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New York Open Center Tenth Anniversary Address Marian Woodman  Thank you, members of the Open Center, for the recognition that I am receiving tonight. I am truly honored to have been a part of your developing program, and honored to have had the opportunity, through your groups, to meet so many people who hold the same concept of holistic consciousness. As I stand here tonight, I am very aware that I am between the main course and dessert (always the sweetness is out there someplace). But I am also very much aware of the fact that we are at the United Nations building, and how appropriate it is that the Open Center has chosen this building in which to have its Anniversary celebration. Carl Jung believed that there is no hope for our planet without consciousness. "What is not brought to consciousness," he said, comes to us as fate." In other words, the rage, the fear, the grief, as well as the creative energies that we bury in our unconscious, will one day come and stare us straight in the eye. And we will call that our fate. Only if we are able to bear the pain of going into those deep areas of ourselves, and bringing those energies to consciousness, and have the courage to try to transform them into our own living, will we ever be able to shift our fate, or shift our lives, as citizens of the global village. I think most of us here tonight are doing whatever we can to bring consciousness to what we best understand. I have focused my life on the forsaken feminine, that immense energy in men and women that is speaking to us through symptoms and true dreams. Assuring us, perhaps warning us, that there can never be peace if we cannot honor nature, if we do not honor our own soul in our body, if we cannot honor Her in the living planet. Surely there can be no wholeness until the union of the mature masculine and the mature feminine comes about in the leaders who are trying to bring peace. I would just like to close with an image, a repetitive image from a dream. Many people recognize this image, with variations of course. In the image, there is an immense wave coming in, to the shoreline. Light is breaking on the horizon, and on the crest of the wave, a magnificent chocolate-colored woman is riding in triumph, her arm lifted as she comes into shore. Ladies and gentlemen, may we have the courage to let go and go with the wave, into the shore and into the dawn. Thank you. Next Page http://maxpages.com/marionwoodman/woodman10 |
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