Dr. Maureen Murdock on the Dark Feminine - c. 1993
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- Maureen Murdock, PhD is an author, educator, Jungian-oriented psychotherapist and photographer who combines her interest in the mysterious workings of the psyche with a study of mythology and a love of storytelling and memoir writing.
Her books include The Heroine’s Journey, Fathers’ Daughters: Breaking the Ties that Bind, Spinning Inward: Using Guided Imagery with Children, The Heroine’s Journey Workbook, Monday Morning Memoirs: Women in the Second Half of Life, and Unreliable Truth: On Memoir and Memory
I read the book early 2000 and it really awakened something inside of me. It helped me innerstand why my mother was the way she was and my relationship with her. After reading the book I became so much more compassionate with my mother and myself. Our relationship became so much better. I’m very aware that it helped me to heal the wounds I had from my childhood with my mother. Abandoned at early age was traumatic and I loved this book.💯🙏🏽🌹♥️ I call it the woman’s Bible after reading it.
Thank you for sharing! Maureen is a really intelligent, strong, compassionate, and beautiful woman. Her wisdom helped me too. Blessings Lila.
What book was this?
@Matryayshka it’s “The Heroine’s journey”
@Matryayshka I was going to ask the same question.
@@lila.9267 thank you 🙏
I haven't dreamt of the dark feminine, but as a younger woman I had a very vivid dream of a middle aged woman with vibrant ginger curly hair who spoke to me directly. She pointed out of the window, onto a view of a hill, and said "You know how beautiful it is to look at the grass? Imagine how beautiful it is to be the grass".
Uuuu I got goosebumps
How’d you interpret that?
@Zaraa7002 over the years I've thought about it, and how she didn't point at something stereotypically beautiful like a rose bush or a rainbow, but at grass - the plant closest to the mud, the stuff we walk over without a thought. But even that existence is beautiful. At the time I was pushing myself at uni, and the meaning wasn't clear. But now I think it was a lesson very similar to the Buddhist idea of the lotus being beautiful because of the mud, not in spite of it.
@ how beautiful :)
@@darkhorsiesmedia Amazing. Exactly what I need to witness today. Thank you for sharing 💜 Goddess is alive
I met the Divine Mother too, through a vision. She emerged from out of the Flower of Life
What an incredible dream image. You're very lucky.
@@Aphrodite77798she didn't say it was a dream. 1:39
I have no idea what u r talking about but sounds amazing
My algorythm shared this video and just found out that one of my christmas presents it's her book 💓
Synchronicitous
Incredible synchronicity 💫
Complex PTSD from Family scapegoating leads to perfectionism too in a world made for hierarchies
Yaaaas. I experienced that in my earlier part of life & I processed the long healing journey 🙏❤️🔥
I realized this last year at 35
Can you elaborate.
100%
The heroines journey has been in my bookshelf for 5 years. Finally reading it I’m seeing my embodied journey reflected back at me. So affirming, clarifying and powerful. Not sure I regret not reading it sooner, I trust my journey, but pretty certain there would have been less confusion chaos pain and damage if I had. Thank you Maureen Murdock. ❤️🙏
I lost her book by giving it for a reading to a friend about 5 years ago. This video is a life saver as I can now listen and remember myself home again. Thank you.
Beautiful, I wrote a poem The Feminine Source and Dark Mother that's in Alignment with this video.
I descended back in 2018 and have gone so deep into the dark that I truly believed that I had gone insane, or for a period of time, that l had died. I'm very grateful for this video, it really resonates with my journey and helps me understand some of the aspects I couldn't grasp. Thank you for sharing with us ❤
I’m stuck at the last part ? Do you feel alive now
@nenauwuw it's been a long journey, I'm finally starting to feel like myself. A new sense of self, but it's no longer unfamiliar if that makes sense
Well said @@sabrinefarjallah
I'm just finding this tonight and I'm loving the video and the comments. What you said fits my experience so much. Thought I had everything figured out. Started on an awakening of sorts like you explain above starting with a catalyst in 2012 til about 2020.. feeling stronger and more authentic in myself now and realizing I had to go thru all of that and still am.. ❤
@@LadyDemo so happy for you! That's the idea, to shed all illusions so we can become more authentic versions of ourselves :)
Perfect timing. Love this concept for ascending to the dark feminine, even just the feminine energy from a European perspective.
