #humanitarian #humane #human #humanity

#educateevolveembody #inandthrough #fleshyknowing #tangibledivinty #spirituality

Future = #embodimentspirituality #embodiededucation
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Despair is a normal response to loss.

Why have you forsaken me? Is a healthy expression when we have been subjected to abuse.

Flee & overwhelm are normal nervous system responses to threat.

A community who sees any member, but especially it's teacher, be subjected to torture & horror, would experience terror, freeze & survivor's guilt.

On Holy Saturday we have the opportunity to pause, refocus & zoom out - looking at the bigger picture.

And in doing so we PIVOT TO THE PERPETRATOR.

Victim blaming & pathologisation of trauma responses divert attention away from the perpetrator & the choice they made to harm.

The empire, its systems & institutions, was (& still is) the predator & abuser - actively hunting & killing the most humane, humanitarian, humans - peacemakers, status quo challengers, divergent free-thinkers, creatives.

Holy Saturday is our shocking wake up call to our overarching cultural norms.

We lay collapsed in the dark cave - the tomb/womb - of that realisation.

#holysaturday #pivottotheperpetrator #depathologise #trauma #nervoussystemhealth #humanitarian #humane #human #humanity

#educateevolveembody #inandthrough #fleshyknowing #tangibledivinty #spirituality

Resurrection = humanity's embodiment post trauma.

Mind & body come out of 'freeze'; dissociation, numbness & collapse, survival responses complete & there is restoration of the (co-)regulation; compassionate goodness, flow, human spirit - despite (& in spite) of the scars - individually & collectively.

A humane & humanitarian humanity, living as & from the parasympathetic ventral vagal nervous system, simultaneously rises & descends #inandthrough healthy embodiment - as a #tangibledivinty - governed by #fleshyknowing, collectively liberated from the hell of abusive & oppressive overarching culture of empire, systems, institutions, governance & dogma.

The start & end point is the body.

Future = #embodimentspirituality #embodiededucation

#educateevolveembody
#trauma #nervoussystemhealth #humanitarian #humane #human #humanity #resurrection
#eastersunday #newlife #risefromthedead #embodimenttheology #theology

Doubting Thomas placing his hands on the scars, & Jesus, the trauma survivor turned thriver activist, saying yes to the request, offering co-regulation, role modelling & mentorship in trusting our own #feltsense discernment - aka #fleshyknowing - going #inandthrough embodiment - above all else.

* Interaction with scarred bodies & nervous system health will be the spiritual practice.

'Feed my lambs' & a community focus : a #tangibledivinty

* Post resurrection, the 'risen' humane & humanitarian humanity will acknowledge that there is no separation between spiritual & human needs.

* Ensuring that everyone has access to good food, clean water, warmth, shelter, movement, sanitation will be the devotional act.

The start & end point is the body.

Future = #embodimentspirituality #embodiededucation

#educateevolveembody
#trauma #nervoussystemhealth #humanitarian #humane #human #humanity #resurrection
#embodimenttheology #theology #socialjustice