Sense of Soul - Sophia Wisdom For Our Time

Episode Date: February 20, 2023

Today on Sense of Soul we have Aletheia Pistis Sophia she is a Mystic, Minister and Author of Sacred Wisdom. She joins us from her home at the Les Contes in the French Pyrenees. Where you will find Notre Dame de Sophia, her chapel dedicated to Mary Magdalene and her Apothecary of Body Rituals. Time spent here is admission into a Mystery School. A lineage that is firmly rooted in an apostolic Mary Magdalene tradition.  Her home is also a Bed and Breakfast located at the base of  of Montsegur, which is known for its strong association and tradition with Mary Magdalene and the Cathars. Since living here, she has researched as many layers of history, myth and legend as possible. Every day spent at Les Contes begins with Sacred Body Wisdom and closes with a mystical one-to-one acknowledgement of the countless gifts received. Staying at Les Contes would bring considerable abundance to your heart and Soul. https://lescontes.eu Aletheia is here to deepen your spiritual journey and to offer a safe space whilst doing so. If you feel a calling toward a tradition strongly rooted in the presence of Mary Magdalene, the Holy Sophia and Christ, I would highly recommend her books, workshops and she has a YouTube with an abundant of wisdom:  https://anaiyasophia.com Her book Fierce Feminine Rising: Heal from Predatory Relationships and Recenter Your Personal Power, you can purchase anywhere and is a powerful book for woman! You can listen to her read this book in the audio version. Follow her on FB: www.facebook.com/anaiya.sophia https://www.facebook.com/lescontesBandB Visit Sense of Soul at www.mysenseofsoul.com Do you want Ad Free episodes? Join our Sense of Soul Patreon, our community of seekers and lightworkers. Also recieve 50% off of Shanna’s Soul Immersion experience as a Patreon member, monthly Sacred circles, Shanna’s mini series The Allegory of the Divine Goddess of Wisdom, Sense of Soul merch and more. https://www.patreon.com/senseofsoul Thank you to our Sponsor KACHAVA, Use this link for 10% off! www.kachava.com/senseofsoul

Hello, my soul-seeking friends. It's Shanna. Thanks so much for listening to Sense of Soul Podcast. Did you know that as a member of Sense of Soul Patreon, you get ad-free episodes? You will also be able to join me in our monthly live circles, listen to my mini-series, and much more. And you will also be helping support this podcast

so that I can continue to bring you inspiring episodes twice a week with amazing guests from around the world. You can also show me some love and rate, review, and subscribe from wherever you're listening. Now go grab your coffee. Open your mind, heart, and soul. It's time to awaken. Today we have with us Alethea Pistis-Sophia. She's a mystic, a minister, and an author of sacred wisdom. She is joining us from her home, Les Combes, in the French Pyrenees, a bedding breakfast where individuals, families, and large groups can come and stay

at the base of Montsecour, where Aletia unveils the tradition strongly rooted in the presence of Mary Magdalene, the Holy Sophia in Christ. She is here to deepen your spiritual journey and to offer a safe space while doing so. It's my honor to have this beautiful soul with me today to talk about the goddess of wisdom our girl Sophia. Hello. Hello. Hi. Hi. So lovely to finally meet you. Likewise my friend likewise. Here comes the hen. Did you say a hen? Yeah well we, we rescue hens. And every now and again, I have to sort of extract one and bring her into the house so that she gets stronger. Oh, my gosh. I mean, I can't even imagine the beautiful life that you live.

It's quite spontaneous. That's awesome. Every day is an adventure well mandy you know she podcast with me for years but we've been friends since we're 15 well i just talked to her right before i got on because i was telling her i was like mandy you have to read this book it's like one of the best books i think i've ever read with sophia wow i think that maybe that vibration, the energy of Sophia was coming through and just as connecting all the dots and feeling so very aligned with it. Yeah. Yeah.

You know, and it's interesting because, I mean, just like you're all the way over in France. You know, I'm all the way over here. We live totally different lives. I don't have hens behind me, but I have a few dogs or kids running behind me. But how in this time she has awakened within us. And it's beautiful, the journey, isn't it? Oh, my God. It's so nourishing.

Yeah. You know, this journey with Sophia was not something that I really seeked either so this was a surprise to me because I grew up Catholic then I had fallen into just a bunch of synchronicities and just was leaning into them like I started to trust myself and as I did that, there she was. And then it was the journey to figure out who she is. And there's not a lot out there, but what there is out there can be very confusing. Yes.

