Trimorphic Protennoia

This is an early Christian initiatory rite developed by the Savior, whom we know to be Jesus, discovered in the cache of documents now known as the Nag Hammadi codices.  These scrolls, some predating the gospels By Mark, Luke and Mathew, have brought back into sharp focus that which the early church dismissed out of hand and represent a powerful understanding of the route to the divine that lies within each of us.  These documents were discovered in the mid-40's outside of a town in Egypt at a time when we were more ready to see them for what they are, which is a sacred path to awakening the divine that is within each of us. 

The Nag Hammadi Library

Trimorphic Protennoia

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Translated by John D. Turner

I am Protennoia, the Thought that dwells in the Light. I am the movement that dwells in the All, she in whom the All takes its stand, the first-born among those who came to be, she who exists before the All. She (Protennoia) is called by three names, although she dwells alone, since she is perfect. I am invisible within the Thought of the Invisible One. I am revealed in the immeasurable, ineffable (things). I am incomprehensible, dwelling in the incomprehensible. I move in every creature.
I am the life of my Epinoia that dwells within every Power and every eternal movement, and (in) invisible Lights and within the Archons and Angels and Demons, and every soul dwelling in Tartaros, and (in) every material soul. I dwell in those who came to be. I move in everyone and I delve into them all. I walk uprightly, and those who sleep, I awaken. And I am the sight of those who dwell in sleep.
I am the Invisible One within the All. It is I who counsel those who are hidden, since I know the All that exists in it. I am numberless beyond everyone. I am immeasurable, ineffable, yet whenever I wish, I shall reveal myself of my own accord. I am the head of the All. I exist before the All, and I am the All, since I exist in everyone.
I am a Voice speaking softly. I exist from the first. I dwell within the Silence that surrounds every one of them. And it is the hidden Voice that dwells within my, within the incomprehensible, immeasurable Thought, within the immeasurable Silence.
I descended to the midst of the underworld, and I shone down upon the darkness. It is I who poured forth the water. It is I who am hidden within radiant waters. I am the one who gradually put forth the All by my Thought. It is I who am laden with the Voice. It is through me that Gnosis comes forth. I dwell in the ineffable and unknowable ones. I am perception and knowledge, uttering a Voice by means of thought. I am the real Voice. I cry out in everyone, and they recognize it (the voice), since a seed indwells them. I am the Thought of the Father, and through me proceeded the Voice, that is, the knowledge of the everlasting things. I exist as Thought for the All -- being joined to the unknowable and incomprehensible Thought -- I revealed myself -- yes, I -- among all those who recognize me. For it is I who am joined with everyone by virtue of the hidden Thought and an exalted , even a Voice from the invisible Thought. And it is immeasurable, since it dwells in the Immeasurable One. It is a mystery; it is unrestrainable by the Incomprehensible One. It is invisible to all those who are visible in the All. It is a Light dwelling in Light.
It is we also who alone have separated from the visible world, since we are saved by the hidden wisdom, by means of the ineffable, immeasurable Voice. And he who is hidden within us pays the tributes of his fruit to the Water of Life.
Then the Son who is perfect in every respect -- that is, the Word who originated through that Voice; who proceeded from the height; who has within him the Name; who is a Light -- he revealed the everlasting things, and all the unknowns were known. And those things difficult to interpet and secret, he revealed. And as for those who dwell in Silence with the First Thought, he preached to them. And he revealed himself to those who dwell in darkness, and he showed himself to those who dwell in the abyss, and to those who dwell in the hidden treasuries, he told ineffable mysteries, and he taught unrepeatable doctrines to all those who became Sons of the Light.
Now the Voice that originated from my Thought exists as three permanences: the Father, the Mother, the Son. Existing perceptibly as Speech, it (Voice) has within it a Word endowed with every , and it has three masculinities, three powers, and three names. They exist in the manner of Three ... -- which are quadrangels -- secretly within a silence of the Ineffable One.
It is he alone who came to be, that is, the Christ. And, as for me, I anointed him as the glory of the Invisible Spirit, with goodness. Now the Three, I established alone in eternal glory over the Aeons in the Living Water, that is, the glory that surrounds him who first came forth to the Light of those exalted Aeons, and it is in glorious Light that he firmly perseveres. And he stood in his own Light that surrounds him, that is, the Eye of the Light that gloriously shines on me. He perpetuated the Father of all Aeons, who am I, the Thought of the Father, Protennoia, that is, Barbelo, the perfect Glory, and the immeasurable Invisible One who is hidden. I am the Image of the Invisible Spirit, and it is through me that the All took shape, and (I am) the Mother (as well as) the Light which she appointed as Virgin, she who is called 'Meirothea', the incomprehensible Womb, the unrestrainable and immeasurable Voice.
Then the Perfect Son revealed himself to his Aeons, who originated through him, and he revealed them and glorified them, and gave them thrones, and stood in the glory with which he glorified himself. They blessed the Perfect Son, the Christ, the only-begotten God. And they gave glory, saying, "He is! He is! The Son of God! The Son of God! It is he who is! The Aeon of Aeons, beholding the Aeons which he begot. For thou hast begotten by thine own desire! Therefore we glorify thee: ma mo o o o eia ei on ei! The Aeon of Aeons! The Aeon which he gave!"
Then, moreover, the God who was begotten gave them (the Aeons) a power of life on which they might rely, and he established them. The first Aeon he established over the first: Armedon, Nousanios, Armozel; the second he established over the second Aeon: Phaionios, Ainios, Oroiael; the third over the third Aeon: Mellephaneus, Loios, Daveithai; the fourth over the fourth: Mousanios, Amethes, Eleleth. Now those Aeons were begotten by the God who was begotten - the Christ - and these Aeons received as well as gave glory. They were the first to appear, exalted in their thought, and each Aeon gave myriads of glories within great untraceable lights, and they all together blessed the perfect Son, the God who was begotten.
Then there came forth a word from the great Light Eleleth, and said, "I am king! Who belongs to Chaos and who belongs to the underworld?" And at that instant, his Light appeared, radiant, endowed with the Epinoia. The Powers of the Powers did not entreat him, and likewise immediately there appeared the great Demon who rules over the lowest part of the underworld and Chaos. He has neither form nor perfection, but, on the contrary, possesses the form of the glory of those begotten in the darkness. Now he is called 'Saklas', that is, 'Samael', 'Yaltabaoth', he who had taken power; who had snatched it away from the innocent one (Sophia); who had earlier overpowered her who is the Light`s Epinoia who had descended, her from whom he had come forth from originally.
Now when the Epinoia of the Light realized that he (Yaltabaoth) had begged him (the Light) for another order, even though he was lower than she, she said, "Give me another order, so that you may become for me a dwelling place, lest I dwell in disorder forever." And the order of the entire house of glory was agreed upon her word. A blessing was brought for her and the higher order released it to her.
And the great Demon began to produce aeons in the likeness of the real Aeons, except that he produced them out of his own power.
Then I too revealed my Voice secretly, saying, "Cease! Desist, (you) who tread on matter; for behold, I am coming down to the world of mortals for the sake of my portion that was in that place from the time when the innocent Sophia was conquered, she who descended, so that I might thwart their aim which the one revealed by her appoints." And all were disturbed, each one who dwells in the house of the ignorant light, and the abyss trembled. And the Archigenetor of ignorance reigned over Chaos and the underworld, and produced a man in my likeness. But he neither knew that that one would become for him a sentence of dissolution, nor does he recognize the power in him.
But now I have come down and reached down to Chaos. And I was with my own who were in that place. I am hidden within them, empowering them, giving them shape. And from the first day until the day when I will grant mighty glory to those who are mine, I will reveal myself to those who have heard my mysteries, that is, the Sons of the Light.
I am their Father, and I shall tell you a mystery, ineffable and indivulgeable by any mouth: Every bond I loosed from you, and the chains of the demons of the underworld I broke, these things which are bound on my members, restraining them. And the high walls of darkness I overthrew, and the secure gates of those pitiless ones I broke, and I smashed their bars. And the evil force, and the one who beats you, and the one who hinders you, and the tyrant, and the adversary, and the one who is King, and the present enemy, indeed all these I explained to those who are mine, who are the Sons of the Light, in order that they might nullify them all, and be saved from all those bonds, and enter into the place where they were at first.
I am the first one who descended on account of my portion which remains, that is, the Spirit that dwells in the soul, which originated from the Water of Life, and out of the immersion of the mysteries. And I spoke, I, together with the Archons and Authorities. For I had gone down below their language, and I spoke my mysteries to my own - a hidden mystery - and the bonds and eternal oblivion were nullified. And I bore fruit in them, that is, the Thought of the unchanging Aeon, and my house, and their Father. And I went down to those who were mine from the first, and I reached them and broke the first strands that enslaved them. Then everyone of those within me shone, and I prepared a pattern for those ineffable Lights that are within me. Amen.

