Since 1989, when I did my second pilgrimage, I discovered the feminine face of God. But for most religions, God is a man.
I believe that God has a masculina and a feminine face, rigor and compassion. So, I’d like to hear your opinion on The Feminine Face of God, or The Goddess.
Thank you!
Paulo
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Dear Paulo,
I must say that Paula’s response seemed somehow right to me, but a tad difficult to follow. May I say also that your question stems, I believe, from a mind with the ability to think unconventionally. I absolutely love that you ask such questions, and I will do my best to try to formulate a response that best expresses my ideas on the subject.
I have been influenced by all that I see around me. I have been curious about all religious concepts of God, and have found a common thread, i.e. their beauty. Still, as a child I was taught that the Catholic Church had it right and no other. I could not accept that, so I looked further and found that I could never really decide whether I was Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Buddhist or Jewish. I found such beauty in all that I saw.
I came to a point where I found myself needing to decide where I stood on such issues as religion, God, sexuality and right and wrong in general. I could not help but recall that in times of trouble I had always chosen to rely on Jesus. I do believe with all my heart that Jesus carried me or rather my faith in Jesus carried me. So, as with so many other people in this world I find myself most closely aligned to the Christ consciousness. I believed all of the simple words of Jesus, in that there is nothing we can not accomplish as long as we believe.
I found the words that Yusuf (Cat Stevens) sings from his beautiful heart about all of the Prophets being brothers to be most compelling. I really see no need to order them as one above the other. I think that anyone can be like God, much in the way that Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ghandi were willing to face death for what they believed without resorting to violence. Mother Teresa was like God in putting others before herself. Native Americans regard and honor Mother Earth and are equally beautiful people. Buddhists always turn the other cheek, and that is in accordance with the most beautiful teachings of Jesus.
I realize that I have not really answered your question about whether God is male, female or both. I guess my best answer is that God resides in all of us. This is something that anyone who believes in God could hardly argue, but He resides to a greater degree in those who wish to know him. I also believe that a woman is certainly able to achieve this knowledge and power. The power is to be a vessel of God’s will. So the best that we can ever accomplish on earth is to love one another and to be willing to allow God to work through us. This applies to men, woman and children. God simply can not be completely understood but we can strive to know God through brotherhood, peaceful thoughts, love, kindness, generosity tolerance and selflessness.
I personally find beauty in all living creatures, but that beauty is found to greater or lessor degrees. I truly believe in the goodness inherent in mankind, but sometimes our environment causes us to gravitate more to the evil side rather than the good side.
I also believe Sigmund Freud was correct in pointing out that man created religions based on their personal idea of God, but the motivation for the creation of all religions was to keep order in civilizations. Religions then set guidelines to achieve control over disorder.
What I really wish would happen is that all of us could come together in understanding that our views are really not very far apart at all. Most of us want peace, most of us recognize the power of faith and of love and of hard work and charity. So, can I define a Supreme Being? No, I can not. I only know that wherever you find beauty, you find God at work.
My personal belief can best be summed by saying that I believe in a higher power and it would be impossible for me to define it, yet I would be lost without it. Beyond that I can say that every man woman and child should search within themselves to always be the best person that they can be, and that this is most easily accomplished by coming from a place of love and understanding rather than fear and suspicions.
Peace and love always,
Diane
Hi Aditya,
Your reply below is appreciated!! I will say a prayer to the female face of God, you don’t kill yourself working long hours :) Did you know women in USA on average have 15 hours less leisure time then men, because of dual-career couples? It sounds like the men in your part of the world work much longer hours than women do, to provide for his family… Female Goddess killing demons, certainly puts things in new perspective for me, and so does the Kashmir lady taking care of terrorists :) You have me thinking outside the box now!!!
Love,
Heart
Hi heart !
prayers said with a pure heart gets answed quicly it seems, that plant ( wonder why they call this place a plant which is actually a very complex set of machinery, mystry – enjoy ) shouddown is over today, and from today evening we can breath easy, we completed all tasks we set out to, very haphazardly, somehow. now we will have some analysis, hope people learn someting and plan better.
yes men in india work more, but that is not because they prefer to be hard working souls, its becauuse most of us have no life, no hobbies, nothing ! just please your boss and get a promotion and then u don’t know what u want to do. some people stay in the office for long hours to avoid their nagging wife or to escape the responsibility of the home, it’s easy to boss around in the office but at home wife and children will not allow anyone to boss around.
In hindu mythology whenever gods have been finally defeated by demons it’s the femal form of god ‘durga’ ‘kali’ who have rescued them by killing demons.
and if u look at it the gods are mostly lazy fellas who love to wine & dine and enjoy company of heavenly beauties ( apsara) whereas teh demons are the industrious chaps, they undertake huge penances, so much so that the same gods who get defeated by them are forced to grant those demons boons. it’s quite mind boggling. that kashmiri lady killing terrorists happned at the same time when indian women volunterred to guard borders. something ‘big’ is cooking !
love
aditya
Ahh, and once again we share minds. My first sentence in my book that I am writing now finally in English, reads… “What if God is a woman”?… and the last chapter will read … “Embracing your inner Goddess”. I hope it will be published next year so you can read it. Until then, I’ll keep your curiosity awake :)
Thank you for your neverending inspiration!
/Alexandra
Sounds interesting Alexandra, good luck with it.
Love
Pandora
what’s the title of the book?????
:-)
Dios,Diosa..
Dios hombre,mujeR?Dios esta en todo,en nosotros mismos en nuestras almas,y a su vez nuestras almas son parte de EL.
Para mi Dios esENERGIA,es vigor y compacion,como usted dice..es AmOR,puede ser hombre,mujer a la vez.
Desde muy niña senti que podia comunicarme con Dios,en la naturaleza,hablaba con EL atravez de una hermosa flor,cuando miraba al cielo o contemplaba los arboles en el campo..ahora mismo comulgo con El caminando por el bosque,observando mi querido e inmenso mar..
La religion siempre fue importante para mi,como religion ensi,muy mistico.Soy catolica,y creo mucho en la VIrgen Maria,tal vez ella es la parte femenina de DIOS,siempre estuvo,esta y estara en mi,es mi guia,mi puente..He sentido su presencia muchas veces en mi vida,su perfume ha incienso y rosas,en el templo de San Nicolas,y en la gruta de Lourdes,y me he emocionado con lagrimas silenciosas,de purificacion…
Creo que JESUS,es justamente,DIOS ,DIOSA hecho hombre,que sintio y vivio como nosotros,pero con un gran ,inmenso amor..Agape..para dar y reflejar a toda la humanidad…y se debio a eso.
Apesar de todo lo que nos pueda suceder,bueno o malo ,exito o fracaso,DIOS esta alli,aunque muchas veces no lo sepamos,el sabe cual es el momento justo para tocar nuestro hombro,nunca abandona..
