Good morning witches! This week has been all about confusion, Why? You may ask, well let me tell you. As we all know part of my “thing” is you have to study and get to know your craft better to make it stronger and more relevant to you. So for the last couple of weeks I’ve been doing another on-line course. One of the modules of the course it’s all about the world soul. And my little head has short circuited. I just dont get it. I don’t even understand the concept of it, let alone what good it is or what purpose it might have. But then again I have the same brain block about the divine masculinity and femininity as well. But at least I know the root of that one – I can’t in my head unlink the concepts from the gender. I know it should have nothing to do with male and female but in my head I just can’t unlink the two….and that’s because the two are linked but not linked if you see what I mean. So how are you meant to unlink something that is actual for ever linked?
But that’s a whole nothing brain fuck I could do without.
From what I can understand, the world soul is meant to be the life force, the thing that gives us, well everything. The one from whom all things flow. Yep ok got that. But what has spun my little head around is that in the course material it said that she (the goddess) meditates between the human and the “eternal flame” so she’s not the one from where all things flow – she just mediates it…..hang on, that doesn’t work if you’ve already said that she is basically “it” but then she mediates for the next level up? How does that work, something isn’t right with that so I’m just as confused as ever. And anyway her back ground story of being a Titan that cuddled up to Zeus’s so was made an Olympian and granted a share of the earth, sea and sky also doesn’t compute with her being the world soul.
Now I could go off on rant about the muddled new age thinking (although the concept of world soul goes back to before the ancients greeks wrote poems and philosophised it) and half baked idea’s mostly designed to get the dollars out of the bank accounts of lady’s who lunch. And I will admit that I was already pissed off with the course as it wasn’t giving me the connect that I thought it would.
All of that aside, the positive to come out of this is…..questions. Part of the leaning experience is to question what you already hold in belief. By not questioning and just accepting is when you run in to problems. Blindly accepting what is put in front of you is not a good thing. I think we all know by now that even trusted sources might not be getting it right all the time. Although I’m still a BBC News only type person, I know enough to not always take it all as gospel so to speak.
So I’m pretty sure that assigning Hecate, my beloved Goddess the role of world soul isn’t quiet right, sorry love. I do get the feeling that it’s worrying about things from ages well passed and it’s not of importance for where I am on my path right now. Some times the questions just lead you to a dead end, well you back up and start again.
One of the good things about the course is that it’s given me a suggestion of a book to read, which I hope will give me some of the other answers I’ve been looking for. So perhaps it wasn’t a complete wastes of time.
So from a not so much confused witch, Laters witches!