So I went through like a period of solitude so that I could make the space and time to be able to process for myself without the outside world telling me. And so now what's happening is I'm attracting and I'm finding people who align with me. Beautiful. Does that make sense? Completely. Okay. I know for myself, like I was someone kind of different before. And so now I feel like I definitely have moved into

this new version of myself. So what did that transition look like for you? When I first met Sophia, it was at the beginning of my divorce. And I remember turning in and seeing my red scarlet Mary Magdalene and all the beauty and all the sensuality that she represented. And in a very sorrowful, you know, grief ridden state, I said to her, Mary, I cannot go here with you. I need to meet your teacher. You are too beautiful for this. I need to meet your teacher. And inwardly, Mary stepped aside and all of her redness and exotic priestess mirror for nurse sidestepped out of vision and then in came a dark silhouette that was warm and rich and velvety and ancient that's the key word i could almost you know i'm into smells but i could almost smell, wow, the musk. I don't think I knew the word Sophia at that point, but I knew hand on heart.

I was now meeting the one behind Mary. Wow. For myself, the goddess Bridget connected me to Sophia. Uh-huh. I had no idea who Bridget was either. It was all just very divine. Yes. It's interesting that these younger, lesser goddesses.

Yes. I've heard that before too. Yeah. Then came the Gnostic mass and all the language that goes with Sophia. Like, I cried out to thee, not even knowing if thee was a thee and whether he could hear me. And I'm like, oh, this woman has my number because it was the same for me. I'm praying. I'm going through the darkest period I've ever known. And I'm not even sure anyone's listening and so here is this great goddess saying me too I know exactly what you mean I too cried out not knowing whether anyone was there

the story of Sophia specifically the Pista Sophia's allegorical story is something that everyone can relate to yes yeah it was that manuscript that really got me excited. And realize I'm on the right track with this one. Sometimes I laugh, you know, when I first heard the word Pistisophia, it was on a podcast. And this beautiful lady, Bridget Finklair, she said that she taught courses on the keys of Enoch and the Pista Sophia. And I was so focused on the keys of Enoch at the moment, and I didn't even hear what she said after. So when I was editing her episode, because for accent, I heard priestess of fear. And I thought, who the hell's the priestess of fear? So I searched for it. And I'm like, well, forget about it. I'm going back to the keys of Enoch.

And then it rolled from there. And we laughed together because we've had other conversations. Just when you could have thought that I said, off Sophia, which I said, well, that would be understanding as well. Yeah. How did you come into even discovering the Gnostic Gospels? I can remember again, it's this same period, my divorce, where a Gnostic priestess laid me down. And, you know, I'm living here in the French Pyrenees, so I'm in Cathar land. She laid me down, she put her hands on me, and she started to recite the Gnostic Eucharist.

And again, she's speaking the words of Sophia, which moved me profoundly. I didn't know what she was speaking. But at the end of the ceremony, I said to her, oh, Shun, what were those words? Where are you getting this from? Are you channeling? And she said, no, this is the Gnostic Eucharist, and a majority of it has been taken from the Pista Sophia. Wow. These words, they spoke directly to your soul your heart absolutely and because she was embodying the words so I wasn't reading them off a page yeah they were

coming at me with passion and meaning because Oshun felt you know I'm in a little bit of trouble. We need to bring some serious light to this soul lying down on the ground. Yeah. My goodness. And talk about the grief and the gratitude all at the same time. Yeah. That duality, the dark and the light, so very purposeful and beautiful in the same way yes and that this divine presence had been through this ordeal we all go through this ordeal yes it's a pattern and there are a set of footsteps divine footsteps that lead the way through I see like now everything that had been happening for years, dreams, synchronicities, all the messages that I was receiving, they all started to add up. And it was like, she was always there. And I have to say that today, I can't imagine not having her. I don't remember what it felt like almost exactly it's like she's become

we've become one and the same we're we're totally integrated and now she's also part of the house of giant giant house we bought about two years ago an old colony de vacances which used to be a catholic summer schoolhouse for children it's beautiful but what i'm doing is i'm turning it into a gnostic mystery school so fear holy spirit the christ is being invoked even more than daily you know i I'm saying almost to the point of sweating, let this be your earthly abode. Be here, dwell here, bless every single person who comes here. Let them feel you, let them hear you, smell you, etc. That's so beautiful. How did you come to find yourself in this beautiful divine space?

Well, this region is like the forgotten corner of France. It's very remote and the property prices are very, very affordable. And I had read the O manuscript by Lars Mühl And I knew this great big property existed. And so my husband, Pete, discovered that it was for sale and really pushed in buying it. It was the time of COVID. So it was that sense of, well, why not? We got 101 reasons why not to. And so we just took that chance. We took that chance. We bought it. And I knew it had a spiritual presence. So it was just about stirring it awake again.