Bueno,Paulo,quiero agradecerle,siempre ,se lo he dicho muchas veces ,aunque aca,sea la primera vez que escriba..agradecerle por su DON,por que hace magia con las palabras,y atravez de sus libros,me refleje en ellos,encontre parte de mis pensamientos,y consptos que estaban en mi,y no entendia bien…cuando releo sus libros,siento que estoy en un lugar conocido,,luminoso…Creo que es afinidad de almas..Como todos los que escribimos aca,esto tambien es obra de DIos,mostrando su mas hermoso rostro..
Hello Everyone, I just would like to share this childhood experience with the church..One of the many defining moments that enlightened me about ‘God’ even at a very young age that made me think of how important it is for children to be allowed to feel God with love instead of telling them to “FEAR GOD & OBEY HIS COMMAND”, lets bring up our children to LOVE & FEEL GOD & BE THE COMMAND…article is a bit long so thanks for your time…
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She was in year three when her teacher announced that the class will participate in the “first communion”..She heard about how important this is for the forgiveness of sins that she inherited from her parents , that her parents inherited from her grandparents who inherited it from forefathers who inherited it from her great great great ….traced back to the first couple Adam and Eve because they ate apples…she kept thinking how eating apples can be such horrible sins to the point that God killed them and burn them for eternity….God must be so cruel….anyway , confession and communion are very important for salvation.
She was nervous about the confession…very hard to think of at least five sins she committed..(“lying, quarrelling with sisters, envious of others who have food to eat, envious of other children who wear nice clothes and slippers, wishing that she has a home somewhere else “.)..those are the sins she was guilty of. So much more than what Adam and Eve did, therefore she is worse than them… Oh, she hate the thought of the fact that she is worse, but wait, “hate” is a “sin”…so she better accept that hunger is “God’s will”…
It was compulsory to participate in the confession except for the pentecostal kids, about 6 of them. They were the “outcast”. They will definitely go to hell because they don’t belong in the Catholic church..Those kids are the weird ones so don’t mix with them……
The librarian/religion teacher, was a mean,horrible,strict, god fearing, holy and prominent member of the church…She was in charged of the organizing of the students to go to church for confession.. On the day of the confession, candidates for first communion were the first ones in line…All the girls were wearing beautiful veils .. Made of white lace, some were beaded, which made them all looked holy and pure..The girl didn’t have any..Couldn’t find any at home..Mother didn’t bother for some reasons..The girl knew she was in deep trouble, she wanted to hide or just magically become invisible..The religious teacher spotted her .. Their eyes met…The girl’s heart beat so fast as if it wanted to come out of her chest…She was very scared…The teacher, pulled her out of the line dragging her by the ear…In her mind, she was pleading for the teacher not to do it…Out of the line in view of all the students, she was paraded like a criminal, the most sinner of all…
“What is wrong with you!!?”..the teacher screamed on top of her voice. so that everyone could hear.
“You knew that you have to make a confession, you can’t be in front of the Father (priest) without a veil…very disrespectful!!!.”..
Still pulling her by the ear, the teacher walked her back and forth the long line of the students to show her the veils, the beautiful veils other girls were wearing. The girl feeling so guilty and ashamed of herself. Most of the students gave her that dirty look.. She wanted to melt..Still pulling her by the ear, the teacher shoved her back in line , hit the girl with her knuckles on the top of the head and lent the girl a white hankie to wear as a veil..The girl felt like screaming and kicking and maybe strangling that religion teacher..But it will be disrespectful and her head felt like breaking in half . She wanted to cry but can’t……..
” You know what to wear for your communion I hope!…tell your mother to make you a hankie if she cant afford a veil !”….
” Father please forgive me for my sins, I lied, I fight all the time with my siblings, I stole something from my friend and I did not bring a veil this morning “..
She did not tell the priest about being envious of others who always have food to eat, She lied about stealing . She never stole anything. She just mumbled and made up stories, ( the more sins, she comes up with, the more she ‘ll be forgiven , she thought ). But she did not tell the father about how much she hates that religious teacher.. The priest told her to pray 3 Our Fathers, 3 Hail Marys and 3 Glory Bes. She knelt down and prayed inside the church hoping that she’d be forgiven. She prayed from the bottom of her heart…
But, in her heart, she did not want to participate in that communion. She will never forget the stares of the students and how small she felt in front of them. Somehow, her mother managed to borrow a white dress and a veil and a pair of white shoes for her to wear to communion. She was told that if the bread get stuck on the roof of her mouth, it means her sins aren’t forgiven. As soon as the bread touched her tongue, it went right up to the roof of her mouth and stayed there until it all melted.. She kept it a secret, she did not want anyone to think of her as the “unforgiven sinner.”.. She had a couple more confessions and communions after that painfully unforgettable first one to feel some kind of belonging. But, the bread always get stuck on the roof of her mouth..When she turned 16, she emotionally and spiritually left the church . To her it is the coldest , unwelcoming, discriminating place of all and she did not feel the presence of a loving God in those big elaborate buildings called churches which are meant to be ‘God’s dwelling places’..
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When I left the church, I found God….I found the loving God who does not belong to any religious groups…I found God and experienced God within me, I found God in Nature and in the hearts of every person I meet….God took me home…The “Home” that I have been longing for since I was a child was here in my heart where God resides…
I have forgotten what I had for dinner last night, but I will never forget the face of that teacher and how humiliated I was being paraded..I will never forget that moment how my heart beat, the painful ear and the headache she gave…….But the most awesome part of this experience is the fact that now that I truly have found God in my heart, I no longer feel any hatred nor anger towards any who belittled me as a child….To me it is the most important blessing….not to feel hatred nor anger about the painful past..It is peaceful that way…
But, I will continue to feel anger towards those who constantly and purposely inflict emotional, spiritual and physical pains towards innocent ones for their own selfish desire to gain power over others..*hv
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“Rather than put label on yourself as Christian, Jew,Moslem, Buddhist,or whatever, instead make a commitment to be Christ-like, God-like, Buddha-like and Mohammed-like” … by Dr. Wayne Dyer
” Once you have learned to enter your inner kingdom, you have a special retreat within that is always available to you”. .by Dr. Wayne Dyer
“masculin controlled society”
yeah yeah i deffinetly agree with ya on this 1. but someone has decided to make it like that, the same as church and many other things in this world. so that’s why we got what we got today.
on the other side, people are too lazy or “busy” when it’s about discovering & it’s easier accepting things how they or cause somebody said so.
agree
What is male and what is female?
Is it female to be compassionate? Are men not compassionate?
Is it male to be reasonable? Are women not reasonable?
Are we automatically one or the other through the gender that we are or is it culture?
To a certain extent I think it depends on your own experience of the men and women around you to how you see each sex. If your experience of men was domineering, crushing etc. then maybe that is how you perceive men to be in general and vice versa.
God is Everything, otherwise there would be something greater than God, something that includes God and what He’s not. He is the Creator of all things, and all things are in Him. Feminity and masculinity are different faces of God, a type of polarity we can find in our soul.
.If God was a man, Something greater would exist, and It would be both man and woman.
.A creator can’t create greater than himself, especially when he is the Eternal.
===> God has feminity and masculinity within Him=Her
Hi All,
I love the lively discussions here, so thought provoking, and I would guess this is Paulo’s reason for the topic.