The Discourse of Protennoia: One

I am the Voice that appeared through my Thought, for I am 'He who is syzygetic' since I am called 'the Thought of the Invisible One'. Since I am called 'the unchanging Speech', I am called 'She who is syzygetic'.
I am a single one, since I am undefiled. I am the Mother of the Voice, speaking in many ways, completing the All. It is in me that knowledge dwells, the knowledge of everlasting. It is I who speak within every creature, and I was known by the All. It is I who lift up the Speech of the Voice to the ears of those who have known me, that is, the Sons of the Light.
Now I have come the second time in the likeness of a female, and have spoken with them. And I shall tell them of the coming end of the Aeon and teach them of the beginning of the Aeon to come, the one without change, the one in which our appearance will be changed. We shall be purified within those Aeons from which I revealed myself in the Thought of the likeness of my masculinity. I settled among those who are worthy in the Thought of my changeless Aeon.
For I shall tell you a mystery of this particular Aeon, and tell you about the forces that are in it. The birth beckons; hour begets hour, day begets day. The months made known the month.Time has gone round succeeding time. This particular Aeon was completed in this fashion, and it was estimated, and it (was) short, for it was a finger that released a finger, and a joint that was separated from a joint. Then, when the great Authorities knew that the time of fulfillment had appeared - just as in the pangs of the parturient it (the time) has drawn near, so also had the destruction approached - all together the elements trembled, and the foundations of the underworld and the ceilings of Chaos shook, and a great fire shone within their midst, and the rocks and the earth were shaken like a reed shaken by the wind. And the lots of Fate and those who apportion the domiciles were greatly disturbed over a great thunder. And the thrones of the Powers were disturbed, since they were overturned, and their King was afraid. And those who pursue Fate paid their allotment of visits to the path, and they said to the Powers, "What is this disturbance and this shaking that has come upon us through a Voice to the exalted Speech? And our entire habitation has been shaken, and the entire circuit of the path of ascent has met with destruction, and the path upon which we go, which takes us up to the Archgenitor of our birth, has ceased to be established for us."
Then the Powers answered, saying, "We too are at loss about it, since we did not know what was responsible for it. But arise, let us go up to the Archgenitor and ask him." And the powers all gathered and went up to the Archgenitor. They said to him, "Where is your boasting in which you boast? Did we not hear you say, "I am God, and I am your Father, and it is I who begot you. and there is none beside me"? Now behold, there has appeared a Voice belonging to that invisible Speech of the Aeon which we know not. And we ourselves did not recognize to whom we belong, for that Voice which we listened to is foreign to us, and we did not recognize it; we did not know whence it was. It came and put fear in our midst and weakening in the members of our arms. So now let us weep and mourn most bitterly! As for the future, let us make our entire flight before we are imprisoned perforce, and taken down to the bosom of the underworld. For already the slackening of our bondage has approached, and the times are cut short, and the days have shortened, and our time has been fulfilled, and the weeping of our destruction has approached us, so that we may be taken to the place we recognize. For as for our tree from which we grew, a fruit of ignorance is what it has; and also its leaves, it is death that dwells in them, and darkness dwells under the shadow of its boughs. And it was in deceit and lust that we harvested it, this (tree) through which ignorant Chaos became for us a dwelling place. For behold, even he, the Archgenitor of our birth, about whom we boast, even he did not know this Speech."
So now, O sons of the Thought, listen to me, to the Speech of the Mother of your mercy, for you have become worthy of the mystery hidden from the Aeons, so that you might receive it. And the consummation of this particular Aeon and of the evil life has approached, and there dawns the beginning of the Aeon to come, which has no change forever.
I am androgynous. I am Mother (and) I am Father, since I copulate with myself. I copulated with myself and with those who love me, and it is through me alone that the All stands firm. I am the Womb that gives shape to the All by giving birth to the Light that shines in splendor. I am the Aeon to come. I am the fulfillment of the All, that is, Meirothea, the glory of the Mother. I cast voiced Speech into the ears of those who know me.
And I am inviting you into the exalted, perfect Light. Moreover, (as for) this (Light), when you enter it, you will be glorified by those who give glory, and those who enthrone will enthrone you. You will accept robes from those who give robes, and the baptizers will baptize you, and you will become gloriously glorious, the way you first were when you were .
And I hid myself in everyone and revealed myself within them, and every mind seeking me longed for me, for it is I who gave shape to the All when it had no form. And I transformed their forms into (other) forms, until the time when a form will be given to the All. It is through me that the Voice originated, and it is I who put the breath within my own. And I cast into them the eternally Holy Spirit, and I ascended and entered my Light. I went up upon my branch and sat there among the Sons of the holy Light. And I withdrew to their dwelling place which [...] become glorious [...]. Amen.

