Mother Oh Mother
- Lynda Casey
- Apr 22, 2019
- 7 min read
Updated: May 28, 2019
What happened on Monday, April 15th, at Notre Dame Cathedral is a tragedy for numerous reasons well expressed by religious and historical minds.
It is my intent to draw the lens back and examine the significance of this from a holographic angle.
Already many people have made a connection to this disaster occurring during the Holiest of weeks on the Christian calendar. There is an uneasiness about this that many don’t know how to express. We all feel the tragedy amplified by this timing.
Maybe it is aligned with a expanded coming together as people from all over the world desire to contribute to a new “resurrection”.
And while that may be true, let me go a bit deeper.
“Of all the churches in all the towns in all the world”, to slightly alter part of a famous line from the movie “Casablanca”, why Notre Dame, Our Lady, the Mother of Jesus, the Holy Mother, right now in this moment of history when technology allowed most of the world to watch the inferno of this iconic symbol named for the Divine Feminine during this sanctified time.
Those of us who ventured into the world of wisdom and spirituality know there is no such thing as coincidences and that everything is connected to everything else. What I am about to express is rooted in the scholarly works of two living mystics Caroline Myss and Matthew Fox.
In his book, “The Coming of the Cosmic Christ” , Fox goes into detail how our Mother is dying and why it is a crucifixion story for our time. While this book was written just over 30 years ago its message is more timely than ever.
Since we first began to make symbols on cave walls we have not stopped linking images with our inner journeys to try and help us make sense of the world and also to tell our stories in order to help others see and know.
The symbology of the burning of “our mother” inlays precisely to what Fox is expressing when he writes about the reference to Mother Earth. The earth as our mother is a deeply held truth among the native people of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe. The Benedictine abbess of the 12th century, Hildegard of Bingen, stated in her teachings,
“The earth is at the same time mother, she is the mother of all that is natural, mother of all that is human. She is the mother of all, for contained in her, are the seeds of all.”
When I think of the burning of Notre Dame in this connection what comes to mind is the phrase “scorched earth”. Is this not a clarion call from the Cosmos?
Fox also points out that from our lack of balance “within” we savage the world outside, with Mother Earth being our primary victim. A critical dimension of this imbalance is the stunted growth of our mystical awareness and the underdevelopment of our mystical brain. Fox has pointed out two contributing factors for this; one being religions reluctance to pursue its own mystical tradition and educations fear of the right brain.
Another level to understanding that “our mother is dying” is the issue of human imagination and creativity. Carl Jung says that creativity emerges “from the realms of the Mothers”. The maternal is the place of new birth, of new wombs, of new stories, of new beginnings, or new possibilities. Fox then poses the question...how many abortions of imagination and imaginative individuals are preformed daily and weekly in our education, familial, and religious institutions?
Wisdom appears universally in cultures and religions as a feminine, maternal figure. And wisdom is dying. Fox asks us to consider how our civilization has, under the driving influence of the patriarchal Enlightenment, produced so much knowledge and information that we have found it necessary to invent a multibillion dollar industry to store it all and retrieve it on command. Computers are the libraries of such a civilization.
But what would it take to store all the wisdom we have accumulated these past three centuries. Where is our wisdom? Why has mother wisdom been treated so coarsely?
Wisdom is of the Mother Earth, Fox states, for nature contains the oldest wisdom of the universe. Wisdom requires the right brain as well as the left, for it is birthed by both analysis and synthesis. Wisdom requires imagination and nurtures it. Wisdom comes via the creative spokespersons of a culture in the handing on of stories, sagas, myths, images from the past and from the future. There is no wisdom without mother creativity.
“Mother’ is also a word that defines a relationship. A mother does not stand alone. She is by definition in relationship with a child. Therefore to say “your mother is dying” is to say youth is dying.
This is evidenced by the numbers of suicidal youth, drugged and alcoholic youth, depressed and apathetic youth, unemployed and apparently unemployable youth and youth who have been victims of physical, sexual, educational, and religious abuse. The gifts youth have to offer are not being called forth. The gifts of our youth are being aborted.