The choice is asking us to examine what we have been taught to believe and how we really feel about those beliefs. Change comes with examination and discussion of our societal beliefs.
I feel that what we know or think or think we know about GOD is not really the issue here, the fact that each of us wants to feel correct in our views about GOD is what is really at issue here.
If we stand outside our teachings and beliefs and only agree that GOD (or which ever name you prefer) created all that we know to exist, human, animal, bird, viral, bacterial, fungal, animate and inanimate, ect… no exception…..then I would have to conclude that GOD is both male and female and neither male nor female as to my way of thinking (and I could be wrong in my limited human mental capacities but not in my all knowing spiritual/soul capacity) that covers all possibilities…….and GOD is all……manifest and un-manifest in our existence as far as I know. GOD is everything and nothing all at the same time. Feminine compassion, and masculine action, potential and possibility, and ruin and decay recycling into other forms and everything in between, around, before, and after all those things.
Science has discovered that matter can not be created nor destroyed…..is that due to the fact that GOD is matter and that is all there is and all there will ever be, and this human experience we are having is just for entertainment and experience of something different and the fact that we humans don’t want to accept that we are bits of GOD acting as us in our ignorance of GOD is an experience we chose to play in for a time ( although time is but a creation to help this human existence be seperate but within GOD) that is all…….including us!
As you think so shall you be, your thinking creates your own particular reality and it is different and unique in relation to every other persons reality, but as humans we all want others to be like us, to fit into norms and thoughts and actions, just like us, because we can not see or believe that they really are just like us…….part of GOD, just like us, just like everything even those things we don’t yet know to exist. Our limited human thinking can not grasp such a huge concept…..I am you and you are me and we are GOD as GOD is all things. Ans so we debate instead of asking our soul to show us the truth of GOD. Our need to be right is stronger than our need to experience GOD in all that is…..including us! The duality keeps us confused, and the paradox is none of it really matters anyway……except to our tiny human egos.
“I am you and you are me and we are GOD as God is all things…” and let us not forget that if life started in Africa we are all mixed-race, so color should never be an issue.
Love
Hi paula !
not bad at all ! your submission that is.
what u have said is true, people prefer more and more people to accept their point of view, this way one reinforces one’s beleifs. it’s because of ignorance, when u know the truth, truth sets u free, them u may share your ‘expereinces’ but nothing too serious about it, no forcing each other.
u have nicely described the situation ‘as is’ from here to move to a ‘better’ world, this kind of dialogue where people across cultures and races participate, helps one see that ‘we are one’ and that will solve the problems despite the attempts by priests and polticians, because if there are no problems in teh world then thse two chaps loose their livlihood, although it will be good for them.
and ya none of it amtters anyway.
love
aditya
Would it change our feelings for God, if we knew if God belonged to a certain gender? Would we speak differently with God?
Do children care if their parents are rich or poor, if their parents had black hair or blond?
Children don’t care, they just love their parents and they feel safe if their parents love them back.
Same with God and us. It shouldn’t matter, since it is love that really counts.
Samir
I think it would be very interesting if we could erase all the information we received in our childhood about God.
or how we would describe God as a color?
or as a dance?
in a poem?
sometimes when I paint, I get so fragile and grateful. For me, that is to experience God. I can not say that the experience is feminine or masculine.
Love
Sari
I agree because this is my experience too. At times I lose myself to the creative process entirely, forget what I am doing and this is when I produce the best stuff.
It is humankind who are hung up on gender, who ascribe particular ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ characteristics and determine correct ways of being ‘male’ and ‘female’. Throughout history such descriptions have changed and been challenged. There is no consistent view on such matters across cultures.
In short, our ideas about god’s gender come from our own limiting perspectives. I’m sure that god doesn’t have a gender – why would s/he need to?
Rosa
After reading Savita’s comment on the resistance to see the feminine part of God, I went back to the expression of Mr. Coelho’s. He says that he believes that God is man and wowan, vigor and compassion and he would like to read our opinion what he think of the feminine side of God. OK. The feminine part … what distinguishes me from the “males” in my surroundings … no, what is for me my feminine part … First of all, I have the great gift of carrying a child in me and giving life … consciousness of the unique being that is born and aware of all the process to carry and deliver (so that is one side of the feminine part of God) What is there between my child and me … ready to give my life, unconditional love, empathy, sensibility, intuition, capable to discerning the needs before expressed, capable of sacrifice for the love of the child. What is there between me and my family? Responsible, capable of structuring, organizing, keeping, acting on one thing without forgetting the other things … or maybe a male side of me that? J Romantic in the soul, loving colours, beauty, capable of being in gaze over a flower … but again, the male also … so, better mix the two blends and make a perfect entity!!!!!! I wish to read what others see as what could be the feminine side of God!!!!!! Thank you. Jojo.
You made me think:
When I see god beyond all categories, but I want a feminine side of god, what would I do:
I guess I would ask myself, what I think is feminine.
Then I would try to make “parts of god” so I get this pure feminine…
If I would really do this and I would succeed, then I would know what I get – the pure feminine. But the question would be, what is the rest?
The other part? Is it pure maskuline then? I do not believe that…
What happens if we do it the other way round? Taking the pure maskuline… what is the rest?
Regardless which way we do this,
is the rest all, more, less or nothing?
Anyway, I guess I would not even be able to define the feminine or the maskuline by my self. But who is the expert on this?
Would we finally use biological definitions, as they are so easy and clear? That would be really strange, wouldn’t it?
thanks for your post Jojo!
Bernd
Hi everyone!
In 2002 I was on holiday in Egypt, at the Red Sea. There were many things happening that brought me in touch with my personal legend at that time. On my 1. day I walked direction downtown and landed in a 5* hotel because I had followed the music that I had heard from outside. I met a young woman, from Germany like me, who asked me if I was interested to work with her in the internet café of this beautiful oriental Hotel. It took me 2 weeks to get rid of my thoughts about this being crazy to do – and I accepted her proposal and stayed all in all about 8 months at the Red Sea. He5r name was MARINA :-)
One night during my holiday while waiting for her at the bar to go out in a club, I was chatting with 2 guys from Austria. They were eco-farmers and one of them told me about a book he suggested I should read, he said something like “This is exactly what you need right now!”.
He was talking about the book “Maria Magdalena” from the Swedish Author Marianne Fredriksson. As I was very interested in Christianity at that time and for the first time of my life in touch with my own spirituality, I remembered this hint. Back in Germany after 2 weeks holiday to pack some more summer clothes for my stay in Egypt, I bought this book and read it during the first days back in Egypt.
It’s the story of Maria Magdalena but not from the bible-perspective. She is discribed as Jesus’ closest companion and wife.
In this story, after Jesus’ death some of his diciples ran to Maria Magdalena to ask her about what Jesus had really meant with his teachings because she had been the only one to know what it was all about – cause she loved him.
WOW! I remember how deeply I was touched by the idea that Maria Magdalena wasn’t a hooker but Jesus’ beloved companion and wife. And that she was his closest disciple- if it’s possible to speak in bible terms about it at all.
