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Pulling Back the Curtain on the Feminine Divine

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Is the Feminine Divine a personification of Earth, a mother goddess representing fertility, or Sophia, the personification of wisdom? Is the Feminine Divine an umbrella term referring to goddesses in all traditions and cultures? Does the “Feminine Divine” and “Goddess” refer to the same thing? Is the Feminine Divine a metaphor? Does the term refer to a process? An energy? An identity? Is the Feminine Divine a female version of God?

When I refer to the Feminine Divine, I speak of the Fountainhead of all goddesses, divine and mundane. She’s a master of all the arts and the supreme heroine, Queen of the spiritual world. She is the embodiment of wisdom, intelligence, and discretion. Some of her representatives in the physical world wield the power of destruction along with her potency of generation.

In her original manifestation in the metaphysical realm, she demonstrates that the highest expression and ecstasy of our Self is spiritual love. She elegantly engages unconditional, pure love.

Love’s attendants: generosity, compassion, discretion, forgiveness, wisdom, empathy, inclusiveness, and justice shine in her relationships with the Divine and all others.

The Feminine Divine’s body is saturated with the bliss of pure love. Her cloth is made of devotional love. Love fuels her every word, breath, and intention. Every movement of her hand or gesture of her eyes are guided by intense, rapturous spiritual love. She is concentrated love personified. She can be pleasantly contrary—even seemingly feisty—for in acting as herself she confirms the sanctity of individuality.

She guides us to understand that unadulterated love is the language and currency of spirit and the basis of divine cosmology. Love is the energy of creation, the reason for creation.

True love animates in relationships. Love expresses itself in action and is experienced through emotions.

The ecstasy of an engaged love that is reciprocated by one and returned by another, then sent back anew with greater affections, grows unbounded in a circular exchange filling the recipient and giver deeper and wider.

Love itself expands and intensifies in these exchanges. The Self’s satisfaction from divine, unconditional love surpasses peace and happiness and knowledge and all kinds of material prosperity. The gems of unconditional love belong to rugged, courageous individuals who stand in their divine identity as a spiritual person.

When we understand the secret cosmic principle that love, individuality, and variety are constituents of spirit, we will take up our pursuit of the Way of the Feminine Divine into our lives with utmost joy, urgency, gratitude, and relief. We will find at long last that which will fill the angst of our soul: heartfulness.

Though immersed in ecstasy, the Feminine Divine’s heart aches with a piercing longing that each one of us be enrapt by the love that has captured her. A love so powerful it commands the Divine to fall at her feet in submission, bewildered by the power of pure love, and anxious to experience a fraction of what the Feminine Divine herself relishes.

This state of Being in heartfulness that the Feminine Divine exemplifies is the state to which we can strive. It is the state of our original state of Being as supreme lovers. Human evolution is meant for us to become connoisseurs of unconditional love: offering it and receiving it.

Each of us, individual units of consciousness, is generated from love, is called to love, and our greatest longing is to be loved unconditionally. Divine, devotional love is the nectar of bliss as well as the essential nutrient for sustaining our Self.

Over the past thirty years, we have mastered our minds and thoughts and lifted our lives with mindfulness. We have evolved. Yet we still feel dissatisfaction: something is missing.

We’re missing deep heartfulness, learned through the principles, causes, and sustaining factors of pure, unconditional love and the Way of the Feminine Divine. But that’s for our next installment. Tune in.

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See you soon. Until then, to the Feminine Divine in men and women around the world,

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What is Bhakti, the Way of the Feminine Divine?

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Bhakti’s popularity is on the rise. The more interest grows, the more often I hear people ask, What exactly is the Way of the Feminine Divine?

The answers are often inaccurate, ill-informed, not comprehensive, and confusing.  I’m determined to change this.

Bhakti is an elaborate metaphysical, mystical, and philosophical wisdom tradition that teaches life is intelligently designed to give us the opportunity to master giving and receiving unconditional love to our Self, others, our environment, and the divine.

To help you understand, I’ll give you a framework by way of a quick comparison.

Bhakti is a way of Being, just as Zen is a way of Being. Bhakti is intentional heartfulness; Buddhism is intentional mindfulness.

Each way of Being has their  teachers. Chaitanya is to Bhakti as Buddha is to Buddhism.

The Way of the Feminine Divine can fill some gaping, numbing holes in our collective and individual hearts, give us meaning and make sense of our unique modern experience.

Our desire for pure love and reconnecting with the Feminine Divine is bulging out all over our secular and spiritual lives and we are so close to answers we can practically taste it.

Bhakti is equally applicable for both men and women, yet it is with special interest I encourage women to understand the power of the Feminine Divine and recognize our inherent advantage in developing its perspective and attitude. Women are wired to become generous masters of relationships and givers of unconditional love, though we generally only tap the limited, conditional side of our soul’s potential.

If one of your passions is to become empowered—if you’d like to see other women empowered and in places of leadership; if you support establishing women’s rights and equality, and ending the atrocities and abuse of women and children, then the lynchpin for finally grounding that effort is in our hands when we understand the power of the Feminine Divine and apply it in to transform ourselves and others.

A great responsibility and exciting gift is passed to us. As responsible universal citizens, we can to take the Feminine Divine into both our secular and spiritual circles and far beyond addressing just women’s rights and equality—the world is ill on many fronts.

Let’s take our roles as spiritual activists.

I like Bhakti as a way of Being. My life is rich beyond measure; I find peace in even the most distressing, disorienting situations.

This state of Being did not come without a price. I paid dearly and I’d like to help you avoid some of the spins and pitfalls I took and reach sustenance faster than I did.

My blog Little Ways of Being™ is my attempt to offer you this service. I’m committed to assisting you in your journey to bring more genuine love into your life, enhance your relationships, grow your creative muses, find your pure  Self, your voice, power, and gifts, gain mastery over your emotions with a wide-open heart, and allow you to tap into the power, intuition, and guidance of the Feminine Divine and pure love that controls and inspires everyone.

Understanding the way of the Feminine Divine and the state of Being in heartfulness, is simple to grasp, but takes practice to live. You’ll find a wealth of practical and intellectual material here to quench your thirst.

However much you choose to investigate the Way of the Feminine Divine, I believe you’ll find Bhakti worthy of attention, fascinating, elegant, interesting, provocative and very practical. There is truly a valuable nugget in Bhakti for everyone. Please take yours.

Please stay for a while and explore. Join our growing community to bring more heartfulness to our mindfulness  and sign up for the newsletter. Come back and gather more inspiration. Feel free to ask questions and let me know, How can I be of service to you?

I look forward to getting to know you. A million hearts for you and those around you,

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