Interview with Aletheia Sophia with Lonneke Zintel - Feminine Embodiment.
Her first entrance into the Pyrenées was in the late 90's and it was love at first sight. She didn't know anything about the Cathars or Mary Magdalene and back then it wasn't as known as it is now. She started her journey getting to know the history of the land and her place in it.
In 2009 she first entered the building of Les Contes with the O Manuscript in her hand, written by Lars Muhl. He wrote about this magical place and she wanted to feel it. Just before lockdown she had the opportunity to buy this magical piece of land and without too much logic and with a lot of faith and trust they jumped and turned it into an enchanted place on the riverside, with a mountainside food forest, and permaculture haven.
This podcast is recorded in the beautiful chapel at Les Contes. Feel the vibe and enjoy the transmission.
I can only describe last nights zoom meeting with Anaiya Sophia as magical! Deep thanks to her, and thank you so much for being part of this circle.
Below is the link to the recording. Unfortunately, it did not record the beginning. There Anaiya spoke of her own spiritual journey; growing up with a Catholic father and receiving the blessing of the holy spirit in church; and with a more alternative mother who took her to stone circles where she received the same energy.
She spoke of Mary Magdalene preaching and teaching in Occitania in southern France and how the simple but profound traditions of Magdalene and Jesus’ teachings were kept alive by ordinary people in the region – the Cathars.
I hope that you will explore her website to see what she is offering and maybe visit Les Contes one day.
with love
Fay x
Infusions of Light Podcast "The Light of the World" with Author, Mystic, and Storyteller Anaiya Sophia and host Dr. Melissa Sophia Joy
A really sensitive and moving conversation where we discuss:
Anaiya Sophia is a Mystic, Storyteller and Author of Revelatory Wisdom. She teaches workshops throughout the world and is best known for the creation of Sacred Body Awakening, a practise where women and men heal together in grace. She uses her voice as medicine, to create an incandescent temple, where indescribable beauty and generations of transformation take place. Known for showing up as a trailblazing resource of unapologetic truth and transparent courage, her heart is both fierce and tender.
Some of Anaiya’s books are Womb Wisdom, Sacred Relationships, and her latest, Fierce Feminine Rising: reveals a map, a template that she was given as she wrote the book. It is the map of our absolute awakening, our return to the heart.
Anaiya has also designed her own clothing range, which she calls Anaiya's Wardrobe. She has also created her own range of anointing oils, called SOPHIA Temple Oils.
Anaiya lives in the Occitan region of Southern France with her beloved husband Pete Wilson. Their homeland is a place shrouded in the myths and legends of such groundbreaking visionaries such as Mary Magdalene and the mystical legacy of the Cathars.
with Anaiya Sophia, Ckiara Rose and Tina Heals.
The original whore was a priestess, the conduit to the divine, through whose body one entered the sacred arena and was restored. Warriors, soldiers, soiled by combat within the world of men, came to the Holy Prostitute, the Quedishtu, literally meaning the undefiled one, in order to be cleansed and reunited with the gods. The sexual act was where this re-union could take place with pleasure and prayer as the essential attributes that appeased the gods. Originally, these women, the holy prostitutes were known as being a doorway to God.
What was the impact of the suppression of the Holy Prostitute?
Many of the practices that honoured the 'way of the woman' ceased. The Eleusinian mysteries, which had provided immortality, were suppressed; procreation was infused with anxiety and guilt while joyful fertility festivals which had provided a link between earth and spirit were condemned.
When the priests separated the body from the gods, they separated God from nature and thereby created the mind/body split. The world was secularised. We can only speculate as to the consequences, though we must assume there were consequences when men returned from war without the ability to clean the blood from their hands when the physical, quotidian community between the gods and the people was not reconvened.
It was not only the sacred prostitutes that were exiled but also the gods. Perhaps the world as we have come to know it, impersonal, abstract, detached, brutish, was engendered in that division. In a sacred universe, the prostitute is a holy woman, a woman whose love, kindness and sensuality restores, redeems and rebirths.
Read Anaiya's blog post: Why Prostitutes Should Rule the World - click here