Never any Bible-reading had touched my inner string of truth so deeply as this story (which is a novel!).
And I think this was because I couldn’t -as a spiritual seeker- go with the Christian idea that the feminin was or pure innocence or pure sin. Duality, polarity is a matter of this world. For god there is no such separation. Neither between male and female or between good and bad. This is how I see it:-)
I am very grateful that I read this book during a phase where I was very open to my spirituality. If I would have “believed” only what’s in the bible I wouldn’t have discovered, that being human means being dual, being both: good AND bad, being body AND Soul.
And that deep within all of us, underneath the surface of our body, mind and emotions there is just Soul – a spark of god. There’s no extremity here, no good , no bad, no guilt and no sin, just Love, as God is love. This is my inner experience.
So, to me the feminin side of God is in every human being. It’s in the compassion, in the love and also in this very special strength when we face emotional challenges. Every man has it within himself too and I am sure that nowadays most people who are seeking their true spiritual nature are finding out that this is it. They are Soul, they are here because God loves them and we are all everything. Only in the human form God manifests into dual appearances like male or female.
I wish you all a happy evening and if you ever find that book from Marianne Fredriksson, check it out. Truth isn’t written in stone and not in books. It’s your heart telling you if something is true or not. Even reading Cosmopolitan you might have moments of recognizing truth. It’s not the bible or the pope or any other defining what truth is – but your heart.
Love,
Sonia*
I LOVE YOU!
How very well put! We must differentiate the human need to categorize and define, from our experiences with God. Sometimes words can have a little too much power.
God is everything and none of the things we know at the same time. I have a God above and beyond every understanding and at the same time so simple to connect to. My God has Not masculine or feminine pronoun. Rumi says “The I Is An Illusion. God Alone Is Real”
I would say The I, You, He, She is an illusion. God alone is real.
No, the I maybe means something appart, taken out from a whole, maybe Rumi want to say that we are all part of something linked, we are linked by LOve, even if the threads are not visible…
Love
Alexandra
once i saw a cartoon that showed
a little man playing violin
and a big angry face
screaming at the man:
MOOORE FEEEELING!
many of us are a bit like these two,
aren´t we?
the more we will walk more than talk the way,
the sooner things will change in our shared experience,
i hope.
peace
Hello again….Mr.Paulo.For me, God is everything.The only one that’s last forever.God is a all in our life. In the true meaning,GOD is always in ourself.Though we have different believeness through our religion but, the fact is we believe that God is what made everything not men or female but the almighty that conducted our world.God made us believe there’s moon and sun,star and univers,day and night,life and death,heaven an hell and everything that made God the greatest inventors ever in this univers.Human being can’t create this by itself….though Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking the greatest scientist can’t create this because the were human being. We can’t creat this.Pray for seeking his bless….but the fact is,WE NEVER see GOD.This made me believe there’s a supermasive creator among us…the one, called GOD.Non of Hhuman being ever seen GOD….but, the intermediataries always exist…..I ONLY HAS ONE HEART AND THERE’S NO OTHERS HEART IN ME….SO DO DEAR GOD.GOD IS ONLY ONE THAT EXIST AMONG HUMAN…..NEVER BE TWO AND SO ON……GOD IS NOT WHAT WE SEEN AND THINK BUT, THE ONE THAT CREAT THIS NATURE ; THROUGH IT ALL, GOD IS INFINITY AND ETERNITY….this is my believeness…..MY DEAR ALMIGHTY…..
Dear Paula,
Thank you for giving your readers this opportunity to discuss several matters and to communicate. I like the quote corner because it stimulates me to think and meditate. I bought you novels, and I am going to read them and have a chance to discuss what I read later, in the workshops. A new novel appeared this weak in the libraries
called: ” The Winner Stays Lonly”.Congratulations.
Well, according to the Bible, God is a spirit and we were made on his image. We look like God in our nature not in our bodies. Human beings have human feelings which we share with God such as love, tenderness, anger, satisfaction and so on. So, God is neither a man nor a woman. We refer to HIM as FATHER Literally not biologically.
Hello and namaste,
Thank you for asking the question. There are many thoughtful replies.
I’m afraid, that being human, we see ‘god’ as a reflection of ourselves, of our understanding. Our mind can not contain what it is. And if we are beyond clever, then, we perceive that actually, ‘God Is’. That is, the creator is everything. We are it, though we can’t see it. God is everything. It is. Its our personal eyes that can’t see it.
But love to you all – and again – thank you.
But!! Returning after watching the video. (the responses fooled me into replying about ‘what is god’)
Personally I have held athena as my breast plate for many a year without realising it.
Last year Kali Ma came calling and pulled me underground with her.
We are all aspects of Her divine nature. And dear sir, take a look at Inanna – she holds the true story of a goddess. The full life, death and rebirth in one.
Much love!
It s not the Church who decided.
Jesus speaks about his Father.
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This does not mean a difference in value, since Mary was the “Mother of God”.
This is a mystery.
In my opinion, GOD, this creative being of love, makes no difference whether WE are female or male. So neither should we care, whether (s)he is male or female since GOD will always “transform” into those beings with those features, we are longing for…
i think to define god, we better start using our soul’s eyes, not this material body, but what we already know, we’re a part of him, it should not be hard, god is u, me, everything put together…love.
I feel one with this nature, and everything all the time, do u too?
Anyways, happy living, happy endings, happy beginnings…
love u a lot, all of you.
bye bye.
muuuahz.
btw Paulo I think u look hot in blue :)
As a believer in a mixture of neopaganism, eastern philosophies, shamanism, and New Age I am a big believer in the Goddess, the feminine side of divinity. She represents the nurturing and maternal side, as well as fertility and bounty, our Earth, the planet, the Moon and the creation. She has many names, Gaia, Diana, Pachamama, and many others.
One can only feel sorry for people who close their minds to the feminine side of divinity.
The result of a predominantly patriarchal and male-focused society is the world as we know it today, many have forgotten the pleasures and joys of the life cycle in which a woman is at the origin and end of it all.
If men in general were more in contact with their feminine side and women with their masculine side, the world would be a better place.
I personally also feel that God is beyond being male or female… not limited by any gender,
However, there is a wonderful fiction book that I recently encountered: The Shack, in which God appears to the main character in unexpected forms. It also represents God in terms of relationship, and gives an interesting account for the biblical creation story of man and then the woman from his rib… so that there could be a balance in the cycle of relationship. Otherwise, man would have been left out of the birthing loop.
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Dear Amy, I haven’t read the book, “The Shack,” but there is a movie which I absolutely adore, “Evan Almighty,” in which God is portrayed in a rather non-traditional form – an African American male, played by Morgan Freeman. I just love things like this, which cause us to question our hidden assumptions.
In reading the posts so far, I have noticed a large number of people who are holding to the claim that God is neither man nor woman, but devoid of gender. This is all fine and good, theoretically speaking, I suppose, but it also seems to me, still, as a sort of resistance to the concept of God as a woman, a resistance born out of that same patriarchal framework of thought.