On Fate: Two

I am the Word who dwells in the ineffable Voice. I dwell in undefiled Light and a Thought revealed itself perceptibly through the great Speech of the Mother, although it is a male offspring that supports me as my foundation. And it (the Speech) exists from the beginning in the foundations of the All.
But there is a Light that dwells hidden in Silence, and it was first to come forth. Whereas she (the Mother) alone exists as Silence, I alone am the Word, ineffable, unpolluted, immeasurable, inconceivable. It (the Word) is a hidden Light, bearing a fruit of life, pouring forth a living water from the invisible, unpolluted, immeasurable spring, that is, the unreproducible Voice of the glory of the Mother, the glory of the offspring of God; a male virgin by virtue of a hidden Intellect, that is, the Silence hidden from the All, being unreproducible, an immeasurable Light, the source of the All, the root of the entire Aeon. It is the foundation that supports every movement of the Aeons that belong to the mighty glory. It is the foundation of every foundation. It is the breath of the powers. It is the eye of the three permanences, which exist as Voice by virtue of Thought. And it is a Word by virtue of Speech; it was sent to illumine those who dwell in the darkness.
Now behold! I will reveal to you my mysteries, since you are my fellow brethren, and you shall know them all.
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I told all of them about my mysteries that exist in the incomprehensible, inexpressible Aeons. I taught them the mysteries through the Voice that exists within a perfect Intellect, and I became a foundation for the All, and I empowered them.
The Second time I came in the Speech of my Voice. I gave shape to those who took shape, until their consummation.
The Third time I revealed myself to them in their tents as Word, and I revealed myself in the likeness of their shape. And I wore everyone's garment, and I hid myself within them, and they did not know the one who empowers me. For I dwell within all the Sovereignties and Powers, and within the angels, and in every movement that exists in all matter. And I hid myself within them until I revealed myself to my brethren. And none of them (the Powers) knew me, although it is I who work in them. Rather, they thought that the All was created by them, since they are ignorant, not knowing their root, the place in which they grew.
I am the Light that illumines the All. I am the Light that rejoices in my brethren, for I came down to the world of mortals on account of the Spirit that remains in that which descended (and) came forth from the innocent Sophia. I came, and I delivered [...], and I went to ...
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... which he had formerly, and I gave to him from the Water of Life, which strips him of the chaos that is in the uttermost darkness that exists inside the entire abyss, that is, the thought of the corporeal and the psychic. All these I put on. And I stripped him of it, and I put upon him a shining Light, that is, the knowledge of the Thought of the Fatherhood.
And I delivered him to those who give robes - Yammon, Elasso, Amenai - and they covered him with a robe from the robes of the Light; and I delivered him to the baptizers, and they baptized him - Micheus, Michar, Mnesinous - and they immersed him in the spring of the Water of Life. And I delivered him to those who enthrone - Bariel, Nouthan, Sabenai - and they enthroned him from the Throne of Glory. And I delivered him to those who glorify - Ariom, Elien, Phariel - and they glorified him with the glory of the Fatherhood. And those who snatch away snatched away - Kamaliel, [...]anen, Samblo, and the servants of great holy luminaries - and they took him into the light-place of his Fatherhood. And he received the Five seals from the Light of the Mother, Protennoia, and it was granted him to partake of the mystery of knowledge, and he became a Light in Light.
So now ...
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... I was dwelling in them in the form of each one. The Archons thought that I was their Christ. Indeed, I dwell in everyone. Indeed, within those in whom I revealed myself as Light, I eluded the Archons. I am their beloved, for in that place I clothed myself as the son of the Archgenitor, and I was like him until the end of his decree, which is the ignorance of Chaos. And among the angels I revealed myself in their likeness, and among the Powers, as if I were one of them; but among the Sons of Man, as if I were a Son of Man, even though I am Father of everyone.
I hid myself within them all until I revealed myself among my members, which are mine, and I taught them about the ineffable ordinances, and (about) the brethren. But they are inexpressible to every Sovereignty and every ruling Power, except the Sons of the Light alone, that is, the ordinances of the Father. These are the glories that are higher than every glory, that is, the Five Seals, complete by virtue of Intellect. He who possesses the Five Seals of these particular names has stripped off garments of ignorance and put on a shining Light. And nothing will appear to him that belongs to the Powers of the Archons. Within those of this sort, darkness will dissolve and ignorance will die. And the thought of the creature, which is scattered, will present a single appearance and dark Chaos will dissolve and ...
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... until I reveal myself to all my fellow brethren, and until I gather together all my fellow brethren within my eternal kingdom. And I proclaimed to them the ineffable Five Seals in order that I might abide in them and they also might abide in me.
As for me, I put on Jesus. I bore him from the cursed wood, and established him in the dwelling places of his Father. And those who watch over their dwelling places did not recognize me. For I, I am unrestrainable, together with my seed; and my seed, which is mine, I shall place into the holy Light within an incomprehensible Silence. Amen.

The Discourse of the Appearance: Three

Trimorphic Protennoia, in Three Parts
A Sacred Scripture written by the Father with perfect Knowledge

Original translation of this text was prepared by members of the
Coptic Gnostic Library Project of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont Graduate School.
The Coptic Gnostic Library Project was funded by UNESCO, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and other Institutions.
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Healing the Womb of Woman and Man - The Return To The Garden

The old lineage speaks of the light body containing both the man and woman, a kind of totality in one.  The yin and yang.  Lock and key.  We are this.  All is this, down to the atom.  Simple, uncomplicated, but capable of great complexity.  The making of reality, of worlds. 

In each of us twin currents reside.  These two we call the man and woman.  What they are is a mystery.  Keeping them a mystery gives them room to grow.  Within us all, the marrow of matter and the soul of being exists a template, a field of energy that naturally organizes within us a range of vibration.  This field, which is the light body, capacitated by the electricity that our bodies generate, we bring the cosmic into our bodies.  Conductors of the cosmic bliss field.  But awareness is necessary to turn it on.  Within it lies a range of vibrations, currents and bundles of energy that go from low to high.  Within this field fear can cause energy to slow, creating an attenuation of the flow. Within this flow, the chakras spin and move, vortices corresponding to different vibrations that serve to make up our experience.  As each center is cleared, awareness clears also.  What once mastered us is no longer.  Old programs in this field are overwritten.  A new story is possible.  The chalk board, which seemed chiseled in stone is rendered to clarity and emptiness. 

IN each of us lies a center within the root to sacral that is the foundation for the creative energies that we use to build our lives; our abundance, our sense of nurture, self worth, and creative potential.  Little surprise that these form a kind of nexus where the creative energies are at their peak in the most sensual of ways.  As long as these centers are blocked, it is hard for many to create from the place of the root/sacral duality.  This forms, energetically, a womb within.  It is a place, where whether you are a man or woman, you can tap into it and begin healing this area within your energy field, the light body.  For men who have not experienced nurture as children, feeling the flow of this energy within is an epiphany moment.  It has the capacity to heal and set right what had been wrong for so long.  For women, it can put you back in touch with the nurturing force that brought you into this world and which you emulate now as a woman. This nurturing sense that lies within the feminine psyche is powerful when we are aligned with bodies that are female.  The spiritual becomes manifest for women, and the healing power that a woman holds exists in her ability to birth new ideas, new ways of being and seeing.  Woman is one side of the creative paradigm.  And so it should be no surprise that when men are able to tap this region that it can put them into touch with their own creative potential.  This is about making men less then men, but waking us all up more to our potentials as human beings.  This is less about the experience of actual conception and life nurture in the womb and more about how our energy bodies coincide with these parts of us. 

The great challenge is that the womb of every person on the planet is in rough shape.  The act of clearing this, of cleansing and healing is something that will make your own creative potential something that is capable of reaching a new place of realization.  I wont say it will make you crazy creative, because creativity is in truth something that we bid....that we bring into us as a type of grace that is akin to falling in love.  It is a surrender of the self to something larger within and without. It is really quite beautiful.  Its message touches on this world and more. 

It is time to recognize the feminine in each of us so that we might be nurtured, softened, humanized, awakened to our greater potential. 

For the last year I have been doing this work, feeling the last parts of my own inner clearing take place as what remains expresses as a field of old hurt radiating through my energy body, now chiseled down to the root and sacral and which now feels like.....a womb form.  So much of it now is about a fundamental form of creativity, of rebuilding the self, of remaking the self.  It is here in our own energy womb that we do this.  While I have a keen awareness of feeling the past in this region, simply placing your awareness in this location is enough to begin to build awareness. Imagination, believe it or not is the builder of reality when it comes to the energetic world. It is in this gateway that all creation begins. 

Breathing into the center is one way to being feeling your energetic potential there.  the results of getting in touch with it might not be immediate for some.  Give it time.  Using your mind to see this region of your body being cleansed by a wave of deep ocean blue, of wind, or fire.  Burning, transforming, cleansing.  Feeling into this, imagine that what comes out of this center is moved upward and transmuted as it goes.  These ancient ghosts need not be known or seen.  it is the past and it is enough to allow them to remain this way.  Moving this material is itself the most compassionate thing you can do for yourself and the planet because it frees up creative potential in a way that is new.  It is something that we all could use here on the earth. 

