A practitioner asks: “My girlfriend is a mystic and is following various women in the Pagan/Spiritual Movement, including a YouTube video of five very sexy women, singing and dancing and celebrating the female body and goddess power. Conservative believers of any stripe would be aghast at it and it’s a real struggle for me to embrace, although we know from the teachings of Creator that the body is not a dirty thing and is to be celebrated and not an object of shame. Not my tradition, the way they proceed, but I don’t feel we should judge, and we have heard from Creator that goddess power is Creator power if seen in the right lens. Is there any chance that these women can be on the right track? Or, if not, is the LHP helping to repurpose these energies and guide these women back to the fold? I’m certainly adding them to my sessions.” What is Creator’s perspective?

It is always helpful to pray for others and to do healing work regardless of personal perspectives, expectations, and the vagaries of differing beliefs and perspectives inevitable to people being from such diverse backgrounds and experiences. As with most things, there is both good and bad in what these women are doing. You are correct in assigning value to respecting and rejoicing about woman power, as there is a benefit in female awakening to a more equal status and expectation of themselves, as a means of escaping the onus of patriarchal subjugation all too prevalent in many cultures around the world. What we would see as a negative is simply that embracing the mantle of "goddess" is not holy, and while we have all energies within our makeup, male and female, warrior and nurturer, and so forth, to focus on an attribute such as being a goddess, does not automatically invoke us, or that part of us, unless that is within the intention of the participants in such a ceremony. In most cases, as with Pagan religions, there is not a divine aspect or connection because this is a substitute for an authentic faith in the divine, and this is the reason for the rise of Pagan beliefs and Pagan sects again and again, it is a misdirection and a manipulation as well, to diminish power rather than enhance it. Pagan rituals are thus more than likely wishful thinking than a true generator of useful power that can be used for good. As such, ceremonies are essentially a secular event that can be invigorating and uplifting to the participants, much as a community dance ritual will do, but they will not and cannot generate godlike powers in making things happen beyond the selves of those involved.