No one bothers to question the notion of God having a gender so long as we continue to refer to God as a man – using words such as “He,” “him,” and “his” to refer to this entity. Somehow, this doesn’t bother people at all. But, as soon as we broach the subject of God as a woman, suddenly, all these people pop up to voice the opinion that God is of NO gender at all.
If this is the case, and people really feel this way, then why does all of Western society continue to refer to God in masculine terminology? Why does gendered terminology only become “problematic” when the feminine is used? If so many people are so sure that God has no gender, then why was not the Bible edited a long time ago to read “God/ess” rather then “God,” “S/he” rather than “He,” “her/him” and “hers/his” rather than just “him” and “his”? Why does this sort of resistance to gendered terminology ONLY arise as soon as we begin to refer to God in the feminine? I never noticed anyone arguing against the use of gendered terminology when God was being referred to in masculine terms.
To tell you the truth, I feel like this is simply a way of derailing the discussion – just another way of avoiding even entertaining the thought of God as a woman. The opinion seems to be that if God can’t be referred to as a man, then we’ll refer to God as of no gender at all.
Sincerely,
Savita
Dear Savita, so we have to remember also how many important jobs are called with only a masculine variant…Prime minister, president,judge, professor, doctor, barister…Is only a little time ago things started to change, I mean for the history, aroun 1900. Women were much more disregarded. I think at the attires saints are wearing…on pictures from long ago. Maybe will be updated if we will be the people trying to figure out how they look. More, what about the colour? Who saw an black angel? I mean in European culture, all over only white, blode hair angels. A bit discriminating, what. I think all is a big mistery.We just have to recognize that some things we will only find out on the other world… The transcendental veil are there among us and the unknown, some think between us and Divine.
Dear Savita,
I am sorry, but I disagree with you!
I am grownup with the idea of the genderless God. It has nothing to do with not accepting him/her as Goddess. In fact I find it as strange for God to be masculine as to be feminine! Regardless, I think the relation to ones lord is like a love story it is too personal and differ from one individual to other but this does not mean at all that one love story is more genuine or true than the other..
The Sufi Ibn Arabi writes: “Every person professes a special belief in his Lord, of whom he knows according to the knowledge he has of himself. Thus the faiths differ with the Lords, just as Lords differ, although all the faiths are forms of the one faith, just as all the Lords are forms in the mirror of the Lord of Lords (the Godhead).”
Love
Tarek
exactly my point, thanks Savita for this.In Hinduism there are Gods and Goddesses so I don’t have a problem with that, i have a big big sore issue why when my culture does not deny the fact that God is also female, do people still refer to God as Him/He, and not just that, in our conversations as well,”He who never fell never climbed.”, etc.I don’t understand.And then, when I ask them why, they ask me why i have a problem with everything?Why can’t people change, why is it so hard for them to understand and accept something good?
It is rightly said,’you can take the horse to water but you can’t make the horse drink it.’
Here I have a link:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9vPNlqoYUtY/SUpj7Vq5zGI/AAAAAAAABXk/eXtU6uN5cNg/s400/Vishnu+Laxmi+3.jpg
The accept (Hindus) the fact that Goddesses(Laxmi) exist, and here still, they have to show that she’s at the God’s (Vishnu’s) feet.
On some show I saw that both Goddess Laxmi and Lord Vishnu were shown as one…so may be to bring monism here, it doesn’t matter who’s at who’s feet, in the end we’re all one…but the society is being given some wrong message here, not everybody interprets things this way.
I wish they’d change.
The Gita is my only abode.
“I am everything and I am nothing”-Lord Krishna says to Arjuna.
<3
Take care…Ankita.
Dear Savita,
It could be that these people who are referring to God as genderless are saying that because that’s they truly beleive in it.
I consider myself to be a feminist and one who will argue that God is only feminine(no masculine aspect at all) to teach the people who have oppressed the feminine Godesses a lesson.
But i truly beleive God/Godesses (which is the name given to a supreme power) is beyond concepts of male/female , human/animal, animate/inanimate.
This “supreme power’ has created so many unique and distinct creatures(we humans being one of millions) on earth ..and who knows what else in other planets and galaxies.
I think it’s arrogance on the part of humans to try to box this supreme power into what their minds can envision: male/female.
If our male counterparts on this earth have made that mistake, we should not propogate it by insiting that we now get equal rights for Godesses.
And if we have to box this supreme power in something we can relate to…Why can’t God/Godesses be a virus which has no sex and yet multiples and proliferates easily and mutuates at will. We humans cannot do what a virus can do…but we still think we are on the top of the food chain – emotionally and spritiually.
Humans are the only known species to have advanced cognitive abilities because :
1- we laugh- animals have not….i say how do we know?
2 – we build all types of gadgets to fly..rockets etc and animals haven’t..i say maybe the animals have realized they have no need to and have better knowledge than us.
God/Godesses is not human. not animal , not inanimate…God is a supreme power.
love,
Laxmi
savita,
suppose u are right, then how does it help u.
remember that story in this very blog of the flock of birds dashing against a window. God is not for the masses, that is why it is said “ta meian do na samai” “road to goad is so narro that only one entity can pass, u. god is personal, whatever u feel / reminds u of godliness is your god, masculine, femine, a thought, an image. god is not important, godliness is.
love
aditya
Hi Savita,
You sound angry! This is an open discussion and it’s nice to hear the contrasting views of people, including yours, without judging their motives. I am sure this is what Paulo would like – he is not waiting for everyone to agree with him. This is why the blog is so popular.
Love and peace.
Theresa
Dear Savita,
Like you, i also questioned the bible and those who are fanatic to it and use it to control the minds of the masses..In one of the religious forums I stumbled upon and joined in, I referred to God as “IT”..to me God is simply PURE THOUGHT…. and this may sound weird but within me, is neither a man nor a woman … when i think and feel, I think and feel for both gender, because it is the only way I can sort of arrive to pure thought..But I was rediculed and was called arrogant for using ‘IT’ when I refer to the ONE.. Languages or words are very confusing sometimes.. Most of the time, it’s hard to find words to discribe what I wish to convey especially when it comes to God and religions and I noticed that others find it difficult to….. that is probably why there is a lot of conflicts between people when it comes to this subject..
But to me, ‘IT’ is neither male nor female..
All the evidences show that IT did not create man in IT’s image..Man created God …and the images of God that man created are creating havoc on this earth…so I hope, one day PURE THOUGHT will shine through to bring peace to mankind…
sending love..oxoxoxo
hazel
Dear Savita,
yes, and sorry – in what you say is some truth for my part:
I see the religios tradition I grew up in as the language that I use for communicating about spiritual things. I am so used to the word god as male AND genderless, that the word goddess can never have a genderless meaning for me. It always means ONLY female.
Also goddess (unfortunately) sometimes has a touch of “being on vogue” in religios things, as some main stream literature propagates the goddess – may be for less spiritual reasons.
Both things do not at all fit into what I feel about god. And I feel so terribly disturbed when reading god/dess and s/he that I cannot understand the meaning of a sentence. This is a graphical problem.
