Join Lauri Ann Lumby as she breaks open the ancient mysteries related to the adversary – the natural inner force that has been corrupted into an external demon that should be feared. Even the ancient names given to this helpful and benevolent force have been appropriated by those who seek to manipulate others through fear, intimidation, and threats of eternal damnation.
Discover the ancient names given to the adversary and their true meanings.
Understand the natural cycle of spiritual growth including necessary times of resistance characterized by temptation, doubt, confusion, and difficulty.
Learn to approach the adversary as advocate.
Release resistance through practices of welcome.
Through this two-hour workshop, you will be empowered to set aside the “devil” you know and find power in working with the natural inner force that ensures our growth.
As much as I believe that Jesus came to realize the truth of Oneness and then sought to teach this to his disciples, including Mary Magdalene who went on to establish her own mystery school teaching the way to love; I am reminded today of the value of perceived separation – especially when it comes to those things outside of us which seek to keep us from the path of our truth.
Satan, meaning adversary, is the representation and embodiment of all that wants to keep us from our original nature as One in love – whether we perceive it as within us or outside of us.
Outside of us, Satan shows up in:
Societal expectations.
Tribal customs and rules.
Worldly ideals which place value on externals – money, power, status, fame, material possessions, etc. etc. etc. over the place of real value which is within.
People who are threatened by our decision to step outside the tiny little box that our religions, communities, political parties, race, gender, orientation, etc. etc. etc. etc. seek to prison us within.
Any individual or structure which seeks to have power and control over another.
People who reject us or our gifts.
Feeling thwarted in the fulfillment of our gifts.
Every single thing which resides outside of us and tempts us to step away from our original inner state of contentment and joy is The Devil and when doing battle with Satan, it is helpful to think of it in this way.
I know, I know….this is the complete polar opposite of what all the new age/new thought/manifestation/secret and abundance people say. They would say, “Everything that is happening outside of you is simply a reflection of what is happening within.” But here’s the deal…..when I think of my own struggles in this way, it makes me feel TERRIBLE. I feel shame. I feel guilty. I feel as if I am a failure and that I have done something wrong. Believing in the idea that the difficulties happening outside of me are because I thought the wrong thoughts or didn’t believe hard enough or didn’t trust God enough or surrender enough, simply triggers my fear of not being perfect. When this fear is triggered, the downward spiral of self-loathing begins. You mean my anxiety is my fault because I don’t trust enough? My fears over money are my fault because I’m not trusting in God? I haven’t found “the one” because I’m not holding my vibration high enough to attract him? Ignatius of Loyola would have had something to say about these so-called theories of “right thought.”
St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491 – 1556) was a pioneer in and became one of the foremost authorities on the process of discernment. In his writings on discernment, he describes two distinct energies – one that reflects the Divine path for us and the other that reflects “the devil.” He calls these energies, respectively, consolation and desolation. If I apply Ignatius’ guidelines for discernment to the idea that what is outside of me is a reflection of the energy I am holding within, I find I have to call it desolation – the energy that represents the mark of Satan. Those things outside of me that are tempting me (which I experience as fear, anxiety, worry, self-loathing, depression) away from my Oneness with God (which I experience as peace and contentment) are the Devil and when I think of them in this way, instead of feeling powerless or despairing, I feel strong, confident and empowered because I know what to do with the Devil outside.
When I know that Satan is hard at work trying to keep me from my path, I know how to respond. I have learned that calling temptation what it is, giving it a name and a face, deprives it of its power. I stand toe to toe with Satan. I look him in the eye. I name him for whom and what he is. I call on Michael the Archangel, Jesus, Mary Magdalene, Archangels Kamael and Tzafkiel, all my ancestors and the communion of saints to surround me and I then proclaim Jesus’ own words when facing his own Satan, “Get behind me Satan.” In this I feel strengthened and am able to return to the path of my truth – the path where I feel fulfilled and where I am at peace.
What tools are you using to confront that which tempts you away from your own natural state of inner peace?
Demon Binding and Banishing
A Seven Step Process for the healing, transformation and release of negative energetic influences.
