Silence and solitude offer us a sense of the mutual bliss shared between God - the Great Beyond, Father Sky, the Ultimate Mystery - and the Goddess - Sophia, Mother Earth, Gaia, Sacred Earth Woman.
The sacred masculine contribution to this bliss is the sense of being lost in spacious awareness, and the ability to penetrate all solid things in order to find transparent awareness there, as well as the underlying presence of the sacred feminine, who ties all individual things together within her vast web.
The sacred feminine contribution to this bliss is the sense that our awareness is continually squeezed and held within the embrace of natural beauty and goodness, and the experience of all things continually shapeshifting into one another in the limitless flow of Life that is feminine energy. Here, for example, flowers become the flowery aspect of lake water, while lake water becomes the watery aspect of the flowers. Similarly, humanity becomes the personal aspect of a seemingly non-personal landscape, while the non-personal quality of the landscape becomes the cosmic aspect of human personality.
So where do WE fit in? We are the mutuality of the other Two, and we exist RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE between them! For each of us is less an individual self than a unique way of relating and uniting God and Goddess to one another. We serve as the swinging door that moves back and forth between emptiness and form, transcendence and immanence, masculine and feminine. What a sacred calling we have in joining these Two cosmic realities!
Photo: Elephanthead, a pond, snags, and a stormy sky; Snowy Range, WY; August 22, 2014
The sacred masculine contribution to this bliss is the sense of being lost in spacious awareness, and the ability to penetrate all solid things in order to find transparent awareness there, as well as the underlying presence of the sacred feminine, who ties all individual things together within her vast web.
The sacred feminine contribution to this bliss is the sense that our awareness is continually squeezed and held within the embrace of natural beauty and goodness, and the experience of all things continually shapeshifting into one another in the limitless flow of Life that is feminine energy. Here, for example, flowers become the flowery aspect of lake water, while lake water becomes the watery aspect of the flowers. Similarly, humanity becomes the personal aspect of a seemingly non-personal landscape, while the non-personal quality of the landscape becomes the cosmic aspect of human personality.
So where do WE fit in? We are the mutuality of the other Two, and we exist RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE between them! For each of us is less an individual self than a unique way of relating and uniting God and Goddess to one another. We serve as the swinging door that moves back and forth between emptiness and form, transcendence and immanence, masculine and feminine. What a sacred calling we have in joining these Two cosmic realities!
Photo: Elephanthead, a pond, snags, and a stormy sky; Snowy Range, WY; August 22, 2014
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