“Reintegration of the Feminine” with Reverend Karen Lindquist
Let’s reclaim our Eternal Feminine (Holy Mother) and rebirth a loving relationship with the Eternal Masculine (Holy Father).
Our 2022 Spiritual Discernment:
Encountering the Infinite: Meeting the Divine Mother in Nature, Humanity, and the Cosmos ~ a contemplative, exploratory inquiry and discovery
August’s focus: Reintegration of the Feminine.
Signs of reintegration of the feminine principle include:
a. love of the earth, ecological awareness
b. emergence of groups,
c. a tendency towards more participatory democracy
d. increasing interest in emotional healing
e. rediscover of the body and its value
(from Claudio Naranjo, a Chilean-born psychiatrist of Arabic/Moorish, Spanish and Jewish descent, a pioneer in integrating psychotherapy and the spiritual traditions.)
The activation of the Feminine is helping us to relate to the deep cosmic source of our psychic life and draw up the living waters from those depths. This enormous shift challenges every aspect of our beliefs. It immeasurably deepens and broadens our perspective on our presence on this planet. It gives deeper meaning to our lives. It is changing everything.
“The Feminine is about holding the caring values of the heart and the importance of relationship with all forms of life; the Masculine is about bringing these values into manifestation in the world. Ideally, these two archetypal principles need to be balanced in both men and women.” ~ Anne Baring
Following the morning worship we will gather in our parking lot and enjoy some social time around a fire.
Celtic Spiral Knot Symbol is 6,500 years old!
This symbol also called the Triskele, Triquetra, and Trinity knot. It highlights the quest for a deeper meaning of life and awakens the balance of three cycles and actions: life-death-rebirth; present-past-future; mind-body-spirit; power-intellect-love; creation-preservation-destruction; mother-father-child…
In ancient Celtic culture and religion, three is a sacred number as it’s believed that significant phenomena occur in threes. The trinity knot represented important things that came in threes, including:
The three-layered nature of the human soul
The three domains (earth, sea and sky)
The three elements (fire, earth and water)
The three stages of a woman’s life in terms of physical reproduction (before, during and after the female body’s ability to have a child)
The three-fold form of the Goddess – the Maiden, the Mother and the Crone. These three forms represent innocence, creation and wisdom, respectively.
From Rumi ~ Three Great Teachings:
- Let your broken heart open.
“A wound is a place where light enters your soul.” ~ Rumi - Allow loss to change you.
“Love has taken away my practices and filled me with poetry.” ~ Rumi - Live the life you want.
“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.” ~ Rumi
“If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders.” ― Andrew Harvey
“Authentic beauty…unlocks the yearning of the human heart, the profound desire to know, to love, to go towards the Other, to reach for the Beyond. If we acknowledge that beauty touches us intimately, that it wounds us, that it opens our eyes, then we rediscover the joy of seeing, of being able to grasp the profound meaning of our existence.” ~ Pope Benedict XVI, ‘Meeting with Artists‘.
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Reverend Karen Lindquist is co-founder and co-minister of Interfaith Community Sanctuary, a spiritual community grounded in circular leadership principles. She co-creates interfaith services throughout the year at the Sanctuary and with interfaith organizations in the greater Seattle area. For many years she served as a board member on The Interfaith Council of Washington and The Interfaith Network, now known as Northwest Interfaith. Reverend Karen’s regular spiritual practices include deep immersion within the Mevlevi tradition (as a follower of Rumi) with the Mevlevi Order of America and absorption into the mystic tradition of Ecclesia Gnostica through the Hagia Sophia Gnostic Parish.
What is Interspirituality?
“Interspirituality is committed to finding the spirituality both within and beyond religion. What ties us together is a shared desire to connect with the Ground of Being in a way that fully respects our differences. The challenge is to embody what is most true and real for us without seeking to convince or convert others.” ~ Joan Borysenko
Interspirituality comes from the work of Wayne Teasdale, who developed this term to reflect commonalities between religious traditions, specifically those that are spiritual in nature. These commonalities across religious practices do not erase differences in beliefs, rather they build community and sharing across practices, leading to the ultimate goal of more human responsibility to one another and the planet as a whole. At its core, this is an “assimilation of insights, values, and spiritual practices” drawn from many different traditions that can be applied to one’s own life to further personal, spiritual development.
