It is important to do your work, whether that’s meditation, study, ritual, shadow work. Recognizing nonduality as a worthy spiritual aim, how do we accomplish this realization? One way is by emulating the impulses of both divine masculine and feminine.Įmbrace the impulse to develop this is the masculine impulse. This symbolic language is not describing a single person with two sexes but is describing the combination of opposites into a nonduality. This is the unification of spirit and matter into a divine hermaphrodite. In alchemy, there is a stage in the great work (magnum opus) referred to as the Rebis. It brings individuals down to the same level as the whole rather than bringing the whole up. When the shadow aspect of the feminine is at work, there is stagnation. If one critical organ fails, it can cause death or, at least, the failure of other organs. This impulse is egalitarian, it wants to see each individual cared for, but not at the expense of the whole. The divine feminine concerns itself with the whole, bringing the many along and nurturing them. On a spiritual level, we find words like Earth-based, community, motherhood. The divine feminine, which Ken Wilber refers to as agape, is the impulse to gather, nurture, to tend to. This is not the divine impulse, but a corrupted version of it. Think of this as the cult leader who abuses their followers, or the inflated ego of those who declare themselves “ascended”. The out-of-balance, corrupted, or shadow-side of the divine masculine is the power hungry, abusive, or violent. Think of the Buddha who sat under the Bodi tree in meditation until he reached enlightenment.
While this impulse is individualistic, it wants to lift the individual rather than making the individual seem greater by oppressing the masses. Spiritually this is the impulse to practice, to seek knowledge, to supersede where we are at the moment.
The divine masculine impulse, which Ken Wilber refers to as eros, is the impulse of the individual to grow. Patriarchy is not really an expression of the divine masculine, but a perversion of it. There’s always a king, or a guru, or a priest putting themselves between you and divinity. There are always very few people at the top enriching themselves at the expense of those below. This out-of-balance expression of the masculine is like a giant pyramid scheme. This extends to religion, politics, and culture. Politically, here in the West, we have been living in a patriarchal hierarchy for several thousand years. Gender identity is another concept II won’t address here other than to say that every being has both masculine and feminine divine impulses - regardless of gender identity.
I want to call out an important point here - that the gender referred to here is not necessarily a political or biological construct - though those reflect the principle. Just like with sexual reproduction, these two impulses combine to create the universe and express themselves through it and through every living being. Cats chase mice, Red Sox fans hate The Yankees, etc., etc, etc.ĭivinity, in order to create, expresses itself through two impulses - the divine masculine, and the divine feminine. We appear to be separate from each other. Matter appears to be separate from spirit. That divinity, in order to experience itself, creates an illusion of separation. Good news - what you are is already whole, complete, and perfect. That inner spark is unborn, deathless, cannot suffer injury, or be affected by your life events. Underneath all that we think we are, is a pure spark of divinity connected to absolutely everything. Gender is in everything Everything has its masculine and feminine principles Gender manifests on all planes.
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