I'll get back on why I think any aspects of divine relate to alter-universes Molly. Allan could be seen to miss the point on this thesis, though my own response had a lot of his experience in it. Here's a cruder example of the 'divine feminine'.
The divine might admit to and exhibit some playfulness. On Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at 11:32:13 AM UTC+1, Molly wrote: > > I've always liked the work of Joseph Campbell and his ability to bring the > common symbols of all cultures into an easily digestible human mythology. > Gender is, and I think we each have male and female aspects that, at some > point hopefully, are integrated. I find myself leaning toward more male > expressions while living in corporate America, starting with more male > expressions and following up with female, more nurturing and inclusive. > Behavior and response gives us an idea of what works, and while it is > incumbent on us to keep our behavior within the realm of "true," culture > has its demands, and response sometimes sets perimeters. > > The divine feminine in the Christian mythology is of course, the Virgin > Mary, part of the holy trinity and ascribed the archetype of grace. All of > this seems to me to be script writing the divine play. We keep explaining > these archetypes to each other and ourselves again and again in slightly > different forms. > > The idea of alternate universes, I'm not sure how it relates to the divine > feminine, but would like to hear more about it. > > On Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at 12:02:28 AM UTC-4, archytas wrote: >> >> Although we could look at physics that tells us our shadow is real and >> that when we walk away from it we enter a fifth dimension, there is little >> chance of us experiencing anything much different from this theorising are >> in the bugger all to slight range. I've attached a masters level thesis on >> the divine feminine. I don't actually like this work, though it is more >> welcome than most of the drivel students are forced into. It may seem odd >> that a scientist like me finds more pertinent in changing our ways of >> living for the better in an obvious fiction like the divine feminine and >> what I regard as a largely failed 'new paradigm' set of research methods. >> >> Molly currently has everything solid melting to air and the imagination >> central in creation and evolving processes. Of course, I'm not keen on >> solids 'meting to air' - it's piss poor chemistry and these days we think >> there may be hundreds of states of matter. I wonder what we can honestly >> say about alter universes. I find the literature generally weak like this >> thesis and wide open to easy criticism. How can we be imaginatively >> creative, perhaps even in Molly's strong sense of this, and remain honest? >> > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
