Written by Millicent Haughey
Preamble: Wide open out on the edges the tides are turning. Things are on the move. Changing always turning softly, forming, and being reformed. There are whispers that the turning tide is larger this time. It is full and deeper, bone curling cry to awaken a seismic shift in consciousness.
Setting/Purpose
There is a widening gap between the reality of the planet’s condition and the ‘norms’ of the mainstream dominant culture. The mainstream dominant culture is one that commits ecocide, to continue as usual. It kills the very thing that gives it life - Gaia*. The culture destroys communities, families, and the flow of life through systems. Most painfully it breaks the human spirit. It is a culture that has been founded by men without the female voice. It is insane, and in that insanity there is space to choose something else. Dignity Bridge-House is that space. A place where the rules of the dominant culture do not apply, where the context is sourced from elsewhere. Where life exists and the next can be sourced through the unknown. It is a space for Women to heal and birth a new reality.
A context sourced through Women, committed to Authentic Adulthood, Initiation, Dignity and Love, has a texture aligned with the process of life. Dignity Bridge-House stands for resourcing Women to be the spaceholders that have been missing in the world until today. By reconnecting them to their authentic selves, without the pressure of the outside culture or the male gaze, something closer to their lived reality is allowed to emerge. The Bridge-House is an Evolutionary space where Women are empowered and resourced to take up space in the world. At its core, it is a light post for the evolution and seeding of new cultures through the wisdom innate to Women.
Mission: How Does Dignity do that
By bringing Women into a physical living space where they are continuously researching what it takes to let go of stuck engrained behaviour patterns and to instead turn their authority to sourcing in the moment, a new culture is built.
Dignity Bridge-House stands distinct from the mainstream culture for Women to go deeply into timelessness. From there, Healing happens. Emotional reactivity, childhood survival strategies and shadow purposes are used as the evolutionary fuel to transform and heal, making space for the Adult Woman to emerge. Thereby, Authentic Creation happens, sourced in Radical Responsibility, holding life at the centre. A collectively held space by Women to source and occupy a new culture means that all of life benefits. Dignity Bridge-House provides Women with a sanctuary to go deep into their research, away from the distraction of needing to tend to the "assigned roles" of patriarchy. When Women focus their innate qualities on bringing into being a whole new culture, that brings them fully alive, it supports all of life. From that, something entirely new is possible.
Why Women
It is simple: Time and space is needed right now for Women to step into their full power. To listen once more to what it really means to have a female body, a womb, to be deeply connected to the shape of life. The female body, on all levels, holds the wisdom of shedding, gestation, birthing, and nurturing to physical form from the realms of the unseen.
As Julia said, "There is no place to get to, there is no destination”.
That is exactly where it begins, where everything is possible. It is for Women to do that. To reclaim what was forgotten, to re-member back together a fragmented dream, singing the life back into the soil, calling each Being through. It is done by letting die the mirage of needing to get somewhere. To arrive here then, bravely with exactly what is, and create.
“Beneath the masks and schedules, beneath the labels and roles, I am neither woman nor man. I simply am, there I find the life force that moves with a rhythm and power innate to it. There I come into intimate connection with that which is. That is where a new culture is sourced. Where different maps of relating to self, each other and the planet are born. That slow ebb of life that deep womb wisdom. That everything. There I find you and there we learn to fly.”
(Millicent Haughey)
Concepts, knowledge and linear time schedules are not enough. Spaces for Women to go beyond cultural norms, to feel and experience the essential feminine flow, power and healing from within herself. To fully occupy the context that enables the initiation of Women into their power means the aliveness is breathed into life-sustaining structures.
The mainstream patriarchal culture holds no space for Women to go through the rites of passage and healing to live from deep within their female essence. This is seen by providing no places of deep reverence at the onset of menstruation. Birthing is a medicalised event, sexuality is sold through advertisements and pornography. Spaces of authentic initiation do not exist where a young woman is given the conscious space to take her authority back from her parents and step into her innate alignment with the process of life. Consequently, the insane culture of destruction is perpetuated.
Anger and Dignity
The Rage of Women fuels the necessity to change now. To stop the killing of life on Planet Earth, that the mainstream culture enables to happen at the fastest rate possible. The Rage of Women is needed to source something else. Dignity Bridge-House takes a stand for Women to reclaim their Anger. When a Woman consciously learns to feel angry, the game changes. The anger she used to beat herself up, blame or resent is alchemised into fuel for the direction she wants to go in, her Anger becomes a force of creation. It takes the warrior-ess in each Woman to take a stand for that which she needs, for her own unfolding and initiation. In tune with other Women, where the commitment to the Radiance in each other’s Beings is crystal clear, a Woman's Dignity is reclaimed.
In deep connection with other Women while standing true to herself, a deeper soil is tilled. In that soil she can tend to her seed. From the unique conditions necessary to bring to life her seed, a radically new context is sourced. In that context all beings unfold and life can breath, sourced from reality, in connection to what is.
A Light Post
Dignity is a light post in a darkening sky, a sanctuary, a call to life. Sourced from the unknown, a place of Alchemy, a “Yes” to life, to Being-ness, to Magic, Healing, Transformation, Collaboration and Love. Held in it’s beating heart the deepest reverence to humanity and life. It is a place of so(u)rcery, where women are re discovering how to be their Magic. By slowing down and dropping out of time out of patriarchal pressure, Women can find their unique seed and nurture it to life. It is from there that Dignity emerges through each individual Woman, in her own unique flavour.
Women’s Rage is roaring to life a furnace that will blow on for generations to come. That deep roaring Rage is born upon feeling the layers of chronic pain at the atrocious state of Planet Earth. The Rage found when Women feel the pain of fractures running rampant and deep through society and through the very spirit of humanity, makes space for the softest of whispers to be heard once more. For the healing to happen in the tenderest of a gaze and, at long last Women can sense again their authentic “yes this, and not that”.
As society goes hollow, Women are gathering to sing life back into the bones. Women are gathering to source from the wisdom of the deep feminine, to reclaim what was suppressed through centuries of witch hunts and burnings. Now it is time to dance into being a wholly different form, to lay out a new culture.
This time the culture is not found in unconscious fears of being killed. This time Women do not swallow when told, nor bare their naked chests to placate the man-child. This time they source, from the deepest parts of their Beings that know the turning of the Earth and see the life in every Being. This time the Rage is real, and it radically holds the space wide open for a culture founded in Dignity. A living, breathing, alive substance of a culture that grows with each day.
There is a darkening in the skies and at the same time a fire is burning, stoked by the Women that were once burnt in it. Initiated by fire, Women know the power of letting burn all that is not real. To know the beauty possible in the heat of transformation. Gather around the fire as something else is forged, molten and formless. Watch as Dignity herself emerges from the ashes for life to take root on fresh fertile soil.
-It is time.
*The word Gaia means more than the physical form of this planet. It means the specific field of consciousness, that is Gaia.