Allowing breath to become the chief means for moving energy, you can imagine breath as water or fire or any number of elements that serve to move energy in your body.  A simple "I am ready" is often enough to begin the loosening process and then being willing to go back to it numerous times to reinforce the loosening.  Pay attention to your dreams and giving yourself the suggestion upon going to sleep that you will continue to do this work in your dreaming will help to reinforce awareness about the issue.  the first step toward healing is awareness.  Just like with creativity, there is also another aspect to the creation and healing paradigm; incubation.  Often using the conscious mind is necessary to initiate the process of healing, but the subconscious may need some times for the information to perculate through it if it is going to be of any assistance.  This incubation period is indeterminate; everyone is different so a day or week or month....and even years are possible.  The trick I have found is that when you can cease trying to achieve preconceived notions of what it is you need or want, you literally allow the most easily things to be healed first.  I can tell you that in awakening, my release of material has gone in a fashion where the easiest things have gone first.  It all has had a logic of its own that is based on the path of least resistance.  Do you know what is the most ready to go within you? It is possible to let your higher self do the work for you.  To do this, you simply need to take a simple perspective; allow yourself to be led.  Christians speak of giving it up to God.  This is itself not that different. When we surrender like this, we put our fate into the hands of our higher order, our higher selves.  It always results in the best possible outcome each and every time. It means learning to trust instead of having to always try to figure out what needs to be done.  When stacked against cosmic consciousness, I choose it each and every time over the mere rational mind.  There is something about its existing outside of time that gives it a unique perspective. 

If you can follow this kind of route, you can, without aid of teacher or guru, find the exact things that you need most to heal and release.Your awareness will grow with each release, with each shift.  As this happens, these releases can lead to large avalanches within that helps to lead you back to your essential self. 

It is time.  You can create this garden within one release at a time just like a gardener pulls up old noxious weeds.  The secret?  The Tree of Life lives inside of us.  The Garden of Eden is who we are, our light bodies.  Adam and Eve both exist side by side within us in our light bodies, the fusion of the yin and yang, the shakti and shiva.  We were meant to be this.  Not androgynous, no, but bearing the most that we can be so that we can understand more clearly how to bridge the gaps that may greet us in life less as problems and more as opportunities for understanding and healing. 

May we all find the light that is within, to know it in each moment in each day.  This light has the power to transform us.  All of us. 

The Great Wheel Is Coming Full Turn

When I was eighteen I had a spontaneous memory of a past life as a native American man (we weren't called Americans then) who was sitting having a vision of the Thunder Beings in the grassy meadows atop a hill in western California at a time when some of the first encounters with White Europeans were taking place.  The experience was extreme for me in that it was as though I had been placed into a culture completely foreign to me in some ways.  I felt familiar, yes, but it was hard to understand what was happening.  I was being told about the future, about a life when I would be reborn as a new person.  The being in the storm explained that I would know when all of these things would come to pass because I would remember the vision in this future life.  That future life is this life, now.  The being spoke of earth changes, about a need for the earth to cleans herself.  I was shown a form of cleansing enacted by the Thunder Bird, something that involved its merging with me in my body so that I became one with this bird.  The heavens or sky was connected to the earth by way of a thunderbolt. This merging of heaven and earth changed the energy of the earth.  The earth lit up with a supernaturally bright light; the light of the lightening bolt.  The earth was then cleansed.  I was told that the Great Wheel would come full turn in this day.  I had absolutely no idea what that meant.  I spent years reading up on native culture and customs and belief.  I found that I only discovered the tribe when I gave up looking.  I also found that the vision was itself a story about how, in our age, in OUR day, we would witness a fundamental shift in our world energetically and that we would see a return of the feminine in each of our lives.  This is itself the balance that the Hopi speak about, a balance that has been lost in the Western world, that has been systematically destroyed in the aboriginal cultures.  It may have been nearly wiped away, but it is not gone.  This ancient knowing and reverence for the Two-As-One remains.  And I am here to tell you, remind you, how important it is.

Its really simple, and yet, it has been forgotten and shoved under the rug for so long.

It is the return of the divine feminine.

The return of the divine feminine is something that will be on offer to all of us.  Her presence in each life, not just a woman’s life, will be potentially life changing.  Men are softening.  Women are noticing this.  Women are reclaiming their power, discovering their deep current of feminine energy and presence.  As we all do this, as we all soften and are changed by the presence of Her on the planet, we will continue to learn and see more through those eyes than ever before.  Not to worry; her presence does not make a man any less of a man. In fact, it makes a man far more sensitive to what a woman needs and how she feels.  Its just that as a collective, we are now ready for her after centuries and centuries of not having her all that present.  IN the warming days that face us, she will offer up new discoveries about what we are and what we can become.  She will have a humanizing effect upon us.  She already has.  We have a long way to go, but I tell you that this movement of the wheel is so strong that while you can resist, the most natural current will be to follow it.  It will be like fighting an undeniable current.  And she will teach you how to flow.

The presence of the divine feminine will teach you how to surrender, to allow, to receive, and to let go. She will be a presence whereby she can take any spiritual poison into her and transmute it through the power of her womb, through her natural ability to receive and treat all things in her own uniquely alchemical fashion.  For ages woman has often been forces to take poison into her womb and her heart, but the tables will turn and she will discover what she can do when she is in full possession of her powers individually an en masse.

The one experience with the divine feminine that I had most recently was how she moved down all around me and then said “let go.  Let all of it flow into me; this is what I am—a great engine of transmutation….just let go…” and in that moment, tears streaming down my face, I felt Her all around me, like this giant presence, a womb of the world and instead of holding on to this ancient poison in my soul, I let it go.  It streamed out of me and rippled out all through her.  It was as though it was nothing for her; snake bit turned to gnat bite.  I felt nothing but love.  Within my own heart I feel the dual current of kundalini and She resides within one of them.  She exists as the divine template, literally the feminine guru within.  I don’t need a teacher to tell me how she needs most to be, she dwells in me.  Touching another with Her in my touch reminds them without words of what they have been missing, craving.

She has been away for a very long time. She is gonna come back with a vengeance (but without vengeance).  How will it play out? What will it look like world wide? This, I cannot say.  But what I know is that it will help soften us.  What we do with it will be up to us.  Perhaps this is the universe’s way of planting a seed for us, amongst us.  Or it is us, yearning so much for this worldwide that She is returning.  The Mother of the World.  Certainly the Father as God has been locked up in that cloudy heaven for far too long!  I mean, who wouldn’t be an angry father god in a place like that!  Mother and Father deserve to be next to each other (I think it would be a lot more peaceful, too!).  So let’s give them some space in our own lives.  You have nothing to lose!

The Curious Case of Knight John of Jerusalem....

Knight John was a man who was a crusader in Jerusalem and penned a series of prophecies that have gotten the attention of some people, partly for how what he said over a thousand years ago seems to fit so perfectly into what is happening today.  In a previous post some time ago, I included an excerpt of his prophecies that dealt with a new age that heralded the coming of the Feminine into the world in a way that seems like it may just be down the road.....a road that we are currently on.  Do the words of this knight have something to tell us?

Who is this Knight John? 

According to the publisher he is also called Jean de Vézelay or Jean de Mareuil, a crusader who participated in the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099.  John was born in Burgundy in 1042 AD. and was raised on the Camino de Santiago and became a monk and and later a knight, he would have gone on in the Holy Land of the First Crusade to regain Jerusalem from the Turks, who had seized twenty years earlier. He would have penned the prophecy during this time, knowing Hugues de Payens, with whom he had founded the Order of the Temple or the Templars. He died in Jerusalem around 1119 – 1120 AD. J.C.

