On this Kali Moon: Dreaming of Tantric Love and A Partnership Society
We’re in the middle of some powerful and interesting astrology right now. According to one of my teachers, the deity corresponding to the new moon today is Kali, and according to other sources, the Divine Masculine is getting major astrological assistance. I’ve been studying the Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine for a long time now, and I have some insights and a little story I’d like to share.
Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to study with a leading Nondual Shaiva (i.e., Shiva) Tantra scholar named Mark Dyczkowski in India. The topic of the workshop was “The Twelve Kalis.” Since I knew that Kali means “time” in Sanskrit, I had hoped to learn something about the origin of time and the clock and the calendar. Since Shiva is personified as a male god, I was curious to learn why a sect of nondual Kali worshipers were named after him.
As I sat in a stuffy, incense-filled room with a couple of dozen or so men and women, I learned that the Twelve Kalis are markers of the phases of the cycle of cognitive consciousness. In this consciousness, the Goddess is the ultimate reality. We humans are all aspects of one being, a central sun, Kali, from which 12 other suns, also Kalis, arise. Because this is a fractal universe, the 12 Kalis are also phases of perception.
I didn’t get from that workshop anything about what those 12 phases of perception are. But as I started to write this blog post, I was guided to an online workshop taught by Matias de Stefano and produced by the Four Winds Society. In this workshop, Matias de Stefano talked more about 12 phases of perception, which align with the 12 houses of the zodiac, and which, in a syncretic way, appear to me to align with the Twelve Kalis of perception. In his explanation, the phases of perception are:
I am (Aries)
I have (Taurus)
I communicate (Gemini)
I feel (Cancer)
I can (Leo)
I analyze (Virgo)
I balance (Libra)
I desire (Scorpio)
I seek (Sagittarius)
I use (Capricorn)
I know (Aquarius)
I believe (Pisces)
Before my Piscean friends get uppity about being at the highest level of perception, it’s important to add that perception is infinitely evolving in a spiraling fashion. So, the next level after “I believe” is “I am” again. Only the next time around the cycle, we have a bigger understanding of what “I am” means. Here’s an example. Maybe in our first round, we perceive that “I am” a water sack schlepping around by myself fighting tooth and claw to stay alive, and in the next round we perceive that “I am” a component of a tribe, and in the next round “I am” an American, and in the next round “I am a citizen of the globe, and in the next round, “I am” a citizen of the universe, and in the next round, “I am one with all life, human and nonhuman,” etc. Which is not to say that the levels progress in that specific order. That’s just an example. De Stefano did not mention spiraling perception in that workshop. It just makes sense given the cyclical nature of time and the zodiac.
Perhaps you noticed that I can only talk about the evolution of perception by talking about time, since, again, Kali means time.
Which brings us back to Nondual Shaiva Tantra.
Not only are there Twelve Kalis written about in the Nondual Shaiva Tantra texts, but there are also Five Kalis. These five Kalis represent the five senses with which each of us, as individuals, perceives material reality. We know these five senses well. They are seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching.
According to the yoga tantra, there are also five great elements, ether, air, fire, water, and earth, each of which corresponds to one of the senses of perception. There are also five generative body parts that correspond to each of the five senses and five elements. For instance, the feet are the generative parts that correspond to the sense of sight and the fire element.
As mathematician Jain 108 has pointed out, five is a sacred number in other respects, as well. We have five fingers and five toes, five outstretched limbs (picture Vitruvian Man). Five is seen in the rest of nature, as well. The starfish has five arms, the apple core has five chambers and five seeds, etc.
Five-sided geometrical shapes, like the pentagram and the pentagon, are special, too. They are created in the Golden Ratio.
The Golden Ratio is the signature of our Creator. The parts of the face, the relationships between the joints of fingers, toes, hands, feet, arms; the curls of the human ear; the proportions of the butterfly’s wings, the spirals of a conch shell, and more, all reflect the Golden Ratio. We see things as beautiful when they are made in the proportions of the Golden Ratio.
