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August 5, 2007 at 17:41:45
Let's face it guys; Civilization is in dire need of the Goddess |
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Let's face it guys; the historically destructive social structures of institutional religion and traditional politics were chiefly invented by MEN. ***************************************************************** Said, differently, the Middle East is a sewer of conflict among the world's three most patriarchal religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Sure, lots of small exceptions in each of these religions, but these are the exceptions which prove the rule. All those councils, for example, in the history of Catholicism were basically tumultuous aggregations of old men.
Mythologically speaking, what the Earth needs now is the Goddess, e.g., less violence and more communication.
But isn't that precisely what's happening now on the Internet? The Internet is less a "male thing" than the Goddess in action. Sure these are images, but as Joseph Campbell used to virtually stand on street corners to remind us, mythology is saying things which can be said NO OTHER WAY.
Consider the following possibilities:
(1.) The human species must transcend the have and have not inhumanity in the very near future. Pig, pig rich people simply HAVE TO GO. However, the point here is less moral than biological, i.e., the going ballistic social tensions generated by Greek God like elites are rapidly killing our species and much of the biosphere and evolution will simply not let that happen. One way or another, the elites are going to be selected out.
(2.) If the human species doesn't radically factor the feminine take on things into our social structures, our "male thing" civilizations are going to careen into oblivion. Human civilization is dying of "imbalance". To borrow some oriental symbols, too much yang and virtually no yin leads to disease and death.
History has survived these twin insanities for lots of reasons. At least they weren't species threatening as they are now. Perhaps that's due to quantum jumps in murderous technologies and the exponential growth of human kind.
In any event, it's probably game over in the very near future unless yin/female/Goddess energy starts profoundly infusing our social structures. So I guess this is a cry for help. Ladies, please help us out here. We need your wisdom and sanity. Perhaps only you can defuse the religious fanatics and pour oil on the troubled waters of limitless masculine greed.
It's not that masculine energies are always toxic. That's not the point. The point is that human civilization lacks Yang/Yin BALANCE. To much salt spoils the stew and too much "man" in mankind is a form of species suicide.
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W. Christopher Epler (Bill)
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What is the 'something better' ?
Many of us are looking for a specific 'something' that is better than the current religious systems that have perverted origional teachings into a horrific and unhuman belief system. I think most people are way too lazy and certainly ignorant (ignorance IS cureable) to grasp where spirituality really lies. To me, the various religions are bogus sytems that repackage something we are born with and SELLS it back to us, kind of like paying for the air we breathe. A true connection with the power that is greater than ourselves comes from within each one of us and in that way CONNECTS with each one of us. When our society gets that concept, the religions that have infected us will just die off these various institutions will be seen as the useless parasites they really are. If the concept interests you, look toward the earth based traditions of indigeonous peoples such as American Indians, Inka Paqqo's, etc. All of these honor the Goddess. by Roger (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 465 comments [22 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Sunday, Aug 5, 2007 at 8:45:55 PM  (0+)
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The Goddess is Returning
Astute article. There is a woeful imbalance in humanity, which is overloaded with male testoterone gone wild. Patriarchy has run its violent, authoritarian course in terms of the progression of aeons. As the Age of Pisces ends, the Feminine Principle of the Universe will come more and more to the forefront. The men, let's face it, have royally f**ked the planet up, and most of the women who have gained any political power have only acquiesced to this wretched paradigm, cheerfully trying to outmen the men at times. This will change over time. Robert Graves, the British author and poet, was the first to prophesize the return of the Goddess in his difficult, yet fascinating work, The White Goddess. Strange synchronicities helped drive his work to fruition. Furthermore, oriental religions have always been much more amenable to the concept of