Shortly before his death, John of Jerusalem wrote seven copies of his book of prophecies. He gave three written copies to Bernard of Clairvaux (Saint Bernard), who  donated one to the monastery of Vézelay.  According to the preface of the book, the prophecies of John of Jerusalemis actually two books. One is a manuscript from the 15th century and is a commentary on the prophecies (in an effort we assume to help illuminate them for the reader). The manuscript was discovered in 1992 in Zagorsk Russia at the monastery of the Holy Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, by a professor named Galvieski.  An original copy of the prophecies were kept by the KGB archives in Lubyanka. It was then later transferred to the Library of the Jewish community in Warsaw, captured by the Germans in 1941, and was recovered by the Russians during the fall of Berlin in 1945.  (1)

My sense has been that reading prophecy is problematic for the fact that the person writing is doing so through his or her own lens of the past.  They can only understand it through their own context. In many cases, they are FEELING it more than just seeing it.  They are getting a CURRENT of information and it may not always be delivered in a literal visual way.  As a result, it is all interpretation.  This does not mean that it cannot be understood, but it is much more likely that most prophecy wont be known for what it is until the moment that it comes to pass, if then.  As a result, it best serves, to my mind, as a kind of guidepost, but nothing to tether your camel to. Such things as this can also stir fear and uncertainty, so on the one hand I hesitate, and yet, also, by realizing that in all time, there has never been an end to any time, only events that serve to create the appearance of cycles and periods, but no true "end times" I think that this is an important thing to bear in mind when reading any sort of prophecy.  I think that the worst thing done for us has been the invention of the idea of "End Times."  This is itself untrue, for all time expands into a larger understanding of itself and as humans begin to grasp the true nature of time and how incredibly organic it is, then perhaps we can realize that all any prophecy can seek to do is to glimpse something through a lens.  Sometimes it is seen brilliantly and clearly, and sometimes darkly and with less comprehension.

The best prophecy to my mind helps you to come back to your own present time to consider the lessons of the past as well as the possible futures ahead.

The rest is Knight John...

Protocol secret prophecies

John of Jerusalem – 1099

I see and know.
My eyes find in heaven what will and I passed the time with a single step.
A hand to guide me what you see or do not know.
A thousand years have passed and Jerusalem will never be the Crusader city of Christ.
The sand will be buried in his grain walls of our castles, our armor and our bones. It has stifled our voices and prayers.
Christians from afar as pilgrims where their law and their faith were not dare to approach the tomb and relics qu’escortés by Knights Jews who here (…) and their Kingdom Hall.
Infidels are an innumerable crowd spread everywhere
and faith resonate like a drum across the Earth.
I see the huge earth.
Continents named Herodotus in his dreams will be added beyond the great forests which Tacitus, and away after endless seas begin after the Pillars of Hercules.
A thousand years have passed since the time we live and strongholds will have all gathered in great kingdoms and vast empires.
Wars as numerous as the meshes of the coat worn by the Knights of the Order will be crossed, defeating kingdoms and empires, weaving others.
And serfs, the peasants, the poor will not fire a thousand times revolted, burning crops, castles and cities, until they are skinned alive and being forced survivors to return to their dens.
They are raw Kings.
A thousand years have passed and the man has earned the seabed and the heavens
and it will be like a star in the firmament.
It has acquired the power of the sun and it will be taken for God,
Building on the huge earth thousand towers of Babel.
It will be built on the ruins of the walls of those that had raised the emperors of Rome, and they will separate again Legions Barbarians and Tribes.
Beyond the great forests will be an empire.
When the walls will collapse the Empire no longer a muddy water.
The people will once again be involved.
Then begin the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand.
I see and I know what it will be.
I am the scribe.
When start the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand Man will be at the mouth of a shadow of a dark labyrinth.
And I see the bottom of this night in which he will press the red eyes of the Minotaur.
Beware his cruel wrath, you who will live the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand.

1
When start the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
The Gold is in the Blood
Look at the stars who will count the money
Will enter the Temple will meet merchants
Sovereigns will changers and usurers
The Glaive defend the Snake
But the fire incubates
Each city is Sodom and Gomorrah
And the children’s children become the pyroclastic
They will throw the old banners

2
When start the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
Man has populated the heavens and the earth and its creatures Seas
He will command
He wants the power of God
He will know no limits
But everything will turn
It titubera like a drunken king
It gallop like a blind knight
And the spur he push his mount in the forest
Down the road is the abyss

3
When start the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
Will rise at all points of the Land of Towers of Babel
This is Rome and Byzantium, it will
The fields will be emptied
There will act as himself and his band
But the barbarians will be in town
There will be no bread for all
And the games will no longer suffice
So people without a future
Illuminate large fires

4
When start the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
Hunger tighten the belly as men
And cold bleuira both hands
Let them want to see another world
And dream merchants who will offer the poison
But it will destroy the bodies and souls rot
And those who have mingled their blood poison
Be as wild animal caught in a trap
And violate and kill and steal and rançonneront
And life will become Apocalypse every day

5
When start the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
Everyone try to enjoy everything it can
Man divorces his wife many times he will marry
And the woman go through the lost paths (hollow) taking that which pleases
Mothering without giving the name of the Father
But no master will guide the Child
And each of the others will only
The tradition will be lost
The law will be forgotten
As if the Ad was not made and the man will return to wild

6
When start the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
The father takes his pleasure with her daughter
The man with the man’s wife with the woman
The old with the prepubertal child
And it will be in everyone’s eyes
But the blood will become impure
The evil will spread from bed to bed
The body rots host all the earth
Faces are eaten the emaciated limbs
Love will be high threat to those who do not know that the flesh

7
When start the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
Whoever speaks Oath and Law
Will not be heard
Anyone who preach the Faith of Christ
Lose its voice in the wilderness
But everywhere spread the mighty waters of the infidels religions
False messiahs will gather the blind men
And the unfaithful will be armed as he was never
He will speak of justice and law and faith will be burning and cutting
He will avenge the Crusade

8
When start the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
The sound of death given as the storm roll on earth
The barbarians are mixed with the soldiers of the last legion
The infidels living in the heart of the Holy Cities
Everyone will turn barbaric, infidel and wild
There will be no order or rule
The hatred will spread like fire in dry forest
The barbaric massacre soldiers
Slay the unbelievers believers
The savagery will each and every and cities perish


9
When start the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
Men will judge them according to their blood and their faith
No one will listen to the heart with children
They identify for as nestlings
And nobody will protect them from the hand stiffened gauntlet
Hatred flood the land who thought pacified
And no one will be spared neither old nor the wounded
The houses will be destroyed or stolen
Some take the place of other
Everyone close your eyes not to see women raped

10
When start the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
Everyone will know what is in all places of the earth
We see children whose bones break through the skin
And one whose eyes are covered with flies
And that which hunts like a rat
But the man who will turn away the head
For he will care that it
This one will give a handful of grains as alms
While he sleeps on bags full
And it will give with one hand he will take the other

11
When start the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
Man will all merchandise
Everything has its price
The water tree and the animal
Nothing will really set and everything will be sold
But then the man will be more than meat weight
Barters his body was like a piece of meat
We take his eye and heart
Nothing is sacred or his life or his soul
We play his body and blood as a carcass skinning

1 2
When start the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
Man has changed the face of the earth
He wants the Master and Ruler of forests and herds
It has dug the ground and sky
And traced its path in the rivers and seas

But the earth will be naked and barren
The air becomes hot and the water is foul
Life fade for man deplete the world’s wealth
And man is only as a wolf
To hate him

13
When start the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
The child will also be sold
Some will use it as a quintain
To enjoy his new look
Others treat it as a servile animal
The sacred weakness will be forgotten child
And mystery
It will be like a foal that stands
Like a lamb being slaughtered bleeding
And the man will be nothing more than barbarism

14
When start the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
The eyes and minds of men will be prisoners
They are drunk and ignore
They take the images and reflections for the truth of the world
It will make them what is actually a sheep
While predators will
Raptors in the herd will better guide to the abyss
And set them against each other
They flay to get their wool and skin
And if he survives man will be stripped of his soul

15
When start the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
Reign of the Sovereign without belief
They will order the innocent human crowds and passive
They hide their faces and keep their names secret
And castles will be lost in the forest
But they decide the fate of any and all
No part in the meetings of their order
Everyone will be true serf and freeman believe Knight
Will rise only those wild and sometimes heretical cities
But they will first be conquered and burned alive

