Twin Hero Series
You yourself are even another little world and have within yourself the sun and the moon and also the stars. -Ongen
The fragmenting of the human image of the divine into gods versus goddesses and consequently masculine versus feminine is a long-standing state of affairs. Beginning as early as 5000 B.C.E. with the beginning of the Bronze Age and gradual substitution of the male god for the goddess, then intensifying in the Judeo-Christian era with the identification of Christ as son and God as father, we have inhabited a world where male and female are seen as opposite poles of human existence.
*Lunar God Thoth
-Within this opposition, the masculine came to dominate, associated increasingly with the sun, or the logical and rational, and the female with the moon, or the emotional and the irrational. To redress this imbalance, feminists have reasserted the importance of the goddess or feminine principle. While the work of these scholars is indeed significant, emphasis on the goddess pantheon inadvertently perpetuates the polarization of our worldview. No matter how many adherents feminists gain, our universe will remain split, the battle lines drawn between gods on the one hand, and goddesses on the other. Perhaps it is time to end gender warfare, to ask ourselves if it is possible to transcend the gender associations we continue to project onto the universe. Perhaps we can creatively return to an older, more basic, mythology, one appropriate to our own time and place, by replacing the masculine and feminine attributions of god and goddess, with the sun and the moon themselves—the objects these attributions were originally intended to describe.
The sun and the moon have been central to many spiritual systems. A brief survey of world mythologies demonstrates that attributions of masculine and feminine are in no way inherent to these objects. Rather, these gender specifications are cultural and political artifacts, projections not only of particular cultures but also of specific developmental moments within particular cultures.
*Selene the Greek Goddess of the Moon and Endymion
-In Pygmy culture, the molimo, the most sacred ceremony, said to have survived from the Paleolithic era, celebrants pray to the divine moon: Mother moon, mother, mother, here us, mother, come. But at the tip of Siberia, the Chukehi reindeer herders recognize the Moon Man as the first to agree to light the sky and measure seasonal changes and the yearly cycle. The Eskimos also know the moon as male, calling him Brother. And the Mataco Indians of Northern Argentina, as in most tribal cultures, associate a woman’s menstrual cycle with the male moon god who monthly deflowered mortal woman. Indo-European cultures introduced images of the Man in the Moon, but all the Greek goddesses are moon goddesses. Even the Hebrew Father-god, according to scholar Robert Briffault, was mostly likely derived from a local moon-god.
Gender references to the sun are equally varied. We are most familiar with masculine sun gods, such as the Greek Helios and Hyperion, the Japanese Buddha, and, of course, Christ, born on the winter solstice and often referred to as Sol Invictus (Unvanquished Sun, Light of the World). There also is, however, a litany of sun goddesses. The Japanese Shinto goddess, Amaterasu, is the Great Heaven Illuminating Deity; Sunna and Grain are the Celtic and Nordic goddesses of the sun; the Germans refer to Fran Sonne; and in the earliest tradition of the North American Indian tribes, the sun was feminine.
*For the Sumarians of Mesopotamia, within one time frame, the moon was perceived as both male and female, with the moon goddess Inanna.
-In addition to the genders of the sun and moon alternating from culture to culture, there is evidence that these attributions also varied withincertain cultures. For the Sumarians of Mesopotamia, within one time frame, the moon was perceived as both male and female, with the moon goddess Inanna born from the marriage of Nana and Ningal, a moon god and goddess, respectively, who also gave birth to Utu, the sun god. The Egyptian pantheon incorporates both moon gods and goddesses: Khones is depicted wearing a headdress of the moon disc and crescent; Thoth, the divine scribe, or god of knowledge and writing, carried the sickle (symbol of the new moon) in his hand; Osiris, the good of resurrection and rebirth, was also associated with the sickle; and Isis, the most important of the female deities, wore a sun disk resting upon a moon crown. This same horned moon crown and sun disk appear as the headdress of Harthor, the Lady of Heaven, or goddess of love and pleasure. Within the same pantheon, the sun appears in its primal manifestation as the lion-headed goddess Sekhkmet, seated with the sun disk on her head; Re is a male solar deity as well as the winged beetle, Khepera and the ram-headed god, Khnemu.
*Hathor with the Sun Disk Crown
-In the highly-industrialized Western world, we have moved so far from nature and our original relationship to the universe that we rarely think of the sun and moon as the entities and energies that served as the central organizing principles for the projection of male and female deities. The sexualization of the universe into male and female has become the foundation for understanding the psychological, moral and ethical behaviors of men and women. Masculine and feminine qualities are embedded in the male-solar, female-lunar dichotomies. We should see solar and lunar not as metaphors for the genders, but as dimensions that modify gender, appearing as polarities within masculinity and femininity. If we continue to associate intuition and emotion with the feminine, and independence, reason, and assertiveness with the masculine, we will fail to explore the possibilities of the solar-feminine and the lunar-masculine, and we limit ourselves as human beings and fractionalize the universe. As Theodore Roszak says in Voices of the Earth, “There will be no peace in the battle of the sexes and no ecological sanity until we finally have done with the nonsense of sorting human virtues into masculine and feminine bins.”
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You yourself are even another little world and have within yourself the sun and the moon and also the stars. -Ongen
IS QUESTIONABLE ??? If we have he sun and the moon and the stars within ourselves which in other words means the whole is within ourselves in miniature form and this miniature form is in the whole.
