Invocation: The Transformative Art of Calling In
Invocation is a powerful healing art that, like many simple transformative practices, has been diminished in a world hypnotized by technological ingenuity. Centuries ago women innovated communication systems for connection between peoples and their evolution. We can call them in through invocation and receive the guidance of their wisdom streams without the use of any devices.
Credible and peer reviewed sources document, through archaeological findings, the origins of both writing and medicine. In recounting the lives of women who are depicted on tablets from over five thousand years ago, found in Mesopotamia, we have evidence of this. When I discovered this research, and the names of the women, I spontaneously invoked their lineage, and it changed everything.
Before going further, I want to thank the brilliant translators of cuneiform tablets, including at least one who was entirely self-taught. Turkish writer Elif Shafak tells his story, with remarkable creativity, in her compelling book There Are Rivers in the Sky. Without this diligence, we might never have known about Nisaba and Ninisina, contemporaries of Inanna. Like Inanna, Nisaba and Ninisina return to us the feminine leadership that is the very ignition of healthcare and literacy, both of which are always bonded, in their traditions, with social justice.
Now that you have heard their names, you can call them in and invite their extraordinary beauty and wisdom into your life and body. This is the healing art of invocation. To be effective—to change your physiology—invocation asks you to be completely innocent and open as you draw this consciousness down. Invocation cannot be transactional; this is one of its foundational principles.
Nisaba and Ninisina embody through their actions the indestructible bond between literacy, medicine, and social justice. These are inseparable. Their inherent knowledge of this makes them numinous. We instantaneously download their centuries of insight when we manifest these principles in the service of humanity. In so doing, we exhibit the most efficient technology there is. No AI link is necessary.
The erasure of Nisaba and Ninisina was and remains deliberate. They were subsumed into fabricated male forms that may have retained some of their knowledge, but none of their wisdom. Cultural codes, like the retributive Hammurabi’s Code, sealed the diminution of truth’s elegance that was feminine leadership in society. It has been downhill since then, but we are on the upswing now because the pendulum has swung too far, and revolution is imminent. It is the law of Nature.
Invocation is the quiet, inner practice that will make a big noise. Facial recognition will never find us because invocation is a shield. Nisaba and Ninisina have countless descendants, and we are among them. They are just waiting for us to invoke them.
“You who are colored like the stars of heaven, holding your tablet of lapis lazuli, I am your creation. I invoke you and ask you to create with me and bring my creativity to completion.”
“Goddess of the Creative Mind, you who live in the
House of Lapis Lazuli,
You who descended from the cosmic river,
Clear the chalk dust that has hidden me.
You who are the written word,
You who are all learning,
I am your creation.
I am your daughter.
Impress me as you did the clay with your writing,
Bring my communication to the world.”
If you are struggling to write, or to complete your writing, or to publish it, you can invoke Nisaba and recognize your place in her lineage. If you, like me, have felt yourself to be an outsider because you are neurodiverse, because you fuse those aspects of your perspective that have not been recognized as belonging together, like medicine, literature and social justice, invoke Nisaba and Ninisina and together they will bring you into alignment. You are their child.
To tap into the lineage of Nisaba and Ninisina, and to invoke them in a collective, with somatic applications, join other members of the community in programs in writing and the healing arts facilitated by author, neuroscientist and vision-holder Dr. Stephanie Mines: TARA-Approach.org
Maata Wharehoka was a poet and healthcare provider, a communicator and the voice of social justice in Aotearoa. She was in this lineage. Read about her and follow the journal prompts at the end of every chapter of this book to find your alignment in this great feminine wisdom stream.
