Feminine and Masculine Energy The Conversation Elements From The Conversation A poem by Nancy Shaffer which beautifully expresses the elements to be found in feminine energy That Which Holds All Because she wanted everyone to feel included in her prayer, she said right at the beginning several names for the Holy: Spirit, she said, Holy One, Mystery, God but then thinking these weren’t enough ways of addressing that which cannot be fully addressed, she added particularities, saying, Spirit of Life, Spirit of Love, Ancient Holy One, Mystery We Will Not Ever Fully Know, Gracious God, and also Spirit of This Earth, God of Sarah, Gaia, Thou and then, tongue loosened, she fell to naming superlatives as well: Most Creative One, Greatest Source, Closest Hope --- even though superlatives for the Sacred seemed to her probably redundant; but then she couldn’t stop: One Who Made the Stars, she said, although she knew technically a number of those present didn’t believ...
The Restory is a Retreat Centre nestled against Tafelkop, a singular mountain head near Wakkerstroom, South Africa. Here we live a simple life as contemplatives. It is a place of re-connection: with ourselves, people, Nature, Silence and Creativity. Our retreats are aimed at this. Our conversations, writing and art centre around the univocity of life. We need a place that reminds us that we are all one. The Restory hopes to be such a place and space.