Womb Awakening: Initiatory Wisdom from the Creatrix of All Life

by Azra Bertrand M.D., Seren Bertrand

Overview

Rediscover the lost ancient mystery teachings of the Cosmic Womb

• 2017 Nautilus Silver Award

• Explains how each of us has a holographic blueprint of the Womb of Creation, our spiritual Womb

• Offers practices to help awaken your spiritual Womb, experience the Womb of God within, and activate the Womb’s sacred magic of creation and manifestation

• Looks at the power of the moon and its connection to sacred Womb Consciousness

• Explores how the lost Womb mystery teachings were encoded in folk and fairy tales, the legends of the Holy Grail, and the traditions of Mary Magdalene and Sophia

• Includes access to three guided Womb Awakening audio journeys

The Ancients lived by a feminine cosmology of creation, where everything was birthed and dissolved through a sacred universal Womb. Within each of us, whether female or male, lies a holographic blueprint of this Womb of Creation, connecting us to the Web of Life. By awakening your spiritual Womb, the holy of holies within the temple of your body, you can reconnect to the transformative energy of Womb Consciousness and reclaim your sacred powers of creation and love.

Drawing on mythical and spiritual traditions from almost every culture, Dr. Azra and Seren Bertrand reconstruct the moon-based feminine mystery teachings of a lost global Womb religion, tracing the tradition all the way back to the Neanderthals and beyond. They explore how these teachings were encoded in the symbolism of folk and fairy tales; the legends of the Holy Grail; the traditions of Mary Magdalene and Sophia; the maiden, queen, and crone archetypes; and the teachings of alchemy and the chakras. They show how sages and shamans across the globe all secretly spoke of the Cosmic Womb and the sacred creative powers of Moon Blood. The authors look at the power of the Moon and its connection to sacred Womb Consciousness, offering meditations and practices to help awaken your spiritual Womb and activate its sacred magic of creation and manifestation. They explain how to activate the energetic gateways of the Womb and merge the heart and Womb to make sexual union the highest sacrament of love.

Revealing how we must reconnect with the Divine Feminine to rebirth the Divine Masculine and restore balance to our world, they show how, as we reawaken the powerful ancient path of the Womb Mysteries, we help return our world to harmony with the wild, untamed creative flows and cyclical rhythms of the cosmos.

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ISBN-13:	9781591432807
Publisher:	Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Publication date:	08/15/2017
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	560
Sales rank:	397,057
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About the Author

Azra Bertrand, M.D., graduated from the Duke University School of Medicine and has been a pioneering doctor, alchemical scientist, and spiritual guide for 15 years. Seren Bertrand is a Womb intuitive and energetic midwife, who has been immersed for more than a decade in Womb Awakening practices. Through their international Grail Mystery School, the Fountain of Life, the authors facilitate international retreats and online apprenticeships on Womb Awakening and Sacred Union. They live in the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina.
Azra Bertrand, M.D., has a degree in biochemistry and studied at Duke University School of Medicine, with research at the NIH. He has been a pioneering doctor and mystic for over two decades, following the feminine pathway of alchemy. The coauthor of Womb Awakening and Magdalene Mysteries, he lives in the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina.
Seren Bertrand is a visionary creatrix and spirit keeper with a degree in English literature and modern philosophy who is dedicated to restoring the lost global feminine wisdom traditions. The coauthor of Magdalene Mysteries and Womb Awakening, she lives in the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina.

Read an Excerpt

SPIRAL 27

TWIN SPIRAL CHAKRA SYSTEM

Marriage of Your Inner Soulmates

OUR BODY is a spiral energy vortex, into which we can magnetically draw the rich resources of the Cosmic Web, the Galactic Womb, the Earth Womb, and our own inner womb. After we absorb the spiral flows of their wisdom into our being, we can then reflect them back out to life as a pulsing, energetic breath of infinity.

Prior to the creation of the Vedic chakra system, which most people today are familiar with, there existed an ancient Womb Religion chakra system based on the two principles of the Spiral and Sacred Duality, or Sacred Marriage.