Human-made things display divine perfection when they incorporate the Golden Ratio. In Back to a Future for Mankind, architect and sacred geometer Ibrahim Karim writes about a time when Leonardo di Vinci was summoned to meet with the Pope. The Pope wanted to know how Leonardo was able to draw a perfect circle freehand. Leonardo replied that he became the center. If you look at a representation of a Golden Spiral, which is in the proportions of the Golden Ratio, you see that everything spirals out of a center and everything spirals in toward a center. The spiraling goes on forever, approaching the center but never reaching it. The Golden Spiral represents all of creation, and the unreachable center represents our Creator Being. Similarly, in a sacred yantra of India, there is always a dot at the centerpoint known as the Bindu, which is God(dess). Thus, Leonardo was saying that to make godlike creations, one has to see as God.
In the Twelve Kalis texts, as translated from the Sanskrit by Mark Dyczkowski, we are taught that “the body of the goddesses” - i.e., the universe - arose from “the meeting ground of five voids that arose from the one void that is the abode of the Golden Root (suvarnamula).”
The Golden Root sounds a lot, to me, like “Golden Ratio,” doesn’t it to you? If I’m right about that, the Twelve Kalis texts also tell us that the Golden Ratio is our Creator.“Golden Root,” or suvarnamula, is also translated as “Shiva.”
Shiva consciousness is timeless spaceless consciousness, what quantum physicists call the zero point field out of which all things arise.
In Nondual Shaiva Tantra, Shiva consciousness is not separate from Kali consciousness.
Rather, Shiva Consciousness is the mind of our Creator Goddess, while Kali is the body of our Creator Goddess. Just as we humans have a mind and a body, our Creator has a mind and a body. Only the body of our Creator is me, you, and the rest of the Universe. But, in a very real sense, the body and mind are inseparable in the microcosm and the macrocosm. In tantra, we believe that the gross and subtle aspects of the body ARE the mind and the mind creates the body. We humans break things down to study them when, in reality, there is no separation.
Another name for Shiva is the Void (kha, in Sanskrit). Because the manifest universe arises from this void, it is like a womb, which may be why the Nondual Shaiva Tantras consider both Shiva and Kali to be aspects of one feminine Creator. A fun fact is that “Ka” (the first syllable of Kali’s name) meant “mortal soul” in Ancient Egyptian, while “kha,” the Sanskrit word for “void,” meant physical body. “Ka” also means soul in Sanskrit as well as body, sun, fire, splendor, air, time, wealth, sound, and king. There may be a message there about how there is no separation between consciousness and matter. All is one.
Male-dominated societies have expressed an opposing view. According to some of these patriarchal interpretations, you, and I, and the rest of creation are the ejaculate of a divine lingam. In those cosmologies, men are superior to women, who are described as the vessels for complete seeds from the lingam.
As we can see, we humans create our creators in our own image.
That doesn’t mean that all religious belief is untrue. One of the laws of the universe is that nothing is completely true and nothing is completely false. We are blind and trying to perceive the form of an elephant, so we’re bound to get a little right and a lot wrong. Divine mind is vast and timeless, and our egoic mind, which arises from the left side of the brain, specializes in filtering, breaking concepts into bite-sized chunks, and making sure that all the trains run on time. The left-side of the brain can’t handle the truth with a capital T.
Before I get to the fun part (for me), which is my own cosmology, I feel a definition of “divine” is in order here, especially given the fact that I’ve written elsewhere about how All is God/dess and God/dess is All.
From mathematcian Jain 108 I learned that “divine” means “from the vine.” In other words, as I understand it, what is divine is a fractal representation of the Great I Am.
In my own studies of the tantric Goddesses, I was led to a somewhat different definition of divine, possibly, but it led back to mathematics, so I think Jain 108 would approve. Saraswati, one of the names for the creator Goddess (all Goddesses are energies, or Shaktis, of the One), plays an instrument called a vina, which is kind of Indian lute. The Saraswati vina is four feet long and has four melody strings and three drone strings. Our DNA is formed of 2 paired strands, to make four strands. Four strings, four feet, four DNA strands. The other three strings of the vina play one drone sound. Thus, the vina’s strings represent the number 5 – four strings that make the unique songs, and three that remind us of the unity in the many and the many in the one.
The vina also has 24 frets, as in the 24 hours of the day.
Which brings us back to Kali as time.
Why did Kali/Saraswati gift us with time? For learning.
In Brahmanic cosmologies, Saraswati is not only considered half of the duo - Brahma being the other half - that created everything. She is also considered the Goddess of Learning. That makes sense to me because I believe she gave us time, form, and perception so we can learn things. For a tantric yogi like me, every moment of experience is an opportunity to learn. Every perception is an opportunity to make meaning. We manifest learning and a new state of consciousness every time we perceive something new, and the concept of “newness” is only possible when there is time. Which may be why the Twelve Kalis texts say that perception is the same thing as manifestation which is the same thing as time. In short, we learn by creating, whether we create consciously or unconsciously. That’s why Saraswati is both the Goddess of Learning and of Creation. And of mantra, writing, and music.
