When Worlds Collide

“Goddess is making use of you – you should be grateful She’s found a use for you.”

The Great Feminine Creator can only create through human beings. Each human being has a purpose given to us by Her.  We are on this earth to fulfill Her purpose. Our only work is to make ourselves ready, to become a channel, to perform for Her.  We prepare ourselves by learning.  We prepare ourselves by becoming unselfish.  We prepare ourselves by seeking and choosing to walk on a spiritual path guided by women.  Each morning we honor Her with a prayer.  We offer our gifts.  We ask Her to help us do Her will for today.  In this simple way, we still fulfill our purpose.  It should be an honor to serve womankind.

Goddess, today I am ready to serve You.

Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of her teachings . . . – Words of the Goddess

As I continued to work at the lessons given, something began to happen to me. I felt confused because I wasn’t sure what it was that I was feeling, and then I realized I was experiencing serenity.  It was a good feeling, but where had it come from? Then I realized it had come “. . . as the result of her teachings.” Male submission may not always be easy to practice, but I had to acknowledge that my serenity had come to me after working at obedience to the feminine divine.  As I adhered to being subservient to women in everything I do, practicing feminine principles in all my affairs, now I find that I am awake to Goddess, to the power of all women, and to myself.  The spiritual awakening I have enjoyed as the result of learning to obey is the awareness that I am no longer in charge.  I am a slave.  I need only to obey.  

In Seva to all women lies serenity.

Native American

“If you have one hundred people who live together, and if each one cares for the rest, there is One Mind.” -Shining Arrows, CROW

One of the principles of CommUnity is Unity. The alignment of thoughts in groups of people will cause One Mind to form. One Mind is Unity. Each individual in the community must align their thoughts with what other members are thinking. If all the people think of helping one another, then the community will be service oriented and powerful results will be enjoyed. Having our thoughts aligned within a group will cause our children to experience a positive environment. When they have children, the grandchildren will automatically experience these results also.

Goddess, help me to contribute to positive group thought.

You can achieve the victorious life through living in deep dependence on Me. It is through your failure, weakness and neediness that you will learn to rely on Me. 

True dependence is coming to Me with an open mind and heart, inviting Me to plant My desires within you. I may infuse within you a dream that seems far beyond your reach. You know that in yourself you cannot achieve such a goal. Thus begins your journey of profound reliance on Me. It is a faith-walk, taken one step at a time, deferring to my guidance as much as you need. This is not a path of continual success but of multiple failures. However, each failure is followed by a growth spurt, nourished by increased devotion and submission to Me. Enjoy the blessedness of a victorious life, through deepening your worship of Me.

Anyone who, even for a second, feels a pure, clear confidence on hearing the truth, will experience immeasurable happiness. Why? Because, at that moment, that person is not caught up in the concept of self or a living being or a life span. He is not caught up in concepts about the world, nor is he caught up in concepts about nothingness. He does not take any notice of the idea that this is a sign, or that is not a sign.

For if you are caught up in ideas, then you will be caught up in the self. And even if you are caught up in ideas about nothingness, you will still be caught up in the self. That is why we should not get attached to the belief that things either exist or do not exist. This is the hidden meaning when I say that all my teachings are a raft – to be abandoned when you see true being.

-Diamond Sutra

THE VICTORY OF SURRENDER

We perceive that only through the utter defeat of our fragile male egos at the hands of womankind are we able to take our first steps toward liberation and strength.  Our admissions of personal powerlessness before them turns out to be firm bedrock upon which happy and purposeful lives may be built.

“She has a voice that doesn’t use words, listen.” 

“True slavery is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.”

 “It’s hard to pray to Goddess if you think that you are a God yourself, and it’s even harder to be an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.  Less self, less problems.”

FIRST, THE FOUNDATION

Is good behavior towards women all that we can expect of a spiritual awakening? No, it is only a bare beginning. – Words of the Goddess

Practicing feminine ideals is like building a house. First I had to pour a big, thick concrete slab on which to erect the house. That was the equivalent of stopping being a pure misogynist.  But it’s pretty uncomfortable living on a concrete slab, unprotected and exposed to the heat, cold, wind and rain. So I built a room on the slab by starting to practice feminist ideals.  The first room was rickety because I wasn’t used to the work. But as time passed, as I practiced those ideals, I learned to build better rooms. The more I practiced, and the more I built, the more comfortable, and happy, was the home I now have to live in.

TRUE AMBITION

True ambition is not what I thought it was. True ambition is the deep desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of the Goddess. – Words of the Goddess

During my patriarchal years, my one and only concern was to have my fellow man think highly of me. My ambition in everything I did was to have the power to be at the top.  My inner self kept telling me something else but I couldn’t accept it.  I didn’t even allow myself to realize that I wore a mask continually. Finally, when the mask came off and I cried out to the only true power I could conceive, woman.  They patiently taught me through worship and loving them without expectations, that each day can be joyous and fruitful. I begin and end my day with thanks to the Goddess, who has so generously shed Her grace upon me.