Rather than understanding the energy spirals within the body as a linear progression from base to top and back down again, the ancient Twin Spiral chakra system held the feminine wisdom of the spiral path--a dynamic, non-hierarchical, relational energy vortex within the body that functioned as a cosmic portal of union.

The Twin Spiral chakra system is based on the sacred marriage of the relational twins within the body: upper half-lower half, masculine-feminine, right-left. The Twin Spiral system recognizes the perennial wisdom of “as above, so below.” What we see in the top half of the body is mirrored or reflected in the processes that happen below. What happens on the left is mirrored by the right, and what happens in the feminine realms is reflected by the parallel movements of the masculine realms. When the sacred dualities come together and work in harmony, an incredible and magical third results--a divine, cosmic child, whose birth is only made possible through their union.

Heart-Womb Sacred Marriage The foundation of the Twin Spiral chakra system is the relationship of the heart and womb energy centers. They are linked together in Sacred Marriage, creating a gateway into infinity within the body--our twin stargate chakra. The Hopi tradition also speaks of the womb chakra, resting under the navel, as the most important energy center in the body. They describe it as the “Throne of the Creator,” which directs all our internal energies, both physical and energetic, and it is paired with a corresponding masculine “Doorway to the Creator” above.

Both men and women have a powerful “womb” chakra--our center of movement, the foundation of our being, and the essence of our primal creativity. It is known by different names across the world, such as the hara in Japan (literally, belly, abdomen, or womb), or the “lower dan tien” in the Taoist traditions of China. This powerful chakra is equally important in all humans, whether there exists a physical womb or not. Women who have had a hysterectomy, likewise, still have access to the full magical gifts of their energetic womb center.

When the Throne Room of the womb is united with the heart, the frequency of embodied love is birthed--a powerful love that can create new life upon the earth. The union of the heart and womb, perfectly balanced and centered in both love and power, allows for harmonic resonance with the universal forces. In this union cosmic Shakti rushes in and blooms open the flower of the body.

But, if we were able to perceive the subtle energy bodies of most people today (both men and women), we would see an overdeveloped upper half and right side, and a withered lower half, especially on the left side. Our modern energy configurations reveal a species out of balance, ungrounded, and ready to topple over.

Merging Your Inner Masculine/Feminine Twin

1. Sit in a cross-legged position or lie down. Bring your awareness down inside your body, as if you are sinking into the deep darkness of inner space. Feel the black, velvet energy pulsing inside.

2. Bring your attention to your right-hand side. Scan down energetically through the right side of your head, neck, shoulder, chest, ribs, hip, right ovary or testicle, right leg, knee, calf, finishing in your right foot. Observe and feel any physical or emotional sensations that come up--numbness, tenseness, tightness, pain, agitation, openness, joyfulness, tearfulness.

3. Now move your attention to your left side. Starting with your left foot, scan your attention upward through your left calf, knee, thigh, hip, ovary or testicle, ribs, chest, shoulder, neck, finishing with the left side of your head. Observe and feel any sensations--numbness, tightness, heat, discomfort, grief, pain, anger, fear, constriction, pleasure, or tingling.

4. Can you feel a noticeable difference in the type of energy on either side?

5. Open a dialogue between the two sides. Ask what the relationship is. Ask where the separation has occurred. Ask what can be done to restore flow, communication, harmony, and union. For example, if the masculine side feels overwhelmed and exhausted, it can result in a feminine side that is painful, contracted, or suffering from physical neurosis. The healing for the left side would then include more rest and attention for the right side.

Both men and women come into this world through a mother’s womb that is, to varying degrees, contracted, unhealed, and afraid. Thus our first and primary relationship with the feminine space is fractured--we do not trust life to hold us safe. We do not have the deep feeling that Earth is where we belong and where we can blossom.

Throughout childhood we experience different emotional wounds in relationship with our mother and father. These wounds are mirrored back to us in adulthood through our relationships with lovers, friends, colleagues, and community.

