Omniscience
Omniscience describes women’s need to contemplate
their definitions of, and relationship to, the Organizing Intelligence
of the Universe, through:
- Personalizing God/dess
- Making peace with God-the-Father
- Recognition of Self-as-Sacred
Personalizing God/dess
Women with Embodied Spiritual Empowerment have given themselves permission to change their ideas about God/dess.
"When my clients don’t like the God of their
childhood, I give them permission to find a new one. Those that find
something that works for them seem to progress faster than those who
remain disconnected from their family ontology, but don’t bother
to find another way."
Making peace with God-the-Father
"…I had to reject God. Because God was part
of the patriarchy and the patriarchy was oppressing me and suppressing
me and harming me, in very deep ways. When I was able to move beyond
that… I began to be a little more open to the concept of God."
Realizing that their suffering is caused by Patriarchal
structures claiming to speak for God-the-Father, and not God himself,
women are then able to embrace the idea of a Divine Masculine.
Recognition of Self-as-Sacred
Embodied spirituality and the women who practice it are empowered by the recognition that “we all have God-seeds inside that we’re growing.”
“I didn't know that I could call myself God. That I could say, I am divine, I am a spiritual embodiment.”
“Thankfully, I had the Divine presence inside of me, and my spiritual being kept pushing me forward."
When women connect with their inner holiness, some also embrace the idea of a Divine Feminine.
"I see how our current picture of God is male, and
white, and that is what we value in our culture. I am afraid that what
we leave out of our picture of the Divine, we leave out of our culture.
So, we have left out women, matter, the earth, the body, mothers,
intuitive knowing, those things that are so feminine. And because the
feminine is so connected to the body, and to the earth, and to the
ordinary moments, it all seems to be part of one devalued package." |