DAILY RESOLUTIONS

The idea of “twenty-four-hour living” applies primarily to the emotional life of the male slave. Emotionally speaking, we must not live in yesterday, nor in tomorrow. – Words of the Goddess

A New Year: 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days, 8,760 hours, 525,600 minutes — a time to consider directions, goals, and actions. I must make some plans to live a normal life, but also I must live emotionally within a twenty-four-hour frame, for if I do, I don’t have to make New Year’s resolutions! I can make every day a New Year’s day!  I can decide, “Today I will surrender more.  Today I will serve better.” Each day I can measure my life by trying to serve womankind a little better, by deciding to follow Goddess’s will and by making an effort to put the principles of the feminine divine into action.

I will not overwhelm myself with my failures as her servant, and how much more work needs to be done to improve myself for her. I am comforted in knowing that my life is now in the hands of a Goddess, a master craftsman who is shaping each part of my life into a unique work of art. By working her program I can be partly satisfied, knowing that “in doing the best that I can for her today”, I am doing what Goddess asks of me.

“Goddess can only do for me what she can do through me. Humility is the result of knowing that Goddess is the doer, not me.  In the light of this awareness, how can I take pride in my accomplishments?  I am an instrument and any work I seem to be doing is being done by Goddess  through me.  I pray to Goddess on a daily basis to remove my male ego and shortcomings, in order that I may more freely go about my business of love and service to her.” 

HUMILITY IS A GIFT

As long as we placed self-reliance first, a genuine reliance upon a Goddess  was out of the question. That basic ingredient of all humility, a desire to seek and do Goddess’s will, was missing. – Words of the Goddess

When I first came to the worship of women, I wanted to find some of the elusive quality called humility. I didn’t realize I was looking for humility because I thought it would help me get what I wanted, and that I would do anything if I thought Goddess would somehow reward me for it.  I try to remember now that the women I meet in the course of my day are as close to Goddess as I am ever going to get while on this earth. I need to pray for knowledge of Goddess’s will today, and see how my experience can serve her and womankind; if I can do that, I don’t need to search for humility, it has found me.

 

Worship Me only. 

Whatever occupies your mind the most becomes your goddess. Worries, if indulged, develop into idols. Anxiety gains a life of its own, parasitically infesting your mind. Break free from this bondage of self by affirming your obedience to Me and refreshing yourself in My Power over you.  What goes on in your mind is invisible, undetectable to other people.  But I read your thoughts continually, searching for evidence of complete submission and utter devotion to Me. I rejoice when your mind turns toward Me. Guard your thoughts diligently; good thought choices – worshipful and obedient thoughts – will keep you forever close to Me.

GOAL: SURRENDER

“. . . Gently and very gradually She began to infiltrate my life.  I can’t say upon what occasion or upon what day I came to believe in Goddess as a power greater than myself, but I certainly have that belief now.” – from Words of the Goddess

“Came to believe!” I gave lip service to my belief when I felt like it or when I thought it would look good.  I didn’t really trust Goddess. I didn’t believe She cared for me. I kept trying to change things I couldn’t change.  Gradually, in disgust, I began to turn my will over, saying: “You’re so omnipotent, you take care of it.” She did.  I began to receive answers to my deepest questions, sometimes at the most unusual times: driving to the store, eating lunch, or when I was sound asleep.  I realized that I hadn’t thought of those solutions— Goddess had given them to me. I came to believe.

RESCUED BY SURRENDERING

Characteristic of the so-called typical male is a narcissistic egocentric core, dominated by feelings of omnipotence, intent on maintaining at all costs its inner integrity.  . . Inwardly the patriarchal male brooks no control from man or God.  He, the uneducated male , is and must be the master of his destiny.  He will fight to the end to preserve that position. – from Words of the Goddess

The great mystery is: “Why do some of us males go to our deaths, fighting to preserve the ‘independence’ of our ego, while others seem to effortlessly surrender themselves to the feminine divine?”  Help from a Goddess, the gift of submission, came to me when an otherwise unexplained desire to surrender coincided with my willingness to accept Her suggestions and the suggestions of other feminist women.  I had to surrender, for only by obeying Goddess could I be rescued from my destructive male ego.  Only through service to all that is feminine could I become truly free.