Also an interesting perspective that could help innerstand the alienation of the black body and specifically the black woman as she embodies this dark and feminine nature naturally. Subconsciously being the antagonist to the masculine world structure we have been indoctrinated in the last hundred years.
Looking forward to seeing how leaving the age of the pieces will affect the changes women have been working toward subconsciously for centuries now.
Finally THE right explanation of dark feminine, exactly at THE right time!
Wow this is incredible, thank you so much! And thank you, algorithm 😊
Wow. I have never thought of my drive and work hours as my wounded masculine. Thank you, got work to do here
Thank you for this gem-studded recording. I love what she said about Innana and Erishkegal, Celtic Christianity and what it means to live in the incubation phase without knowing what you are going to be birthing.
I identify with the goddess Athena, because I have both a mother wound and a father wound. I grew up experiencing horrendous neglect by my mother and my father, yeah, unalive himself. I was then raised by my indigenous uncle. Who it taught me all of my lessons through hunting and fishing and subsistence, and in relation with nature. This really infused in me an affinity way with the masculine and a gratitude toward the masculine. Because it allowed me to survive when I was denied survival by my mother. But then, as I became a young woman I entered dating, I was wounded several times by men. I ended up having an abortion and several other traumatic experiences occurred. Now I practice celibacy and I don't. I do not date. I don't hate men. I just certainly don't deal with them if I don't have to. So I think the reason why Athena empowers me is because she is detached from the mother like I am, but then she is also a Virgin and untouched by man. So this ultra independent female figure that is kind of secure within her herself on all sides keeps me going, it keeps me strong.
so beautiful
❤how do you embody her? Do you have rituals, jewelry or what? How do you do it? ❤️
“Women who run with wolves” is great book that talks about this.
Lisa Thiel is an artist that comes to mind when listening to this painful video about the dark feminine. She had helped me in a time of darkest need for me when I had prayed.
Deep gratitude
I am so lucky I found this knowledge. Thank you!
Such an informative and connected explanation by such a charming Jungian.
Thanks for sharing this video. My next read will be "The Heroin's Journey" ("Il viaggio dell'eroina" in italian). This video will help me better understand the topics covered.
I hope I used correct words, because I don't write and I don't speak English very well.
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Blessed journey friend
I truly needed this at this time. I too am healing female/ mother wounds. Thank you for this
This is so jam-packed with incredible wisdom and value, thank you 🙏
I did become a father's daughter because my mother was aggressive & miserable (with good reason) so I avoided that like the plague of course.
I've gone through a descent & ego dissolution. Currently I have a lot of rage & a very penetrating intellect, it's driving me like a machine or bootcamp officer, just as you describe. I would love time for rest or creativity, and I take some time, but my fury & intellect are really driving the show atm. I'm angry for how much I was abused, voiceless, objectified, violated, reduced & toyed with. I feel like I have been psychologically maimed. I am trying to reconvene but am so focused on functionality and practical reasons. Because I fear if I don't do it then no one will, and failing is not an option.
I didn't intend to be so masculine but sometimes shit just needs to get done. I don't understand the masculine / feminine distinction very well. I do feel all my emotions & give time to process them, but they're endlessly deep just like waters. The associative terminology of my creative unconscious doesn't particularly have much utility in the external world, particularly when you need to be practical. And the practicality is really just one part of me. But god I'm just so angry.
Wow this made me think abt my own life and strong identification with the father.
Oh
I’m so much relating to this.
I did not have a father sadly to protect me. And my exercise of life is to understand the mother who abused ( phisically, emotionally and sexually her own daughters..). She was vicious but miserable and had a horrible life I don’t wish for anyone. I always felt my CPTSD will be released the day I resolve some kind of mystery hidden in the story.
I have so so much rage and this year I’ve been in the dark night of the soul.. I even had some voices telling me I was going to enter this state.
