12/05/2026
Can men teach the Divine Feminine teachings? This is the third and final conversation we are opening up inside my online membership Bhakti Club as part of a wider series exploring complex questions arising in modern spiritual culture.
Over the past few years the language of the Divine Feminine has become increasingly visible in global spiritual culture. Goddess traditions, Shakti teachings, and feminine spiritual frameworks are now widely taught, often outside of the cultural and devotional contexts from which they originally emerged (this is something I've tried hard to be mindful of and careful with in my own teaching).
Increasingly, some of the loudest voices teaching these ideas are men.
Sometimes this happens with depth, humility, and genuine reverence (I have a few good examples of this and you can DM me if you'd like me to send some links) but sometimes it does not.
A recent example many of you will have seen circulating again is the discussion around Deepak Chopra and the Epstein files.
Long before any of this surfaced publicly, my own teacher warned me about Chopra more than twenty years ago. She had met him several times and said very plainly that something about him felt inauthentic to her.
At the time I had no particular reason to question him. He was widely admired, extremely influential, and presented as a major spiritual authority but I never forgot what she said and I never followed him as a teacher. Sometimes you know before you know.
Under what circumstances can men share the Shakti teachings?
With what relationship to lineage?
With what level of humility and accountability?
And how do students develop the discernment required to recognise the difference between genuine transmission and charismatic performance?
Increasingly, very few spaces seem willing to explore these questions with the kind of nuance they deserve.
In Bhakti Club we are making room for these conversations. We'd love you to join us - link in bio🌹