The Revelation Project - Episodes Tagged with “Inanna”

Episode 185: Carly Mountain - Descent & Rising: Exploring the Embodiment of the Inanna Myth

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0400

Meet my beautiful guest Carly Mountain and join us as we explore her powerful and transformative work on the Myth of Inanna and its relevance to our modern day lives which is often overlooked in patriarchal culture.

Carly shares her personal journey of descent and rising and finding the medicine she needed in this ancient story. Ultimately, she was inspired to make it even more accessible by adding the voices and stories of many women who have traveled this ancient map into the underworld and back again as a testament to the power of this mythical journey.

Inanna's story is for all women who are ready to know themselves more deeply, and face the shadowy depths of the unconscious realms of our being.

The portal into the underworld begins to open as a result of our own seeking, and for Carly, it began during her transition into motherhood and she shares more of her story as we get deeper into the episode.

Our discussion concludes with the importance of embracing both the light and dark aspects of ourselves, trusting our desires, and the power of our emotions.
The Inanna Myth becomes a living transmission that transcends time and space, guiding us through the personal, archetypal, and vast aspects of our existence.

Carly's raw and honest storytelling, complemented by her thought-provoking poetry, will leave you breathless and inspired. As we navigate the seven gates of the Inanna myth, from dissociation and trauma to the powerful reconnection with our bodies, we unveil the ancient map of our own healing.

More topics covered:

Carly's personal descent to the underworld and how it mirrors Inanna's journey,
How archetypal symbolism helped Carly find her own voice and reconnect with her whole being.
Why our culture overlooks the experiences of women.
Why the deep dark void is such a powerful place
The significance of reuniting with the parts of ourselves we've cast out, and why the journey of returning to our body is so precious.
The Seven Gates of Embodied Living
What changes when we have gone through a descent?
The transformative power of women's experiences and why we need to share them
Why the Descent and Rising is our birthright and an initiation into the sacred.

Carly Mountain is a psychotherapist, a psychosexual somatic therapist, breathworker and writer. For the last twenty years she has worked with sacred embodied practices. Her writing and work seeks to uncover what has been exiled or hidden within, that is longing to be remembered and reconnected with. Her new book Descent & Rising: Women’s Stories & the Embodiment of the Inanna Myth explores women’s real lived experiences of descent and rising, and familiarises us with a process of female psycho-spiritual growth often overlooked in patriarchal culture. Carly stumbled across the Inanna story during her own descent to the underworld and was astonished by the symmetry it held with her own experience. Since then she has devoted to working with the myth and specialises in beholding others as they traverse the depths of initiation; both in therapy, breathwork and within courses that support women’s awakening and unfolding. She lives in Sheffield, England with her husband and two daughters.

Special Guest: Carly Moutain.

Episode 174: Seana Zelazo: The Way of Inanna: A Heroine's Guide to Living Unapologetically

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0400

In this episode, my guest, Seana Zelazo, delves into the mythology of the Sumerian goddess Inanna and the powerful lessons this myth holds for women and personal transformation.

We discuss topics such as the influence of Inanna's mythology on our own journey and the impact of patriarchy on our perception of the divine feminine, the significance of the second chakra and creativity, the initiatory experience of darkness and rebirth, the importance of self-love and embracing the messy parts of ourselves, and the role of forgiveness and compassion in healing.

We also explore concepts of feminine power, the dismantling of power systems, and the birth of a new world. Through this conversation, we invite listeners to reflect on your own experiences and to embrace your divinity.

Topics Discussed:

Inanna's mythology and its relevance to todays modern women
How the patriarchy influences our perception of the divine feminine
Transcending the binary
How Inanna teaches us to embrace cycles and seasons of our lives
The power of the second chakra and our creativity
The initiatory experience of darkness and rebirth
The importance of self-love and embracing the messy parts of ourselves
The role of forgiveness and compassion in healing and relationships as a mirror.
Understanding our own challenges
Feminine power and dismantling power systems
The birth of a new world

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Inanna, the Sumerian goddess of love and war

Seana Zelazo, LICSW is an author, psychotherapist, intuitive channel, and spiritual coach. Her book, The Way of Inanna: A Heroine’s Guide to Living Unapologetically, is available from booksellers worldwide and at Amazon. Learn more at seanazelazo.com

Special Guest: Seana Zelazo.

Episode 156: Miguel Conner - The Forgotten Goddess: The Gnostic Sophia & The Restoration of The Universe

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0500

"Whether or not you know it, you’ve probably been influenced by the beliefs of the Gnostics and their powerful grasp over aspects of Western spirituality. Many schools of metaphysics, the occult, mystical teachings, and even fraternal organizations and secret societies have borrowed heavily from Gnostic teaching. It’s impossible to do justice to Gnosticism in a single article, but I’ll do my best to introduce you to some of the basic concepts, leaving further research to those spurred on by the mysteries inherent in the Gnostic world. Any personal work done, if seriously approached, must serve to improve the understanding and knowledge of the student.” - Mo Abdelbaki

The term "gnostic" derives from "gnosis," which means "knowledge" in Greek. The Gnostics believed that they were privy to a secret knowledge about the divine, hence the name.
It is understood as one of the oldest versions of the christian religion and perhaps that it even dates back to pre-christian times.