male/female divinity, and this is no more aptly represented than by the whirling black and white Taijitu symbol of Yin and Yang, which indicates the ongoing and dynamic interplay of the male and female energies and all their associations in the universe. Meanwhile, you have the heavy patriarchal religions like Christianity that actually posit the eternal entrenchment of the male energy over the prostate body of the "Whore of Babylon" in the Book of Revelations, this supreme male egotism implanted like a sand castle on the seashore, ludicrously trying to eliminate half the power of the universe as the tides begin to rise and the winds begin to howl. Islam, at least, had the sense to choose the crescent moon as a key symbol, avoiding totally offending the Goddess, so to speak. But rest assured, the Goddess, or the Divine Feminine, is returning to this ravaged planet as the Age of Aquarius begins to truly dawn around 2012. by Mac McKinney (53 articles, 114 quicklinks, 241 diaries, 1414 comments [31 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Aug 5, 2007 at 8:48:18 PM (0+)
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Reply: the sooner the better
For me, even contemplating the Goddess Archetype is healing. It's like opening the window of a smoke filled room to spring breezes (but also to cleansing storms). Bill by W. Christopher Epler (Bill) (291 articles, 59 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 763 comments [44 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Aug 5, 2007 at 9:14:56 PM (0+)
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The devil's excrement
Go ahead, scoff at the goddess thing. Then watch this very interesting documentary: by delia (0 articles, 1 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 112 comments) on Sunday, Aug 5, 2007 at 9:36:17 PM (0+)
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But what if?
What if this new God is half-man and half-woman, possessing the best qualities of both? by RCG (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 348 comments) on Sunday, Aug 5, 2007 at 9:40:22 PM (0+)
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The Goddess: Holy Wisdom; Hokema
EXCERPTED Chapter17, ALL I’VE GOT Holy Wisdom: The Feminine Divinity: Hokema, She is One with Him and He with Her; Wisdom is calling, And on that final day we all will stand naked before The Creator. WAKE UP Christian! And hear the wind begin to howl." by Eileen Fleming (172 articles, 101 quicklinks, 274 diaries, 650 comments [16 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Aug 5, 2007 at 9:49:53 PM (0+)
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Reply: Wow, Far Out
Wow, Eileen, great stuff. Are you using the Kabbalah as the philosophical basis here, with such concepts of Ain, Ain Soph, Ain Soph Aur. Is the Hokema equivalent to the Shekinah? by Mac McKinney (53 articles, 114 quicklinks, 241 diaries, 1414 comments [31 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Aug 5, 2007 at 10:22:34 PM (0+)
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Account of the Divine Feminine in Ancient Roman Literature
For everone's erudition as to how seriously ancient Goddess worship was taken and how extensive it was, Robert Graves, in his scholarly work, The White Goddess, focuses on what he considers the greatest "account of the Goddess in all of ancient literature", that famous passage from the Roman writer, Apuleius's Golden Ass, where to further quote Graves, our protagonist, Lucius, "invokes her from the depth of his misery and spiritual degradation". If we substitute our 21st Century selves for Lucius in our imaginations, we can make the following passage applicable to our personal misfortunes or even our current national and global predicaments. Pretend, if you will, that each of you is now recounting the following famous narration from The Golden Ass: "About the first watch of the night when as I had slept my first sleep, I awaked with sudden fear and saw the moon shining bright as when she is at the full and seeming as though she leaped out of the sea. Then I thought with myself that this was the most secret time, when that goddess had most puissance and force, considering that all human beings be governed by her providence; and that not only all beasts private and tame, wild and savage, be made strong by the governance of her light and godhead, but also things inanimate and without life; and I considered all bodies in the heavens, the earth, and the seas by her increasing motions increased, and by her diminishing motions diminished: then as weary of all my cruel fortune and calamity, I found good hope and sovereign remedy, though it was very late, to be delivered from my misery, by invocation and prayer to the excellent beauty of this powerful goddess. Wherefore, shaking off my drowsy sleep I arose with a joyful face, and moved by a great affection to purify myself, I plunged my head seven times into the water of the sea; which number