In this introduction to Gwyn Ap Nudd, King of the Tylwyth Teg (Fae) and Lord of the Underworld, you will come to understand his role as guardian of and guide through the shadows. We enter into the shadow so that we can do the critical work of healing our unhealed wounds, while rediscovering, reclaiming and reintegrating the pieces of ourselves we have rejected, repressed or suppressed. In order to become whole, shadow work is critical – though admittedly, not for the faint of heart. Gwyn helps to guide us through and supports us in this task.
In this course you will receive NINE Initiations and will be given specific tools, unique to the magic of Gwyn ap Nudd, to assist you in your journey of working through the shadows and claiming the wholeness that is your birthright – a wholeness that is both active and receptive, provisional and supportive, nurturing and empowering, expansive and protective. Gwyn ap Nudd assists you with it all!
Whether Gwyn calls to you personally, or if you are simply interested in learning more about and thereby befriending the underworld gods, as Gwyn has been known by many other names: Pan, Hades, Pluto, Cernunnos, The Horned God, and many others, this course is for you, Ultimately, Gwyn represents the part of ourselves that desires to be whole and which is willing to go into the depths to do so.
Lesson One – God under the Tor
Lesson Two – The Horned God
Lesson Three – Celestial Origins
Lesson Four – Gwyn’s Animal Totems
Lesson Five – Gwyn’s Labyrinth
Lesson Six – Carnal Knowledge
Lesson Seven – Chamber of Shadows
Lesson Eight – Gwyn’s Magic Book
Lesson Nine – Shamanic Initiation
A note from course creator, Lauri Ann Lumby, OM, OPM, MATS:
In late January into early February of 2008, over the feasts of Imbolc/Michaelmas and the Feast of St. Brigid, I made a pilgrimage to Glastonbury, England, otherwise known as Avalon. It was here that I was initiated as a priestess of Gwyn Ap Nudd – Celtic (specifically Welsh) Lord of the Underworld.
Being made priestess of Gwyn was not of my choosing, neither was I ordained by human hands. Instead, the initiation was presided over by Gwyn, himself – a god I had not previously known. Neither had I invited Gwyn into my presence. He simply stepped forth into my life, made himself known, and then led me into the world of my own shadow, a labyrinthine journey that seems to finally have come to some sort of closure, but only after many years of both profound bliss and excruciating struggle.
The journey into our shadow is never easy – but it always brings forth its reward – the reward being a more whole, fully integrated version of ourselves. From the perspective of modern-day psychology, it is only by journeying into our shadow that we have any hope of becoming self-actualized, knowing the fullness of our gifts, conscious of our human limitations, and able to live through them both freely and unencumbered, thereby enjoying a life of meaning, fulfillment and joy. Gwyn’s job, as I have learned, is to help us accomplish this task – if we allow him.
Cross land and sea Time and tide To misty Avalon I fly. Seeking what? I do not know. Unless it be a place called home. Where kindred spirit join by chance, Round the fire – the sacred dance.
Drawn through dreams of lifetimes past, Seems ancients did this circle cast. To Tor and Well and ancient spring. The place I thought my Soul could sing.
Take care all those like me who’d go For Avalon’s gifts cannot be foretold. Where Michael and Mary ley lines greet Ego and fear did meet defeat.
Gwyn Ap Nudd appeared as guide For the hell I created could not be denied. Following the labyrinth to the depths of my fears, Often wondering, “Is insanity near?”
Attachment, rage, resentment and grief Transformed in the fire while I prayed for relief. My warrior’s heart tested in flame Hoping here would be the gain. When at last released me at the top of the Tor, I collapsed in a heap – wanting no more. Processing along the dragon’s back, My Beloved Christ kept me on track. He explained the attachment that stood in the way Of knowing the peace and the love of each day.
To Chalice Well he bid me rest, In the Mother’s arms I’d completed the test. Finding her love hidden in stone. In bud, leaf and wood, I remembered my home. Then verse 12, Chapter 12 of Testament Old The world of Joel that made me whole: “Return to me with your whole heart Don’t let fear keep us apart.”
An ocean of tears the floodgate released As I was reminded of the true source of peace. The love of Divine that resides in my heart. Return to the Oneness from where we all start. The Holy Grail now fully revealed. I am this love and through it am healed.
The truth that Christ came to remind. Is that when we seek we shall find. That home is the love of the Divine deep within This is our origin and where we begin. It is ego that creates the false separation. That caused us to fear Divine reparation. In fact this love of Divine that is me, Is the ground of my being and the place I am free.