And we've been on a huge journey ever since. Because you're up the road literally 10 minutes from here, the Chateau de Montségur. They'll talk about the Cathars. They could well be the spiritual descendants of Mary Magdalene, who was here, who is a mouthpiece of the Holy Sophia, who's part of this tradition that goes way back before Christianity, way back to the beginning. And so Chateau de Montségur was the last fortress that held the Cathars safe because there was a crusade against them. The Church of Rome wanted to exterminate the Cathars, this heresy, this lineage of Mary Magdalene and Gnosis, Sophia, wisdom. And so, you know, this is a great attracting presence, this castle. And we're on the road to the castle.

So we get to meet all those people who are going up there because they are being called. It's a beacon. It's literally up the road. Totally. I can walk there. There are so many Gnostic traditions here. It's literally up the road. Totally. I can walk there. There are so many Gnostic traditions here. It's quite open. You know, you can have these conversations.

The heresy hasn't gone. So back in medieval times, it was called heresy. You are a heretic, which means to choose. And you just can't exterminate it. It just pops up again. There's a very strong Gnostic French church, which is now out in the open, doesn't need to hide or run away anymore.

I wonder if that will ever happen here. You know, we're so screwed up here in the States. But one of the interesting things I found was that there was a lot of connection to the secret societies and I was very very shocked I had no idea down that road of course most people have heard about like da Vinci code yes in your bio I saw something that was very interesting the order of the dove and so I have to ask you about the order of the dove, because throughout my journey, the dove was a very significant part. Yes, yes, yes. Well, for me, the dove is the Holy Spirit,

which is Holy Sophia, which is this feminine principle. I often say that doesn't need permission or recognition from any other source. I love that. But this order of the dove feels like there's something here in the French Pyrenees, absolute fact. Throughout history, whether it's Romans or Celts or Druids or Mary Magdalene or Cathars, these esoteric groups come to the Pyrenees, do their initiations, leave behind their wisdom in the land. And the Pyrenees seems to just like hold it as a depository system. And you get it back again by just walking around. So it's like a living library. And it's always been here. I mean,

even the geologists can affirm the tectonic plates here are very active and behaving very unusual. The only other mountain range that behaves this way is the Himalaya, which again has another spiritual context. So it's, we call it Le Otremonde, the other world. It's like the Vesica Pisces. And we're in that little eclipse, where the rules and the ways of living are just slightly different. Oh my God. Have you always talked this way? You talk so poetically and just so beautifully. Oh, my God. I want to just like put you in my pocket. So, you know, I don't know if you've heard about my stories with the dove in my mini series.

There was so many beautiful, divine moments with the dove. But then I had like this tragic moment with the dove. So it was one night. It was at nighttime and actually I had just got done researching the Jesuits and the Freemasons and I got a warning on my phone and it said suspicious search activity and I was like okay well I was just on like the verge of discovering a lot of things and I said all right I'm done for the night I'm I'm a little I have a little fear here you know that's weird but then it's at night and my I opened the door my son was letting his friends out and I opened the door and on my porch drops a dove and it dies on my porch whoa whoa and like the whole world stopped in that

moment I had been deeply within Sophia and can had all these moments with the dove it was very significant to me so here it just drops from the sky on my porch my son and I were like I was devastated and I then I was in a lot of fear but then I had this moment two weeks later I like to do art so I found myself making this picture of Jesus and for no reason and so later on that night I was like you know what I didn't have fear anymore so I decided to go back into my search and continue. And I was like, I'm not going to let any dead dove stop me. So I begin my search again and all these things unfold. And the very next weekend, I'm on my porch watching my daughter play in the front yard.

And there's this little baby bird trying to get to my porch. And it like sees me. So I get scared and it goes back and forth. And finally, I decided to be very very still and it was around our Thanksgiving time and I had a harvest wreath up from my door and finally it makes its way and it was a baby dove it was a brand baby dove there was two of them in my harvest wreath and I had been seeing the lone dove the one had died and I was like okay so on my porch I have a dead dove and now I have a rebirth it was like the darkness had lifted

yes I know what it means for me and I know that that's really truly all that matters. But what do you get from that story about the dove? I get your warning being delivered by what we call archons. I guess you've heard of archons, purposeful little beings designed to make us swerve anytime we're getting close to our divinity influences. So they probably played their ace by dropping the dead dove on your porch to frighten you off. But your spirit being strong and bright and resilient, found its courage, found its fortitude and pursued on. And then the baby dove comes along as if to say thank you for not vanquishing me, for not letting those pesky archons put you off. You went against your fear and you did it anyway. Which is much like Sophia. She does have this very strong, relentless energy to return to

