In New Age popular discourse, Kali is often described as an angry, destructive aspect of the Goddess, someone you can "channel" if you want to express anger or rage, someone you can blame for your own destructive impulses. I believe this representation does not do Kali justice, and is in fact just a projection of monotheistic patriarchal culture, where death is seen as a curse and darkness as something to be feared.
In her book, Longing for Darkness, China Galland describes Hindu goddess Kali as:
the death-dealer and life-giver, the end and beginning of time. She was a deity of such proportion as I had heard only God the Father of Christianity described. The fact that Kali is dark and female turned my Catholic upbringing inside out. She is naked, “sky-clad,” because she has stripped away illusion; some say, to her nothing is hidden. Some say she is black because black is the color in which all distinctions are dissolved, others say she is black because she is eternal night. . . . Unless one comes to Kali, it is said that the desire for liberation is futile.
In this very first podcast on the new platform, I would like to present the figure of Kali as I got to know her, through my exploration of the Black Madonna figure in Europe.
We open the podcast channel dedicated to the Divine Feminine with Kali, the destroyer of any and all illusions — because to see the truth about the Mother, we must first shed the illusions that blind us...
