SS

The pictures on the right side of this website
represents a visual synthesis of Dr. King's dissertation:

Bodyhood and Being-With: A woman’s experience of embodied spiritual empowerment.

Embodied Spiritual Empowerment brings God/dess into the body, into relationships and into the world.

Bodyhood

A woman’s experience of Embodied Spiritual Empowerment begins when she recognizes her body as a spiritual vehicle.

Being-With

Being-With then connects her to the people and places of the hallowed-here-and-now.

Omniscience

Anchored firmly within herself and the sacred moment, she is then able to connect with Divine energies both inside and outside of herself.

"I can also use Goddess language and images to represent the idea of a Divine Feminine. I think of Her often as "The Great Lap", full of nurture and heart and body and flesh… She wants to make sure that everyone gets in the lap. The real Embodied Spiritual Empowerment has nothing to do with me. It’s got to benefit real people. I think that’s the bottom line, and that's the mission of Embodied Spiritual Empowerment, to make sure that everyone gets in the lap." - 

-co-researcher quote

To explore these main themes in greater detail, click the heading links.
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