So within ourselves we have the sun which is not really hot and there are beings residing inside the sun and within ourselves is the moon which has Extraterristrials bases and is an artifically created Gaint Satellite and within ourselves is other planets that have life forms within..So once we can meditate within we are able to gain access to the whole outside. This meditation comes with practice as its got to be pukka ( whole hearted, pure and focused)
Hence the Maha yogies can tell you about the universe as they go into deep meditation and are able to leave their body as they travel to other planets and then come back to their earthly body.
Now if there is anything out of order in the universe it is felt by each one of us in minute digree and so we are never like 100% feeling good...hope you understand what I mean.
We all are colectivelly from different star systems and a time comes in our loves we we are awakened to the fact that we vibrate or tune more to a particular star system .,,I feel strong vibes and a connection with Venus, Arcturians, Inner Earth Shamballa and probable had previous births there. SatNam
The Phoenix Generation:
A New Era of Connection, Compassion & Consciousness
In the years ahead we are going to see great change sweeping through our diverse human societies. Some may say we are in the midst of a 3rd Industrial Revolution. Yet rather than referring to this transition as an ‘industrial’ one, I consider this profound shift as a Revolution in Human Being – or rather as a Revolution in Human Becoming. We have entered a phase where there will be new forms, new arrangements, new structures, new perspectives, and new emerging states of being.
We are, quite literally, shifting from one set of C-Values – Competition ~ Conflict ~ Control ~ Censorship – to a new set: Connection ~ Communication ~ Consciousness ~ Compassion. The world is re-arranging in order to come together in countless new ways – with innovative changes in our communication, our uses of technology, through conscious awareness, through people-centered action, and more. These are the seeds coming to harvest as part of a re-awakening, re-ordering, and re-balance upon this planet. The current generation(s) will be the ones who will have to shoulder the mental and emotional responsibility of change as they are forced to let go of both external and internal systems and states that are no longer beneficial to our future development. This is why I have termed our current generation(s) the ‘Bridge Generation’, as we will be required to straddle both worlds. Many people in the Bridge Generation will feel the stirrings of a ‘calling’; a sense to activate something – some purpose or meaning – within them. Some may be attracted to books/writings, or to events, gatherings, or other signifiers. Other ways to activate a person’s calling – or actualized state – may come through doing; whilst others will be through being.
Change upon this planet will come through us, the people; and the attitudes, awareness, compassion, sincerity, etc, which we embody and manifest. This is the real stability that can be passed on to those around us: our family, friends, communities, social networks, and so on. As balanced, subtle, uplifting energies manifest through more and more people, change will increasingly manifest within our external environments. Again, it will not appear overnight. Already there are countless examples of how this wave of change is occurring across the planet. Such examples include how people interact with new technologies; the impacts of social media; new emerging youth groups; and the rise of a global empathic mindset. The power of energetically-connected individuals is fuelling the ‘We’ feeling and bringing the disenchanted together to develop their networks. Such new systems are showing that a new type of consciousness is arising, which will mark the generations to come. Those generations that come after us will be born as change rather than being born into change – this is a slight yet very significant difference.
The Phoenix Generation
The generation now being born into the world is what I refer to as the Phoenix Generation: those children being born now who will be young adults around 2030. I suggest that it will be this generation in particular that will assist in the transition toward forming a planetary society – a transition more radical than the shift from agrarian to urban life during the 1st Industrial Revolution. This is a revolutionary transition from national-cultural consciousness to planetary awareness and consciousness. What this entails is not only a structural shift but also a qualitative one; that is, a shift in our values, psychology, and consciousness. It is my view that those of the Phoenix Generation will be born with increased instinctive intelligence and with a greater degree of inherited wisdom.
As the Phoenix Generation grow up and integrate into and participate in their respective societies there will naturally be changes in many diverse areas of social life; such as health, politics, media, technology use, innovation, and spiritual practice. A new awareness of spirituality will emerge, where old institutional dogmas are replaced by increasing individual gnosis. We are moving toward the empowerment of the individual – of each human being – and this is frightening for the controlling authority structures. The Phoenix Generation will likely be the ones to free humanity from the dominance of erroneous ideas – ideas that forged war, created poverty and hunger, and sustained dis-ease. We are giving birth to a generation that will be successful in removing these illusions from the field of human consciousness.
Those of the Phoenix Generation will usher in a period where the feminine and masculine energies of the world will be re-balanced. Human values of love, compassion, understanding, patience, tolerance, and empathy will be more openly expressed and part of an active world – and not seen as predominantly ‘female’ values. The division that separates the masculine and feminine energies will gradually be replaced by a newer energy of unity – of coming together. Similarly, the artificial stigma around ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles in the world will be changed through the younger ‘phoenix’ men and women re-modeling role expectations. Women’s participation will be more keenly appreciated, sought, and brought into collaboration in such major areas as global politics, economy, and business. An all-round intuitive energy will be the marker for the upcoming decades, and will find expression through young women of the Phoenix Generation holding key positions as change agents. We are moving toward an era of human evolution where integral energies – energies of coherence and harmony – will be established as the principle foundation.
The Phoenix Generation will actualize upon this planet in accordance with generational, evolutionary trends – giving rise to a new form of consciousness. This new wave of consciousness will then gradually seep into the core of all our future societies. Our responsibility now is to fully engage and be a part of the human becoming that we truly wish to see in the world. This requires that we spearhead the transition at hand and that we show, through our behaviour, the new models for change. We have the opportunity, and capacity, to do this for ourselves and, more importantly, for those to come – and this shall be our true legacy.
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“And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.”...“Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.”...“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the Universe becomes Conscious of its Glory, of its Magnificence.” ~Alan Watts