Education with Goddess? by Kay Turner

 

Art by Lisa Visserpic

How and what are we conditioned to learn?

My experiences of UK government led education – pedagogy, content, and systems - both as student and teacher, are that we are taught and conditioned to learn in a way that complete dissociates us from the body, and therefore Goddess.

Methods and systems of teaching age 11 years and up, still predominantly perpetuate the patriarchal structure of omnipotent teacher who has ‘power over’, the font of all knowledge, pontificating and feeding the masses with the ordained ‘knowledge’ decided by the powers that be, ultimately in Westminster. To sum it up, in classrooms its generally a case of the child sitting still (not drinking and certainly not going to the toilet, unless they get permission to meet their inconvenient bodily needs) listening to and receiving the ‘chalk and talk’, which entirely bypasses all things feminine; creativity, feeling and intuition. Achievement is based on exam performance, linear memory recall, answering questions with structure and logic ingrained through rote practice. Our inner locus of control, knowing and power is conditioned out of us.

Content taught, although now including token women’s voice in some subject areas, is predominantly focused on the male experience. The final bastion of patriarchy reigns in Religious Studies/Education. There is little mention of woman or the Sacred Feminine, perhaps the odd nod to her in Social Issues and Hinduism content, but Goddess – no mention. Earth based sacred practice – no mention. Experiencing divinity through the body – no mention. Priestesses – nothing.

We are being conditioned that the feminine and the body are not of ‘God’, Sacred or Divine. They are being conditioned out of us.


Kay Turner.  Sacred Education.  Growing and empowering Sacred Womanhood.

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www.anotherlogonthefire.com



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