False ego dissolved and I’m left with 0 self confidence and just a bunch of emotions that coming out with no control, so much sadness and so much rage, like serial killer rage level. So.. I’m happy I found this video and all this amazing comments I feel seen here🙏🏼💕
Me, too. I take walks, and people always stare at me (it is weird to actually use your feet in the US). I have massive anger with these stares. It feels like i'm being violated and penetrated with their nasty looking eyes. My middle finger seems to be my best protection, which of course just causes strangers to hate me, but i cannot stop. Their eyes are an assault. I feel their nasty thoughts, and all i want is a bit of exercise. I need the protection of my middle finger. What else is there?
I'm so angry with my parents, too. I hate my father for being both a narcissist and an idiot. My mother, too. Except i hate her for cruelty and manipulations too. If i communicate with them, it's a blast of anger with 44 years worth of fuel. They deserve it. There was so much anger and pain in my childhood that it broke me into nothing. I'm alone and i will always be alone, and it is 100% their fault. They killed a perfectly nice little girl. But it's culture, that's just the way the world works.... Well, i f-ing hate this man-world with everything centered around penises, too. Men are just like my parents, exploiting and corrupting youth and joy. Oh, not every mannn.... Pth. 44 years, living in 5 different countries, and not once has a good man emerged. Not once. Always a secret perversion or hidden agenda. I hate the pretty ones worst because they are protected and it takes longer to expose their nasty thoughts. Unfortunately, i can read minds, which i guess really fuels my anger, because everyone's always lying. Men are always thinking about violent sex. A lot. How do they just go on smiling and being cute when they go home and violate their couch like that? Why are we protecting and hiding couch-fkers? Why is our entire civilization built on hiding the secret of the possessive, violent male mind?
i believe you’ll find your balance very soon, we just have to be in that state of going insane for some time until it clicks for us…. The Great Mother bless you on this journey 🙏♥️
This resonates with my Journey of Transforming into the dark feminine,i am so proud of myself for being still and Trusting through it all...thank you for the clarity Holy Mother.
Wow. I needed this. Thank you!
Great viewpoints.
Thank you for this!❤
When she mentioned how she would rock in the waves, I felt that! When I was younger every time we traveled to the beach, I would go out in the water behind the waves and rock. It’s a very still feeling. My grandmother would call me crazy because I didn’t know how to swim. Haven’t done it in about 8 years tho.
This is incredible content. Highly relevant stuff for anyone on the left hand path, in my opinion. What is that painting behind her and the statue/figurine to her right? Thank you!
Yes I agree
What is the left hand path?
She said she took the photo behind her of canyons...
@@weltschmerski usually used in occult language, it's to mean a different path as the norm. Kinda like an anti organized religion path. If Christianity is the right hand path, witch craft, occult religions would be the left hand path
It looks like an MRI scan of an abdomen
Wonderful! Thank you so much!
Our pleasure to share her wisdom 🙏🏼
Only motherhood has freed me of psychological pain but after a serious case of postpartum depression bordering on postpartum psychosis. I guess I found comfort in the dark, wet warmth of the womb or what I consider my dark feminine journey.
I identify with Persephone or Xquic. Sometimes I identify with Hestia.
I do enjoy being a housewife and mother though. Some of us find ourselves thriving in traditional patriarchal roles. Every hero or heroine must return home at some point, and I think Joseph Campbell was correct in that women don't actually have to go out into the world the way a man or male energy should. Feminine energy mainly takes an inward journey.
Of course, we all should take elements from each type of journey, but it's perfectly healthy and fine for men to focus on the outward experience and for women to focus on the inward experience at home.
We are not genderless sexless or even neutral beings - our souls may be, but our bodies and minds do lean towards either the masculine or feminine. Why not master whatever we are already given instead of chasing after an opposite that isn't natural to us?
Thank you for your thoughtful comment
Beautiful comment and one that resonates for me. It hasn’t been easy feeling ok with my path when society pushes women to be boss babes.
