What gives a person the right to teach a path of enlightenment?

The question, "What gives a person the right to teach a path of enlightenment?" has been on my mind ever since I was given the Path of the Sacred Feminine (formerly—Women's Path of Enlightenment) to share and teach.

I would hear myself saying to the Four Grandmother Guardians of the ceremonies, "I'm not enlightened. What qualifies me to teach this?"

Then I would hear this faint chuckle from the other side of the veil. "If you are still," they will say, "you will remember the path because you helped create it and you have walked it before."

Then I would see what it was like in the beginning when the women of this path first asked themselves what they needed to do in order to become their limitless selves. What the Grandmothers seemed to be showing me is that the path begins with a question and a desire. From there our path is revealed to us and we either choose to walk it or we don't.

And so our ancient sister, collectively asked this questions and received their answers. Over hundreds and hundreds of years, their path took a form that was reliable and deeply satisfying—so much so that they promised to make it available to women around the world when the time was right. And so it is time.

It seems to me it matters less which path to our limitless selves or enlightenment we choose to walk and matters more that we honor our desire to experience our awakening. As I look around me I notice that whenever people come together with this desire, regardless of what spiritual practices they have come from, consciousness opens.

Perhaps the greatest gift of this sweet path I promised to share is simply this. Utilizing the path's offerings, we as women come together to awaken our limitlessness within ourselves through the doorway of our own Feminine Nature. To the extent that the rituals and meditations of the path facilitate that journey then we are blessed.

In the end, my question is limited because qualifications and rights are questions of the ego. I teach and share because I promised to do so. I am here, I remember and I am privileged to share.

—Reverend Misa