The Sophia is a sacred space within which the Divine Feminine Principles of inclusion and patience to allow the unfolding of the highest potential of each moment, can be fully expressed in all thought and action.
Within this space, the feminine presence embodies stillness, a safe haven from which all who engage can experience their authenticity and can speak from their highest expression. As we move in transparency, all can imagine and create with Divine Inspiration.
The mission of The Sophia is to hold open to all the opportunity to reach empirical expression in both though and deed, in service to the family of humanity. The Sophia is an integral part of every personal experience assuring that all are in resonance with the Divine Feminine Principles upon which the New Reality is built.
The inclusion of The Sophia reaches beyond the Divine Feminine expression or form to include the Divine Masculine. It is imperative that the expression, in form, of both feminine and masculine begin to work in full concert with one another and in resonance with the Divine Feminine Principles encoded In The Beginning…each standing fully in their commitment to the other. We begin by rebuilding the trust that has been eroded within our cultures. The willingness to step fully into this sacred space is all that is required for all have the knowing within the deep recesses of their heart to remember and step forward with confidence.
The Prayer
Expressing the Divine Feminine Principles of The Sophia
I bless the Beginning
I encourage movement
I welcome the gifts that will come to me effortlessly
I create with Divine Inspiration
I live my authentic Self in service to the Whole of Existence
In the Beginning our reality was without anomalies…it was Divine Perfection. For some time, we have prayed for a change in our reality as it has become difficult, chaotic and intolerant of our diversity as a global community. Yet, even with our best efforts, we have not fully realized the full potential of our desire for peace and joy in our lives. I offer the following thoughts for your consideration as we continue to move through the changes that are taking place within our lives and our planet.
“During Prayer we do not seek to change the way things are unfolding; if the preparation has been correct and careful then all will proceed accordingly. We use Prayer to bless the Beginning, to encourage Movement and to welcome the Gifts which will come to us effortlessly.” (Theolyn Cortens 1997).
Each time I felt life was not supporting me, I reminded myself that In the Beginning, I was given the opportunity to live my life in joy and peace, I was promised that all my needs would be met and I knew that all things were created to evolve and change. How I move through my evolution and change is determined by my choices. My process of discovery began with the concept that at any moment, everything I was experiencing was my choice and had Divine Purpose…within it was a gift that was mine to receive. Moving from reaction to observation, I do, indeed, have a choice about what unfolds. Sometimes the gift was not easy to recognize and I would move deeper into the silence of my own existence for clarity. Through this process, I learned there was another way to experience life and I was discovering how it worked.
When I encourage movement, I no longer determine what that movement might be…nor in which direction it is to go. When I am in the movement of the perfection of the Beginning, I move with knowing, trust and courage to explore the unknown. This does not mean that I drift aimlessly without purpose, instead I remain fluid and flexible as changes occur that allow my highest expression to be revealed. All too often, when we find ourselves unable to move through an experience, we give up and move on to something else. That is the very timing to move deeper into the vibration of the experience and discover what is at the core of our inner conflict.
Within the unknown are the miracles that are mine to receive. They come to me effortlessly for they are in resonance with my Divine Blueprint and my purpose for existing. When there is difficulty and struggle, I know that I am out of resonance and my EGO has stepped in to determine the direction I move. I pause…allow myself to move fully into the present moment and make another choice…moving, once again, in resonance with Divine Purpose. When I surrendered and allowed the field of unlimited possibilities to open before me, my pathway was fluid and the gifts were revealed without effort.
As I worked with these concepts, I discovered that this practice opened the possibility to create with Divine Inspiration. No longer bound by the constraints of confusion and uncertainty, I am free to bring my highest expression into form and create from a place of knowing how each individual creation can expand the consciousness of all existence…in resonance with the Divine Plan.