her wisdom and light within. Absolutely. Absolutely. And if we're on this Sophia path, this Gnostic path, we will meet those archons but truthfully the end of the day they are our greatest allies because they're going to shape us strengthen us make us more and more resilient they don't mean to they want to make us swerve right oh but we are wiser if we are within our Sophia yes thank you so much for saying all that because I've shared the story yes and I've never you know had any feedback on it necessarily I mean everyone's just always like oh my god you know I think that you're right I mean I did swerve off of my path for a good like week and a half two weeks

and I did not put the connection with me just creating a picture of Jesus for no reason I even made I showed people and they're like you just made that what you make it for and I'm like no freaking reason at all yeah he is her redeemer he is her logos so when she does cry out he comes you know in the form of consciousness let's just say or or the living word so maybe in your psyche some part of you was calling out for some assistance to interpret this you painted this portrait and along comes Sophia as a little newborn to absolutely gift and grace you and to say thank you. Beautiful. I tell you, I really had to almost rewire my brain. The God as a masculine and only a masculine, he, the father.

Yes. There was no mother in it. It's father, son, Holy Spirit. Of course the Holy Spirit is a mother. Whenever have you had creation with just a father, you know? It's almost silly that we never thought that. I mean, there's another step that could be taken, which is one I'm working with at the moment,

that Mary Magdalene could have been Jesus's source of wisdom. Oh, I believe that too. He was the mouthpiece because at that time it could only have been him. Yes. Anyone would have listened to her. So we could go a step further and say she was the one with the map and the coordinates. Yeah, well, if she was embodying Sophia, she is the first thought. Yes.

Jesus being the word. Yeah. Yeah, that's coming forth. Yeah. It's not to put Mary Magdalene as the, you know, the head honcho, but to say they did this together. Have you seen the recent discovery from a religious scholar, Elizabeth Schrader? She has this conference that she did. It's called Women Erased on YouTube. I would recommend it to everyone. So she discovered in the Papyrus 66 the oldest book of john that there was an error there were there was 1500 or whatever edits but one it was significant and it changed everything and so

actually there are some like episcopal churches that are considering really changing that but it But it makes Mary the Magdalene, Mary of Bethany. Yes. Yes. Wow. Mm-hmm. And then when you look at like the church in Scotland, that actually has the beautiful stained glass of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, and she looks pregnant. And underneath it is a scripture about Mary of Bethany. Wow.

Wow. Wow. Wow. Good for Mary Magdalene to finally have a voice. You know, in this time right now, I got goosebumps as Sophia is as well. And so there is such a powerful thing going on right now. Absolutely. Absolutely. I'm researching as many Magdalene's and Sophia's as possible. The many times in female history that a woman has popped up and has so obviously been that. My favorite at the moment is one called Norea. So she was Noah's wife. Okay. it's not about fighting. It's not about duality. If we're in duality, we're in the game. But the feminine in my research is the agent that balances the darkness, not by winning, not by making things more light. There's something about her consciousness and her voice that just holds everything in check. And that there will always be a dance between the light and the dark.

So this idea of getting rid of the dark is ridiculous. But it's the feminine principle who holds everything in balance. I don't have nowhere near the answers i wish i could reach for but a crack has appeared in the door and and i'm oh helen of troy she was apparently another sophia mary magdalene obviously but noraya she's another very interesting woman but she burnt down the ark she burnt down noah's ark that's not mentioned well i'm surprised because since we blamed everything else on women and all the scripture they didn't highlight that yes well her name means fire and so she has this spiritual fire because she's got this voice this voice that is also able to speak the living word

that's my big inspiration at the moment the forgotten women right yeah you know speaking You know, speaking about names, when I was looking into Sophia, I had found the Hebrew spelling of hidden wisdom. Whoa. So I've seen that you've gone by Anaya and now Alethea. What does these names mean to you? And tell me about the transition of those names and why. It was Anaya. And now I've gone out all guns a blazing and I've changed my name to Aletheia Pistis Sophia. Aletheia is the old Greek name for truth, a loving, revealing truth. Pistis, Greek name for faith. Sophia, Greek name for wisdom. But this move to the house, I really do.

