Goddess, feminism, female

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<PRE>Rainbow< witnessing the vibrations of the Hologram from different points of

view in the divine love of creativity< In honor of the Goddess in Rainbow, I

bow<Om Ganesh<Sir Patrick Ganesh

[Guest guest]

I remember the first time that I saw a print of Jesus with dark

skin. I am awakened when I see images of Santa Claus with dark skin,

sometimes around the mid-winter holidays in stores in certain

neighborhoods in my city. It catches my attention at once and

reminds me of the importance of another perspective another

interpretation.

 

It reminds me how important it is for people to see themselves in

their icons and in their heroes, how important it is for them to be

represented in the stories that grace their environment and their

existence.

 

As an artist and a writer I know the power of taking something we

expect to see one way and deliberately posing it in opposition to

expectation. It makes us re-examine our own thoughts and beliefs, it

opens up the mind and the creativity.

 

Sometimes it is not about opposition, or duality, but about shades

of meaning and degree. All of these things awaken us, and that is

particularly important, I think, in spiritual seeking.

 

I am not dark skinned, my people are quite fair skinned and blue

eyed. All my life I have seen images of icons and stories peopled

with heroes of fair skin and blue eyes.

 

But they have also mostly been male.

 

Even as a little girl I resented that the main characters of almost

all of my little books were little boys. I loved my Nancy Drew

books. The voice that spoke to me in all the other books, in text

books and in the christian bible and in the news papers in reading

the news on television...men men men men men men... it seeemed that

I could rarely hear the voice of a woman, the perspective of a

woman.

 

And so, as a worshipper of the Goddess, I can never be asleep. I

grew up in a world that imagined the Divine as masculine, imagined

humans as created from dust. No nursing, no birth giving, no

feminine Divine. My relationship with the Goddess still challenges

my foundation and imagination. But, also, I believe, facilitates the

process by which I find the Divine within myself, my female self.

 

It challenges me to see the world differently and see other people

differently.

 

What if Santa Claus was Black? What would he sound like? What would

he say?

 

What if the Divine, Creator of us all, were female? What would She

sound like? What would She say?

 

What does that change about how I see myself?

 

To me, it doesn't matter if there is a true and ultimate answer to

the question of the gender of the Divine. What is important is that

I must move forward on my spiritual path. My spiritual path happens

to be, or include, my devotion to the Goddess and all of the

challenges and awakenings that that entails.

 

I like to think that my personal choice of seeing the Goddess as the

Mother of us all, Queen of the Universe, adds something needed and

special to the world of spiritual seeking.

 

I may learn from other spiritual paths, but I am still on my own and

if I am true to that I believe that I will make a positive

contribution to the world around me.

 

Namaste,

 

prainbow

[Guest guest]

In honor of the Goddess in you, Sir, I bow in reply.

 

 

, Ganeshspam@a... wrote:

> <PRE>Rainbow< witnessing the vibrations of the Hologram from

different points of

> view in the divine love of creativity< In honor of the Goddess in

Rainbow, I

> bow<Om Ganesh<Sir Patrick Ganesh