16
When start the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
Men will be so many lands
They look like an anthill in which the stick is pressed
They grouilleront and death will crush heel
Like insects distraught
Large movements push them from one country to another
Brown skins will mingle with white skins
The Faith of Christ to that of the Infidel
Some preach the sworn peace
But all this will be the war of enemy tribes

17
When start the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
Men want to cross all pregnant
The mother will have gray hair of an old
The way of nature is abandoned
And families will be separate grains that nothing can unite
This will be another world
Each wander arm as a runaway horse
Going in all directions without a guide
Woe to the knight who will ride this horse
It will no bracket and drop in the gap

18
When start the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
The men will rely more on God’s law
But want to guide their life as a mount
They want to choose their children in the womb of their women
And kill those they do not like
But will the man and take to God?
The Mighty will seize the best land and the most beautiful women
The poor and the weak are livestock
Each hut will keep
Fear in every heart will be like a poison

19
When start the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
A black and secret order has arisen
His law will be the weapon of hatred and poison
It will always want more gold and expand his rule over all the earth
And his servants will be linked by a kiss of blood
Righteous men and the weak suffer his rule
The Mighty will start its service
The only law that will dictate that in the shadows
It will sell the poison into churches
And the world will work with the scorpion in his heel

20
When start the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
Many men will sit idly
Or go without knowing where the empty eyes
Because they will no longer fight forge where the metal
And more scope to grow
They will be like a seed that can take root
Stray and humiliated poor and desperate
The youngest and oldest places often without
They will have the war for salvation
And they will fight themselves first and they hate their lives

21
When start the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
Diseases of the water from the sky and the Earth
Hit man and threaten
He wants to revive what was destroyed and protect what remains
He will fear coming days
But it will be too late
The desert will eat the earth and the water will become deeper
It will drip some days taking everything like a flood
And she missed the next day the earth
And the air will eat the body lower

22
When start the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
Earth quake in several places and cities will crumble
Everything we built will not listen to the wise
Be threatened and destroyed
Mud submerge villages and the ground opens beneath the Palace
The man obstinately because pride is his folly
He did not hear the repeated warning of the earth
But the fire will destroy the new Rome
And rubble accumulated
The poor and the barbarians will plunder, despite the legions abandoned wealth

23
When start the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
The sun will burn the earth
The Air will be the veil that protects the fire
There will be a curtain holes
And the burning light will eat the skin and eyes
The sea will rise as a boiling water
Cities and shores are buried
And entire continents disappear
The men took refuge in the hills
And they rebuild already forgetting what happened

24
When start the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
People are prepared to live mirages
The senses are deceived and touch what they believe is not
They follow paths that only the eyes will
And the dream may well come alive
But the man will know more separate what is from what is not
He lost in labyrinths of false
Those who will give rise to mirages
Will play the naive man by deceiving
And many men become rampant dogs

25
When start the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
The animals Noah had embarked on his ark
Will no longer be in the hands of man
Animals that transformed according to his will
And who will care about their living suffering?
The man has made of each case it will be required
And he will destroy in countless
What will become the man who changed the laws of life
Which has made the animal living a lump of clay
Will it equal to God or the child of the devil?

26
When start the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
It will be afraid to child rights
Poison and despair will watch
We will not desired for itself and not for him or the world
It is hunted for fun and sometimes you will sell his body
But even those who will be protected by his own
Is threatened to have the dead spirit
He will live in the game and the mirage
Who will guide since there will be more teacher
Nobody has taught him to hope and act

27
When start the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
The man believe God when he is nothing more than birth
He hit always defeated by anger and jealousy
But his arm will be armed with the power it will have seized
Prometheus and blinded he can destroy everything around him
It will dwarf the soul and he will have the strength of a giant
There will move a huge step, but it will ignore what path to take
His head is heavy to know
But he does not know why he lives and dies
It will always be the fool who gesticulates or child whines

28
When start the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
Whole countries will fall prey to war
Beyond the Roman Limes and even on the former territory of the Empire
Men in the same cities were slay
Here is the war between tribes and there among believers
The Jews and the children of God will not cease to oppose
And the earth Christ will be their battlefield
But the infidels everywhere want to defend the purity of their faith
And there will be in front of them that doubt and power
Then death shall go everywhere as the standard of a new era

29
When start the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
Many men will be excluded from human life
They will have no rights or roof bread
They are naked and have their bodies for sale
We further reject the towers of Babel opulence
They grouilleront like remorse and a threat
They occupy entire regions and proliferate
They listen to the preaching of revenge
And they launch an assault on proud towers
The time will be income of the barbarian invasions

30
When start the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
The man will be entered into the dark labyrinth
It will be afraid and close your eyes because it will see more
It will challenge any and fear at every step
But it will be pushed forward because no stop will be permitted
The voice of Cassandra is yet high and strong
He did not hear
Because it will always want to have more and his head will be lost in the mirage
Those who are his masters deceive the
And there will be only bad shepherds
When it’s full of the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand

31
When it’s full of the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
Men have finally opened my eyes
They will no longer be locked in their heads and in their cities
They will see and hear from one point to another of the earth
They will know that what strikes one hurts the other
The men form as a single large body
Each of which is a fraction
And they together constitute the heart
And finally there will be a language that is spoken by all
And finally born and the great human

32
When it’s full of the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
Man has conquered the sky
It will create stars in the big dark blue sea
And sail on this brilliant nave
Ulysses new companion to the Sun Odyssey Celestial

33
When it’s full of the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
Men will sink under water
Their bodies will be new and they will fish
And some will fly high above the birds
As if the stone does not fall
They communicate with each other
Because their mind is so wide open that collect all posts
And dreams will be shared
And they live as long as the older men
He is talking about the Holy Books

34
When it’s full of the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
The man knows what is the mind of everything
Stone or water of the animal body or facing the other
It has unlocked the secrets that the old gods had
And push door after door in the maze of new life
It will create with the power and burst a source
He will teach the knowledge of the multitude of men
And children know the earth and the sky than any before them
And the human body will be expanded and skilled
And his spirit will enveloped all things and be owned

35
When it’s full of the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
The man will not be the only sovereign because the woman will take the scepter
It will be the great teacher of future time
And she thinks she will impose on men
She is the mother of the Thousand Year comes after Year Thousand
She spread the warm softness of the mother after the days of the Devil
They will be the beauty after the ugliness of barbarous times
The Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand turned into light time
We love and share
We will dream dreams and forth

36
When it’s full of the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
The man will experience a second birth
The Spirit will grab the crowd of men
Who communicate in brotherhood
Then announce the end of the Dark Ages
It’s time for a new force of Faith
After the dark days of the beginning of the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
Will open the happy days
Man will find the way men
And the earth will be ordered

37
When it’s full of the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
Paths go from one end to the other of the earth and the sky on the other side
The forests will again be dense
And deserts have been irrigated
The waters will again become pure
The earth will be like a garden
Man watch over all living
Cleanse it stained
He will feel the earth as his home
And it will be wise thinking of tomorrow

38
When it’s full of the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
Shall be as an unresolved
We know everything about the world and body
We heal the disease before it appears
Each healer will self and others
It will be understood that we must help to maintain
And the man after closing time and greed
Open his heart and his purse to the poor
It will feel a knight of the human order
And so it will be a new start time

39
When it’s full of the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
Man has learned to give and share
The bitter days of solitude will be buried
He will believe again in the Spirit
And the barbarians have acquired citizenship
But that will come after the wars and fires
That arise blackened rubble of the towers of Babel
And he took the train grip
That is ordered chaos
And that man finds the right path

40
When it’s full of the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
The man knows that all human beings are bearers of light
And they are creatures to meet
It has built new cities
In heaven on earth and the sea

It will have the memory of what was
And he will read what will
There will be more afraid of his own death
As it will in his life lived several lives
Light and he will never be extinguished.