I am quite serious when I say myself and the house are becoming one. I mean, I'm a person. I feel like I'm becoming a place. You know, mum's living here. Petey, my husband's here. There's, you know, over 70 odd animals here. So there's a part of me that feels really, really safe and at home. And it feels like I can just let go now of the character, the persona. I'm doing depth psychology at the moment. So I'm really getting to see you know everything that's operative so I have a chance to just let

it all go and what if I just go out you know all in with this mystery school and become a place rather than a person so truth faith wisdom that's beautiful it's a safe space you are So truth, faith, wisdom. That's beautiful. It's a safe space you are. Yes, yes. Safety is very important to me. Integrity, impeccability, truthfulness, humility if you do get it wrong. But it has to be real.

It has to be genuine. No more false paths. no more false teachings. Right. Have the wardrobe. Talk about wardrobe used to be a designer, right? Yes, yes, yes. Did you work with Madonna? I did make a dress for Madonna, but you know, for us, that was a big reach. One of our usual clients was Bjork. Wow. I don't know if you can remember Bjork. Okay.

Little Icelandic lady. So I've always loved beauty. And I still love beauty. And beauty to me is still an absolute gift of divinity. Beauty heals. beauty softens when you see beauty the body relaxes you know recently I was thinking about how you know getting older moving into my crone I got grays that stick up here in the middle that I want to pull out and I'm resisting not dying it no more but accepting that part of my life and it's so interesting that Sophia came into my life during this stage I moved into the chrome and to wisdom

really truly and I think that age is so beautiful now well I love the journey and sometimes I really don't like it much at all. I'm 53 now and I haven't done anything to nip or tuck or lift or plump. I've done nothing and I think I won't. I'm just going to go through bareback, so to speak. At the beginning of the menopause journey, it was tough. You know, it was like a white knuckle ride as the body and the skin and, you know, the feminine parts of the body started to change. Libido changed. I used to be a little bit of a flirt that left the building. But as you say, wisdom replaced it. But I didn't know that at the time. All I knew was just everything was dropping and leaving.

And I was changing so quickly, so often. There was hardly anything to hold on to. I began my menopause journey at 42. I was going to say, I've been going through it since 2020. Yeah. One thing I have to say that has been a blessing is that because of the hot flashes at night, I remember a lot of my dreams. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Looking on the bright side. One dream was about the triple goddess, which is something that I tapped into am I not playful enough you know tapping into that maiden version of myself yes the cycles of a woman when I explain it to people they connect with it so much so all of these teachings for women for myself, the wisdom that came from knowing Sophia as a woman was so huge. And reading your book, I can tell that was for you too. Can you tell me like, what are the most important aspects of Sophia that you think can bring to women today? Ah, one of the things that I love about this journey is this little package in our DNA

called the mitochondrial DNA. And it's a little package that gets passed from mother to daughter. So technically women can and still carry that little bit of DNA from the very first woman. So maybe she's called Eve, maybe she's called Zoe. So in us now, operative and swimming around in our soup is a living piece of that first woman. And again, through the Gnostic lens, that first woman was a daughter of Sophia. So it's part of our soup, it's part of our microbiome, and it's what we will be passing on in some way, whether it's transmission, emanation, our own daughter, our own art. So that living template is just simply reproducing. I also feel that now that I'm the other side of menopause, so it's been 10 years now. Congratulations. No much. The character that I thought of as myself was colored and shaped by my sexual hormones. Now that they've gone quiet,

the real self can start to be remembered again. Like last time I was here as a kid, you know, I had this kind of teenage and youthful 20, 30, 40 something persona. And now I've come back to my real self again. And that wisdom is just brimming and spilling it's so available i feel to the feminine woman and those of a feminine persuasion it's it's just it's falling over itself to make itself known and is that the mitochondrial dna because men who have a very strong feminine have a few trace elements of it they don't have the whole thing but a few trace elements is enough to be able to tap back to that first woman whether her name was eve a lot in the female system that's wired up for this transmission. And women have become so masculine. I wanted to embrace more masculine at one point

because I almost felt like the feminine was weak. So that huge thing, I think, that I've discovered, that being feminine has its own kind of strength. Yes. So I have now chosen to embrace the feminine in that strength. Yes. The feminine also has this strong leaning towards the mystic, the mystical, the mystery. And sometimes, you know, in our social media, that part's not emphasized. We think feminine is sexuality, beauty, enticement, sultriness. You know, I am wild. I run through the forest. I am wild.

But what about this mystic, this, you know, who doesn't need permission or recognition from any other source? She's outspoken she's unpredictable spontaneous joyful creative playful sassy intelligent powerful quiet unapologetic yeah that to me is the feminine that's like taking the the reins of the feminine and saying, okay, girl, let's go, let's gallop. I think that in the book that I am reading, the fierce, that fierceness, because we sometimes see fierce or fire as negative.

