CENTRE FOR THE DIVINE FEMININE
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From: Kavita B.
Date: Sunday, June 3, 2007, 9:10 PM
Subject: Centre for the Divine Feminine
ID: 257252
CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED CONSCIOUSNESS:
MOVING TOWARDS A MORE BALANCED WORLD
Bringing the Divine Feminine into the World
I am looking for others who would like to join me in creating a
Centre for the Divine Feminine, a spiritual sanctuary and center for
research, healing, creative expression and social change, helping to
bring the values and wisdom of the feminine into contemporary
spirituality and society.
The center would serve as a welcome gathering place for women (and
inspired men) to explore and express new spiritual approaches
bringing feminine values and perspectives into balance with the
masculine, both personally and globally. It would offer an on-going
forum and facilities to renew and re-balance ourselves at all levels:
psychologically, energetically, spiritually. Further, through
creative expression, media communication and social action, we would
reach out to help foster a much-needed balance on a wider scale, both
in the collective consciousness and the practical structures of
culture and society.
Peace-making, compassion, connection and communion – the traditional
qualities of the feminine – are needed more urgently than ever to
heal our current global culture of violence, domination and
destruction. This is being more and more clearly recognized.
Conferences are being held here and there around the world, on-line
groups of women for peace-making abound, and now the time is ripe for
an on-the-ground, living center of research and practice where these
issues can be explored in depth and acted upon in a sustained way. As
far as I know, no such residential community, providing an on-going
forum on these issues, yet exists – yet the need for one is obvious,
as well as inspiring and exciting.
Our premise is that transformation, personally and globally, depends
upon the re-integration of the highest principles of the feminine in
the collective consciousness and structures of society. The
activities of the center intended to foster this vision would include:
1) Creating a new spiritual paradigm incorporating the wisdom
of the feminine, and a living sanctuary in which it can be developed
2) Identifying and supporting innovative women spiritual
teachers, and serving as a venue for their teachings and retreats
3) Supporting and networking with peace-making and social
change initiatives consciously bringing more feminine values into our
social structures
4) Exploring the role and levels of the feminine in the
evolution of consciousness; re-examining “evolutionary psychology”
from a higher spiritual perspective
5) Researching historical, cross-cultural and contemporary
concepts of the Divine Feminine, reflecting stages of consciousness
from pre-individuation to trans-individuation
6) Exploring the application of feminine values and
perspectives to contemporary psychology and healing
7) Offering counseling and energy-healing modalities
incorporating the spacious, nurturant and co-creative qualities of
the feminine
8) Researching the biochemical substrates of gender
differences in the brain as well as unitive consciousness, and
implications for optimal approaches to unitive consciousness in each
gender
9) Telling our stories, our visions, and sharing them with
others: writing, song-writing, film-making, etc., for our own
personal self-exploration, creativity and to inspire change in the
greater society
10) Exploring with men the place of the feminine, and the Divine
Feminine, in their lives; sharing our stories, and journeys, to
greater integration
11) Exploring the ways women and men can work together to free
themselves from limiting socially- and biologically- conditioned
patterns, into more expansive, unitive states of consciousness
appropriate to higher human evolution
12) Exploring the re-balancing of masculine and feminine as an
entryway to nondual spirituality
These themes would be highlighted in regularly scheduled workshops
and courses with residential and guest teachers, as well as an on-
going program of research, spiritual practice and sharing groups.
There will be a project to support each other in expressing and
sharing new social visions through creative media, and a project to
actively network with other social change and peace initiatives based
on the re-integration of feminine values and wisdom into spirituality
and society.
Anyone interested please let me know; I’d be grateful for your
suggestions and creative input. Ideas for an international venue, or
a hosting organization or community, would be most welcome (venues
being considered right now include Greece, India, Portugal, Costa
Rica, Mexico, Brazil, Australia or New Zealand, but other locations
may be possible.) If you feel inspired to get involved, in whatever
capacity, please contact me, Kavita Byrd, at: kavitaji25@yahoo.com.
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