GRETA'S STORY
“Sex. It isn’t all that it’s cracked it up to be.” That's what my mother told me when I was 15, growing up in Virginia, in the Bible Belt. But her advice didn’t stop there. She had two more. It was her trinity: “Wait ‘til you're married,” “Don't get pregnant,” and “Sex isn't all that it’s cracked up to be.”
That same year, I attended church camp, in a rural mining village of West Virginia. The heavyweight evangelical keynote speaker, Josh McDowell, took the stage, and spoke with celestial authority: “Girls, if you let a guy take you to first base, it’s a slippery slope. There is an invisible line and you don’t know the power of crossing it. Soon you'll be at second base … third base, and … if you have sex NOW, it’s as if you are already CHEATING on your future spouse.”
Every message I learned was ripe with sexual shame. You see, I cut my teeth on the story of Eve, the Temptress, who ate from the Tree of Knowledge and offered the fruit to Adam. Because of Eve, Original Sin was blamed on women and carried down through the centuries. It's one of the fundamental stories of Christendom, and I believed it. The sweet heroic Jesus of my childhood was eclipsed by these teachings. I felt shame and guilt. Unconsciously, I was disconnected from my body, cut off at the waist, and living with an invisible chastity belt.
Whenever my normal teenage urges stirred, my fear of sin created conflict within me. Searching for an acceptable path, I prayed: “Jesus, bring me Love. Bring me a man who loves you with his whole heart and wants to serve You with his Life.”
See, I had a deep passion for meaning and a fierce devotion to the Divine. So, I did what anyone “in love with Jesus” might do, I prayed. Following my heart, I traveled across the country and enrolled at Fuller Seminary, with plans to become a pastor.
But as I went deeper and deeper into my studies, I found that the vocabulary for God - and all people - was exclusively male. I discovered that the roots of this rigid language lay in fear of women’s bodies and women’s power. Even more shattering, I uncovered a shocking truth about Original Sin, a foundation of my faith. I learned that the widespread Christian belief in Original Sin was the 4th Century creation of St. Augustine. He promoted the concept in a convoluted attempt to assuage his own conflicted sexual angst. When I read the truth, I fell to my knees, sick, nauseated, reeling with anguish.
The more I studied theology, the more the politics of the church came into focus for me. As I was exposed to the vilification of women’s sexuality, a crucible of fire erupted. It birthed within me an inner knowing and I began to claim to my own sovereignty. Like the Phoenix, the lost Divine Feminine emerged from the ashes of antiquity.
In my quest for answers I read countless books, pivotal ones, such as When Women were Priests, and The Christology of Erotic Power. I immersed myself in Rumi, Tantra and Kabbalah. I traveled to Crete, where women have been Priestesses and Leaders for centuries. I studied with shamans in Peru, encountering indigenous people who still believe they are living in the Garden of Eden.
I came face to face with the ancient legacy of Sacred Sexuality. I was transformed. Original Sin became Original Blessing.
As I healed the disconnection within my body, I came to understand that my life - my entire spiritual and sexual history - had a purpose. It was to prepare me for my life mission: To work with women to reclaim our Sexual Birthright and live the Truth of our Sacred Sexual Power.
I call this work “Love, God and Sex”. For me, it is the new Trinity: The Infinity Trinity.
I believe sex is a gift from the Divine. It has the power to Heal, to Create, to Transform. It is a force of nature.
I am sounding a call to women everywhere – a call to YOU! Re-enter the Garden. Return to Innocence. Heal shame and guilt. Ignite your fire. Re-claim your sexual passion. Express your unique essence. Restore the Sacred union of masculine and feminine. Deepen the quality of your sexual pleasure. It is your right. It is your Divine Birthright!
Join me Monday evenings for Love, God and Sex. In this 9-week course, we meet in the safety of a circle of women and experience powerful practices that open our minds, heal our hearts, and free our bodies.
In so doing, we reclaim our Erotic Truth and activate our Sacred Sizzle.
It is there, I promise. It is waiting for you!
That same year, I attended church camp, in a rural mining village of West Virginia. The heavyweight evangelical keynote speaker, Josh McDowell, took the stage, and spoke with celestial authority: “Girls, if you let a guy take you to first base, it’s a slippery slope. There is an invisible line and you don’t know the power of crossing it. Soon you'll be at second base … third base, and … if you have sex NOW, it’s as if you are already CHEATING on your future spouse.”
Every message I learned was ripe with sexual shame. You see, I cut my teeth on the story of Eve, the Temptress, who ate from the Tree of Knowledge and offered the fruit to Adam. Because of Eve, Original Sin was blamed on women and carried down through the centuries. It's one of the fundamental stories of Christendom, and I believed it. The sweet heroic Jesus of my childhood was eclipsed by these teachings. I felt shame and guilt. Unconsciously, I was disconnected from my body, cut off at the waist, and living with an invisible chastity belt.
Whenever my normal teenage urges stirred, my fear of sin created conflict within me. Searching for an acceptable path, I prayed: “Jesus, bring me Love. Bring me a man who loves you with his whole heart and wants to serve You with his Life.”
See, I had a deep passion for meaning and a fierce devotion to the Divine. So, I did what anyone “in love with Jesus” might do, I prayed. Following my heart, I traveled across the country and enrolled at Fuller Seminary, with plans to become a pastor.
But as I went deeper and deeper into my studies, I found that the vocabulary for God - and all people - was exclusively male. I discovered that the roots of this rigid language lay in fear of women’s bodies and women’s power. Even more shattering, I uncovered a shocking truth about Original Sin, a foundation of my faith. I learned that the widespread Christian belief in Original Sin was the 4th Century creation of St. Augustine. He promoted the concept in a convoluted attempt to assuage his own conflicted sexual angst. When I read the truth, I fell to my knees, sick, nauseated, reeling with anguish.
The more I studied theology, the more the politics of the church came into focus for me. As I was exposed to the vilification of women’s sexuality, a crucible of fire erupted. It birthed within me an inner knowing and I began to claim to my own sovereignty. Like the Phoenix, the lost Divine Feminine emerged from the ashes of antiquity.
In my quest for answers I read countless books, pivotal ones, such as When Women were Priests, and The Christology of Erotic Power. I immersed myself in Rumi, Tantra and Kabbalah. I traveled to Crete, where women have been Priestesses and Leaders for centuries. I studied with shamans in Peru, encountering indigenous people who still believe they are living in the Garden of Eden.
I came face to face with the ancient legacy of Sacred Sexuality. I was transformed. Original Sin became Original Blessing.
As I healed the disconnection within my body, I came to understand that my life - my entire spiritual and sexual history - had a purpose. It was to prepare me for my life mission: To work with women to reclaim our Sexual Birthright and live the Truth of our Sacred Sexual Power.
I call this work “Love, God and Sex”. For me, it is the new Trinity: The Infinity Trinity.
I believe sex is a gift from the Divine. It has the power to Heal, to Create, to Transform. It is a force of nature.
I am sounding a call to women everywhere – a call to YOU! Re-enter the Garden. Return to Innocence. Heal shame and guilt. Ignite your fire. Re-claim your sexual passion. Express your unique essence. Restore the Sacred union of masculine and feminine. Deepen the quality of your sexual pleasure. It is your right. It is your Divine Birthright!
Join me Monday evenings for Love, God and Sex. In this 9-week course, we meet in the safety of a circle of women and experience powerful practices that open our minds, heal our hearts, and free our bodies.
In so doing, we reclaim our Erotic Truth and activate our Sacred Sizzle.
It is there, I promise. It is waiting for you!