Divine Inspiration can only come from a place of authenticity…within the field of unlimited possibilities. As we step aside from FEAR, victimization and unworthiness, we find our authenticity flourishes and we step fully into our creative Self, ready to step into Intentional Collaboration with others who have come to create a New Reality. To live in an environment where kindness, encouragement and authenticity reside is what we have come here to express and we have the opportunity to see it realized.
Engage the Prayer from the deepest recesses of your heart and with Divine Intellect as you create your life within the New Reality in resonance with the Divine Feminine Principles of The Sophia.
Sophia - the Feminine Way
A Masculine Perspective by Dana Paul Ross
I have been asked: What is my take on the term “Sophia” as a platform or model of the “Triad Wave Form”, or as I perceive it, to carry an underlying current of a pure innocence and all accepting nurturing love frequency into the mainstream rivers of our life experience. My understanding implies that the name “Sophia” represents an expression of wisdom through the feminine principles of the Divine. She (Sophia) was the Goddess of Wisdom in Greek mythology. This implies as well a “Living Expression of Wisdom”, as it is time that we “walk our talk”, from the space of the heart. Also, the ‘triad wave form’ implies the sacred geometry of the Trinity, an expanded upgrade of the duality frame of reference that now includes the full realization of our divine, God and Goddess within Self. As we move from the old 3D paradigms and fear based belief systems of masculine dominated realities through the 4D and into the 5D consciousness reality, where we are rediscovering our authentic selves and what we can be as co-creators in the “new earth”, consciousness, and paradigm. I look at it as the transcendence from the relative realities we often perpetuate out of ingrained, learned, programming and fear based belief systems into discovering the actuality of our true divine nature which always, inspires, uplifts, and moves us forward into a co-creative, “heaven on earth” experience where deep inner peace and harmony radiate out of our individual and collective energetic expressions and demonstrate or out-manifest into the world we live in.
This is a new world experience WE Are Co-Creating which is Contrary to old masculine methods which were very structured, thought processed, afforded, even forceful and coercive in method. These masculine methods or modalities I speak of are of the “negative polarities” of the masculine expression and are the ones that have dominated our way of life for all too long. Later I will speak of the positive polarities of the divine masculine that need remembering and brought back into our men. The “Sophia” platform , model or approach, is through the divine aspects of feminine attributes such as receptivity, open to intuitively guided inner wisdom and direction that requires, intuitive navigation through the creation process, from inspiration, incubation and integration, into giving birth and releasing inspired thought/ feeling in a form that flows naturally without effort or stress and is synchronistic and in rhythm with nature, mother earth, always serving the highest good and potential for all. Yes, it includes the positive polarities of the masculine attributes as well, it is just this go around while the masculine provides the ignition and spark, and protection of the feminine, it is the feminine that holds the space and vessel of the light and shares her innate ability to be the mother that nurtures, and loves compassionately and unconditionally just as our Mother Earth has always done, providing for our needs of nourishment and support despite our abuse and mistreatment of her. It’s all about surrendering into our innate power as co-creators rather than performance out of egoism need or insecurity, or fear.
Consider that:
In the Third Dimension, there is a warrior consciousness and the old “flight or fight” fear based survival mentality. We are either engaged fighting or submitting to a power of will of another. Can you image what those observers outside of our planetary system are thinking … that we are a very primitive, irresponsible and destructive human race? “After all, during World War II we destroyed 1,700 of our own cities and killed 50 - million of our own kind” (Stanton Friedman).
Eventually, we get ‘fed up’ of killing and being killed and can’t take it anymore. As we begin to step into the Fourth-Dimensional Consciousness, we decide the next logical step is about becoming healers trying to undo the harm already done, as a result of all these people killing and being killed as well as all the incriminations, blame, judgment, retributions, and shame, etc., we energetically manifested all kinds of ills, physical, mental, emotional, spiritual dis-eases and get out of balance. This is especially true for the men who were the soldiers/ warriors and carried the collective weight & burdens of their actions.
We have spent countless hours and resources investing in healing and or being healed until, we eventually get tired of that as well.
