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The Divine Feminine: Resources

I hope that my blog articles over the past few weeks have helped you understand and practice being in The Divine Feminine Energy.  As we close out the month, I want to share some of the tools and resources that have helped illuminate the topic for me over the last couple of years.

Books

Women of Power and Grace by Timothy Conway
Love Poems from God by Daniel Ladinsky
Journey of the Soul by Jerry Thomas

CDs

Om Jesu Christi Miserere Nobis
Om Sai
Mother Divine: Sacred Chants of Devi /108 Sacred Names by Craig Pruess and Ananda

I have only been able to find the first two CDs above though Still Point Retreats.  If you have any problems in ordering, feel free to contact me for assistance.

You can find the Mother Divine CD at Amazon.

Namaste,

Michael

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Practicing the Divine Feminine

So how does one practice living in The Divine Feminine Energy?

It’s really very easy.  However, due to our conditioning, we make it much harder than it has to be.  I catch myself many times “striving” to achieve God, the Feminine Energy while meditating.  Then I just laugh at myself and relax to receive.

So, yes, silent meditation is one of the best ways to go into the Divine Feminine.  But I usually need something to lead me into the silence, such as a CD of a mantra with soothing background music for 10 minutes or so, then into the silence for another 15 or 20 or however many minutes you allow yourself.

We can also practice being in the Divine Feminine Energy throughout our day.  This can be done by “witnessing” the events of the day.  What I mean here is not becoming emotionally involved in the reactions and circumstances around you.  Let me clarify that a little more.  I mean that you should not pass judgment on the way others act, or on how things unfold.  It’s not that you don’t care; you do care, and you take the appropriate actions in any given situation.  But you’re not entangled in the results.

Just smile, acknowledge others, look into their eyes and let them see who you are:  “Pure Spirit witnessing all of this as God/Divine Consciousness.”  That is practicing “Face Yoga.”  Yoga means to link up with The Divine.  So when you smile at others, regardless of their position in life, know that you are smiling at their Divineness.

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Remarkable Women: Part 2

I hope you’re feeling the love that I’m feeling as you read about these incredible saints and avatars.  There were just too many to include last week, so here are a few more:

Mother Teresa (1910-1997) was born in Albania and raised as a Roman Catholic.  As a young girl, she loved hearing stories of missionaries.  At the age of 18, she left home to join the Sisters of Loreto.  She eventually left her convent to wander and help the poor and sick on her own, with only God’s help.  In 1950, she was given permission to start the Missionaries of Charity.  Its mission was to care for, "…all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone."  She won many humanitarian awards, but most importantly, she was able to give dignity to the helpless, poor, sick and dying.

Anasuya Devi (1923-1985) was God-realized from birth.  She later married, raised a family and founded a large spiritual community in South India.  Celebrated as “Mother of all,” her remarkable teachings uphold the Supreme Power of God and the “original innocence” of all beings. 

Syama Mataji (b.1916) fully realized God in a short but wonderful time, by simply chanting/focusing her entire being on the Divine Names of God (Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Hare, Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama, Rama, Hare, Hare).  Awesome miracles and exquisite songs of devotion have emanated from her ever since. 

And then there is Amma Mata Amritanandamayi (b.1953) esteemed as another stupendous Incarnation of the Divine Mother.  Today, she is India’s leading female light, with a mission growing by leaps and bounds.  She selflessly travels the world to console, hug, heal and inspire millions of children with the power of Divine Love.  She is also known as the “Hugging Mother.”

It is not a coincidence that these blessed women emerged within the last two centuries.  After almost 200 years of banishing the feminine energy, I believe that these women came forth to usher in a new age of the Divine Feminine Energy.

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Remarkable Women: Part 1

Approximately 1600 years ago, there came a turning point for women.   The first Christian Roman Emperor, Constantine, wanted to spread Christianity worldwide.  To do this, he formed the Council of Nicaea.  At this council, many changes were made to the teachings of Jesus Christ, as well as to the role women played.  Much was lost.  As time passed, women with holy mystical powers were demonized, and later burned at the stake, thus diminishing the role of women in our society and our spirituality.

In the last 100+ years, The Divine Feminine Energy of God has made itself more prevalent than ever.  Some very powerful women have blessed us with their presence and allowed us to see the Feminine Energy of God through them.  Here are just a few:

Mother Frances Cabrini (1850-1917).  She is credited with many miracles while she was on the earth and even after her passing, miracles were attributed to her. 

Then there was Therese Neumann (1898-1962), a Catholic mystic, stigmatist and miracle women from Germany, who transformed her remarkable sufferings into means of helping and healing others. 

Mother Maria Skobtsova (1891-1945), a Russian socialist intellectual who later sacrificed herself to help Russians and Jews in Paris during the 1930s and 1940s, courageously died a martyr’s death in the Nazi concentration camps on behalf of her fellow inmates. 

Hazrat Babajan (? – 1931), was an Afghani Muslim princess in her youth, but left home to trek through India, where she studied from Muslim and Hindu teachers.  She lived in solitude and later gained renown as a Sufi sage and enigmatic wonder-worker of tremendous blessing force.  When she died in 1931, she was alleged to be 130 or even 140 years old.

Anandamayi Ma (1892-1982), known as the “Blissful Mother” and guru to gurus, was an illustrious mystic and sage who was hailed as a Divine Incarnation.  Her mother had a number of auspicious dreams of gods and goddesses before Ma’s birth; a sign usually indicating the presence of an imminent mahatma (Great Soul).  The infant Ma did not cry at birth and throughout her childhood was remarkably serene.  It is said that nobody could fail to understand her, for she addressed herself to all as if they were at the same level as children of God.

This list is by no means all-inclusive.  Next week, more remarkable stories of remarkable women.

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The Difference between the Feminine and Masculine Energy of God

What is the difference between the Feminine and Masculine Energy of God?  You might say it’s the difference between religion and spirituality.  And you would be right, in some sense.  As a matter of fact, that’s the topic of this week’s blog. 

The basic principles of any religion are Masculine.  The DOs and DON’Ts, rights and wrongs, the dogma, the rituals . . . they are all masculine aspects of God, which can help attain God Consciousness.  Yet all of these are ways of striving to attain what the specific religion is focusing on and that’s the Masculine.

On the other hand, the Divine Feminine is a way of allowing; a way of receiving.  Do you get the difference?  Here’s another way of explaining the nuance: striving to attain God (Masculine) vs. allowing yourself to know that “I am pure spirit, witnessing all of this as God,” and thus receiving (Feminine) the love that is already there.  There is nothing you have to attain.  It is like the relationship between a mother and a child.  The mother loves the child unconditionally, without the child needing to do anything to deserve that love.  Even when the child has done something inappropriate, does the mother stop loving her child?  No.  Are there consequences for the child?  Yes . . . but that does not stop the love the mother has for the child.

Have you noticed a theme here?  The Feminine Energy of God . . . The Divine Feminine . . . Mothers.

One of the most special days of the year occurs this month: Mother’s Day.  To acknowledge Mother’s Day, my May blog entries will focus on ways to understand and practice being in The Divine Feminine Energy.

I promise you an interesting and insightful journey.

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