Harvard-trained theologian Meggan Watterson marched out of her church at age ten.
Excerpt from Reveal.
The real barometer of our spiritual potential is not our sex, but the commitment of our desire to want to encounter the divine.
And, that our potential to be transformed by going inward is exactly the same whether we are a man or a woman.
There was a red thread that became visible to me that ran through so many of the world religions, especially through their mystics, relating that the way to find the divine is to go within.
The stories of the divine feminine, of Christianity\'s Mary Magdalene, Catholicism\'s Black Madonna, Hinduism\'s Kali ma, and Buddhism\'s Green Tara for example, allowed me to begin to see that I wasn\'t as much of a spiritual misfit as I had thought.
The first one was with a group and the second was on my own...
Each time before Getting my masters degrees in theology and divinity, I went on a pilgrimage to Sacred sites of the divine feminine throughout Europe.
I have spent the majority of my life gathering stories of the divine feminine.
In essence, this is a Manual for revealing your soul.
Reveal provides what religions have left out--the spiritual voice of a woman who has claimed her body as sacred--a woman who has found the divine insider her.
No matter where you rest on the spectrum of spirituality; religious or secular, devout believer or chronic doubter, freelance mystic or borderline agnostic, this story is about the desire in all of us to want to shed everything that holds us back.
There are countless women who long for a spirituality that encourages embodiment rather than denies it, that inspires them to abandon their fears but never themselves, and to be led by the audacious and fiercely loving voice of truth inside them.
Through her extensive work with women, Watterson found that she was not alone.
She suggests that being spiritual is simply about stripping down to the truth of who we really are.
With passion, humor, and brutal honesty, Watterson draws on ancient stories and lesser-known texts of the divine feminine, like The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, making them modern and accessible to reveal the spiritual process she went through.
Only then, Watterson realized could she hear the voice of unfaltering love inside her- the voice of her soul.
Rather than transcending the body, denying or ignoring it, being spiritual for her meant accepting her body as sacred.
At a Sacred site of the Black Madonna in Europe, Watterson had a revelation that changed her.
But what she truly sought was her own spiritual voice inside her--the one veiled beneath years of self-doubt.
She knew women\'s voices had never been silenced, just buried.
Watterson became a theologian and a pilgrim to the divine feminine to find the missing stories and images of women\'s spiritual voices.
With little-girl clarity, she knew something tremendously crucial was missing...the voices of women.
Harvard-trained theologian Meggan Watterson marched out of her church at age ten