And frightening and abrasive. Out of control. Yes, yes, yes, yes. It's okay to offend people. It's okay. It's not okay to injure. So, you know, the little snowflake culture, it's so easy to say the words, you have just offended me.

Well, Sophia might say, and? But should my words injure you? Oh my God, that's totally different ballgame. But to be offended, that's okay because maybe there's some scaffolding, maybe there's some wiring in that beautiful brain of yours that needs to come undone. The Fierce Feminine feminine rising which is only one of so many of your books but this is the one that I really oh my god I mean I want to read all of your books I and not only that I got to listen to your beautiful voice on audible um and you yeah it's just it's beautifully done but you're I was I was oh my gosh I I literally wish that I could take your entire chapter on boundaries and just post it for all to see the entire chapter that would have to go

because all of it was so amazing and so powerful but women have not had boundaries no until now yes yes I mean I will be totally honest Everything I write about is coming in through the vision. It's not being lived. You know, it's part of my wish list. I hear it. I hear the wisdom in everything. I feel the quality of these messages. messages but don't you be thinking for one moment that I'm living this pristinely 100% I'm not I'm I'm struggling and grappling myself and boundaries is a big one so and self-trust self-trust yes you know there are these major you know I would say collectively for women you know, I would say collectively for women, you know, like boundaries, also, you know, codependency, all of these things. I believe truly, like your book is, I mean, I sent it to all of the women who are powerful in my life, because I felt like, you know, we all are continuing to work on these things. We know this, but the way that you were gifted the words for this book was so powerful. I mean, I can't wait to read the

rest of your books. I think I really do put it down to menopause. Like I said, at the beginning of the book, this all started with those hot flashes and the the breaking down of my persona and the edgy and the real coming forward and of course I covered a lot of sorrows of the world you know you've got a rescue hen right now tucked under my arm I could not eat pork after I read your description. When I had to sit through those documentaries to actually find the energy and the words that mapped the energy of what I was feeling when I was watching that live footage of factory farming, that was also a gateway into her realm but a different kind of one it's kind of like yeah it's like you know the temple of delphi know thyself you want to know thyself where there's this part of you and there's this part of

you and this is the worst of the worst and this is the best of the best and and if you really want this big journey you've got to be able to stomach it all because by stomaching it all you will get to eden you have to know how far you've deteriorated. Unconsciously even. Yes, yes, yes, yes. If we're aware, then we get to choose. So being conscious to, you know, what we're putting in our body, you know, how it's affecting other living things in the world, you know, trees, animals, all of the things. But it's important to come full circle. So, you know, years ago, I was watching these documentaries on factory farming. Now I have a little rescue chicken under my arm right now. I meet abattoir drivers. side of the road they allow thousands of birds to be offloaded into women's trucks and cars who take them all over france so that these rescue hens get another chance to live again so and i don't have a problem with these people anymore yeah and i believe that's what she was trying to show me do not go into polarity do

not go into duality you're gonna find no wisdom there okay but reach for that third option reach for where the two really really battle seemingly against one another and go deeper that's wisdom yeah now I'm like I'm even involved in the industry in some way and now you don't have issues you don't have issues with eggs like the rest of us do here in America I don't know if you like why do we have issues with having to get eggs have you heard about this no but it kind of went a little bit that way in England is there an egg shortage right now here right now yeah right yeah and you know that's just the thing and I I'm such a researcher it's just who I am at heart like I want to know I want to know I want to know and you know sometimes know, I want to know. And, you know, sometimes you wait, you know, being in like I am, you find very dark things.

Oh, same here. Yeah. You know, I'm going to ask you, sometimes, you know, you hear and you do reference Sophia as the dark mother. Why? You know, that sometimes scares people out. You know, I've heard people say that. Oh, dark mother you know just when people hear like scalar energy as dark matter another way of seeing this dark mother would be something like the black virgin or the black

madonna again France is home of three quarters of all the Black Madonnas in the entire world. So there's another contemplation why why France so renowned for its connection with Mary Magdalene and the Black Madonna. Some people have called Saint Sarah the Egyptian that went over with Mary Magdalene. Yes, there is a Saint Sarah and Saint Marie de la Mer, who is dark, a dark virgin. But you could say it's the other side of Mary Magdalene, although it's represented by the other side of Mary Magdalene, which is this aspect of Sophia that is willing and does go wherever one needs to go in order to do the right thing. So we know that Sophia has fallen profoundly, greatly. We know she's the mother

of the Demiurge, grandmother of the Archons. So, you know know the burning question is how is she gonna make good again and we need to examine what we think that word good is because it doesn't mean bright and it doesn't mean light and it's not the other side of the polarity it's something in between and the dark mother is that part of us uh willing to be taken through the hedge backwards, perhaps, to have our notions and ideas shook from us, like initiatory, the creatrix. It's those moments in our life where we've lost control of everything, but something is in charge and we're going with it. That to me is the dark mother, whether it's a persona or a presence that's around us or it's something we've become. We are that right now.