Women should go out into the world to squash the norms that benefit men at the expense of women. You weird pickme
@@kt9495well our society has a woman representing blind justice she wears a blind fold that represents the 2 side's of the court a prosecution and a defendant in my opinion the defendant is usually seen guilty already and has to prove innocence but the prosecution has been familiar to the circuit and already has the popular vote otherwise they wouldn't be the District attorney, in one hand she holds the ⚖ scale which means big bank takes little bank, the other hand she holds a sword that represents the death sentence if a District attorney is beaten by a lawyer like the appointed is less likely unless they're being treated as a potential candidate for a law firm or trail lawyer the courts are where they earn the nomination but who knows what goes on in chambers they must negotiate a lighter punishment depending on the cut of that devil's pie. Anyway some one's getting cut down to size. Doesn't this feel feminine? You are stronger against man because you have all the favor men still judge each other on how they provide and gives his wife all the credit and the wife still has the audacity to say to their children wait till your father hears what you've done 😂 you keep the good side. Man says my better half we get on our knees to beg for you to marry us and you load your 🐫 heavy like you gotta see how much can he take till you back off the maintenance next thing we know is how tired we are and boring to you 😂 you're all lovely tho ...
This comment is very thoughtful and offers a perspective while personal, may be shared by other women.
I feel it does not encapsulate all women though. There are some of us who feel empowered through external means as well.
I am interested in cultivating more knowledge of the external so I can educate myself and my daughter in ways my childhood did not involve.
❤❤❤ thanks for sharing ❤❤❤
This is wonderful thank you
Thank you , I loved this
Real life content ❤❤❤I love
She's explaining a few dreams I've also had before and I'm only halfway through
Beautiful!
Does EVERY woman experience this journey almost to a T??
Because I can say that I have. I've reached the depths in the descent & I'm pretty sure I've began my ascent now.
This has been a tough descent . It's REAL. REAL! THANK YOU FOR POSTING
Me too at age 42
Although I believe this can happen at different times in a woman’s life, this descent into the underworld where we meet the “dark goddess” , for lack of a better term, seems very much like perimenopause and menopause. Where you are shedding everything that is not working in your life and letting go of the artifices about yourself things that don’t serve you. Delving deep into oneself if you allow for it-connecting with the first most ancient goddesses.
that resonates with me too
Yes!!
This hit home. Thank you. I need to do more research on these topics. Amazing.
Right on time ❤
Wow! Every word rang true for muah ❤❤❤ t.y.
The idea of dark feminine she stood up with at that era is something which heals me inside
muy bueno gracias
Did anybody notice the disturbance in the film at 20.57 in?
that occasionally happened to the vhs back in the day...but she was telling the story of descent to the underworld so yeah I take it as strong energy around it ✨
@@rachelgregoryartist This recording is over 30 years old and was stored improperly. We decided to leave that denigrated portion in because what she is saying there is so important.
@@blackmadonnaarchives I really appreciate seeing this old footage. I just meant maybe it's energies coming through like the earlier comment ✨
@ thanks for clarifying. Vibin’ with that for sure. Makes sense. She’s a powerful storyteller! I just wanted to make sure folks knew the backstory 🙏🏼 Happy New Year!
Literally described my last 7 years
Thank you ❤
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name, and there isn't any of that happening here.
U might like the book "Blood, Bread and Roses" by Judy Grahn.
@@drawingmomentum I love that book! ❤
@Ashes2ashes1111 😊 💖 🤗 such a great resource, enlightening, empowering. 💕
I agree with you. Maybe it's a "if you don't know you don't know" but I would rather straight forward terms.
It cracks me up that the channel didn't give you a heart. I guess there is only one opinion here❤
❤️🌹🐞 I 🧡 Your Channel! 🔥Thank You so much ☀️🌻🐝
I think I'd rather be a woman and know my power than be a man and have to live in this power.. Yea, there are a lot of downside to being a women but overal, it seems like a much deeper experience than most men have. I think the journey for a women is more a lesson in community and for men its like a journey in leadership
What a badass queen, last 10 min was 🖤🖤🖤🖤
Women these days project their own darkness onto men calling them narcissists. But they don't see that they often devour them like a mantis. This is natural but socienty would perish without men. When balance is distorted, socialism will rise and society will crumble.