“The very concept of healing implies that you are not whole. Healing implies that something is wrong with you…. If you start from wholeness, then you won’t need to be healed” (Alarius- from Light speed Newsletter).
Then we begin to move into a Fifth-Dimensional perspective and see how we as creator beings are actually co-creating our realities with the universe. We realize that our pictures and images of our perceived reality, as well as all our feeling and thought forms and all that we focus our attention on, implies a reality that the universe then rearranges itself to accommodate manifesting for us. Opps! This brings us to our next logical evolutionary step beyond the “healer” is to take responsibility for our own creations as co-creators. What is the logic to be a healer just “because being a healer implies that the disease is a reality” (dialog from Anastasia by Vladimir Merge’)? With that message, the universe continues to manifest realities that include disease and victims and everything else that goes with it. In the Fifth -Dimensional consciousness we become responsible co-creators, co-creating wholeness. We co-create love in action and a reality in which we are masters who are whole and complete, self realized in our divinity … who’s coming with me?
It is said that as we approach the next cycle of ages beginning in 2013, we have to create a new foundation for the next. We are in position to create a new world for ourselves and our descendants, especially for the next seven generations. This will be when we will discover that messiah that many have been waiting for. It is just we are the ones we have been waiting for, as we are our own saviors if we would and we will, wake up and remember who we truly are. This ‘Divine Plan’ requires both inner and other peace. That means that we need to finally rid ourselves of our fears. One can simplify ones motivations by simply asking if one’s choices and actions are motivated by fear or love. It’s time for clarity, discernment and letting the veils of our disillusions and illusions fall away. It’s time for full-self and world disclosure regarding all the ways we have deceived ourselves. It’s a time for truth revealing and for many, a time for humility.
Obviously, the male dominated societies and way of doing things has not worked and it’s time that the female take the lead to reclaim her power. Why is it that in many cultures, that it is the men who are required to go through numerous authentic initiations, while the women are not? When the American Indian men were subjugated under the rule and thumb of their white task masters and were punished if they spoke their own language or participated in any rituals or ceremony, it was the women who secretly held, preserved and practiced the songs, dances and rituals that preserved their wisdom and history. The women weren’t considered a threat because the white people were blinded by their own male dominated sense of self importance. The women on a deeper level represent the very foundation of the world we live in. “It is time for all the women to come together to generate a new vision. They must dream a new dream - a new vision that must be about what they want for their grandchildren and for the next seven generations. The women are the keepers of the cultures, the family, the home as well as the foundation of the world. The women teach the men how to be gentle. It’s the women who are going to change the world now, so men have to protect them. This is Mother Earth not Father Earth. The energy of the earth is feminine. It is time for the men to step aside and hold the space and protect the women allowing them to fully come into their power as women with divine attributes of holding, sharing and spreading the nurturing love that heals old wounds, comforts and builds new bridges of connection and births a new world that finally knows peace and what it means to be the human family we are all a part of. The feminine energy has no boundaries. The feminine energy receives and the male energy gives. The male energy has a forward motion, while the feminine energy is rotary or circular. It’s about authentic and unconditional reciprocation, in which everyone extends support to everyone else…. being in community in the truest sense, and this is the feminine impulse.” “The universe is always in balance. We are the ones out of balance. And to establish this balance and harmony within yourself, you have to be in love. When you are in love, you can offer yourself that love as well” (Hale Makua - The Bowl of Light - Hank Wesselman). It will be about creating harmony and integration and the conditions fostering new forms in a foundation based on love, unity and coherence with each other, nature and the earth. And there are many new children coming in, children of the heart, of light and joy that will help to stabilize the changes necessary to build a new world.
