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Why Patriarchal Spirituality Teaches Us to Leave the Body (And Why That’s Hurting Us) with Cynthia Abulafia
Many spiritual traditions teach us to transcend the body.
To rise above sensation.
To witness instead of feel.
To go “up and out.”
But what if that very move is why so many women feel spiritually informed… yet internally disconnected?
In this Aries season conversation, I sit down with Cynthia Abulafia, author of Embodying the Goddess, to explore the cost of spirituality that excludes the body — and the feminine path of returning “down and in.”
Many non-dual or transcendence-based traditions emphasize:
Rising above the body
Detaching from emotion
Escaping identification
These practices can be…
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