Women’s empowerment as a movement plays a catalytic role in higher consciousness, both as individuals and a collective. Despite what most people can conceive, we experience the world collectively. As individuals it’s easy to think our experience is uniquely our own. We’ve come up with thousands of reasons and ways to be separate from each other. We feed off of the divide in perceived difference. But even in this we prove how unified and connected we are. We feel each other and feed off of each other and thereby create reality together.

Human Nature vs. Ego

Our human nature is not to be separate – to hate, judge, divide, oppress, and kill each other. These are symptoms of ego. Our ego is only a part of us, and whether or not it defines who we are and what we do is entirely our choice. In awakening to our true and higher consciousness we see there is nothing between us. We see the sameness and the oneness in all of us. But it requires facing our egos and our shadows and releasing the constructs which have so permeated our collective sleeping minds.

Women’s Empowerment as Catalyst

Women’s empowerment is one of the most important catalysts in awakening higher consciousness on a collective scale. Because we suppressed the feminine aspect of humanity for so long, and to such an extreme degree, now it’s perpetuated in every aspect of existence. By healing this divide and unifying the feminine with the masculine energies of this planet, we will change the course of human history.

Eckhart Tolle wrote that “the suppression of the feminine principle especially over the past two thousand years has enabled the ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche. Although women have egos, of course, the ego can take root and grow more easily in the male form than the female.”

Mass Ego

We experience everything on individual and collective scales simultaneously. Ego exists in each of us individually and mass ego exists in us collectively. Mass ego takes on its own will power and feeds off collective pain and fear. It identifies and separates and needs the cycle to continue.
As mass ego took hold of humanity on a collective scale, it knew that in order to gain complete control the feminine aspect must be suppressed and subjugated. Feminine energy is less mind-identified than masculine energy; it is more attuned to the inner body, the emotional intelligence of organisms, and the natural world. It has greater openness and sensitivity.

Mass ego couldn’t control humanity to this extent if we hadn’t suppressed the feminine aspect over thousands of years. The idea that women are less than men because we’re different has shaped so much of our society. It’s one of the most powerful delusions we continue to play out for each other and it led to the trend of separateness in general: racial, ethnic, religious, tribal, or personal.

Waking Up

But now we see a different trend. We see it everywhere. People are waking up and speaking louder the truth we all feel and know. And I see it beginning with women’s empowerment. I felt it in myself as I began to wake to my own higher consciousness. I know precisely the moment it happened. I was sitting on a rock overlooking a beautiful lake. It was early in the morning, the sun had only just risen. Specks of light twinkled in the surface of the water as if the night sky had just fallen in for a morning swim. I was completely alone with this perfect space of time and nature. I felt like I could finally feel what life is actually made of, and it felt like peace and contentment and laughter and passion. I was overwhelmed by the desire to take off my clothes and stand as I truly am in the light of the sun. So I did. And in being naked I felt truly unafraid for the first time. It was one of the most freeing and empowering moments of my life.

Collective Higher Consciousness

There is a deep and powerful energetic shift happening toward a more awakened state of collective being. Things are being uncovered all over the world. Painful truths are being felt and spoken for many of us the first time. We are feeling things more deeply. The empowerment of the feminine aspect is vital to this healing process. The role women’s empowerment will play in awakening the world to collective higher consciousness is that of mother and warrior, because women’s empowerment tips the scale back into balance – to the place where we are all one. So hold your tear-stained faces up high and look each other in the eye to truly see each other for the first time. Hold on to each other tightly as we continue to pull back the veil.