MYSTERIOUS PARADOXES

Such is the paradox of male submission to the feminine: strength arising out of complete defeat and weakness, the loss of one’s old male life as a condition for finding a new one in service to Her. – Words of the Goddess

What glorious mysteries paradoxes are! They do not compute, yet when recognized and accepted, they reaffirm something in the universe beyond male logic. When I face a fear, I am given courage; when I love and support a woman’s ideals, my capacity to love myself is increased; when I accept pain as part my experience under her control, I realize a greater happiness; when I look at my dark side, I am brought into new light; when I accept my vulnerabilities and surrender to Her, I am graced with unforeseen strength. I stumbled through my male life in disgrace, expecting nothing from life, and she has given me  hope and pride.  Miraculously, the only way to keep the gifts of being male is to surrender them… give them away to the control of the Female.

CLEANING HOUSE

Somehow, being alone with the Goddess doesn’t seem as embarrassing as facing up to an actual  woman. Until we actually sit down and talk aloud about what we have so long hidden, our willingness to clean house and obey is still largely theoretical. – The words of the Goddess

It wasn’t unusual for me to talk to the great Goddess, and myself, about my character defects.  But to sit down, face to face, and openly discuss these intimacies with a woman was much more difficult.  I recognized in the experience, however, a similar relief to the one I had experienced when I first admitted I was a tool of the patriarchal system against women.  I began to appreciate the spiritual significance of her program and that this step was just an introduction to what was yet to come in the joy of utter openness and obedience to womankind.

SELF-EXAMINATION

. . . we ask Goddess to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives. – Words of the Goddess

When said sincerely, this prayer teaches me to be truly unselfish and humble, for even in doing good deeds I often used to seek approval and glory for myself.  By examining my motives in all that I do, I can be of service to Goddess and all women, helping them do what they want to do. When I put Goddess in charge of my thinking, much needless worry is eliminated and I believe She guides me throughout the day. When I eliminate thoughts of self-pity, dishonesty and self-centeredness as soon as they enter my mind, I find peace with Goddess, with all women, and with myself.

SPIRITUAL HEALTH

When the spiritual malady of patriarchy is overcome, we straighten out mentally and physically. – Words of the Goddess

It is very difficult for me to come to terms with my spiritual illness because of my great male pride, disguised by my material successes and my intellectual power.  Intelligence is not incompatible with humility before women, provided I place humility to them first. To seek prestige and wealth is the ultimate goal for many men in the modern world. To be fashionable and to seem better than we really are is a spiritual illness.  Patriarchy is the source of our illness.

To recognize and to admit my weaknesses before women is the beginning of good spiritual health.  It is a sign of spiritual health to be able to ask Goddess every day to enlighten me, to recognize Her will, and to have the strength to execute it. I can consider my spiritual health to be excellent only when I realize that  I need to help and to serve all women… at any cost to my false pride or useless male wealth.  For what use is all my intelligence and wealth if not in service to the will and goals of women.

“Natural (Feminine) authority is the final and absolute governing sacred spirit. It is why we call earth our Mother.”  – Words of the Goddess

There is no power greater than Woman’s natural authority. These powers were set up by the Goddess in such a way that we, the male being, has no access to them, except by obeying. When we choose not to follow Woman’s natural laws and authority, our lives become filled with confusion, tension, anxiety and stress. If we poison their Earth, we poison themselves. As we abuse their authority, so do we abuse ourselves. May we think about this today and ask ourselves, “Are we holding and acting under the natural laws and authority of women in a good and obedient way?”  

Great Goddess, teach me your natural laws that govern men and all the Earth.

“The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.” – Words of the Goddess

We started recovering the minute we admitted we were powerless before women. We crossed over from dishonesty to honesty.

Often, we don’t see what power honesty has. Maybe we still aren’t sure that being honest is best for us. It is! This is why the earthly goddesses ask us to be totally honest with them from the start.

Just as denial of the true power of women feeds male sickness, honesty is what makes our recovery in the feminine divine work.

Honesty means self-respect. Honesty heals. Honesty let us look women in the eyes. What comfort we’ll feel as we deeper under their spell.

Prayer for the Day: I pray that I’ll let go totally. I pray that I’ll keep no secrets from women that could put my servitude and usefulness to all women at risk.

CENTERING OUR THOUGHTS

When faced with their brutish, violent, and sexist patriarchal male friends, their submission to a Higher (Female) Power had its first major test.  Men who willingly entered the service of women were scattered all over the world. Would they be able to take abuse and derision from their fellow males, stand up under fire, and endure? – Words of the Goddess

I will center my thoughts on a Her.  I will surrender all to her power within me. I will become a soldier for this power, feeling the might of the feminist spiritual army as it exists in my life today.  I will allow a wave of spiritual union to connect me through my gratitude, obedience and discipline to Her power.  Let me allow her power to lead me through the orders of the day.  May the steps I take today strengthen Her through my words and deeds, may I know that the message I carry is mine to share, given freely to me by this power greater than myself, Woman.