The New CD Project by Kaleah

The Journey

When we receive the call to awaken we embark upon a journey of the soul. We must say goodbye to what we once were and often to friends, family and old ways of being in order to set out on that path of self-discovery that ultimately takes us to our true self. This journey is not for the weak hearted! This is why I often compare this journey to the mythological Sumerian Goddess Innana, the Queen of Heaven who descended into the underworld in order to know the darker aspects of herself.

In this myth Innana leaves the upper world and begins her descent into Hades to meet her sister (the shadow) Ereshkial who is the queen of the underworld. On her journey she must pass through seven gates where the gatekeeper requires that she give up an article of her clothing in order to gain passage. When she begins her journey she is clothed in gowns, robes, jewels and a crown. She is fully dressed in queens attire which represents her attachment to the upper world and all the earthly possessions. This attire also represents the attachments of the ego.

Innana passes through the seven gates giving up her crown, her cloak, her gown, her jewels, her shoes and her underclothing arriving at the gates of hades naked and vulnerable. She no longer has any protection. Her shadow sister Ereshkial kills Innana and hangs her body on a hook where she is dead for three days and three nights before finally being resurrected back to the earthly realm. The final thing Innana must give up is her attachment to the physical form, her body. She learns that she is not her crown, her cloak, her gown, her jewels, her undergarments and finally she is not her body. She undergoes a death to the ego, the part of the self that identifies with the things of this world.

Like the crucifixion of Christ Innana is hung to die and resurrected after three days. This resurrection represents the rebirth into a new form, void of all the old attachments. She is integrated with her Shadow (Ereshkial) who becomes a part of her and she must make an oath never to forget her again. What it is that Innana can never forget is that she is both darkness and light, good and evil, love and hatred, joy and sorrow. These things are all different ends of the same spectrum and they are all God/Goddess. Although Innana may not choose hatred, evil or to dwell in darkness she understand that this is an option given to man through the power of free will. It is a choice that has brought the world to its current condition.

In taking Innana's journey we too must give up all that we identified with in this world in order to gain something far greater...our true self! Our integrated self! Our God self. But this journey is not without a descent into the underworld into the darkest realms, often referred to as "the dark night of the soul." It is here we undergo a death of the ego and dwell for a time empty in the void (the death process!)

During the process of death we have nothing to hold onto anymore. We have nothing to identify with. We have nobody who will understand our pain and our despair. We are alone and empty. To be stuck in this place is to be trapped in Hades without hope for resurrection. But if we surrender to the darkness and allow the old to fall away, we will find ourselves growing wings and emerging into our new form.

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