| For thousands of years we have looked out to the | | | | Feminine values all matter - living beings and nonliving |
| heavens or inside ourselves to contemplate God's | | | | natural objects and also every part of all things - as |
| nature. In the process of seeking into a vast emptiness | | | | important to the health of the whole. She recognizes |
| we have forgotten about the sacred power of the | | | | our mutual interdependence and connectedness to all |
| present moment which is creatively happening through | | | | things for survival, well-being and evolutionary vibrancy. |
| us and in the world around us. It is time for us all to | | | | She places a great deal of significance on having good |
| move beyond culture's left brain focus on a | | | | relationships based on mutual cooperation and she |
| disembodied and transcendent God, a focus which has | | | | uses intuitive, instinctive knowledge. |
| split apart spirit and matter (mother). It is time to bring | | | | Moving Into Whole Brain Thinking When women and |
| God back the fullness of all that exists. | | | | men remember what the Divine Feminine really values, |
| In Western cultures women and men are taught to live | | | | we realize we must include all perspectives to gain an |
| in their minds (left brain) and to doubt their own intuitive | | | | understanding of the wholeness and connectedness |
| and instinctive knowledge (right brain). By primarily | | | | of life. To do so we must dive fearlessly into the |
| valuing the left brain hemisphere, we become | | | | mystery of the pain and suffering that is part of the |
| disconnected from our bodies and from nature and | | | | great feminine initiation into the cycles of creation. We |
| we limit our potential creativity and our intellectual | | | | honor the Great Mother Goddess when we embrace |
| flexibility to fully experience and understand our lives | | | | life as it is. She embodies the wisdom of forgiveness |
| and the world. | | | | and turns us to what is hidden in darkness to be |
| Whole Brain Thinking - Honoring the Divine Feminine | | | | reborn in a powerful new way. We can then focus on |
| How can we understand and experience the nature of | | | | the present moment where anything is possible and no |
| God in her Divine Feminine aspects of fullness and | | | | separation exists if we listen to and respond |
| love while still honoring her Divine Masculine aspects of | | | | courageously to our intuitive wisdom. |
| emptiness and freedom? We can begin by becoming | | | | With greater understanding of the differences |
| more consciously aware in daily life. Then, as we | | | | between right and left brain thinking and appreciation of |
| mature and evolve in skill and wisdom, we will learn to | | | | what the divine feminine values, we have the |
| connect with the eternal, cosmic mind of God. Most will | | | | opportunity to return to the beneficial wholeness of |
| find that they have reversed this process because of | | | | both the masculine (ascending) and feminine |
| our culture's predominate focus on a distant God who | | | | (descending) aspects of God united in oneness. |
| dwells in Heaven. Either path still leads to the One so | | | | "The only way to transform emptiness is to develop |
| that the essential task is to combine and then integrate | | | | fully in the world of form. The transcendent and |
| the two aspects of God to form one whole, non-dual | | | | immanent worlds have to flavor each other in the |
| perspective. | | | | vehicle you were born with." - Ken Wilber |
| "When you seek to know God, you will know nothing | | | | Integrating Divine Feminine and Masculine Principles Into |
| and everything at the same time." | | | | Your Life Reawakening to the divine feminine is a |
| What is Whole Braining Thinking? Whole brain thinking | | | | union of embodying her principles in our daily lives as |
| is the ability to use both the left and the right brain | | | | well as intellectually integrating and including the bright |
| adeptly. The corpus callosum facilitates this connection | | | | light of masculine consciousness. We combine these |
| - a large band of neural fibers that connects the two | | | | two by: 1. Enjoying the world with our five senses while |
| cerebral hemispheres. This connecting band of tissue in | | | | using our sixth sense - intuitive knowledge. Intuitive |
| women is thicker than in men, raising the question, | | | | knowledge makes something known by focusing our |
| "How is a woman's way of experiencing God going to | | | | attention on universal knowledge or collective |
| be influenced by this thicker bridge between the two | | | | consciousness. 2. Seeing the parts then integrating and |
| hemispheres?" Because women have an enhanced | | | | combining them to form a whole. Western cultures |
| ability to use both left and right brain hemispheres, | | | | teach the scientific method of separating the parts |
| women have the most to offer in healing the split | | | | from the whole and calling them truth. As we broaden |
| between the masculine way of understanding God | | | | our knowledge, we learn that just because something |
| (emptiness and freedom) with the feminine way of | | | | looks true, doesn't mean it's the only truth or absolute |
| understanding God (fullness, love and the present | | | | truth. 3. Being and Becoming - learning to meditate, |
| moment). | | | | pray or contemplate while staying in present time, in |
| What is the Divine Feminine Way to God? The | | | | our bodies, for our own needs as well as the |
| feminine IS the core of creation that is LOVE. Creation, | | | | moment's. 4. Traveling deeply into space to experience |
| love and the Divine Feminine are one and the same. | | | | emptiness, oneness and freedom and then returning |
| Every woman instinctively knows that she is at the | | | | and going deeply into the cycles and mystery of |
| center of this great creative mystery that is unfolding | | | | creation in order to become empowered and reborn in |
| in the moment. The Divine Feminine aspects of God | | | | a new way. We can master ascending (masculine |
| put us in touch with our own bodies, our own imagery | | | | way to God) and descending (feminine way to God) |
| and our own truth and in so doing we awaken to what | | | | at the same time. |
| is meaningful in our lives. She values all things as | | | | Exercises for Becoming More Whole Brained People |
| important to the health of the whole and recognizes | | | | use to say if you were logical, you were definitely |
| our mutual connectedness. Her fearless embrace of | | | | left-brained, and if you were creative, you were |
| feeling in the present moment can remind us of the | | | | definitely right-brained. This is no longer the case. New |
| incredible mystery and sacred power of life. | | | | research indicates that there's more flexibility in our |
| "Non-dual realization embraces both emptiness | | | | brains and we can train our brains to become more |
| (masculine) and matter/form (feminine) aspects. "Being" | | | | organized, creative or better able to process all sorts |
| and "becoming" are both parts of a non-dual, self | | | | of information. Knowing where our strengths and |
| realization." | | | | weaknesses are can help us strengthen the weaker |
| What Does the Divine Feminine Value? The Divine | | | | hemisphere. |