Source: Book Of Prophecies (From The Eleventh Century)

Sources

(1)http://michelduchaine.wordpress.com

Divine Feminine Sources

A gathering of gold for you, my readers.....(send me your faves as I work on updating this resource list!)

http://www.annebaring.com/anbar06_div-fem.htm

Article on the feminine in Sufism
http://home.earthlink.net/~drmljg/id8.html

Some quotes and thoughts on the feminine on Gaiam
http://blog.gaiam.com/quotes/topics/feminine

The Holy Spirit as The Feminine Aspect of the Deity
http://holyspirit-shekinah.org/_/holy_spirit_the_feminine_aspect_of_the_godhead.htm

Transpersonal Musings...
http://www.transpersonal.com.au/kundalini/divine-feminine.htm

Divine Feminine Yoga
http://www.divinefeminineyoga.com/

Divine Feminine Shamanic Circle (Black Mountain N.C.)
http://sourceforwellbeing.com/divine-feminine-shamanic-healing-circle-2

Writings from the Goddess Studio
http://www.goddess-studio.com/default_files/writings.htm

More to come....

The New Wayshower

Built within the very heart of the All she resides in harmony with her consort, never another but who she is, no separation but an integrated part of her.  In the great body of this All, though, parts of the body do not realize what they are in relation to this great Mother, the divine feminine.  For reasons that are their own, they have been under the gaze of the masculine side of Her.  His feminine has receded just as she has been denied the awareness that is hers. 

We all know how this has played out here.  It has been a very hard time for the feminine.  We have been caught in a wild torrent of denial in coming to our own collective self realization.  It has been difficult to day the least for how the feminine has been treated in this world.  Property.  Powerless.  Denied.  This has been hard.  Very hard.  And certainly there have been billions who have suffered over a long time.  But the tide is changing, and we can know something different if we can just be ready to simply set aside what has been and let the past be the past. 

For the last hundred years, She has been asserting her power, her right to parity in the world. As soon as she began doing this, the days of paternalistic control were numbered.  Slowly, the pieces have been coming together.  Brave women who asked "Yes, but why is it that way?  It can be different!" have been the ones who have helped to bring change to the world.  In the United States, for all our talk of freedom and liberty, we have been marvelously one-sided.  Until we got called on it, and we had to begin examining our talk to match our walk.  Women stepped out from the shadows and into the bright light of awareness.  Her walk was her own.  She won the right to vote, the right to work, the right to question consensus reality.  the right was always hers.  She had to assert it in order for that to happen. And she did it. More voices joined in the chorus and over time, conventions have changed. 

It has pressed for understanding who She is in this new context.  Was the Women's Liberation Movement somehow robbing women of their femininity?  Were men somehow less manly when they chose to stay and care for the children at home instead of going out there and bring home the bacon?  All kinds of questions have been raised in our collective examination of what this new landscape represents to us.  We have been trying to figure it out.  It has been a bit like a set of clothes that was new and fit differently than what we were used to.  Did it look right?  Does it feel right to us where we are headed?  Some of the questions sought to take us back to the safety of convention while others sought, perhaps blindly into some new world.  And yet, even in the seeming dark, we have been feeling for an as-yet unknown that we know.  Deeper down, we know what it is we are looking for.  We are being guided along.  Carefully, gently, certainly.  Powerfully.  Irretrievably. 

What has been a movement of women will be a movement of humans.  In an interesting twist, what women are asking for will deliver to men the very thing they will need as much as the women.  As women have asserted themselves in what may have felt like a more masculine character, so too will men begin, are beginning, to feel their more sensitive natures.  It is okay for women to be more balanced in themselves.  It is okay to carry masculine traits in helping them to manifest their greatest dreams.  And men, too, are now more free to discover parts of themselves that society seemed to suggest was not desirable.   The walls are beginning to soften.  And just now, as I look at the kids I see coming up in college, I see such a mix.  I see men who are not afraid to be gentle, soft, kind and nurturing.  Women are more assertive and they are not considered less womanly.  The men are as masculine as ever.  More balanced.  Less polarized. 

This new movement will continue as our society will continue to change and even build steam.  the result? I think some of it will be hard to predict completely, but its results will be our new experiment in becoming collectively. 

Awakening offers a unique perspective in all of this.  Loosened upon the world, our perceptions become more keen and go beyond mere appearances.  We can see people as they are in their soul-selves.  The soul self is beyond time while also dipping into it.  It is multidimensional.  It is more than just what we are here.  As a result, how we appear here is only one part of a larger story than what the awakened sense or perceive.  It is true that when we pass from this life into the next phase, we tend to appear to others as we were in the prime of our powers in this life.  We associate with the very best of what we were or are in this life.  And in the same way, the soul in this life can appear differently than just what we see on the surface physically.  Someone who is of advanced age may still feel quite young and thus, that will be how they appear to others across vast distances and without benefit of the physical senses.  Or they could appear older.  Or just completely different.  Maybe someone with light hair appears in their soul self as having dark hair.  Short people are tall.  Tall people might be short and stocky.  Dealing with this difference is part of the next step in our sensory experience. It is now a norm rather than an oddity to me since all people are to some extent like this.  We are more than we appear. 

You also will find that what you think you know about what you are is limited by what your own senses provide you and what your own patterning in this life has been.  The feminine is dealing with a kind of identity challenge.  With centuries of masculine dominance the identities of women have been effects by this tide.  However, there is a pure current of the feminine that can be tapped by all of us, and this comes to us from still larger sources. You need only tune it in. You do this by looking within.  This is where women can learn about their deeper feminine identities beyond the effects of the last hundred centuries.  Digging deep through the quantum field, you can discover this part of you.  This goes for men as well as women.  But for women, I think the effect will be particularly healing.  When you become aware of this part of you, you might discover a similar disparity as I described earlier with physical versus soul identity.  I have seen this over and over; what we are on the outside and what we take for IT is often different from what is buried still deeper.  With those with the eyes to see in total innocence and soulfulness, the deeper self can be known, felt, touched upon.  It is a curious thing that another person seeing who you are helps to stir the awareness in yourself.  What this represents is a return to a zero-point, a kind of seeming "pure" state, even though I hate that word because it can be misleading.  This pure state is just your soul.  And your soul is just what it is. And every soul is beautiful.  Sometimes it is different from what you might expect.  My own soul-self was so different in some ways that it was a real challenge to relate.  And yet, I saw aspects of Him in me all along.  He had been popping up throughout my life and other lives, too.  the ego-oriented self had its own say in what it thought he should be based on convention and comparisons and lack of courage. 

I think that's just it.  We have drifted from these soul selves due to a lack of courage.  We fear what others might say if we were just who we are deep down. Maybe we might go into art instead of accounting or law.  Law pays the bills, but leads to a miserable life for a person with such dreams as that.  yet, we tell ourselves, we have to make those compromises.  We make the compromises because we do not yet fully understand that we are actually in charge of what it is we are creating.  Perhaps this is why, over their 20 year writing career, that Jane Roberts and her Husband Robert Butts helped to bring forth the words of Seth which was Jane's channeled or trance self who said over and over "You create your own reality."  It was kind of the source of every book in one way or another.  Perhaps this is because we so needed to hear it over and over until it got locked into the mass self and we began to examine what the ramifications for this might be.  So as we begin to look at this, we might realize that if things are not going so well for us, we can change it by changing our beliefs and feelings about ourselves.  the change that this leads to in how we feel also leads to change to the very events that manifest in our lives.  What was once impossible is suddenly now possible.  As more and more practice this as a kind of magic that would have been persecuted as witch craft in the past hardly leads to a raised eyebrow.  This is a very good development.  When we can be brave to pursue our dreams, we have a better chance in this type of environment or world to see things actually manifest in ways that bring us fulfillment.  We no longer need to huddle in fear within the little cave of our hidden selves. 