Let's get down to basics. Women used to be goddesses. The man found out that they had something to do with fertilization they became the gods. That is how we got a male god.
Nonsense
I would think all but the most unusual societies were aware of men’s role in reproduction!
This reminds me of the FKA Twigs video for Cellophane. After she falls the spirits crawl over to her and rub mud and clay on her body.
Brilliant observation
Yeah I had to help a woman who was really sweet and she was VERY into her religion. She believed man created man. I laughed❤️
13:45 speaks on why women moved from the household. 39:45 references 2 other women to research
Is that Tiamat in the Background?
Thank you.
I feel like a fool. I am five minutes in and I am having trouble understanding quite a bit with her story telling. Am a male and have semi studied the animus just to know for writing, but can anyone help me understand. What was she getting at with the goddess who travels the gates?
Descending into the depths, shedding our conceptions of ourselves/our shields, becoming vulnerable and facing the dark.
@ really odd, I didn't understand what she was saying. But since I have heard this, I wrote a lot in poems songs and raps about shedding clothes and being reborn. I guess something she saif clicked
The editing is cutting out a lot of context. She is talking about the myth of Inanna and Erishkigal.
Dont worry female here i dont know either ❤surely its about giving birth receiving the man the after birth the responsibilities being a mother the disappointment of mother men women alone not being appreciated valued or recognized also relate to religion in general in-site reflection appreciation of the process. The acceptance of the changed beautiful-woman after child bearing . The genitals being sought after for the pleasure it brings , the life it gives, the destruction afterwards the adjustment of the transformation & the continued desire towards her & of her towards child bearing & the desire ability hormons id say eve adam & the apple & the consequences. . The life cycle. Aiming for balance of the natural process & the possibilities of multiple choices. ❤
The fool is card 1..we all find out we know less then we thought.and your journey begins..
What does it mean if at the end of the descent there is a man?
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The wind father the wounded Drive the wounded father yes it drives us. I don’t wanna have a perfect life. I’m exhausted. My body is exhausted. Stuff this standards. I’m sick of this. No stop it.
I've had awake visions of being knawed off by female demonds with sharp teeth, dark skinned almost snake like skin! This makes me feel seen! Also visions of completely skinning myself whole in some strange virtual way, and it felt good, not painful! Like my skin came off head to toe in one swift action.
I've had snakes bite me all around..ect
Can't wait to keep watching this. Epic.
Write a book about Family scapegoating patterns is that creative aggressive power by a woman?
Thank you for the explanation. I been hearing about the dark feminine on tiktok & ig and was curious what it was. Now i understand, these are the daughters of men described in Genesis 6 & the book of Enoch. The patriarchy she is describing is actually YHWH & the dark female is lillith possibly or like i said the daughters of men. On that note, I'm good. I'll never leave my father YHWH.
Does anyone else hear the weird noises coming through between the 20 and 22 minutes mark?
I did. I assume it’s from the vcr tape recording this is probably from
It's demons.... This woman is surrounded by them
This video is 30 years old and was stored improperly for years. We kept that part in so as not to delete this part of her story.
So, what I'm getting from the beginning of her speech is that she sees Black and colored women as the representatives for dark feminine energy and look towards those figures to gain strength. 🤔 Why doesn't the representative in her mind come in a white woman form?
Yeah right? So weird
Had the same thought. Made me think of slavery and the role of black women as mothers. I wouldn't be surprised if it translates here.
I thought that too and then I thought what if it goes deeper than that, farther back than that, to the first humans in the world. dna says we all began in Africa
Just the symbolism of the color. Dark means hidden, deep, etc.
@@zachbos5108 I don't think so. She clearly said what she said.
I don’t think anywhere near that much thought (i.e. “well, it’s MY sperm after all!”) went into it. Much simpler. “I’m bigger than you” is what it was.
There may have been a society somewhere who had developed a more egalitarian framework, but I’m sure it wasn’t ever the default.