Seeking for home in someplace external Led me within to the love that’s eternal. The Holy Grail is the truth of our being. When we’re vessels of love for everyone’s seeing. Allowing the love that’s in truth who we are. To flow from our hearts to all near and far. So Dorothy’s words take on a new meaning, “There’s no place like home,” Divine love – what we’re seeking. My quest for the Holy Grail will go on Knowing where spiral ends, we’ve only begun.
For my entire life I have been fascinated by magic. Naturally drawn to the mystical, I found my childhood role models in Samantha Stevens, Morticia Addams and Lily Munster. In my teens, I become overwhelmingly obsessed with anything that had to do with King Arthur and read every book on the subject that I was able, ultimately culminating in the Arthurian masterpiece, The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley. To say that I loved Tolkien and Star Wars would be an understatement, and Excalibur was my friend.
This love for magic was further supported by my Catholic upbringing which brought me up close and personal to magic that “turned bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ,” that healed the sick, exorcised demons, and made a humble human into the “child of God.” Jesus magic was everywhere and the rituals which facilitated this magic spoke to something very deep within my Soul.
Fast forward into adulthood, along with formation as a Catholic lay minister, I studied Wicca, Native American spirituality, Celtic myth and magic. I set up my home altar and when I asked for guidance it came in the form of a brick which flew through the air, awakening me to my true purpose which had to do with Priesthood – but not the priesthood I had grown up with. As it turned out, neither was my call to Priesthood somehow wrapped up in any of the neo-pagan, priestess or goddess movements. Instead, it seems like it was a Priesthood that predated all of these – what I have heard recent authors call “the primordial tradition.”
In the Judeo-Christian tradition in which I was raised, this primordial tradition is given a name: The Order of Melchizedek. First mentioned in the Book of Genesis as relating to the High Priest of Salem, Jesus is also mentioned as associated with this tradition. What distinguishes the primordial tradition from the systems of magic popular today is that in the Order of Melchizedek:
Magic is not done for the sake of “getting what we want,” but for the sake of aligning our purpose with that of the Divine.
It is not we who are “doing” the magic; it is the Divine working through us.
The Order of Melchizedek “keeps it simple,” acknowledging that the true power of magic is not in complicated rituals, invocations, chants or spells, but is in our intention to be One with the Divine – surrendering our own will to the Divine, and emptying ourselves so that the Divine might live in and through us.
We acknowledge and accept what was said to be true of Jesus:
Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death— even death on a cross.
Phil 2: 5b8
It is for all of these reasons that in spite of more training programs on magic and ritual (including the ancient Jewish mystical system of the Kabbalah) than you can shake a stick at; I have endeavored to create a training program that presents magic in another light.
We cannot look to Mary Magdalene as an example of Divine Feminine power without giving honor to Jesus – the man who supported her in becoming self-actualized and who then ordained her to share her gifts in the world. Jesus became self-actualized and sought to teach others how to achieve self-actualization. Moving beyond doctrine, Jesus and his teachings provide a model of psychological and spiritual development through which we are empowered to become self-actualized and through which we are able to be freed of the obstacles which prevent us from reaching our full potential as human beings.
Two thousand years ago Jesus died and rose from the dead. Just as quickly as he rose, the patriarchy killed him again. The patriarchy killed Jesus when they:
Changed his message –
From love to fear.
From Oneness to separation.
From an unconditionally loving God to one who condemns.
From peace and harmony to conflict and war (in his name!)
From a community that treats all human beings as equal, governed by collaboration and cooperation to one rooted in white, male privilege; governed by fear, power and control.
From welcoming all to the table to only those who believe as we want them to believe and who are “in good standing.”
From a movement within Judaism to a new and separate religion.