So I will fight with passion against the word goddess in a christian context and also against god/dess. Still I will respect the one who uses this.
My way to get close to god was by Trinities part of the father, so a male one.
My way to finally meet god was through music, love and nature. A way which I consider to be more female than male.
Peace with my spritual language, my religion, I found in the idea of family-Trinity and a word god, that for me is now beyond any category.
Live is too short think about the proper gender when trying that some important words are not left unspoken…
… but it is always worth thinking about what the one you talk to will understand… (which is a big problem in the world wide web)
So I hope you can respect me with my position, as I am looking forward to find another answer from you to one of my posts… whenever this will be.
Love,
Bernd
Savita,
You certainly started a discussion so thank you for that. I think resisting the notion that god has a gender is a feminist position because it goes against the status quo and staunchly held idea that god is male. I don’t talk about ‘he’ or ‘she’ because I don’t think I experience god as masculine or feminine – I think notions of feminine and masculine are largely created by society and can limit our perspective.
On the other hand I think Paulo has a point i suggesting we explore the feminine side of god as a means to escape from the limits imposed by a traditional over emphasis on god’s masculinity (especially within christianity). As a feminist I also support the right for other feminists to define feminism differently to me. I see your point as valid but it’s just not my experience.
Rosa
as for me it doesn’t matter if it is a man or a woman.
the main thing is to believe.
to believe that God exists.
to believe that he can protect you.
to believe that he is inside you.
to believe that you are a part of him.
that’s my point of view.
p.s. your books changed my opinion about the world. now I do believe.
you’re using he and his to refer to god…
Even the Bible can leave me feeling pretty confused as to what/who God actually is..
for it is hinted at that Christ is both God and the son of God..
and then there is the Holy Trinity… which i can’t explain well enough for here.
But my point is that the Christian God – based on the evidence that Christ IS God… would convey a masculine God.
This is the only way .. ever.. that I am likely to be satisifed by a God who is masculine ;o))
And if we think at the post about religion and sexuality, is an example, if we believe Bible, of abstinence. Maybe from that point start some ideas that sex is not always pure, or even showed as sin…Or Mary being a Virgin…I dont know, just think over all we discuss here. Hoping I was not offensive,
Much love
Alexandra
As human beings we are catched and limited in our imagination – therefore we always will compare God with ourselves – men or woman. I don’t try to imagine God – I can only feel It. Sometimes I feel It more sometimes less.
God is energy,is in everything and we are a part of it even if we are women or men.Sometimes I feel my husband being man and woman in the same time,when I stay with my had on his chest and I’m feeling protected like a child by his/her mother…And sometimes I feel my self being a man,so if we are a part of God and we feel like a woman and a man then God is woman and men in the same time but without body and sexual organs.
Why should God have a gender? To beget little gods?
Joke aside – for me God is all in one in the name of love.
..yes, it’s a bit Roman.. ancient mythology .. in some ways .
Well said. :) ♥
.. Alla nascita nella vita enbrionale, noi siamo sia uomini che donne
poi durante l’embriogenesi uno acquista i caratteri piu femminili e un altro piu quelli maschili ! avendo pero sempre gli stessi , solo che uno predomina l’altro sesso.
E’ la stessa teoria usata oggi per spiegare il gay uomo o la lesbo donna ; entrambi convivono ma nel momento che si sviluppa la sessualita questi (teoria gai o lesbo ) prevalgono ma non e’ il caso ( io penso ) del PAdre eterno , perche non avendo sessualita ha tutti e due i caratteri perche no !?! ciao bacio
Lieber Paulo,
deine Frage hört sich im ersten Moment interessant an.
Je länger ich darüber nachdenke, muss ich mich ärgern.
So wie du deine Frage stellst, gehe ich davon aus, dass du Gott als Menschen siehst. Warum?
Ich persönlich glaube an so etwas wie einen Gott aber weder in maskuliner oder femininer Form.
Gott kann alles sein. Let him be!
Greetings
Sanja
The only existence that I can recollect is the perspective reality of duality as an Earthling.
I was at birth, not able to recollect suckling on the breast, but I must have been downloading huge amounts of information, until one day, I became conscious.
I came out of the womb, with the Spirit of only all that I was, from an infinite past, into a “present”, not really knowing of my infinite future.
Say that prior to my “present”; from my last incarnation, I was able to understand compassion. This newborn has a vibration of all that was, including now compassion, and so my physical body resonates this vibration while recovering from the amnesia of Being Born on Planet Earth.
Whatever my parents “taught” me to comprehend what is then “feminine” and what defined “masculine” in nature, becomes the software to what is a foundation of a belief system.
I continued to upgrade the software as I learned more about this duality, and without even questioning then, I began to associate what the World gave me of Feminine and what was Masculine.
Programmed perhaps, to generations of past-down inheritance of a family tree, and perhaps my “program”, contains lost truths from manipulations for centuries to what is feminine; regardless, I am now allowed to participate in an expansion of Life.
It took me 10 years of focus to actually figure out what I do believe…. (the program that is running, or genetic control if you will), created a vibration that I could not compensate for. …and it wasn’t truth! I can recollect that a LifeSituation, being Feminine or Masculine in nature, did not really give a definition for me, but what I thought about it, made it so.
I gladly report that I do not understand now the world’s belief of what is feminine or masculine. The auspicious blessing is the consciousness obtained, and to figure out what I truly am vibrating. I figured out that I would without question, go down the same path until I saw an alternative. A conscious reality of Everything was the way it is supposed to be;
shocked me to become a Deliberate Creator. It was then, I defined Creation as Feminine in nature.
Without a doubt, I would miss the mark to define the feminine side of God, but it offers attention of focus to accomplish that vibration of extreme subtly.
Thanks Paulo, for your question.
Be Well!
i like the way you think.
tc.V.
Hi everyone,
It is not just what “The Church” says. It is how my spiritual part feels about it.
Sure, rationally, god has feminine qualities, but when I think/talk about god, it’s always masculine.
I sometimes wonder how much culture AND also family-environment have played a role how one thinks about god and “its” gender.
To go beyond experiencing god as totally masculine, I needed to go beyond the dual aspect of feminine/masculine.
In buddhism, those are different types of energies that also each person has (in different amounts). And are probably intersections of those energies that god has and provides for us :o)
1. ratna – enrichment
2. padma – passion
3. karma – activity
4. vajra – clarity
5. buddha – spaciousness
Dear all,
In the depths of my soul, i strongly believe that God is a woman but when i return to reality and see what our world was and has become; the destruction made by the hand of man and all the chaos caused by its wars and cruelty, i assume that no “goddess” will allow such pain and misery, only a “god” will.
speaking religioously to set a specific gender to God it’s very complex, I would say the Holy Spirit is the feminine face of God due to her charm and related to things as love and understanding, as in the Bible God The Father seems to be more strict [often refered with male behavior].
Now speaking personally, I wouldn’t want to put a gender to God because God is not human, God made us therefor so God mustn’t have a gender. God is EVERYTHING and I could understand people trying to name God either male or female and that is just put a label on God like “Oh now that I think you are a woman/man as well I can see your soft/rough side , etc”.
