This week I was interviewed as an expert on the topic of Sacred Writing: From Inner Critic to Spiritual Muse. Big thanks to Shamia Casiano for the invitation.
Her first question was “What is Sacred Writing?”
It’s an idea I have been playing with for some time, but only recently have I been able to put it into words. I’m not talking about hieroglyphics or runes or any of those scripts.
What I’m talking about is something I’ve been looking for a long time. Since middle school I have been fascinated with other spiritual traditions and cultures. I wanted to connect with ancient wisdom. It has always been a part of me, and not just because “Sofia” means “wisdom”
There is something missing in the modern world, something with deep meaning and effortless beauty.
We all are so self conscious and worried about our appearance, how people will see us, meanwhile our world seems to be going through cycles of ugliness as each wave of technology becomes outdated.
We have to wonder about the future. In my area I often see areas that used to be covered in forest suddenly house developments, even when the homes we have already are difficult to sell.
It saddens me because my biggest solace in life has been nature, the forest and the ocean that I grew up with. Forests I could walk to from my house are now replaced with house fit tightly together.
The natural world is sacred, holy, and right. It is perfect just the way it is.
These questions have always struck me:
How do I integrate these worlds and where do I fit?
How do I bring the meaning of the sacred into the modern day?
For me sacred writing is an answer to this question. It is the art of tapping into our spiritual nature in such a way that we surrender to the process.
We surrender to who we really are outside of our trappings and we see the our true landscape, the lows and peaks, the Achilles’ heel, and the Olympian strength.
We no longer care about what someone will think as we write, because we are so in the moment. We are whole.
Sacred writing is beautiful, full of grace and flow, and it tugs something wordless inside of our souls.
We become something larger in the writing, that pours out of us. We are the movement of our hand, but the words come from beyond our ordinary thoughts.
And these words can exist forever, even after we are gone.
Writing is now a daily practice for me, as a ritual, whether in the morning, after meditation. This is such a different feel to me than writing in a worklike style.
Have you experienced Sacred Writing?
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