2000 years ago, Jesus died and rose from the dead. And 2000 years ago, the patriarchy killed him. I now want to share my part in supporting the movement of reclaiming Jesus, and Mary Magdalene with him, as authentic models for self-actualization and teachers of the means of getting there by offering you this excerpt from my novel, Song of the Beloved – the Gospel According to Mary Magdalene:
On the morning after the Sabbath, I awoke before dawn in the same way that I had every day after Jesus healed me and raised me from the death in which I had existed. Upon waking, I expected to feel nothing but the numbness of the days past. I expected to desire nothing but to roll over and return to the world of sleep. Instead, I felt the urge to resume my ordinary routine of morning meditation in the garden. I arose and proceeded into the garden to the bench I had shared with Jesus every morning for the past three years. I approached the bench and lovingly ran my hand over its marble seat recalling what Jesus and I had shared in this sacred space. The grief of this loss suddenly overtook me and I collapsed on the ground as my tears splattered over our bench.
As I knelt beside the bench weeping with head in hands, I felt a faint shift in the air around me. I lifted my head slightly to see if perhaps Lazarus had come out to join me. As I looked up, my heart leaped into my throat and ceased beating. My beloved Jesus stood there before me. I rubbed my eyes to make sure it was not some trick of the rising sun, but there he was as real as he had been all those past times in prayer and even more so, he stood before me in flesh and blood.
I stood and reached out to embrace him, to feel his skin on my cheek, and he opened his arms to return my embrace. We had held each other for but a moment, when Jesus gently pulled away. He took my face in his hands, lightly kissed me on the lips and said, “Mary, I am with you always, even until the end of time and it is time for you to come into your own power, to embrace your own Christhood. In this, I must ascend. And, you must not cling to me so that you too may rise. You must go to my brothers in Jerusalem to let them know I have risen and you must explain to them its meaning.” With that he kissed me again on the mouth. “Mary, be empowered in the flame of the Shekinah, God’s Holy Spirit.” He departed from my sight as quickly and as silently as he had arrived.
I stood there in silent wonder. Even death had no power over my beloved. As sure as he had been here just one week ago, he stood before me again. I felt his touch, the brush of his lips on mine, the comfort of his embrace. Just as suddenly, he was gone. I inhaled deeply in the hopes of comprehending this experience and the cock crowed. I remembered Simon’s denial of Jesus and was provoked by Jesus’ words, “Go to my brothers in Jerusalem.” I ran into the house to be greeted by Martha, Salome and Lazarus’ sleepy faces. “I have seen the Lord. He is risen just as he said he would.” I ran to each of them in turn, took their hands in mine, and looked into their eyes, “It is true. He has conquered death. He came to me in the garden. He is risen!” As I relayed the message to their open minds and hearts, they were able to see the truth as I had witnessed it. As a group we embraced in celebration. “We must go to Jerusalem! Jesus instructed me to tell his brothers there that he has been raised from the dead.” We immediately departed for Jerusalem where we knew the Galilean disciples stayed in hiding.
online training with Lauri Ann Lumby, OM, OPM, MATS
23 lessons and attunements on the Major Arcana
at your own pace and in your own time
Discussions moderated by course creator and facilitator – Lauri Ann Lumby
22 Pathways – Tarot Intensive approaches the tarot as less of a fortune-telling device and more as a path in support of your own journey of self-actualization. Diving deep in to the ancients roots of the tarot in Jewish mysticism through the Kabbalah, 22 Pathways illuminates the human journey from awakening to full embodiment of our Divine selves. When fully engaged, you will discover a tool that you can return to again and again to gain understanding, insight and support into your life’s journey toward self-fulfillment.
In this course, you will learn and study the Hebrew Aleph-Beis (Alphabet) – the utterances through which the Great Source spoke the world into being and which later inspired the 22 cards of the major arcana. Through each lesson, you will not only gain intellectual knowledge, you will grow into embodying the creative power within each letter and its corresponding card. Through powerful spiritual practices and ritual, you will become attuned to each card/letter such that you come to understand that you ARE a vessel of Divine Creation bringing your own worlds into being.
This Shamanism Intensive with Lauri Ann Lumby introduces you to the traditional shamanic practice of journeywork. Journeywork acknowledges the creative imagination as a gateway to Divine communion and as a tool for obtaining Divine guidance. You will be introduced to the foundations of a “shamanic call in a culture without a culture” and will then have an opportunity to learn and practice shamanic journeys. Working in five different “worlds,” you will meet your power animal, spirit teacher and other teachers and guides in those respective worlds who will support you through their unique gifts in discerning your Divine path. In addition to providing guidance, journeywork supports our inner healing and transformation both in this life and in lives we have already lived. After this course you will equipped to facilitate your own journeys and to lead journeys for others.