When we work with the body consciously, and connect to our Womb knowing, we can begin a much more graceful healing process. We are moving with the flow of life rather than fighting against it and churning up chaos in our life.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Linda Star Wolf

Preface: Love Letter from the Authors

Introduction

Cycle 1

Welcome to Primordial Womb Consciousness

Spiral 1. Womb Awakening: Opening the Magical Doorway Within

Spiral 2. Message from an Ancient Mother: Awakening the Magdalene Womb

Spiral 3. Awakening the Wild Masculine: The Womb Births the Sacred Man

Spiral 4. Power of the Womb: Gateway to Infinite Love

Cycle 2

Ancient Womb Cosmology and Feminine Mystery Schools

Spiral 5. Womb Cosmology: The World’s One Religion

Spiral 6. Womb Symbology: The Lost Feminine Holy Grail

Spiral 7. Cosmic Womb and Earth Womb: Gateways to Upperworld and Underworld

Spiral 8. Womb Mystery Schools: Resurrection Rituals of the Mermaid Priestesses

Spiral 9. Feminine Womb Enlightenment: Womb Bodhisattvas and Menstrual Mystics

Spiral 10. The Age of Innocence Returns: Fairy Tales and Lost Womb Wisdom

Cycle 3

Womb of Life and Alchemy of Rebirth

Spiral 11. Womb of God: The Queendom of Feminine Consciousness

Spiral 12. Wombtime Origins of Shamanism: The Dreaming Dimension of the Brain

Spiral 13. Soul Midwife Rites: Conscious Creation and Conscious Death

Spiral 14. Placenta of the Void: Divine Milk of the Cosmic Mother

Spiral 15. Total Rebirth: Healing Conception, Gestation, and Birth

Spiral 16. Shamanic Birthing: Avatars of New Earth

Cycle 4

The Lunar Mysteries and Womb Codes of Creation

Spiral 17. Moon Alchemy: The Lost Lunar World

Spiral 18. Womb Blood: Original Blessing of the Great Mother

Spiral 19. Codes of Creation: Sacred Science of Menstrual Stem Cells

Spiral 20. Wild and Holy Womb: Uniting the Red and White Rivers of the Feminine

Spiral 21. Voice of the Womb, Voice of Wisdom: Living the Truth of Feminine Power

Spiral 22. Dark Side of the Womb: The Trickster, Guardian of Power

Cycle 5

Grail Womb Shamanism and Sacred Soul-mate Union

Spiral 23. The Grail Lineage of Love: Traditions of Sacred Union

Spiral 24. Sacred Duality: The Mystical and Magnetic Union of Opposites

Spiral 25. Opening to Love: The Feminine Path of Sacred Relationship

Spiral 26. Descending to Earth: Awakening the Feminine Crown

Spiral 27. Twin Spiral Chakra System: Marriage of Your Inner Soul Mates

Spiral 28. Dragon and Dove Alchemy: Ascending and Descending Kundalini

Cycle 6

Womb Medicine Wheel: Awa kening the Eight Grail Gates

Spiral 29. Royal Road: Entering the Three Grail Gates of the Yoni

Spiral 30. Dragons of Creation: Journey through the Four Womb Elements

Spiral 31. Black Mother, Womb of Creation: The Eighth Grail Gate

Cycle 7

Return of the Feminine Christ: Compl eting the Circle

Spiral 32. Awakening the Grail Knights: The Sacred Masculine as Guardian of the Womb

Spiral 33. The Feminine Christ Returns: Womb Consciousness Rebirths

Acknowledgments

Glossary

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Womb Awakening Audio Tracks

About the Authors

Editorial Reviews

Womb Awakening gave me total body chills the moment I turned the first page. Here is a masterwork of beauty, power, and mystical truth—long buried but now rising as both women and planet Earth heal and assume their full potential and grandeur.

