Methodology.Gynecology.Biology.
I have a friend who is writing young adult fiction - a novel -about a coming-of-age girl with magical powers - powers she must come to terms with
(my friend coming to terms with her craft and intent as well as the girl coming to terms with whatever power my friend's intent crafts for her).
Since what she wants to craft is other-worldly, I give my friend esoterically-informed advice.
I advise her on what to read about the archetype of the virgin from symbolic geometry, and the vesica pisces which is the womb of creation.
I expound upon how seVen is the number of the virgin because no number can go into it evenly. I pontificate on how
(prior to the head-oriented, male-pole-dominated patriarchal eras came to be),
the goddess was the revered and worshiped deity in mythology.
Things one reads can reside in the head as just-talked-about notions: fanciful words thrown around with nothing grounded under them.
I believe in embodying what it is one wishes to write about, and esoteric wisdom is bound for embodiment because you explore and discover the hidden wisdom from within.
If you wish to write about magic, work on your wizardry (NOT Harry Potter wand-waving wizardry). Wizards spin, so visualize the story spinning out from the depths of you.
If you want to write about a virgin, do as Cate Blanchett did in Elizabeth, who with her attendants weeping while cutting off her hair, declared with that inimitable throat, "I have become a virgin."
That's Embodiment!
Or if you can't go to that extreme, find a way to open your perineum (the feminine pole) - lackluster pedestrian term: pelvic floor.
My teacher actually advised the women in class a few weeks ago that if they really want to open that power place, that launching pad, that springboard of creativity, the perinuem,
(I believe I received the quality of bold, intrepid giving of advice from her)
to stick an egg
(preferably hard boiled,)
"up there".
Now me, being the only body in class sans a vagina,
but also knowing undoubtedly of having attained possession of the most enthusiastic and provocative understanding of and most facility with my own feminine pole
was the only one to ask,
(through all the girlish giggling from forty-something year olds),
"Should it be shelled?"
"Why are you asking?" I heard from behind me.
I kept all attention on my teacher
(not even acknowledging the heckler),
because my teacher is an absolute master at conveying esoteric tenets and I trust her implicitly.
I don't care that I don't have an actual vajayjay, and no
(don't go there!)
it wasn't that I was thinking of actually participating in this particular perineum project......
I have a keen imagination,know the power of intention preceeds and is well beyond insertion and
I revere the goddess force,
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Re-laying egg insertion information to an aspiring author on Independence Day
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What a wise and wonderful friend you must be to this writer! I certainly hope she takes your advice to heart (or should I say perineum?) and "embodies" the technique to move her book along. Sounds like a fantastic story! Let me know when she finishes it.
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