Start anytime! Complete at your own pace.
Lesson One: Defining the Shamanic Call
Lesson Two: Identifying the Shamanic Call
Lesson Three: Discernment – Shamanic Call or Psychosis?
Lesson Four: The Initiation Crisis
Lesson Five: The Shamanic Call and Shadow Work
Lesson Six: The Shamanic Journey – Lower World Journeys
Lesson Seven: Upper World Journeys
Lesson Eight: Underworld Journeys
Lesson Nine: Journeys to the Heavenly Realms
Lesson Ten: Middle World Journeys
Lesson Eleven: Bringing it all together.
Required Texts:
Tedlock, B. (2005). The woman in the shaman’s body: Reclaiming the feminine in religion and
medicine. New York, NY: Bantam Books
Walsh, R. (2007). The world of shamanism: New views of an ancient tradition. Woodbury, MN:
A Note from Lauri Ann Lumby, course creator and facilitator:
Before embarking on this journey, I want to thank you for stepping into the question of your own shamanic call. I wrote this course for those, like me, who have received the shamanic call, but have been mostly unsupported in this call because of the culture in which we were raised. For those of us who live in the West (Western Europe, United States, Canada, even Australia and westernized parts of South America and Asia), we are so far removed from our ancestral roots and from the indigenous traditions of our own native peoples that the shamanic call isn’t even a consideration. Instead, what shamanic cultures would understand as characteristic of a shamanic call, Western culture judges as illness, at best, or at the worst – insanity. As such, those living in a Westernize culture who are experiencing an authentic shamanic call are left to their own devises, most often misunderstood, judged and even condemned for the experiences of their shamanic call (including high sensitivities, vivid dreams and nightmares, intuitive and psychic abilities, strange and frequent illnesses, depression, anxiety and even psychosis).
Some have found their way through this call by adopting practices and traditions of indigenous peoples, ie: “walking the red road” as Caucasian Americans might refer to the Native American traditions they have adopted and attempted to make their own. Others might find support through practices of the Mayans, Peruvians, Inuit or Aboriginal people. While we have much to gain by learning from other cultures, for those with Western European roots, the best we can ever do is to pretend, because these practices are not authentically our own.
The purpose of this course is to validate and authenticate your shamanic call and to give you some simple tools and support for embracing and exercising this call in your daily life. While this course is just a beginning (Shamanism 101, if you will), through this process you will have an opportunity to:
Understand the characteristics of a shamanic call.
Discern your own shamanic call.
Understand the spiritual crisis that often heralds the shamanic call.
Learn basic tools for beginning to utilize this call.
Find your own language, arising out of your own mythology and spiritual background for embracing your shamanic call.
Discover the basic tools of the shaman of ritual and journeying.
Much of what will be shared here arose out of my personal journey of discovering and embracing my own shamanic call, along with contemporary research in the field of Transpersonal Psychology which has shed light on this call, especially for those in the Westernized world.
To complete this course, you will need yourself, a notebook or journal and a box of crayons. I invite you to enter into this process with an attitude of inquiry, curiosity and wonder, for this is ultimately what the shamanic call is all about – seeing the world and our life experience through the lens of magic – for as a shaman, this is what you are! The original title of this course was “Broken Wings,” because in a culture without a culture, we most often find the hallmarks of our call looked upon with suspicion and judgment, effectively clipping our wings and making it impossible for us to fly. In this course, I want to help you to fly!
Thank you for giving yourself permission to explore this call within yourself and for taking the time to more deeply discern this call. I am happy and grateful to be a source of support for you as you move through this process and toward that end, I am available for brief email exchanges and for more intensive private consultations at my regular hourly rate. Please consult my website for details.
In Gratitude and Love,
Lauri Ann Lumby, OM, OPM, MATS
Soul School/Order of the Magdalene/Order of Melchizedek
One of the greatest temptations of religion is perfectionism and the vanity that accompanies its pursuit. As a recovering perfectionist (and a Type 1/perfectionist on the Enneagram) I know this temptation all too well. Religion says “if you want God to love you, you need to be perfect in the ways we outline for you.” Religion also says, “If you are not perfect, God will not love you and God’s love will be taken away.” The result of this for many is the endless pursuit of perfection. Following the Ten Commandments. Living the Beatitudes. Adhering to the laws laid out by the institution.