Christiane Northrup

Womb Awakening is a comprehensive and unrivaled guide to the hidden wisdom of the womb. More than just a book, it is an initiation into the sacred feminine mysteries, opening a portal to the possibility of embodying ancient insight. Allow yourself to be transformed by the deep feminine wisdom contained in this powerful book.

Lucy H. Pearce

Womb Awakening is a magnificent achievement that gives new life to the vision of tantra, with women as spiritual power-holders and initiators who celebrated the womb as a treasury of knowledge and source of bliss, compassion, and liberating wisdom. With radiant prose, the book ushers us to the original altar and holy temple within us all, guiding us into the womb realm of magic, transforming power, and healing grace of sacred union with ourselves, our partners, and the earth.

Miranda Shaw

A brilliant and heartfelt book, I believe this work has the potential to forever change our ideas about the womb. I was enthralled from the very first pages. A beautiful and timely body of womb wisdom that will be shared for generations to come.

Rosita Arvigo

Azra and Seren Bertrand have woven together a convincing theory of ancient myths and practices to help us understand that womb wisdom has been honored and preserved throughout the millennia of time. The nonlinear presentation accentuates the necessity of a return to living by nature’s rhythms. Their work should become a model for understanding the wisdom and the depth of the Divine Feminine.

coauthor of Remembering Who We Are and Conversatio Cullen Baird Smith

Womb Awakening is both a mystery school and a portal. It is a reclamation and celebration of the womb as adytum within the temple of a woman’s body. Through story, mythology, history, poetry, ritual, and lush imagery, the authors deftly induct the reader into the heart of the feminine mystery. A stirring and heartfelt offering whose pages shimmer with wisdom and magic.

author of Ix Chel Wisdom: 7 Teachings from the Shonagh Home

Azra Bertrand, M.D., and Seren Bertrand have captured the spirit of this deeply important journey we must all go on at some stage of our lives. Together they compel, inspire, guide, and encourage both men and women into Womb Awakening. I highly recommend this book for everyone!

author of Sacred Sexual Union Anaiya Sophia

The Bertrands have gathered a compendium of historical information to illustrate how we have lost our connection to nature. By relying upon ancient and reverent womb wisdom, we can move away from the current human crisis of separation that has been imposed upon us through a polarization of masculine consciousness. This book points the way to recover our wholeness through inviting the feminine consciousness of unconditional love into our lives as a necessary guiding force.

Pia Orleane

An extraordinary book that is both a revelation and a priceless shamanic guide to the Divine Wisdom of the Feminine—obliterated and obfuscated by patriarchal religion for five millennia—a wondrous, generous, astonishing, deeply researched, and utterly extraordinary gift to women and men who are searching for the true meaning of the Holy Grail and the deeper purpose of their lives on this planet.

author of The Dream of the Cosmos Anne Baring

This book is to be read in exactly the same way you should eat dark chocolate: slowly, intentionally, and with complete devotion. Its pages are encoded with the wisdom of the ancients—the womb bodhisattvas and menstrual mystics—it’s a full-bodied remembrance of who we really are, which is so ‘bloody’ necessary when navigating these interesting times we’re currently living in.

author of Love Your Lady Landscape and Witch: Lisa Lister

Womb Awakening is both a mystery school and a portal. It is a reclamation and celebration of the womb as adytum within the temple of a woman’s body. Through story, mythology, history, poetry, ritual, and lush imagery, the authors deftly induct the reader into the heart of the feminine mystery. A stirring and heartfelt offering whose pages shimmer with wisdom and magic.

author of Ix Chel Wisdom: 7 Teachings from the May Shonagh Home

This book is to be read in exactly the same way you should eat dark chocolate: slowly, intentionally, and with complete devotion. Its pages are encoded with the wisdom of the ancients--the womb bodhisattvas and menstrual mystics--it’s a full-bodied remembrance of who we really are, which is so ‘bloody’ necessary when navigating these interesting times we’re currently living in.

author of Love Your Lady Landscape and Witch: Unle Lisa Lister