God is COMPLEX and cannot be understood at its maximum and the more we try to understand God, the harder its gets because it lead us to nowhere and we finish where we started. So it would be the same to put a gender to God.
Es dificil tratar de etiquetar a dios adjudicandole un genero humano. Siento que dios es algo mas grande que la simple creacion de una imagen mental; sin embargo es verdad que hemos sido orillados en esta sociedad de dominio masculino a visualizar a Dios como un hombre. Aun asi puedo decir que Dios no es hombre ni mujer, Dios es el inquebrantable deseo de saber que hay algo mas grande que uno mismo y nuestros egos, el anhelo de pensar que nuestras acciones tienen una recompensa o un castigo, la certeza de saber que la Fe del hombre, es el creciente poder de aquello que nos mantiene en pie…”DIOS”
The most used trick that the human conscious employ to cope with its inability to accept or understand a certain phenomena is to make an object out of it. The person who cannot accept his own dark side and consequently fight it “the inner fight” invent an enemy outside and make of him the aim of his fight “racism, xenophobia,..etc)
In the same way, God is a difficult reality for our limited conscious to cope with, understand and control (as ego-conscious like always to do) so the way is to project God on something that we know and can apprehend, trees, animals, mountains, starts, man (our patriarchal culture).
All is wrong, I believe, and it is equally wrong to start to say God is feminine or a mix of feminine and masculine.
I believe God neither, nor. God is every thing we know we don’t know
unlimited to any time, place, shape, color, value that we like to attribute to or not attribute to him (see even our language speaks of Him as masculine) nothing is like him but where ever you look you see a manifestation of him.
Love,
Tarek
dear pualo,
i think man and women, he n she is a very human concept/ paradigm. GOD is whole complete ABSOLUTE…….pure consciousness…….where is the question of half he or she…….
God is love…?
God is the way, the truth and the light…?
God is creation?
God is duality?
This question immediately has me questioning, not whether God is male or female, but what God actually is per se.
If one believes and read the bible,the natural thing to adapt of the gender of God is a man. He created Adam first and then Eve. And if God created man in the likeness of God, then as a matter of fact…God’s dominant gender is a man. In retrospect, the creation of Eva also the likeness of God,then the unexplored feminine face of God,can be considered as a challenge to what has been collectively believed that GOD is a male GOD. I think, that God expressed his feminine by creating EVA not only is beautiful but also enhances the beauty of how he is as a man. The contrast is beautiful and at the same time complimentary.
Hello,
First of all, m very glad to know about this blog and posting this reply.
I believe The God what we are acquainted with is an imagination of
humans and for humans. Whatever they carve a god into is just to give a feel of some superior body above all humans who watches them all the time. They imagined a god with a body like humans because they want humans to believe that god is one of them and looks like them so that they just don’t think of god as an alien figure . They imagined superior powers with the god so that human always behave in a manner that is good for everybody by whatever means we call due to respect or due to fear of the superior. The sole purpose of the god is to combine us all in a friendly and lovable manner. just like a family .
That makes me think of god in all of us humans, god is there in each and everybody of us. And we are men and women and several people. So, there is no need to prove whether god is a masculine or feminine figure ,god can be anybody or everybody for the best. Even in the Hindu religion there is an instance of god having both man and woman parts on the body who is called Ardha Naarishwara means half feminine. again in worst scenario we can say ( if nobody believes in religious facts ) that its again an imagination by a human and for the good of human being
So, god is you, god is in me and god is in everybody !!!
Life is cool
Pues hasta donde los catolicos hablan, Dios no tiene un sexo definido, ya sea hombre o mujer, hablan de su espiritualidad.
El definirlo como hombre (masculino) radica solamente en el ser humano, hay que considerar que si en la Biblia habla del Nombre del Padre del Hijo y del Espiritu Santo habra que hacerlo en base a las traducciones idiomáticas y los textos que mejor sean comprendidos para cada idioma, buscando la paridad. Si en un mismo idioma leemos algo y entendemos cosas diferentes, la religión no es la excepcion.
http://baktoo.blogspot.com/2009/08/divine-feminine.html
Here is the link to my blogpost on the subject of the divine feminine.
It has a you-tube video of a mind-blowing talk by Swami Nithyananda on the Divine Feminine.
Please watch it through, it will be worth it, I promise.
Personally, being a woman, I am devoted to the concept of God as a man. But that is probably because I am quite happy being a woman and have no issues or competition with the other sex.
I believe in an eternal family ruled in unity between a heavenly Father (God) and heavenly Mother (Goddess). I do not believe that they are one person, but instead are separate beings that have together created the spirits of the entire world. (Yes, This makes all human beings brothers and sisters. It also means that we have the ability some day to become like our heavenly parents) I believe that Heavenly Father and Mother have separate but equal roles. The roles that heavenly Father takes my be more prominent during our mortal existence and this grants him more acknowledgment on this earth. However this does not eternally dismiss the divine role of our heavenly Mother.
Paulo,
My new facebook friend had an experience with death and was lifted to the other side. The experience scared her because she saw not only light entities around and felt an extremely beautiful love, but she also experienced some extremely dark entities too. She was pulled back into her body before she could understand. She has had some problems with life because of it and feels that she now has a very dark soul. I too have had an experience with death and have visited the other side. It has taken me a while to share with her. An experience with my Theatre Arts students helped me to connect to my soul and finally relate what happened. The entry below is my response to help her understand the other side.
THERE ARE GODDESSES AND GODS IN HEAVEN – AND THEY ARE EQUAL
I am at a Shakespeare high school theatre festival with my computer plugged in to a connection in my hotel room. I just had to change some room assignments which caused and eased some problems happening between some girls. Ahhhh, the joys of teaching high school kids. I still love them and let them know it. The girls causing the drama come from rough families. You could say their souls are somewhat darker than most. I allowed these two girls to come with us because they needed the love light of the rest of the members of our team. The huge majority of our members are very loving and accepting of all. I teach the kids to throw their loving energy out to everyone, especially the darker shadow people. It works. I could relate example after example. In fact, two students I taught in the past teach theatre and have drama teams from their schools at this very festival and are teaching their students this concept too. Pay it Forward, I say.
This is what the extremely bright, loving entities (souls – spirits) taught me when I crossed over. They didn’t exactly vocalize to me; it was through thoughts. I asked about the dark shadows and was told that all —-ALL — who die on earth are pulled to where you and I went. (My friend’s name) did you notice that the spirits were different shades of light and shadow? They were not all the same. I’ll admit, the extreme dark shadow spirits were scary. Take time to ponder and think back to that time. Didn’t you notice the extremely bright spirits going to the darker spirits and enveloping them, helping them, loving them like they did to you. If you felt the beautiful warmth and love, like you said you did, you had a spirit loving you. For some reason you were pulled back to your body quicker than I.