seven is convenable and agreeable to holy and divine things, as the worthy and sage philosopher Pythagoras hath declared. Then very lively and joyfully, though with a weeping countenance, I made this oration to the puissant goddess: "O blessed Queen of Heaven, whether thou be the Dame Ceres which art the original and motherly source of all fruitful things on the earth, who after the finding of thy daughter Proserpine, through the great joy which thou didst presently conceive, dist utterly take away and abolish the food of them of old time, the acorn, and madest the barren and unfruitful ground of Eleusis to be ploughed and sown, and now givest men a more better and milder food; or whether thou be the celestial Venus, who at the beginning of the world, didst couple together male and female with an engendered love, and dist so make an eternal propagation of mankind, being now worshipped within the temples of the Isle Paphos; or whether thou be the sister of the God Phoebus, who hast saved so many people by lightening and lessening with thy medicines the pangs of travail and art now adored at the sacred places of Ephesus; or whether thou be called terrible Proserpine by reason of thy deadly howlings which thou yieldest, that hast power with triple face to stop and put away the invasion of hags and ghosts which appear unto men, and to keep them down in the closures of the Earth......; thou, which dost illuminate all the cities of the earth by thy feminine light; thou, which nourishest all the seeds of the world by thy damp heat, giving thy light according to the wanderings, near and far, of the sun; by whatsoever name or fashion or shape it is lawful to call upon thee, I pray thee to end my great travail and misery and raise up my fallen hopes, and deliver me from the wretched fortune which so long time pursued me. Grant peace and rest, if it please thee, to my adversities, for I have endured enough labor and peril..." "Behold Lucius, I am come; they weeping and prayer hath moved me to succour thee. I am she that is the natural mother of all things, mistress and governess of all elements, the initial progeny of worlds, chief of the powers divine, queen of all that are in Hell, the principal of them that dwell in Heaven, manifested alone and under one form of all the gods and goddesses. At my will the planets of the sky, the wholesome winds of the seas, and the lamentable silences of hell be disposed; my name, my divinity is adored throughout the world...... For the Phrygians that are the first of all men call me The Mother of the Gods at Pessinus; the Athenians, which are spring from their soil, Cecropian Minerva; the Cyprians, which are girt about by the sea, Paphian Venus; the Cretans which bear arrows, Dictynnian Diana; the Sicilians, which speak three tongues, Infernal Proserpine; the Eleusinians, their ancient goddes Ceres; some Juno, other Bellona, other Hecate, other Rhamnusia, and principally both sort of the Ethiopians which dwell in the Orient and are enlightened by the morning rays of the sun, and the Egyptians, which are excellent in all kind of ancient doctrine and by their proper ceremonies accustom to worship me, do call me by my true name, Queen Isis. Behold, I am come to take pity of thy fortune and tribulation; behold I am present to favour and aid thee; leave off thy weeping and lamentation, put away all thy sorrow, for behold the healthful day which is ordained by my providence." by Mac McKinney (53 articles, 114 quicklinks, 241 diaries, 1414 comments [31 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Aug 5, 2007 at 11:45:38 PM (0+)
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Goddess, maybe. But...
When I was in junior high Golda Mier was in charge of Isreal and Indira Gahandi was in charge of India. Both of them were at war with their neighbors. Each of them had started the war. by KMccune (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments) on Tuesday, Aug 7, 2007 at 1:53:01 PM (0+)
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Reply: Women Wearing Men's Army Tunics
Good point, and I mentioned this in passing in a comment above, that women who rise to the top in patriarcahal cultures tend to try to flaunt more testosterone than the men to prove themselves. If you ever heard a Southern Baptist wife rail against feminism and equality of the sexes you will also know what I mean. "Stand by my man, or under him, all the way!" Many women have completely internalized the ideology of their oppressors throughout Western history. However the Women's Lib Movement in the 60th was the first revolutionary breakthrough of core feminine, matriarchal values and demands in mass culture, and although that wave has run its course, there will be new waves in the future. by Mac McKinney (53 articles, 114 quicklinks, 241 diaries, 1414 comments [31 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Tuesday, Aug 7, 2007 at 9:04:04 PM (0+)
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