The Bride of Christ is a well-known term in the Christian tradition. But can you also be married to an angel? The Blessed Virgin? Or Gwyn ap Nudd, King of the Welsh Fairies, as is the case for Dr. Megan Rose?
The practice of marrying a deity is as old as humanity, and has been practiced across many cultures and traditions all over the world — long before the cross and Christian mysticism merged.
In my conversation with Dr. Megan Rose — religious scholar, mystic and interfaith minister — we’re exploring how intimate bonded relationships with otherworldly beings can contribute to our personal growth and healing as well as the conscious evolution of the human species.
In our conversation, we explore:
* Entheosis: the practice of awakening your Divine Self (in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Divine Self is also known as your Holy Guardian Angel)
* Megan’s 3 Ds of spirit marriage: devotion, discernment and discipline
* how to heighten your intuition with sensitisation practices to establish contact and deepen in relationship with your spirit Beloved
* divine aspecting, and how human partnerships can support (or sometimes hinder) a bonded relationship with a deity
* the ways gender and sexual orientation play a part in spirit partnerships
* Kundalini: how our inherent life-force energy feels erotic, enlivening and activating (but can also be accessed as a celibate)
* becoming a Christed being by modelling the co-creative love-relationship between Magdalene and Yeshua by embodying the presence of Christ
* Ida Craddock, the 19th century mystic, sex-educator and women’s freedom and pleasure advocate who was martyred for loving an angel
Dr. Megan Rose is a Ceremonial Magician, Witch, Druid, and a Shakta Tantric practitioner. She holds a Ph.D. in East-West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and an M.A. in Religion and Ethics from the Graduate Theological Union. She is chair of the Pastoral Counseling and Chaplaincy department at Cherry Hill Seminary.
Dr. Rose’s teachings and practice focus on the integration of Pagan and animistic spiritualities within a transpersonal psychological framework. She is on a mission to NORMALIZE THE PARANORMAL by helping people step into deeper relationship with other-than-human intelligences. Dr. Rose is the author of Spirit Marriage: Intimate Relationships with Otherworldly Beings. Discover her work and get your copy of her book at www.drmeganrose.com
This episode is dedicated to Ida Craddock, the world’s first female sexologist, freethinking mystic, and martyr for women’s pleasure and freedom.
Dive deeper in your own divine embodiment
If you want to explore Divine Union and spirt marriage further, here are three ways you can do this.
1. Explore my book series, Sacred Fire: https://nadianeriya.substack.com/p/the-sacred-fire-memoir-series
2. Taste Union with your divine Self, or your eternal Beloved, with our new, guided embodiment practice: https://nadianeriya.substack.com/p/divine-union
3. Join Lovers of God, our global community—a safe space and sanctuary for your soul where you’re held in your homecoming: https://nadianeriya.substack.com/p/membership
