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“The real and central question is, how do we clear the space, how do we convince enough women to own their own healing gifts, their voices of truth, their capacity to lead from their lineage of the love of the Mother for Her Creation? That arousal, through the retelling, the modeling, the reminders of indigenous wisdom and science, which are one and the same, is what we are doing in the Mother of Medicine events that I have been inspired to develop.” – Stephanie Mines, PhD
The Victory of Flowering Woman
It is not a trite truism to say that women and flowers are synonymous; That
women exude the fragrance of flowers and that their bodies carry internally
the structure of flowers.
On the contrary, this is the evidence that we are the earth herself, not
merely her handmaidens.
We are the prophecy of abundance and fecundity.
Only deceivers cast a shadow to obscure the flame of power that is the
destiny of women.
Only fools think they can ignore this eternal, undefeatable lineage.
The apparent ascension of the oligarchs
Is the long-awaited signal
That ends the silence of passive mediation and the curse of hesitancy that
tied our tongues and hands.
We are unleashed now.
We are the winds of all time.
We are the emissaries of eternity,
We are the bringers of life.
It is clear but must be declared for all to hear.
We are the womb of the future.
We are the scholars of the internal.
We are the makers of consciousness.
We are the singers of the one creation story.
We are the matriarchs of all humanity.
We are the undying placenta.
We are the colostrum of intelligence.
Our hands heal all wounds.
Our kisses ignite the sky’s erection,
Seeding canopy after canopy of protection over all beings, everywhere.
We are the tree of life.
Our tears flood the greed of men and wash their diarrhea and vomit into the
sewers of time.
We are the mighty ever-present will of the miraculous that underlies all
existence.
She is before us now in every awakened woman.
We are the transcendence and the transmutation.
Men, rest your strategizing and surrender to the flow of life.
You are undone and we are now continuing what we have always begun.
— Stephanie Mines/Copyright 4/25
This poem is the incantatory chant that responds to the query that I have received recently: What is the Mother of Medicine really about? For those who want bullet points and itemizations, I offer this poem instead.
The real and central question is, how do we clear the space, how do we convince enough women to own their own healing gifts, their voices of truth, their capacity to lead from their lineage of the love of the Mother for Her Creation? That arousal, through the retelling, the modeling, the reminders of indigenous wisdom and science, which are one and the same, is what we are doing in the Mother of Medicine events that I have been inspired to develop.
I am a scientist and I am not just a healer, I am healing. My presence is healing to myself and to those I touch and see. I was born to embody healing. What is healing? It is living as the eternal flame that transcends time and space, that ignites quantum regeneration and communities of embodied passion for life, for values that nurture the children of the future. Healing is the confident certainty that we will defeat the darkness before us, the darkness that is trying to steal our children from us.
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The Mother of Medicine exhibits the active experience of quantum healing and healing in community. Simultaneously, the Mother of Medicine demonstrates why women must lead the healthcare revolution, the paradigm shift that meets us where we live. Healthcare is skilled, attuned, culturally sensitive, informed and awake life-care. This is Regenerative Health for A Climate Changing World.
What we face now as a civilization is beyond trauma. It is about the future of life itself. The messengers of annihilation that appear to be in power now, those who steal people off the streets and disappear them, those who cannot abide creativity and intelligence, represent what we were born to transcend and transmute. We do this through the potent feminine will of love and compassion, fueled by the bountiful, unending oxytocin of The Mother.