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Awakening
the Goddess Within
by
Sharon
Shane
An
excess of masculine energy is the cause of many problems in the
world, and especially of our separation from Mother Nature, which
represents the Goddess or Feminine Principle inside ourselves. That's
why the process of rediscovering our feminine, spiritual nature
can lead us to a more balanced and fulfilling life. Here's how,
in the touching words of the author of the beautiful book In
the Garden of the Goddess.
As
a collective, human civilization is expressing an overemphasis of
too much masculine energy in the form of domination.
I am
referring to energy here and not gender, as both male and female
genders embody the same creative principle of the combined masculine
and feminine energies.
Taming
the masculine energy
With
this imbalance of excessive masculine energy, the form of our lives
becomes empty and lacking in content of any deeply felt significance.
Too much credence is then given to the rational mind allowing it
to talk us out of our feminine intuitive nature. The
voice of the logical mind tells us that imagination is pure fancy
and that our wild and free emotional natures must be controlled.
When
we are out of touch with our feminine intuitive nature, we are out
of touch with the Earth and all of nature. We, as humanity, then
think rationally that the immensity of nature and the natural forces
can and must be controlled.
In
such arrogance, the very essence of our own nature is denied and
shoved back down into the unconscious realm only to erupt in violence
in the external world wreaking havoc to humanity and the entire
planetary ecosystem.
The
feral kingdom of the primal garden of the Goddess, this realm of
the Soul, is our original nature. Attempting to repress this wild
erratic energy at the source of creation results in our ongoing
mission to dominate the natural elements, our environment and the
indigenous people who honor and respect the Earth. We view nature
and wildlife as the enemy, instead of befriending it as a piece
of ourselves in the totality of life.
With
the overemphasis of masculine energy, our natural sense of wanting
to protect our creation becomes overly territorial. The initial
sense of protectiveness turns into a non-cooperative, conquering
force.
What
in reality needs to occur in order for us to regain a balance is
a return to the Garden of the Goddess (or the Garden of Eden) via
our Soul. Then we can harness the elements of our natural environment
to work with us together in cooperation.
Working
with Nature, not Against It
In
working against nature and other races of humanity, we are literally
working against ourselves, trying to swim upstream in a downstream
flow of consciousness. No wonder we get so exhausted, and no wonder
we stand at the threshold of being threatened by the exhaustion
of our natural resources.
Without
the balance of the feminine quality of cooperation, large portions
of humanity with their acts of willful domination tread into pristine
territories to dominate other cultures. It no longer becomes the
will to manifest creation through imagination, but a will to impose
certain beliefs upon others that may believe differently.
Without
this level of the feminine cooperation to live in harmony, traditions
and cultures are swallowed up and synthesized into the tedious homogenization
of the dominant culture.
Our
natural environment offers a wealth of information from which we
can learn. Various cultures and traditions of humanity around the
globe also offer this same wealth of knowledge, if we could only
learn to share and cooperate rather than dominate and eradicate.
The
reflection of the creation dance of Spirit and Soul can be witnessed
in every aspect of nature.
The
Battle Against Ourselves
It
only takes a moment of recognition to realize that we, as the human
kingdom, have become increasingly out of step with the balanced
flow of life. We have wandered far off track from our initial steps
of remembering ourselves as powerful god beings, and this has led
us on the path of self-destruction and the subsequent destruction
to all of life.
It
has led us to the brink of literally turning our creative power
back upon ourselves and waging war with our essential nature. We
are battling with ourselves and, as is true of all wars, our planet
reflects the devastation we leave in its wake.
The
creative pulse within us drives us to create. But just what is it
that we are creating? In our search to express and explore the powerful
energies of our god selves, we have taken the path to building looming
towers of Babel paving a path towards the sky. Daily existence on
the sixteenth floor of a high rise building is almost as far away
from the call of nature as you can get.
The
human ego so often looks down upon its original animal nature with
disdain, disgust, and fear. In doing so, we disconnect from this
glorious wealth of sensory experiences. These choices to remove
ourselves from the original garden are based on our drive to evolve
through the sophistication of civilization, but are in reality our
vain endeavor to rise above our animal instincts on our return trip
back to the stars.
All
that is really needed is the realization that we are the stars.
