A Note on the Dedications

I dedicate Mongol Healer to my parents, to the spirit of Inanna Rising and to Wise Woman healers in the world, and to you, the readers and listeners. The first and third dedications are self-explanatory but...to the spirit of Inanna Rising? To a spirit? I wish blogs allowed me to use emojis. I'm only now realizing how much I rely on them.

The organization that offers the patient equity fund that Mongol Healer supports is called Inanna Rising. The ancient Sumerian myth of Inanna  is the story of the sacred feminine being incrementally stripped of all her power and yet rising nevertheless. My healer friends and I have been reflecting on how true this is for humanity right now. As mentioned in the first blog, the way forward is together, in community, everyone sharing--information, resources, time, gifts--and everyone nurturing everyone else. The way forward is also about staying connected to Nature, including/especially our own sensitive human nature, and allowing our gifts of intuition and creativity to flow for the good of all. The myth of Inanna Rising is about all of us embracing the sacred feminine within, regardless of our gender.

So when I dedicate the work to the spirit of Inanna Rising, I am dedicating it to the sacred feminine within each of us: may it rise within us as we grieve the old structures that don't serve us (have never served us ) and join together to build something new...or very old. As I was saying to a friend over dinner today, we humans have always known how to embody the sacred feminine. It's just a matter of remembering and encouraging each other as a part of the collective awakening that's unfolding in real time.

As Mongol Healer shows, the sacred masculine is just as important as the sacred feminine. And though I don't mention it in the book's dedications, I am awed and humbled by truly embodied sacred masculinity. But that is a topic for another day!