chapel of women

The Grail memory...

a broken balance

Ancient memory holds that in the beginning of the human race, when consciousness first dawned, men and women were equally the two sides of human-ness; the black and the white, the sun and the moon, the night and the day. Each contained complementary qualities; each was necessary for the existence of the human race; each was equal in stature. Balance was the true nature of human-ness.

Since that beginning, over many centuries, even thousands of years, imbalance has occurred. The male has become the dominant element. The balance has tipped, and the qualities of male-ness have overwhelmed the planet. The symptoms of imbalance surround us: war and destruction, isolation and alienation, unintegrated material creation threatening the natural world, rigid religion and spirituality unintegrated to true human experience. The planet earth itself faces actual extinction from the imbalance; loss of connectedness to the water and soil from which life comes; to which it returns.

The qualities of male-ness and female-ness themselves have been contorted by the imbalance. In the defensive agonies of conflict with each other, both have lost the truth of sexuality; the uniting of the two halves of human-ness. Not only for the carrying forward of the race, the creating of new people; but also for the integrating of experience, vision, understanding. The bonding of relationship.

The Holy Grail is not a child's story; it is truth. The presence of the Grail on earth, and then its loss, is the loss of the female part of the deepest religious truths. The Grail, the female symbol, is the cup, the container, that which sustains and nurtures, creates, gives life.

But the Grail has left this world. The wasteland is upon us, because the world is out of balance. Some sustain the memory of its nature, memory that one day looks for its return.

The Chapel of Women is a simple reminder of that part of humanity which is been suppressed for so long; the power and true nature of the female person. The equal and opposite stature which the woman holds to the man; the essential role that she must play if the planet; all life itself, is to survive.

The Chapel of Women is again in Second Life. Visit us here.

The "new" Sanctuary of Women is now in Second Life. Visit us here.

A true welcome to you!