Fiery Muse Britta

About a year after The Fiery Muse: came out I received a letter from a woman named Britta who’d been born in Denmark and wanted to share her story for my next book, which indeed appears in The Divine Feminine Fire. We corresponded until she died at the age of 91. In this picture she was close to that age!

As a young woman Britta worked as a dress designer, married, and held her family together through World War II. When she was about fifty, she was filled with spiritual yearning and began trying to hold Christ in her thoughts at all times, a practice she thought of as the “Jesus Way”. One night, it occurred to her to simply ask the Holy Spirit to come to her: “Then I waited without thinking. My brain was absolutely blank – I was just kind of listening. And then suddenly I felt energy starting at the lowest part of my spine – going slowly up my spine – but when it reached my head – I suddenly got afraid and then it didn’t go further…The next morning when I woke up I felt as if I were in another world – and for three days after this I was in an intense state of peace, love, and happiness. I felt sometimes as if I were embracing the whole world. I was filled with love…”

Immediately Britta’s artwork, once mechanical, became inspired. Even more astonishingly, she developed the spontaneous ability to write beautiful poetry. unbeknownst to her, the first of these was a bit of divine guidance that she’d be following the rest of her life;

Write, write, write,
The word I give you
Spread it with the wind
   out over the earth
Give it as life

 to hungering souls

Britta read widely on yoga and came to understand her experience of the Holy Spirit could also be called an awakening of kundalini-Shakti and that, regardless of what name you give it, the effect was the same – a profound spiritual transformation of consciousness.

Inspiration from Britta

Of all the ways Britta inspired me, is perhaps the fact that she never stopped listening to the inner light – call it Holy Spirit or kundalini-Shakti. She poured out her poetry because she realized it could teach us how to have a happy life. And that, she said, could be summed up in one word, “Love”!

Britta’s full story can be read in The Divine Feminine Fire.