The Pack

The Wolf  Pack!  

Week 3,Chapter 3

Nosing out the facts: Retrieval of Intuition as Initiation

A little help.

Week 2, Chapter 2

 Bluebeard:  

Food for thought: 

1. Bluebeard gives his brides all she's ever wanted and access to all his rooms except for one. Does this remind you of one of the first stories we were ever told? Adam and Eve perhaps, the tree of Knowledge? Why are we drawn to things we are told explicitly that we cannot have?  Bluebeard also reminded me of another story, Beauty and the beast. Dude, she fell in love with the guy that kidnapped her. 

2. There are predators all around us, however, could you be your own predator?

3.   Who is your predator? 

4.  Why do we go against our instincts? The inner voice?  When you look back could you have known that this was not a good idea? " However, a little pleasure out in the woods causes her to overrule her intuition" ( sound familiar?) 

5. Did life prepare you adequately for predators?

6.  Did anyone protect you from your predator? ( Why did the older sister leave her to marry him even though they had a bad feeling and left? And the mom?)

5.  Page 62: Ever had sleep paralysis? The dark man dream.

6. You can conquer the predator.  You can go back to wild woman nature. " When the soulful life is being threatened, it is not only acceptable to draw the line and mean it, it is required. When a woman does this, her life cannot  be interfered with for long, for she knows immediately what is wrong and can push the predator back where  it belongs."   And this my dear pack is how I'm getting my liberation.

Shadi.  

Week 1 , Introduction and Chapter 1.

Introduction ' Singing over the bones'

This book is intense.   Her sentences are quite delicious and a lot of attention is required to get through them all.  I find myself making notes like when I was a student. I've and to find my copy of the Oxford Dictionary as well.   And here we are.

 Quick Question: How do you feel about the idea of a Wild Woman?

"...by naming her we create  for  her a territory of thought and feeling within us..."

On page seven the author calls the Wild Woman by different names from different countries around the world.   I then thought I could give her a name. One that I will call her by. (It might even be a variation of my own)  Perhaps you could do the same.

On page nine she asks " What are some of the feeling-toned symptoms of a disrupted relationship with the wildish force of the psyche? The gives a litany of 'symptoms'   which all resonated and boy are they many.  I found myself nodding at each one of them and eventually feeling slightly overwhelmed. I took to my oil pastels and just sort of went at it and below is the result. This is my expression of  the symptoms of one " who has lost her instincts'

" One who has lost her instincts"

Quick Question: What are the things that take away your wild nature?   What are things you do that show you that you still have your wild nature?

                                                        This song suits this book!

"Without us. Wild Woman dies, Without Wild Woman we die...for true  life, both must live."

Chapter 1: The Howl: Resurrection of the Wild Woman

La Loba, The Wolf Woman 

"Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back"

Quick Question: What have you done with your bones?  Will you be able to gather them all? Will you sign them to life?  This book it appears can help us do that.

On page 26 you will find the sentence that gave the book its title.

The Four Rabbinim

 This one kicked me in the rear. (kikikikik) I'll have to read it again.

 What's the deal?

The author uses stories and myths on the journey to contacting the power of the wild woman. Remember some of the earlier versions of the book include the descriptor  " Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype". She will typically tell a story then unpack it while relating it to the Wild Woman".  

This is not a simple book.  Hang in there...

'Shadi