The Dual Origin of the Universe
by May East. An excerpt from The Song of the Earth, Gaia Education’s Worldview Key
Incredible, mysterious, inspiring. As many stars as the Milky Way as many ways to describe the limitless Universe in which our world abide, the matrix of the Great Mystery.
The self originating Universe, continuously self creating, non-local and indivisibly whole. The universe, the sum total of all states of consciousness and activity, hidden by the barriers of space and time, it has existed forever beyond our reach, unknown, unexplored.
Now at long last, those cosmic barriers have began to lift, and we have the first glimpses of those once secret domains. And what we have seen has left us astounded… the first faint comprehension of the universe so bizarre and bewildering is challenging the very notions of matter and energy. It is challenging the very core of our worldviews, belief systems and also our rationality.
The two cosmic currents referred by spiritual teachers, seers and intuitives of all times as the Dual Origin of the Universe. The feminine principle of creation, the masculine principle of creation. The two cosmic currents, known as yin and yang by the Chinese and identified as wave and particle, fermeon and bozon by our contemporary physicists, permeate the very fabric of our Universe.
Our generation is gradually realizing the majestic cosmic law of equivalency, the law of the Dual Origin, as the foundation of existence. The predominance of one origin over the other has created a lack of balance and destruction, which may now be well observed in all of life. Wise ones such as Vivekananda affirmed, “The bird of spirit can only fly with two wings,” and Helena Roerich said, “How can priority be given to one energy over another when the fiery tension can occur only in fusion? The acknowledgement of the two Origins is the foundation of Cosmos.”
Discovering the Feminine Principle Within
The tale that has most deeply informed my life was the one of my great great grandmother who was a free Guarani woman, living in deep intimacy with the subtropical forests of Brazil until the day she was lassoed by my great-great-grand father, an European from the Iberia peninsula. She was uprooted and given a Christian name, Maria.
How uncomfortable it was to hear the elders of my family sharing this story in between laughs and jokes. As I grew up I gradually learnt I could identify and tap from both lineages: the oppressor and the oppressed, the adventurer and the captive. Yet the evolutionary pull within invited me to go beyond the polarised roles and use my mixed blood, as a gift for bridging the worlds, igniting my search for the Feminine Principle of Creation.
In this quest I went from the beginnings of time, journey through the eras, finding some women as forerunners of their times. They are not considered forerunners because of personal achievements, but for the effect their efforts have had on the lives of countless others. From daring feats of bravery to the ways of a compassionate heart, from clear thinking to unexpected acts of beauty and inclusion, they have advanced womanhood in the world, they have been catalysts of change. They are what I name, pearls in the necklace of the Mother of the World.
This article is an excerpt from the Worldview Key, a collection of articles collated in the book ‘The Song of the Earth — A Synthesis of the Scientific and Spiritual Worldviews’, offer background material to the curriculum of the Worldview dimension of both Gaia Education’s face-to-face Ecovillage Design Education programmes and our online Design for Sustainability programmes.
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