It’s also about allowing ourselves to Be rather than Do. I know it can be said that we are out of time and need to do something right now in order to save ourselves and the planet. All the more reason to intentionally live our lives outside the constraints, limitation and pressures of a linear time frame, dwelling not in the past or future with our thoughts, feelings and attention, but practicing being in the present moment allowing for the direct experience and inner connection with our ”higher-self” and guided inner wisdom. This practice and new way of living our lives will keep us ‘online’ with spirit and to be available and open to receive all the wisdom and solutions and technologies to transform our earth and lives into healthy, sustainable, enriched, and joyful directly experienced Unity Consciousness.
My personal model for what this journey of self-realization, transformation and transcendence might look like is loosely based on a “Priest-ess Process” I experienced 15 years ago while going through a nine month initiation and gestation of becoming an ordained Priest in the ‘Fellowship of Isis and Osiris’ under the guidance of Nicole Christine and the Priestesses who honored and held the space for us as well. It is said that these are the times to celebrate life and awaken to our co-creative partnership with Earth in the “Temple of the Living Earth” (from Principles of Earth-Centered Spirituality).
It is important to note that any process or method to take as Joseph Campbell (The Power of Myth) calls: “ The Hero’s Journey” is not to be confused with the endless processing of personal stuff, which is no longer necessary anyway with all the higher and very supportive energies streaming in from many benevolent higher consciousness sources in and beyond our galaxy as well as our own awakening that reflects our own self knowing, and self empowering and self directive response to listening to our heart’s inner guidance.
A model might be a three step process where the initial phase focus is: “Know Thyself”. This can be approached through an educational emphasis on self-knowing and self-honoring. This would involve embracing the stillness and quiet place and space of the heart and living in the moment, receiving inner guidance and openheartedly, speaking our truth as we discover the true authenticity of who we are and what we are here to contribute to the whole.
The Second phase could be catalyzed and seeded by knowing thyself through Nature. This demands that we take responsibility through right relationship and reverence with nature. It also demands a return to nature-focused spirituality. We are creators and need be responsible for our creations. Nature models for us the expression of harmony. balance, and self regenerating and of a sustaining system if we would just refrain from our interference with her. In this time period we are in NOW it is essential that we come into balance with all the natural energies and cycles of the earth, sun, moon and stars. It is essential to Reclaim our Connection with and Reconciliation with our mother Earth. In being fully present, we can open ourselves to this direct experience of our totality and essential Being, becoming Oneself, the Sacred site, walking, talking, gazing, in awareness, and bliss.
Basic is the recognition of our Earth as a living organism, a sentient being of intelligence, consciousness, heart, directive, destiny and evolution. She is a sacred site, our church, temple, sanctuary, home and our mother.
While there is a human history of pilgrimages to sacred sites around the world, we are eventually lead to the inner recognition of the sacredness of the place and moment wherever we are as we move into the silence between our breaths, steps, feelings, thoughts and words. Simple observation with quiet, still and relaxed focus in the moment rewards us with the pure beauty of our surroundings. Finally, our journey reveals itself as the spiritual unveiling that allows us to let go of the external forms and leading to letting go of the internal names, ideas, concepts and activities to recognize the nameless and formless Source by silencing the mind and connecting with the spiritual heart and the source of life itself. There is a shift into a deeper perception, a shift of attention leading to a direct experiential recognition of who we are. And so we make sacred by bringing our sacredness to every place, every situation, and every relationship. As we allow for our sacredness of our true divine essence to show up, are blessed beyond measure as everyone we encounter along the way, for there is total unconditional acceptance, and non-judgment of ourselves and others. We live in a world of gratitude, grace and love and honor each other.
Regarding sacred relationship, it has been said by some that a woman knows herself best alone in nature where she can sort herself out from her relationship-centered existence and nurture her relationship to her Essential self and it is said by others that every man needs a woman in his life… (sister, mother, lover, friend, wife …) that is a clear window to nature so that his system-building, construction-oriented perspectives align harmonically with the natural world. It is said that “A man cannot truly love a woman unless he loves the Earth”, and a woman cannot be truly loved unless she knows herself as the Earth”.