So as I step out into what I am, I ask that you be inspired to do the same. I cannot say what it will be like for you or how it will manifest itself.  that, really, is up to you.  It is up to what you believe is possible.  You see, there is a genie inside of you.  And no longer do you need to use this genie to strike back at the injustices done to you. As long as you wield the sword, you will also tend to die by it as well.  But if you hold the sword as a beacon of truth, then the truth will be your guide.  It is, you see, just a slight turn away from how you have been feeling and responding to it.  When you change the rules of engagement, you will change your world.  And this is the message I am bearing to you as I do the very same.  Brave.  Not fearful.  Brave to just be YOU.  that will be enough for you and the rest of the world because who you are inside is needed.  Every woman upon the earth has something so remarkable within that it NEEDS to be brought forward.  Just bring it forward.  Let others gaze into you to tell you what they see.  Let yourself get to know Her.  The same goes for men.  For them, knowing the native current of their compliment will aid in all sorts of realizations.  It will also serve to anchor a reverence for the feminine in the world that may not have been touched in quite the same way before.  And I may not have to tell you that it is time.  It is a marvelously creative time at least potentially. 

And it is in action that all potential is realized.  It is up to you.  In your own way. 

The new Wayshower is the feminine.  She is telling us, informing us, opening us in ways we have not been opened before.  Collectively.  Individually. It is She which will make a big difference in our world.  This will help balance the world, individuals, and pehraps bring about a more sane approach and attitude in the heart of all humankind.  

Bows deep....

Sacred Man

You want to know who he is so you may find him to make him yours.  He is the sacred man, the lover of your soul, the brilliant creature that will bear you to that place where all your dreams will come true.  But you should not look for him outside, for he is not there.  He is instead living in every man, but often lies so deep that he is not known in our world. Living in each man is the sacred man, and his flesh makes up the flesh of each man, regardless of what you think he is or is not. 

Just knowing this is enough to bring him out. He has been hiding for a long time.  In fact, he has been hiding just as long as the sacred woman has been hiding.  This is the condition of the world.  We are all this.  We are all one family of very scared people who have grown to fear love. To be love means you have to open up, and this is very scary indeed.  We have reasons galore that illustrate how opening only led to hurt.  We tell ourselves in the silence of our empty beds that opening up in this way is dangerous and must be avoided at all costs.  Even those who espouse opening up themselves are fearful of the hammer coming down. We are a world of fearful people who have their finger on a bottle that holds a genie inside.  We might KNOW that the genie is inside, and we might even SAY that we need to let him or her out, but in truth, it is easier not to.  It is safer. Just yesterday I was discussing the world of energy with some people involved in medicine in order to highlight how important I think it is to bring compassion to the medical field even in the face of this tendency some have to view people more like machines that need to be worked on.  the lesson in it was not to become attached to patients.  If you care too much, you will only hurt.  So the world grows harder and more caloused by the day.  These people remarked that I ought to have a show that talked about all of this.  I explained that I could read energy, that we ALL could....and that in seeing it, it might help people in the medical profession in many unseen ways.  I responded by pulling back, of feeling a twinge of fear.  if I had a show like that, I considered, people might think I was just a kook.  My fear is in not being understood. Fear.  And it bars us in some way from love.  Not love from others, although this certainly can happen, but from the one love that matters most.  I wont even say that this is a love that is us, even though it is.....it is more like the force that causes rivers to flow or the wind to blow.  It is wild and it is free and it is also powerful. It is freely given and spreads out through a garden like sunshine drenched on every leaf.  Why, the sun does not deicde which leaf will get to feel its touch.  No!  It is freely given.

And so we need to be more like this.  We need to come out of our shells, wake up and see that it is a new day.  Surely.  And when we do this I think we want to naturally support the very best in people instead of pointing to faults or shortcomings.  The Sacred Man has a gaze that burns all of that away.  It is just too much of a time waster.  In Him lies a great pulse of life that will shine through everything and will be one part of the knitting back of our world.  His voice will be in the stars at night, and his warmth will be like that of the sun. you will feel his shower of photons upon you, each small particles of realization of how things must be.  He carries a dizzying pulse of bliss that begs to be released.  He is a lover beyond words.  He is startling in his approach and swift in his decision. His touch is perfect and his gaze is steady.  But the only way he can be is if you too are anchored in the same kind of place.  It is a funny thing; he can be all around you, but you will only know Him when you yourself wake up to what he is already within you. 

He is one half of the world that we know.  He knows he is not the whole world and honors the other half.  He does not have to fear making mistakes.  He is utterly without actions that could lead to such things.  He has resolved into the most basic and fundamental of ways to be.  He is pure radiance.  Enter into his light if you dare, or feel his radiance falling all around you.  He seeks the other half of what he knows that he is growing to become. 

His presence is in every quivering leaf, every brook, deer, apple and dust mote in the stillness of space.  His essence is found in everything that is, that ever existed, and while you may go look for him as a singular entity, you will be captured by his multiplicity, perhaps confounded by it.  Each man that is carries him in him.  Are they the same?  This is difficult to explain.  We are all individual and universal.  He is certainly there in an almost parental way to us, but he takes so many forms.  Somewhere the essence resolves back to an origin as his many faces spread out like a vast tapestry.  How each man is serves as the filtering device that colors and shapes how his face has come to be known.  He can be many things, and his waters run deep and mix into so many different currents that it is enough to cause the mind to boggle.  What we know of him, though, is largely fragmentary in some respects, for he does not yet exist in totality on the planet.  there are those of us that are learning how to channel his presence so that he may bring what is his own gift to the world.  When you stand before him in this way when he is being brought into the moment, the world changes into a magical place.  Even as a woman who can channel the deep currents of her own sacred She brings a new caste and color to a room or world by her simply being Her, so too does this Sacred Man light up the room.  he is quiet and unassuming.  He can even go unnoticed if you don't know what to look for. 

But for those who can touch their own masculine within that is the Sacred Man, there comes ripple of energy so purely made of bliss, so potent and expectant and ready, it is as if a curtain is suddenly pulled back on the world.  It is little wonder that we have wrapped stories of gods around this man.  We do this to try and capture something that is transcendent.  In doing so, though, we also lose it. The story becomes more like a bookmark; it is a reminder of what we all know deeper down as the story of our own souls.  As we begin to remember, we also tend to tease him out of the cosmic matrix of being.  He shows up.  He glistens in the light.  He is made new by our expectation or intent. And there is nothing more rewarding for those who know how to bear him to this world.  It isn't even that it is a point of pride.  It isn't about that at all. There is no pride in it.  There is bliss.  this bliss is so strong it literally bleaches out all of the heavier considerations as all goes to white light.  He will eventually resolve back into forms that have no form, into light, then a golden glimmer, and then nothing.  Nothing, I say, except feeling.  He goes back to the primordial beginning of beginnings.  He is there like a King with his Queen. 

This is a part of what the divine is in all of us.  He ripples and grows within the awareness of the Collective Consciousness of the race.  He is turning and growing in strength as one by one, men will learn of his great secret, which they will find are their own secret.  this secret will become manifest moment by moment.  A new way of being will be revealed when the time is right.

Her Love

She was loved by a force so certain

he lived between the leaves of her story

and emerged as a perfectly concrete imagining

that went beyond all reality.

She moves into that vast ocean of bliss where he moves and ducks and weaves

with her

for her

near her

around her.

Goddess

her God

spelling out sacred syllables

words that bear worlds into form