Intimacy with the Living World, with Kelsey Barrett - a podcast by Mark Whitwell

Kelsey Barrett is a modern-day witch. She is a practicing herbalist and Yogini.

Mark says:

“In previous centuries she would have been burnt at the stake for her strange powers that threatened the knowledge authority of orthodoxy. She would have been shunned to the outskirts of the town, a forest dweller with twigs and moss in her hair and strange garb. These days the public realize she has useful healing powers, so allow her to enter the town or village.”

Kelsey combines medicinal herbs, Yoga and intimacy arts to help her friends navigate the tricky waters of our time.

Mark and Kelsey discuss her craft and realization. Dialogue includes sexuality, intimacy and the necessity for a personal hathayoga to actualize sublime intimacy.

Otherwise sacred sexuality seems to be confined to the poetry and iconography of forgotten cultures. Yet obviously remains the potential of every person today. Actual Yoga makes sacred intimacy real and no longer just fanciful unfulfilled desires.

The mind of the modern West is like a closed box of lidded thought that cannot be pierced or access the obvious mystery dimensions above the crown or go deep into the roots of Mother Earth.

Kelsey recalls her crown opening up to higher dimensions and the state of the Yogini… a flow of life synchronistically ascending and descending, mysteriously became her experience.

In the ancient world after death a Yogi’s crown was ceremonially pierced, symbolizing the ascent of the life force infinitely above, in death as in life. Such sublimity arises as everyone’s potential through Yoga.

Intimacy with all aspects of life, for example Kelsey talks about the power of rose for the heart, and the power of realising illness as visitation of the Goddess.

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