THE DIVINE HEART + MIND 

There is a mystery at the core of our gathering. But before I speak of that mystery, I wish to speak to the nature of The Divine to the best of my limited understanding. 

 

The Divine ultimately is formlessness and form, the unmanifest void and the manifest realm… a dynamic interdependent “immanence”. We can say that it is omnipresent, non-dual, meaning it is not this or that, not one or the other.

 

This creative force, this omnipresent consciousness feels so abstract to our dualistic time and space bound reality, that we have an understandable need to put the inexplicable into a tangible form… some”thing” that we can literally relate to. Thus, we tend to attribute human characteristics to the unknowable, most commonly male and female and their associated qualities.

 

The Divine being non-dual is neither anthropomorphically male or female. Our concepts of the Sacred Feminine and the Sacred Masculine are our constructs applied to the unknowable. The numerous personifications; gods and goddesses are likewise constructs of our psyche’s need to personally and collectively interact with that which created us.

 

In this context, our experience of The Divine as represented by the gods and goddesses we have assigned to the unknowable, are at a level where we can most easily approach such a profound and abstract concept as The Divine... that is “every”thing and “no”thing at the same time.

 

And now the mystery....what happens seemingly out of our need to create a relatable God is a phenomenon beyond our current understanding… The Divine, the unknowable, immanent, and omnipresent in turn then interacts with us as those forms.

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Our group will be an exploration of this profound mystery.  

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