And also the other aspect of life at the moment the the protesting the war the politics you know we're all we've all got our sleeves rolled up right now everywhere this whole sense of the collective working together to peel off and tear down so there's the dark mother right there, you know, on the front line, addressing the uncomfortable conversation, you know, speaking truth to power. I feel it's a perfect blend of the both. It's the light that's coming into the DNA and awakening everything gracefully, beautifully, mysteriously. And then there's the gritty and the grainy and the hard and the rough and the wild of seeing, oh, you know, our government, our politics, our policy, our earth.

And that awful, awful thought, is there anything that's true? Is anything, is anyone, is any establishment actually true? Finally, truth gets given merit again. We've been so asleep. We don't even care whether it's true or not. You know, back in the days of flippancy, oh, that's probably fake news. Now, it really bothers us. Why should there be fake news? Why should our political system be lying daily? Now, we want truth. demand it we're actually searching for it this is really good news especially for those on the path of wisdom that's your name change we're ready for the truth

we want some truth around here this is a little and revolutionary and very, very exciting. And we do have help on the other side that is coming through strong. Because, you know, I have, you know, a spirit guide, you know, that I, well, it's so funny. He's a mute monk. And I've had him here since I finally get a spirit guide and he's mute. What are the chances? But do you have any spirit guides or are you spiritually led through this journey? Or how can you reach Sophia? My inner world is very minimal.

Holy Spirit, I have Christ. I have Sophia. That's it. But what I am paying more attention to on a daily and nightly ritual is the aeons. So I'm wanting now to learn them by name, by presence, and call upon them in moments of need for particular tasks, which is what they are emanating anyway. I've been doing this now for a few years and it's becoming very rich and very integrated. They're here to emanate. They're here to help us. Well, they're almost like archetypes in some way. Like I know for myself, when I think about this mute monk, he represents something within my psyche right he represents a stillness yes

a safe space for me yes i could say this is the same about archangel michael he represents protection each one of these ands also have their own personification their own unique essence yes yes when you say about your mute monk I think siege so siege is silence is the profundity of silence oh really the mysteries that she's holding. The siege. I've never heard of her. S-I-G-E. So an aeon is a syzygy. So a syzygy is like a partnering, a couple. So she's the feminine part. And she is silence.

And then from the silence comes epinoe, the first thought so i i just think your mute monk is holding that silence which i needed i've gone across my life with all this cluster fuck in my brain and stillness was definitely something i needed and so i'm glad that it came in spirit form to me. And then, you know, someone had suggested, well, maybe he took a bow of silence because that's what monks would do. And actually, you know, throughout my Sophia journey, he hasn't been that present as he was for the years. Yeah. She stepped forth and she's just a power to reckon with. She's taken up all the space.

She really did. My kids, they're so sick of me talking about sophia and the mysteries like you were just saying you know for someone who is a seeker who always wants to know more and research this and that i mean this the mysteries of you know the teachings and the gnostic gospels yeah yeah, you know, the teachings in the Gnostic Gospels. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, reading a few sentences and then just passing out. Especially if you're reading in bed at night. You know, those sentences are laden, absolutely laden with transmission.

Yeah, that's one thing when I'm talking to people who have academically studied Sophia for a long time. You know, everything that I received was through my dreams and through synchronicity, that I would read about it. And, you know, the scriptures, and I'd be like, Oh, my gosh, and that's where my validation would come from. There's so many layers of Sophia, you know, sometimes it hasn't resonated with me but I mean that's just probably the layer that I have not aligned with yet yes yes yeah there's quite a few you know back in the ancient times different mystery schools and my favorite is Valentinus you can feel the love in his tradition Valentinus. You can feel the love in his tradition. Valentinus was at the Library of Alexandria. So that was his epoch. That was his time. And oh my God, I would have loved to have

been part of that time. Maybe you were. I think so, maybe, because I've got a real thing about books and being a librarian. He'd nailed the love element, too. Whereas the other schools, fascinating, turn to them often. But it's just logic, logic, logic, logic. Whereas Valentinus, he was opening up with this material. And he had a passion and he was in up with this material. And he had a passion. And he was in love with her. You know, like King Solomon, he was in love with this source,