Native peoples teach that the ultimate norm for morality is the impact our choices have on persons living seven generations from now. What would we have to change in our civilization today if we agreed on that criterion?
Fox also goes on to explain how this also connects to the dying of native people and their religion and cultures; to the dying of the Mother Church deeply entangled in the lethal embraces of matricidal patriarchy, and the dying of Mother Love which is compassion.
The Hebrew word for compassion is derived from the word for womb. Womb love. mother love, creative love are all part of the power we know as compassion.
Jesus, the Son of Our Lady, Notre Dame, seized elements in his Jewish tradition that were the most maternal; the wisdom sayings and the call to compassion.
This invitation to divine motherhood seriously challenged the religious system of his day. The cruxifixction of Jesus was the logical result of his frontal assault on patriarchy.
Fire holds within it ending and beginning. The moment something dies, something new begins to emerge.
The question that is being asked is, what is Notre Dame “Our Lady”, “Our Mother” asking us to begin anew?
I believe the answer is more than a renovated or newly restored physical cathedral. What our Mother is asking from us is far greater than that.
As Caroline Myss says,
“We are living at a momentous time in civilization. People don’t recognize the time we are living in”.
She says that we are shedding our anthropomorphic designs of God and moving forward into a universal understanding of the nature of God as “Law”. We are entering a bio-spiritual ecology which matches the laws of nature and the laws of creation. The deeper mystical nature of God is what is getting revealed through our holistic health, our energy nature, our energetic anatomy that we understand we create our reality. However, that puts us, in what Myss calls, a vulnerable zone because we are between mythologies.
The ones we had, as demonstrated in the examples put forth by Matthew Fox, no longer fit and we don’t have any to go to.
Both Fox and Myss believe we are being called to enter this era by becoming mystics. It is impossible to become like mystics from the past but instead we are being called to become mystics without monasteries.
Before we dismiss this as an impossibility for ourselves let us return to what Mother is asking of us.
Our Mother, Notre Dame, was not destroyed, in fact much that was considered valuable was saved.
As we look at the world around us, it has not yet been destroyed. Our planet, our ecology, our wisdom, our cultures, our youth, our compassion, what we consider Sacred and Holy is still salvageable, but we cannot resurrect and restore it, as Einstein referenced, from the same consciousness that created it.
Mother is asking to look at what we may have tossed out and to think about its value as it may be required in order to start anew.
We are here now, at the very emergence of a new era as our Mother is asking us to step up and step out in a new way, to create a mythology that includes both the left and right sides of our brain.
They say it will take three to five years to rebuild the cathedral. It will be a major undertaking and require the love and compassion, skills and wisdom of many.
What is Mother asking you to do with your talents and creativity, your skills, your wisdom and compassion, to renovate, restructure, restore and resurrect on this sacred cathedral called Earth?
There is no longer a question that we are the ones we have been waiting for!
Now is the time, regardless of your age, to “listen to your Mother”! Don’t run and hide, for she is calling YOU!
Lynda Casey, mystic explorer, intuitive, evolutionary teacher and psycho-spiritual coach, facilitator, public speaker, and archetypal consultant, holds a degree in Education and a Master of Arts in Wisdom Studies. For 3 1/2 decades she has immersed herself in the evolutionary matrix of personal growth and spirituality while travelling extensively and studying in person under the tutelage of many well known teachers, mystics, and New York Times best selling authors such as Caroline Myss, Gary Zukav, Claire Zammit, Will Taegal, Jean Houston, Heather Ash Amara and many more. Lynda believes, as we enter this Quantum Techno/Information Age, the old 2-D linear approach to understanding each other and the world is no loner meaningful or healthy for ourselves or our planet. However, many of us are still stuck in the paradigm where our emotional analysis is running the show and where we believe our perceptions are based in current time. Lynda is passionate about shifting our lens so we can uncover who we really are from a holographic perspective thus enabling us to discover the real meaning of why each of are here, and especially here now! A master at pulling back the layers of false identities to help others gain clarity, Lynda excels at supporting us toward our evolutionary development and why we are meant for more.
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