The driving force of this pursuit of perfection is judgment. Religion tells us of a judgmental God – like an omnipotent Santa Claus keeping the list of who is good and who is bad. God’s judgment is then handed down to the clergy whose job it is to enforce “God’s” rules. This judgment then becomes part of our own conscience, where we are now the ones judging our own behaviors while also judging the behaviors of others. This cycle of judgment pits us against God, God against us, and us against each other. Separation is the result of this judgment as everyone is pointing a finger of condemnation at themselves while pointing the same finger at others. Here nobody wins and everybody loses as we are all caught up in the cycle of judgment and self-righteousness.
GUILTY!
This gospel reflects that cycle while, at the same time, turning the tables on religion’s paradigm of judgment:
Jesus addressed this parable to those who were convinced of their own righteousness and despised everyone else. “Two people went up to the temple area to pray; one was a Pharisee and the other was a tax collector. The Pharisee took up his position and spoke this prayer to himself, ‘O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity — greedy, dishonest, adulterous — or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week, and I pay tithes on my whole income.’ But the tax collector stood off at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven but beat his breast and prayed, ‘O God, be merciful to me a sinner.’ I tell you, the latter went home justified, not the former; for whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
LK 18: 9-14
Here Jesus’ message is obvious. God loves everyone the same and holds a special measure of compassion for those who are broken. In the reading, the Pharisee lauds his perfection. As a strict follower of The Law, he is certain of his salvation, perhaps rightly so. Some find contentment and peace in a black and white theology which lays out exactly what is needed to obtain “the kingdom.” For those who follow a similar way, the Pharisee would be seen as a good and righteous man, justified in his judgment of the tax collector. Jesus, however, turns the table. Instead of lauding the Pharisee, he elevates the tax collector – not because he was a righteous man, but because he was humble. Unlike the Pharisee who only saw his own goodness, the tax collector admitted his failings. He knew that he was broken and imperfect and that in his humanness he had done things contrary to The Law. (Tax collectors were viewed as “sinners” during the time of Jesus as they were working for Rome – the enemy, while also taking a fee for themselves (usury) for their work). Instead of judgment, Jesus invited his disciples to see the depth of God’s love through the life of the tax collector. Here is a man, doing what he needed to do to provide for his family. His job wasn’t perfect – but it was a job. Yes, the Pharisees raged against the work of the tax collectors and cast them in the role of sinners, but he was just doing what he had to do to care for his family. Because of his conditioning, he was made to feel guilty for his profession and confessed that guilt to God. Instead of standing before God lauding his greatness, he acknowledged his frailty, and the shame he felt in his frailty. He knew he was powerless to correct this “shame” and offered his brokenness up to God. And God loved him.
God loved him.
God loved him unconditionally. As Jesus described it, not only was the man loved, he was exalted! Does that mean that God loved the tax collector more? If we believe in an all-loving, unconditionally loving God, then no. It was not the Pharisee who needed comfort in his brokenness. As scripture describes it, the Pharisee did not believe he was broken. The tax collector, however, begged for God’s compassion (a better translation of the word mercy). And he got it. We don’t know how he received that compassion or what it may have felt like to him. Perhaps it was simply in the asking that the answer was received.
The same is true for each of us. There is not a single one among us who is not broken in some way. We all struggle with our fears, compulsions, unhealed wounds, self-and other judgment, gluttony, lust for power, wrath, envy, greed, sloth and pride. We are all broken. Either we acknowledge this brokenness and offer that up to God for love or, like the Pharisee we pretend our perfection and miss out on all the love God wants to give. Grace is the vehicle through which we know and experience God’s love and it seems there is a reciprocal relationship between our ability to acknowledge our brokenness and experiences of God’s Grace – not because it’s otherwise being withheld, but because we haven’t asked.
Maybe this is what Jesus meant when he said, “Ask and it will be given.”
What is your current understanding of the Book of Revelation?
Doomsday Prophecy?
Historical Reflection?
Heavenly Vision?
Big Fat Mystery?
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Come and explore this mysterious and often confusing book of the Bible from a different perspective while reclaiming the role of the Divine Feminine as the true heroine of this epic mythological tale.
