Sophia Happening is a website based on the writings of Tanis M.
Sophia is the Goddess who is called Wisdom in the bible, and who incarnated as Mother Mary, according to apocryphal and Gnostic scriptures.
Long before either Tanis or I had learned about Sophia, we both independently, and intuitively, used that name- Sophia- as a pseudonym to describe Tanis, for various reasons which will become clearer below.
It is my hope with this site to offer a glimpse into the mystic journey of a Goddess through the realm of flesh and matter, by offering some of Tanis' writing which I have edited specifically for this site.
The following is a piece which, like all others on this site, I have selected and edited from Tanis' prolific writings.
Jack Haas
I have long suspected that “Sophia Happening” was the experience of the voice of the flesh, my flesh as it were in this case. The thought of such a piece came to me before I ever read or heard of stories pertaining to the Christed aspect of the feminine. Along my journey into the flesh a notion came to write of this “Sophia” that was indeed “Happening” to me. The voice did not come gently, as you will see, but with a cantor of known defilement, anger deeper than I had imagined, and a split that wept with blood merged with urgency. Often I became overwrought with the unconscious and lost sight of matter and spirit. Years were literally spent caught in a vortex of dreams and wanderings while the soul led me by the hand. I was at a point where I could only follow until I popped up in the next locale.
Somewhere I am shining right now. Somewhere I’m glimmering onto the meadow – I’m unpacking and laying claim to that part which is mine. To see myself in every flower, leaf, animal of that meadow – to understand fully that it is me and all the years of mulching have produced such a sight for eyes to behold. A thick meadow supporting butterflies and bees, supporting a soul unto itself. A place where the seasons are allowed to be and shifts allowed to take place; where living and dying are allowed in co-ordinance with the Tao and not time: Spring late one year and early the next. There is room to spread out and flourish – to allow germination at a natural pace.
I am you when you dance, when you sing, when you are coming from your heart - I am you then and only then.
Tanis M.
