About the “From the Other Side” Series

with The Wild Woman Project Founder, Chris Maddox

In the modern world, brimming with companies, people, and special interests waving their hands and shouting, “Look over here! Buy this, do this, think this!,” our attention has become our most powerful & precious creative resource.

It is clear, the World is undergoing a massive transformation – the outcome, yet unknown. I believe, as Einstein did, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” I also believe that by accessing and working with the historically suppressed/oppressed Feminine Principle (which moves through all things) and the Right Brain (which we all have), we can uncover a different kind of thinking.

So – I am experimenting with writing through the interior of my spontaneous experiences with Inner Guidance, with hopes that it will offer me & you, dear reader, gems of perception and an account of a different way of thinking – from the other side.

May it be useful.

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#1

Out

Today I find myself more aware than usual of the vast expanse of the physical Universe.

Today I remember that Earth is not the center of this great big space.

(Of course it’s not.)

On this morning in June, my awareness seems to have boundless reach out and up, beyond Earth, beyond this tiny Solar System, beyond the perceived borders of the Milky Way.

With every breath, the message of today is clear: there is no edge, there is no border, it goes on and on and on and on.

In the past, when reaching my awareness this far away from my physical body, I have felt fear – in the boundlessness, in the dark spaces between the light ones, but today, I am free. I am in touch with the benevolence of this unfathomably miraculous place.

Today I am grateful for the ability, we humans have to zoom way way out.

What in the Universe is going on here?

In

I now consciously coax my awareness back in – into the Milky Way, into this Solar System, through the atmosphere of the Earth, closer and closer to my village, my home, and finally land in my skin.

A big breath, breathes me and I can feel a surge of energy inside, and then something tender and even tearful as I feel – with spectacular precision – my breathe moving in and out of this flesh. I am very very alert and alive. As I type, the tiny movements of muscles and bones feel like a hundred miracles happening all at once. Right here, reaching out in the best way I know how, to you, my human family, my wise and wild women.

My awareness organically draws down now with vigor, through my body, through my perineum and reaches out with great big invisible roots into the Earth. Down, they reach, sensing deeper and deeper. As they travel there is a connection to the land, to the ancestors, to the history – told and untold, seen and unseen.

There is something heavy I feel as I reach way way down there, a density. I find my roots reaching all the way to the other side of the world, but before my awareness breaches the surface, before it extends back out into the universe again, I consciously summon it back to me, toward my body, up and up through the hot core of the Earth, and the layers and layers of land which each hold evidence of lives lived – most of them forgotten.

When I arrive back home in my body, I can feel a weightiness in my belly, hips, and legs. I am of the Earth. My body is inextricably linked to this particular place. I breathe, feeling at once a gratitude for being able to experience any of this, and a sadness in holding the impressions of history of humans inside me.

What on Earth have we been doing here?

Here

I stop writing, walk outside to stand under the Sun, eyes closed, I can feel the light shining – first on me, and then through me. The wind moves softly through my hair with tenderness, the green clover kisses my soles, the birds and the water of the moving creek harmonize.

And within a minute or less, I am lighter – the Earth says, You are not alone here; We are with you.

And the next moment, I sense a message coming through:

It’s time to dream a new dream for the human family.

A very, very old spell is breaking.

And there are many more like you,

waking up to a new dream.

Trust in the dream as it makes itself known.

Trust yourself as you take action to bring it to Earth.

And do remember: the more time you spend in the company of natural world, the more clearly you will hear, see, and act.

I walk inside, hearing – from somewhere and nowhere – a very faint drumming and the beginning chords of John Lennon’s “Imagine.” Wow, I think, and then sit down to write to you.

Your Turn

Is there a gem of perception or idea that you are taking away from this experiment?

What does your Inner Guidance say today?

Please share in the comments below and/or write draw it in your journal.

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Chris Maddox

Chris Maddox is the founder of The Wild Woman Project where she teaches women how to utilize the gifts of the Wild Woman Archetype in their everyday lives & how to lead women’s circles in their local communities. She is the organizer & facilitator of the beloved annual WILD WOMAN FEST, a women’s retreat-festival hybrid which fosters a deep connection to nature, a direct experience of the divine feminine & profound spiritual sisterhood among the women in attendance.

An ever student of the great mysteries of existence and nature itself, Chris believes women are holding innate gifts & tools that society at large needs – now more than ever. She is committed to helping women remember their special magic and to bring it forward into every corner of their lives, for the greater good of the planet.

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6 Comments

Jana Reishus on June 25, 2019 at 8:47 am

Yes, I do feel called to return to a more natural state of being and after reading through your post at the time I read it, it validated my journey. After being caught up in the “busy-ness” of the life with blinders I’m called to create a place of peace, harmony and grounded-ness on ancestor given that’s been passed down for generations. Thank you for your words on this day as I travel to that place and continue on the process. It’s all about faith and listening to not only our inner guidance but to the whispers of the ancestors and universe around us and to stop and read words like yours makes the path that much clearer. Love!! J
- Tina Kite on June 29, 2019 at 4:37 pm
  
  I’m feeling this with you and had the same song come to me in my dreaming and remembering. Because of the WWP and my circle leader training I am able to fully hear my heart and inner wisdom so clearly know. I do feel the spell breaking as my wild dreams begin to emerge again now that I can be fully present and aware and know how to take action. I see my journey of connection to nature and its healing essence oooze out with intoxicating force. And when I speak about the WWP my own essence swirls and enraptures women who also desire this coming back home to our natural wild state of being.
Sophie Scanlon on June 26, 2019 at 4:13 pm

Your words for me were very tangible. It was almost like I was with you. I could feel it in my body – the heaviness was there and then the message your received spoke strongly to me.
I very much feel that there is a bubbling up of change and that as a woman I feel I’m connected in with that change, that it requires a rising up of me. I get a clear sense that this same bubbling is occurring within other women across our world, and that it takes a coming together to give it strength and impetus. Theres a generational shift occurring, a re-empowerment of our feminine strengths so needed to rebalance our lives, our world.
The connection you spoke of with nature also strongly resonated for me … whenever I step out in nature its like a fog or a veil lifts from me and I feel more solid in who I am and what I have to offer. I feel clearer in my purpose towards the greater whole.
Elaine Taylor on June 26, 2019 at 11:49 pm

….the most powerful and important words….the message so clear and profound….my whole body is tingling…..yes, yes, yes………
Jennifer Hryciw on June 29, 2019 at 2:37 am

How beautiful a transmission and so so resonate. I have had this knowing, yearning and longing to leave the modern world in some sense, and yet I find myself very wrapped up in it. I trust this truth, and seek to collect my people within this context be we are all as the message says…breaking a long long long enchanted spell. And we are achy and out of practice. I am so thankful for you and your willingness to be vulnerable and honest and human in my life that has been a beacon. One that I have become too as we feel all wild women (and men) awaken.
stacey suter on August 27, 2020 at 7:17 am

yes, thank you chris for sharing this. as the message says there are many more like you, i feel a sense of oneness and not alone. it is so nice knowing there are others out there too. that humbles me and comforts me. you’re right, when i venture out into nature i always have that sense of joy, even when the weather is miserable, i can always find something joyful to be grateful for. take this morning for instance, i could see two birds sat on top of a sheeps head and it made me giggle, the sheep was not phased at all, it brought me a little joy and for that i was grateful. its the little things. if we get out more we’ll be surprised at how much there is to enjoy outside. thank you so much for these posts chris. means a lot. and yes i love what you said about the spell breaking.

Out, In & Here: From the Other Side, Experiment #1 ~ by: Chris Maddox