The Churches of the Grail Memory

The Churches of The Grail Memory

The Churches of the Grail Memory

The Grail Memory - a beautiful place for quiet reflection and meditation

Ancient memory holds that in the beginning of the human race, when consciousness first dawned, men and women were equally the two sides of human-ness; the black and the white, the sun and the moon, the night and the day. Each contained complementary qualities; each was necessary for the existence of the human race; each was equal in stature. Balance was the true nature of human-ness.

Since that beginning, over many centuries, even thousands of years, imbalance has occurred. The male has become the dominant element. The balance has tipped, and the qualities of male-ness have overwhelmed the planet. The symptoms of imbalance surround us: war and destruction, isolation and alienation, unintegrated material creation threatening the natural world, rigid religion and spirituality unintegrated to true human experience. The planet earth itself faces actual extinction from the imbalance of human-ness; its loss of connectedness to the water and soil from which it comes; to which it returns.

The qualities of male-ness and female-ness themselves have been contorted by the imbalance. In the defensive agonies of conflict with each other, both have lost the truth of sexuality; the uniting of the two halves of human-ness. Not only for the carrying forward of the race, the creating of new people; but also for the integrating of experience, vision, understanding. The bonding of relationship.

The Holy Grail is not a child's story; it is truth. Its presence on earth, and then its loss, means the loss of the female part of the deepest religious truths. The Grail, the female symbol, is the cup, the container, that which sustains and nurtures, creates, gives life. In the stories, it was accompanied by the lance, the male symbol, the piercing weapon, that which divides, destroys, takes life away. Both together must come into balance for life to survive.

But the Grail has left this world. The wasteland is upon us, because the world is out of balance. Some sustain the memory of its nature, memory that one day looks for its return.

The Churches of the Grail Memory are simple reminders of that part of humanity which is repressed and hidden; the power and true nature of the female person. The equal and opposite stature which the woman holds; the essential role that she must play if the planet; all life itself, is to survive.

There are two churches, containing truths of the opposing elements of the female nature itself. The White Church, holding the day; birth, growth, nurturing, life. The Black Church, holding the night; death, decay, disassembling. Both are components of the female nature; both hold truths long supressed by the dominance of the male.

The White Church is on your left as you face this sign; the Black Church, always unfinished, is over the bridge on your right. Please be sure that in your "Preferences" [ CTRL-P ], on the Audio/Video Tab, the box labeled "Play Streaming Video When Available" is checked. Simply touch one of the doors of the White Church to enter.

Thank you for visiting.

Sudane Erato