A great lesson was learned by this girl during this cross-over time. I learned that we begin in that place — (that’s why you wanted to go back home after you were pulled back) — and we are allowed, when we are ready, to come to this planet to see if we can continue to radiate love and warmth to each other while we are here just like what is done on the other side. Our soul gains in brilliance as we radiate our love — only in that way can we fill the dark void that can grow in us. We are down here to learn that— to practice that — to fail in that so that we can relearn that — so we can become stronger in that. It is the most important thing in this Universe. It is how it all flows. Our Goddesses and Gods want us to be with them — be like them — and be them. Coming here is the only way for us to truly learn. It will take some of us longer than others to finally get it, but when the realization hits, this world will glow like no other. That day will come actually sooner than we think. I have faith in the souls of this universe. I was sent back here to teach that.
It is a joyful life here if we share our warmth and love. I love my job and the people and kids that I teach. I was told by the spirits to go back and to help others understand this so that our world can grow in light. Now, since we can’t mix church and state in the public education system — which I don’t, I find interesting ways to teach this concept and theatre is a marvelous tool :-) I think the reason why we connected on Facebook somehow was so that I could teach you this and try to radiate my love and warmth to you so that you can understand your trip back home when you crossed-over. I love you girl. You have so much to give that you don’t even understand. You have a lighter soul than you think — how could you have felt and witnessed the light in your words and pictures without light in your soul? They please God because you have captured him so beautifully. :-D Please start seeing all humans, animals, plants with a warm and loving soul. Oh, I wish I could be there to show you how, though, I think you can do this. You will be amazed at how your soul will brighten. Are they/we going to make mistakes, yeah; but in the long run, that’s how we get brighter. The refiner’s fire some call it.
Love and warmth,
Lainee
Sorry about the God / him words at the end of this entry. The experience taught me differently. I pray that our Goddesses will continue to make themselves known to us.
Love and warmth,
Laniee
thank you, elaine. very very very interesting.
i would like to know more about your experience because i also experienced near death. mine was a minor experience though. i was almost drawn at the river. i thought ‘oh, this is it?’ but i was luckily able to grab a swimming pant of a boy who happened to be playing/swimming nearby so i could pull myself up by myself. so i did not cross the ‘river’ or did not see the face of death. but i noticed you did not mention about the river or the face of death either. i heard no matter what your faith is, when you die, you cross the river. so you saw no river? it is just a rumor?
i was also festinated by your encounter with god and goddess as well as the message that you got from them. can you described it more? were you able to recognize the two? how did it happen? i mean did you see or hear or anything? i really think the message that you got was very very very valuable. i really agree. i mean i also think love and radiating love is the single most important thing in this entire universe. i actually have a personal experience with god too. it happened only one time without my request and was only male side of god. i heard a voice. a male voice. very powerful. he basically told me to have faith. that was it. so i was like ok, i guess i had better faith. but i would love to experience female side of god too like you.
anyway, thanks for sharing your story.
by the way, i like teaching too. and i also was thinking about theater because it is such a useful tool. so are you teaching acting?
anyway, god bless you!
Elaine
Thank you for your detail sharing.
I totally agree with our mention on love!
And I was so so surprised because of your scene of light and river.
Maybe we watched the same light.
ever since i read ‘by the river piedra i sat down and wept’, i have wanted to feel or experience female side of god…i wonder how it feels like…must be wonderful. maybe if i open my heart more, i will be able to feel it…
love + magic
The presence of a female God, can clearly be felt on the Hawaiian Islands and their native people, from my experience. It changes everything… to the better… it becomes another kind of pilgrimage.
My Daughter Thais who is 14 years old now, puzzled me on our way back from school: she was 4 years old attending a Catholic school atthat time….and this is how she started: “mommy why God is not a woman?” “why God is a man?”
So, I told her that Spirituality, like a grain of wheat grows in our heart and God’s gender is only a human kind perception.Also,she should enquire around her….
In my opinion,if you believe in Christianity and you believe that Jesus is the son of God, then you have to believe that God is a man…otherwise you are putting a question mark on all of Christianity…
don’t you agree?
I am not against homo sexuals but still feel homosexuality is against what we were brought up to believe in. We were brought up to believe in Adam and Eve and love between two different sexes that complete each other in every way and will continue creating by reproducing…and in the same way is our belief in God as being a man,a creator, who is strong, powerful and superior…To me He will always be ”God” and not ”Goddess”…
Dear stranger, but, at the sametime, not stranger at all, Paulo Coelho, and Dear all warriors of the light,
You might already know this, but I’ll share, since I’m invited to:
This is such a special moment. It’s been long since I wish I could reach you, somehow, on this issue.
God is: The Father, The son And the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit, dear friends, the Holy Spirit is feminine.
A WOMAN is between the father and the son, it makes so much sense, just think that the holy spirit is the mother(FATHER, MOTHER AND SON/DAUGHTER), actually more than that, she is the Female God, Mother, Wife, Lover, Sister, Neighbor, Passing By Woman…
Only the Mother, in between, is able to bring harmony to Father and son or Father and daughter existing together!
God is male and female, indeed.
Beautiful Goddess!
Life is short. I’m very glad I didn’t leave these words unspoken.!
Hi Den Rod,
Yep, no problem seeing God as a woman at all :)
Love & Admiration,
Heart
Hi, Den
How can you know that ‘God is Father and child and holy spirit’?
Si,pienso que todos somos un poquito Dios porque ese Dios del que hablamos no esta arriba mirandonos esta dentro de nosotros en dependencia si somos hombres ,si somos mujeres,asi que teniendo en cuenta que las mujeres geneticamente somos sensibles,humildes,en tantas ocasiones somos las jueces en las disputas diarias de nuestros hijos,callamos y gritamos cuando no se nos entiende el verdadero mensaje,esperamos pacientemente y luchamos sin mirar los peligros ,tenemos una dosis de cada cosa creada por el universo,sin dudas estamos mas cerca de Dios y esa es la cara que seguro vio Paulo Cohelo aquel dia la otra la que los hombres Caballeros no dejan ver, seguro que la representacion de Dios en nuestro sexo al menos es mas fuerte.
gracias por permitirme participar
I asked me often the question: God is always regard as a man ! Because men made everything, but we hadn’t to imagine God as a man or a woman . May be women are not available to be God for men, so God is no a woman no a man but He can have a woman spirit and in the same time a man spirit !All these theories complicated for little human we are ,and God is All, I ‘ll want a better world for all human ,I believe a day may be!
CON RESPECTO A LA DEFINICION A DIOS, PIENSO QUE COMO UN SER SUPREMO QUISO MANIFESTAR SU IMAGEN EN EL HOMBRE Y DE EL EXTRAJO LOS SENTIMIENTOS COMO LA SENCIBILIDAD, EL AMOR PROFUNDO,LA INTUICION ETC. ASEMEJANDOLOS EN LA MUJER, SIENDO ESTA LA COMPAÑERA INIDISPENSABLE EN LA VIDA DEL HOMBRE, PARA COMPLETAR EL SER CREADO PERFECTO.
ME ENCANTAN SUS PENSAMIENTOS, CREO QUE TIENE UNA GRAN COMPAÑERA.
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