Child of Grief

Aye, it is "Passion Week", and walking towards her Easter Phyllida certainly did since before she was born..

In "A Celtic Book of Dying" she relates the story of her family at the West Coast of Ireland, a musical, loving family, devoted Catholics of course, too. There was joy in their house.... until by some tragic circumstances two of the first three young children died. As it was want these days.... the priest explained these deaths to the deeply grieving parents as the will of God and furthermore, he had sternly warned after the first death that all expression of grief was angering God and would result in more grief as punishment. Well, and so it was... the second death sealed the silence in the home - not just of all expressions of grief but also of joy.

And thus was Phyllida conceived. Gifted to the world with beauty of face and voice.... and told from childhood onwards that she was murderer.... as a man died on the cross as the result of her sins.

Hear more below here in her own voice. Click on the slideshow to enlarge the screenshots of the pages, and move the images on in your own pace. This chapter captured for you here follows the journey of Phyllida through and beyond the Passiontide of her inherited culture, via her more ancient shamanic roots still, to the grace of her freedom now.....

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And here is freedom found... by the grace of the new Halleluja... This song from Phyllida's newest album "Gather in" is connected with deep release of mother-daughter relationship and a healing transformative liberation from outmoded Patriarchical culture.

(CD can be purchased at the retreat)