this stream of wisdom. So if I was around at the Library of Alexandria, I have a funny old feeling I would have gravitated towards him big time yeah oh my goodness let me ask you is Simon Magus is that a big part of your Sophia journey because it's not for me so it's not for me he's popped in me too same and I've done a little bit of research and went, no, yeah, I'm not into magic. I don't care about magic. I'm not impressed. You know, I thank God that he lived. I thank God that he played such an impressive I think that that's just the thing those are just key people that happen to you know being been written about or had left their mark about Sophia how many didn't even realize I look at the women in our history and I'm like wow she really embodied Sophia I wonder if she even knew yeah yeah yeah for sure probably not probably right absolutely not right

it's so boring even today you know and sometimes they're like what wait who are you talking about Sophia what I can never undo this this has been such a beautiful blessing in my life yeah yeah I have a little tale passed down through the the path I'm on so if you imagine Saint Peter at the pearly gates with his little clipboard and long list of names and you've got a very long queue of very scared very vulnerable little souls because they've only just passed over and no one knows whether their name's on the list and so peter is taking his job very very seriously and like saying yes in you go yep you're on you're on oh you're not on off you go and so if you can imagine those little souls that have been given the off you go, you don't know where you're going. You're just floating around. Where am I going? Where am I going?

So along comes Sophia with her huge dress, her mantle. And she extends her mantle to all the little souls that have been rejected and says, climb onto the bottom of my dress and crawl all the way up to my waist, you know, to my belly, to my breast. And all the little souls cling on like ants. And she goes past St. Peter. She goes through the pearly gates. She goes through the Elohim and the cherubim and all the other angels. She goes into the throne room and she drops the little souls into the lap of God. And then Peter comes in all frustrated and says to the nameless one, I don't get it. You gave me this job. I'm doing it well. Every single day she goes and gets the ones I rejected

and she brings them to the center of the heavenly realm. Can you explain what's going on around here? And the nameless one just shrugged his shoulders and went, that's Sophia. I love that more than anything. Oh, my gosh. No little soul gets pushed away there's no place such as hell and even if you do momentarily get pushed away you are gonna be rescued by the be all and end all and taken way beyond the pearly gates and deposited into the lap of God for a very personal and very

intimate meeting. Oh, you are such one of her children of light. For sure, she will have a special welcome for you. Well, hopefully not for a long time. Yeah. Yeah, as we move into our crown where did you get that so remember I said oh soon the lady who spoke the gnosy so she gave she orally gave it to me Rosamond gave it to her it's an oral story of Sophia oh my god I And it's like, you instantly know her. You instantly know her heart. I just love that it was Peter too, because I have such beef with him.

Yeah. I love it. Oh my gosh. You're such a beautiful soul and a gift to this world. You are definitely a gift to me. Thank you so much. I hope you come out here. Oh, I think I'm going to make it.

Like, I don't have a bucket list, but it will be the bucket. I'll be waiting, my friend. I'll be waiting. Yeah. So tell our listeners where they can find you. You can find me probably just on facebook and instagram i can't really be bothered to do the other social media platforms website anaya sofia so the old name anaya sofia dot com you'll find everything there although aletheia sofia dot com is coming in march

a big all singing all dancing new website. You'll find me. If you want to find me, you'll find me. And you do workshops. Workshops. Do a fair bit online. I'm starting to go back out now and travel and get myself to places.

Are you? Yes. Where are you going? At the moment, it's just european cities because um you know obviously with this house i've been very much you know tethered to the place yeah you know i used to do once a year i used to go down the west coast oh you did yeah jumping in well if you ever do yeah if you ever do let me me know. Yes, I will. And now it's time to break that shit down.

I would say that there is a great and invisible and intelligent hand placed upon the rudder of life. And no matter what it looks like on mainstream media, we are going through intelligently, imaginatively, intimately, and creatively through a necessary and inevitable rite of passage. So we can just let go of the control factor. A very wise hand is at the helm. Yes, I hope that people are open to receive that. I hope so too.

I just love you. Thank you so much for blessing me with this. You're lovely. And I would love to continue to learn from you and read your books. I'm going to go listen to more of you. Oh, thank you. What is your recent book, though, that you just put out recently? Well, The Grail King is actually about two months away, and it's part two of this rose night trilogy which is the

pistis sophia so i'm retelling the pistis sophia today with today's circumstances today's recognizable people so that's that should be out for the summer solstice. Okay, awesome. God, you are such a creatress, aren't you? Got nothing else to do. Just living the beauty of the Pyrenees. I love it. Thank you so much. Thank you. May the grace of the Holy Sophia be with you always. Thank you.

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