In fact, we are the animals, the trees, the rocks and the Earth,
Sun, and Moon. We are all these things and more because we each
are a piece of God/Goddess. Within each spark of consciousness is
a reflection of the whole.
Reconnecting
with our Soul
We
have strayed so far from the garden of the Goddess, because we have
lost our connection with our Soul. The grip of fear of the deep,
dark, mysterious nature of our very Soul has hypnotized us so ardently
that we have lost touch with the soulful energies of the powerful
creative forces of our own nature and the mother of all nature,
the Goddess.
Through
this fear of our very own mystery, we have suffocated our Soul to
such an extent that its beautiful poetic voice has turned into cries
of pain and anguish. Deep within the recesses of our being echoes
the longing cries of our Soul to reunite with us in a conscious
loving embrace.
As
we gaze around our physical world, we witness the extinction of
animal species and plant life and the pollution of the natural elements.
We then attempt to chemically bottle the outdoors to bring it into
our high-rise castles so we can remain in our sterile environment
to avoid the nuisance of having an insect buzz around our ear.
If
we are adventuresome enough, we can still glimpse reminders of our
balanced wholeness in our natural environment, and can still experience
and remember pieces of Eden here on this beloved garden Earth. The
beauty of our Soul is mirrored to us in these pristine places.
Reclaiming
Our Spiritual Responsibility
This
imbalance between the masculine and feminine energies has allowed
our dynamic expressive Spirit to dominate our primal nature, and
that of the Earth. Our Soul cries out to us through the pain of
the starving and homeless people, while the upheaval of nature beckons
us to hear and respond to the tragedies of floods, earthquakes,
and other plights.
We
expend all of our creative energies to build our cities and monuments
only to have the forceful floodgates of nature wash them away. In
just a matter of moments, our foundations are shaken to their core
through the quaking Earth rattling us to awaken from our current
dreams.
Mother
Nature is trying to tell us something about our own nature.
Spiritual evolution is about reclaiming our spiritual responsibility.
Our power lies in our ability to respond. Can we respond on a Soul
level from out of the depths of love?
When
we are separated from our Soul, we miss the deep rich experience
of life passing through it in a somnambulistic state. We spend a
large majority of our time sleepwalking through our very own creations
unaware of the divinity of our god selves and our divine power to
create.
These
monuments we build to serve our ego purposes are like empty halls
and floors in consciousness waiting to be filled with the expression
of the beauty of the Soul.
A
New Meaning to Our Life
As
long as we continue to create from the rational, logical aspect
of our consciousness, the endless external search for fulfillment
will only result in more and more creation and construction of empty
halls and floors.
The
overemphasis of masculine energy will continue to focus on the shape
and form of the creation disregarding the feminine content and meaning.
Although the rooms and aisles may be filled to capacity with things,
the significance of life will continue to elude us. It will be a
never-ending merry-go-round of manufacturing “new and improved”
and “bigger and better.”
Our
search to fulfill this longing can only be satisfied by delving
into the very depth of our origins in the garden of the Goddess.
The Soul gives life to our meaning and meaning to our life.
Nature
has so much to teach us in regards to maintaining balance, but we
have shut out the voice of our own nature, our very own Soul. We
can't listen to the voices of nature, if we can't hear our own soulful
voice. Our answers lie within us and are reflected to us everywhere
in our external world.
To
once again listen to the intuitive voice of the Soul and understand
its language, we must quiet the voice of our logical, ego-centered
selves. Then our Soul will reflect to us everywhere the deeper meaning
of life.
There
will be no need to study or memorize the metaphors of this language,
as it will always be in the immediate region of your conscious awareness
through the voice of the Soul. It is a language that is experiential
from the deepest realms of consciousness.
For
eons humanity has allowed the imbalance of energies to unfold because
it was a tremendous lesson for us to attain balance, and the Earth
in her graciousness has allowed us to stage this drama in her theater.
It
is the feminine Soul working in cooperation with the masculine Spirit,
which holds the balance to life. A return to the feminine nurturing
and intuition is needed within each of us to tip the scales back.
As
long as we remain out of balance within our own inner energies,
our personal and collective external world will reflect this.
Copyright
© 1999 Sharon Shane - All Rights Reserved
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