Viewing the sexes as equal takes intelligence., work and some serious evolution. There was never an ideal society without such conscious effort applied. To believe otherwise is absolutely naive.
Takeing back the so called unacceptable ME!! Parts...my lost self..welcome back l feel whole, ☀️✨️💎💡🕯🌗😉
I WAS RAISED (BARELY) BY THE DARK FEMININE. :(
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Like Persephone
I learnt that the celtic cross with the circle is left from the pagan sun god which was symbolised by the circle as in astrology the symbol of the sun is the circle. I think thats also the truth
Well,being the rotting one.i don't like it..I'm tured of complaining and itching and repeating patterns that are not growing a living spirit..
Inanna wasn't killed as some kind of rebirth thing. She was killed because she was trying to steal her sisters power. You see, inanna was a trickster who had stolen power from many of the other gods in order to gain ultimate power and control. The reason she had to be naked was because everything she wore was a magical symbol of power and her sister was tricking her into sheding these things so she wouldn't have any power. She was only released because the god enki stepped in. Even then, she had to find a replacement. She walked around visiting her companions to see who would be a suitable replacement. Each one had been mourning her and were elated to see her return so she didnt want to send them. She even said she couldn't send her hair dresser to the underworld because he was just so good at doing hair, lol. When she got to her husband, though, he was being entertained by multiple women instead of mourning her like a good husband should. So she threw him in the underworld. But she ended up feeling bad, so she takes his place for part of the year. This story was made up to explain the yearly movement of venus (representing inanna) across the night sky. It's a great story, and i love inanna because she's an amazing representation of the divine feminine and honestly a hilarious character, but this story was not about a journey.
🙏🏻♥️🔥
Very confusing how she uses greek mythology to convey her 'reconnecting with the feminine' message which was a highly patriarchal society and not Sumerian or older myths
Everything is connected
Greek mythology , Patriarchal & Matriarchal ,same in the Bible
And thus example shows us the roots of the modern patriarchy. When we see the big picture, it dissolves if untrue. The Journey work.
But the Greeks were worshiping the Goddess and built temples to Athena.. etc. perhaps later the Romans began to make that shift but I do believe Greek mythology held the Feminine in a high degree!
She gives an example earlier of how our patriarchal systems are created (giving example of an ancient building which was rebuilt by different civilisations adding their own layers to it) which is why all mythological references are relevant
Praying you all receive true healing through trusting in Messiah Yeshua
Amen
Ereshkigal
Jail Ma!
It's not pronounced "Demmettter" - It's DeMEter! You're saying her name like it doesn't mean anything or has any edge - It's to be said with a punch!
This video is such a confirmation for me of my life and the path I’ve really been deeply on for the past 5years. Feel all of this so hard and taking it as a sign that I am in alignment and I have actually come far.
I am grateful to have this shop up in my algothirim, I've been doing lots of inner healing and alignment, and felt this is my next step to innerstand the power of the feminity specially when I was born into a household where I was told to seek for a man who would take care of me. I am beyond grateful🤎🙏🏼
Mary and Africans are dark feminine.
Um what?!
What
OPEN WIDE PANDORA'S BOX
(a poem by Tiffany Carman)
Open wide Pandora's box.
Journey to a culture where the Goddess reigns supreme.
Re-trace HERstory woven by the Matriarchs.
Read to your daughters, Cinderella and Goldilocks,
But preface them with the "male-dominated" machine,
So that we may open wide Pandora's box.
Worship of the Sun/Son demanded clocks,
Yet, in witches' eyes, the female power gleams.
Re-joice in the rhythmic cycles of the Matriarchs.
For the man who whistles, rapes, and stalks,
Help your sisters spin and spin their dreams, not scream.
We must open wide Pandora's box.
Like a paper hand that shadows rocks,
Silently, we gather and chant our ritual regime.
Re-cite the wisdom of our Matriarchs.
Dance on the graves of overbearing Patriarchs;
Dance in the midnight light of moonbeams.
Re-embrace ourselves, our Matriarchs.
Open wide Pandora's box.
(I wrote this villanelle in the early 90s)
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