More than anything it’s a cosmology of the universe and a mythical way of seeing how the world came to be including the dualistic nature from which all things in this material world are separated into.

In this episode:

Gnosticism helped Miguel to see the bigger picture - a holistic view of the Universe.
The Myth of Inanna and her relevance to everything.
Why Gnosticism matters and why it is considered an ecstatic and shamanistic religion
How The Goddess Sophia comes to awaken the divine soul and restore the universe.
How the Gnostics face the "horror and the holy" of the Universe
How Gnosticism helps us hold the darkness and light in order to find the middle path
Why it was said that "Modern man can’t see God because he doesn't look low enough”
How Miguel became a gnostic and how being a “misfit” paved the way to bigger questions.
What drove him was the question "What is the nature of evil and suffering?”
The Gnostic Philosophies and their application to todays world
Leaning into a divine feminine aspect and how the gnostics differ from traditional Christian interpretations
Much of Jungs work is derived from the Gnostics - depth Psychology in particular followed the premis “go within to discover the truth”
The counterfeit self that keeps us locked into the matrix- living on the surface of life vs. the ego death which then gives us access to the deeper secrets of the soul.
The gnostics knew that we are not our identities - but instead the divine spark with vast and infinite capacities
The Gnostics believe we all have a destiny that is part of the restoration of the Universe.
If the exterior is all an illusion, then the way to find the true reality is within us- where the true universe resides.

"We did not come to this world to be good, but to be ourselves.” - Jung

If the exterior is all an illusion, then the way to find the true reality is within us- where the true universe resides.
Gnosticism helped Miguel to see the bigger picture - a holistic view of the Universe.

Miguel is the host of Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio, a popular show on Gnosticism and Hermeticism, ancient and modern
Voices of Gnosticism, as well as the post-apocalyptic vampire epic series, The Dark Instinct Trilogy. Art
Gnostic Journal, The Heretic, Mindscape, Reality Sandwich, and Graham Hancock’s blog. Lectured/app
Hour, The Alan Eisenberg Show (AM 1400 WRJN), Magick Radio (AM 1680 Chicago), Runesoup, Skep
Countercultures Conference at Rice University

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Episode 102: Perdita Finn and Clark Strand - The Way Of The Rose The Radical Path Of The Divine Feminine Hidden In The Rosary

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 00:15:00 -0500

What does it mean to surrender certainty and live within mystery again, to recover the dark wisdom of the dirt and the dead, and to find our way together in an age of chaos and collapse?

Since ancient times, roses have symbolized the divine and our creators active presence in our lives.

It's also a representation of the gradual process of revelation, healing, and the many layers of wisdom that unfold throughout our lifetime.

Roses have also long served as the symbol of "The Lady" and Mother Mary.

Mary is closely associated with the rosary, but what most people don't realize is that she is also closely associated with The Goddess Isis.

You may be surprised to realize that the rosary has many incredibly mysteries that lead us down the radical path to the divine feminine.

Before a vision of the mysterious "Lady" invited Clark and Perdita to pray the rosary, they were not only uninterested in becoming Catholic but finished with institutional religion altogether. Their main spiritual concerns were the fate of the planet and the future of their children and grandchildren in an age of ecological collapse. But this Lady barely even referred to the Church and its proscriptions. Instead, she spoke of the miraculous power of the rosary to transform lives and heal the planet.”

Why have human beings made beads for over a hundred thousand years?
What is a viable spiritual response to the catastrophes of climate change?
Why is prayer, and prayer for our own heart's desire, the most radical act of courage in the face of extractive capitalism?
How is the rosary, a little old lady's Catholic prayer, the best guide through the labyrinth of modernity?
Why is reaching for the hand of the Mother so consoling?
How is the divine feminine the emergent energy of our time and what is her invitation?

THE WAY OF THE ROSE: The Radical Path to The Divine Feminine Hidden In The Rosary, is truly an incredible story. I consider it essential reading on the path to more deeply connecting with the divine feminine and highly recommend it.

Clark Strand and Perdita Finn are the co-authors of The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary, and the founders of an international fellowship by the same name devoted to the earth and the Lady by any name you want to call her. They are committed to re-wilding prayer and our experience of spiritual community. Clark has written numerous books including Seeds from a Birch Tree: Haiku as a Spiritual Practice and Waking Up to the Dark: Ancient Wisdom for a Sleepless Age and connects people to the living world with his workshops on haiku and Finn is the author of the forthcoming Take Back the Magic: Getting to Know the Dead and leads friends into the underworld with her intensives on the dead.

Special Guest: Perdita Finn.