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Birthing God
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…since pre-Celtic times, and in many other cultural traditions, Winter Solstice has been celebrated as the birth of the God, and in Christian tradition as the birth of the Saviour. But there are deeper ways of understanding what is being born: that is, who or what the “saviour” is. In the Gospel of Thomas — which was not selected for biblical canon — it says: “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you.”
This then may be the Divine Child — the “Saviour” — the new Being forming in the Cosmogonic Womb, who will be born…
Birthing is not often an easy process — for the birthgiver nor for the birthed one: It is a shamanic act requiring strength of bodymind, attention and focus of the mother, and courage to be of the new young one.
Birthgiving is the original place of “heroics” … many cultures of the world have never forgotten that…
~ Glenys Livingstone
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This… reflects his (Max Planck’s) belief that consciousness, not matter, is the fundamental reality. This aligns with the mystical interpretation of the universe, suggesting that the physical world is shaped by deeper, non-material forces.
Quantum phenomena such as wave-particle duality and the observer effect support this notion, as they demonstrate the central…