Victory of the Holy Bride shatters over 2000 years of patriarchal dogma that cast the Book of Revelation in the role of doomsday prophecy and presents to you the tools for discovering a profoundly simple truth that is the key to inner peace and the formula through which we endure the “times of tribulation” while building a whole new world – one rooted in peace, understanding, wisdom, harmony and love.
Discover the secret of the Book of Revelation and learn how to apply that secret in your everyday life so that you might know peace.
In knowing that peace, you will have the freedom to begin creating a whole new world for yourself.
Course Outline:
Lesson One: Introduction to the Book of Revelation
Lesson Two: The Structure of Revelation
Lesson Three: Alpha and Omega
Lesson Four: The Mystical Seven and its place in Revelation
Lesson Five: The Time of Tribulation
Lesson Six: The Dragon and the Woman
Lesson Seven: The Fall of Babylon/The New Jerusalem
From the course introduction by Lauri Ann Lumby:
Victory of the Holy Bride shatters over 2000 years of patriarchal dogma that cast the Book of Revelation in the role of doomsday prophecy and presents to you the tools for discovering a profoundly simple truth that is the key to inner peace and the formula through which we can build a whole new world – one rooted in peace, understanding, wisdom, harmony and love.
The inspiration for this course came long before its birth in a tiny whispering voice that said, “There is something in the Book of Revelation…..there is something in the Book of Revelation.” This something was somehow connected with the 7 chakras and the trademarked protocol that I created (was given) that I call Authentic Freedom. For years this whispering continued all the way through the development of Authentic Freedom, Deepening Freedom, Living in Freedom and the other examples of the “secret of seven” that is hidden in the depths of the Judeo-Christian tradition and as it is communicated through scripture.
I approached the Book of Revelation many times before it yielded its secrets to me, but once they were revealed my mind was blown! Not because what I was shown was complicated or profound, but because it was so dang simple! Then I wondered, how is it that in 2000 years no one had uncovered the simple truth revealed in the Book of Revelation? Maybe someone had, but nowhere in my Catholic-Christian upbringing (including almost 12 years in Catholic school) or in seven years of ministry training had this simple truth been explained. Instead, the Book of Revelation was either spoken of as doomsday prophecy or ignored all together. It was as if the Church had no use for the Book of Revelation unless as a tool for manipulating others through fear and if there might be something more to it, they would rather not know (or would rather we didn’t know).
But here’s the secret: there is absolutely nothing to fear about the Book of Revelation! Instead, it is a message of profound hope – the simple truth of the human condition, along with the even simpler formula for enjoying the peace and freedom brought forth by this truth.
It really is that simple. But first, we must comb through the layers of symbolic language and metaphor used by its author (attributed to St. John the Divine) to veil this simple truth from those who are not yet ready, and perhaps to protect those who would know this truth from those whose power might be threatened.
For those in patriarchal power, there is much to fear in the simple truth of the Book of Revelation for when we understand and do the work of embodying the truth revealed in this book, we are no longer subject to the fearful manipulations of the outside perceived patriarchal authority. Instead, we discover our own sovereignty and the Divine power within that guides us on the path to our truth and which frees us to live that truth fully. Here we discover a whole new world of peace, contentment, empowerment and joy dwelling within us and which seeks to be known in the world through us.
I’ve enjoyed Lauri’s course as much as any I can remember. She is insightful and very well informed, but often with an original take on the material. I enjoy that she both understands Christianity, from her years as a Catholic, and Judaism, but also the priestess path. So her work is a hybrid of understandings, both historical and fresh. Her lecture delivery is clear. She has innovative activities and reflections which she invites us to do.
This course especially feels very timely, as is all Lauri’s work. I also really enjoyed interacting live, but the course is engaging on its own – so much so that I stayed up to the small hours (due to the time difference) to be able to participate.
I also love Lauri’s pricing policy, her generosity, and her values. This is a spiritual leader and teacher (though she’d probably be too modest to call herself as such) who is rooted in soul and heart work first before the ‘I’m worth it’ high charging mentality of other spiritual businesses. This is why I’m doing courses with Lauri. I heartily commend her. ER, United Kingdom
Lauri Ann Lumby 