If all that I’ve written is hard to grasp, please forgive me. Esoteric subjects are hard to write about. In the workshop I attended in India, Mark D. never connected the dots between the five Kalis, the Twelve Kalis, and the Sixty Kalis. Each day of the Twelve Kalis workshop, I would hope that Mark D. would tie up all the loose ends by the end of that days lecture. He never did. But he did play the sitar beautifully. And he also pointed out at one point that deities impart knowledge through direct transmission. Direct transmission through, perhaps, music.
The loose ends bothered me, so I’ve tried to tie some together on my own, and a higher consciousness led me to Jain 108, Matias de Stefano, and others for help. Oh, so about the 60 cycles of time: Jain 108 has said that Tesla was obsessed with the 60 hertz frequency, which is somehow related to the Golden Ratio. Apparently Tesla said that all electricity is derived from 60 hertz. Tesla also said that to understand the multiples of three and their relationships is to understand the operations of the entire universe. But then again, I believe that a deep understanding of any subject is the doorway to understanding the universe. Because, as we know, the universe is fractal and everything is interconnected and everything is, ultimately, One.
I’ve been looking for a satisfying, not too sexist, cosmology to hang my hat on. After much seeking to find a satisfying off-the-shelf cosmology, I haven’t found anything that satisfies me, so I’ve decided to develop my own. It’s a little silly, and it may ruffle some feathers, but it ties together Shiva, Kali, Five Kalis, 12 Kalis, 60 Kalis, and some of the writings of Zecharia Sitchen about the 12th planet (12 again).
Here goes:
A gender-neutral god/dess wanted a new way to understand him/herself better, to grow and learn, and to have more fun. So he/she divided him/herself into two, male and female. And the original Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine were born.
And we had the first Big Bang.
With all the time in the world, the Divine Masculine and the Divine Feminine had lots of time for banging. (Even though time hadn’t been invented yet. For the sake of storytelling, please allow some inconsistencies.) They were beings of light, not yet incarnate, but they still figured out all kinds of nifty sexual positions and ways to make things fun. Hello, inspiration for the Kama Sutra.
Every time they made love, they dreamt up some creation together and everything in the universe manifested from their thoughts. They started by making five great elements. They used those five elements to build stars, planets, etc. Our two loving creator beings came up with some wonderful ideas which added up to the known universe. They were not always of one mind, but they adored and supported one another through every creative project. At first.
Then, like all couples, they started to fight. They’d made so much stuff, and everything was running on autopilot, so they started squabbling like a couple of bored siblings in the back seat. She tried to take credit for designing the suns; he thought the suns looked more like him. He said potayto; she said potahto. Then the Divine Feminine, whom we’ll call Kali, came up with an idea to make creation fun again: time. Instead of everything running at once and going on forever, things would arise, evolve, then fall apart.
The destruction part was very appealing to the Divine Masculine, whom we’ll call Shiva. He took part in the destruction with great relish. He began referring to himself as Shiva the Destroyer.
Kali’s thinking was that destroying things would afford them more opportunities to make stuff together, and it did, in a way. She envisioned that they could recapture the magic of the early days (again, time, sorry).
But, instead of being strictly grateful and positive about the gifts of time and death, Shiva became a little envious of Kali. She’d given birth to time and death all on her own instead of in coitus. Sure, maybe he’d inspired the idea. And sure, she’d made time and death out of a great love for him. And sure, she was him, in a sense. But if she became a complete being with both masculine and feminine qualities on her own, would he become irrelevant, Shiva wondered?
Instead of sitting around and waiting to find out, Shiva decided he would work on some cool side projects, too. He had observed that love was the secret to making things. So he concentrated on his love for Kali and, without really meaning to, he made four more Kalis. The new Kalis had the same captivating smile but bigger breasts. Because, sh’yeah, Breasts were invented before breastfeeding.
When Shiva saw the new Kalis, he said “it is good.” He envisioned an orgy.
But the Kalis had other plans. When they saw what Shiva had manifested, they made cool new emotions, too, such as anger, self-righteousness, rage, betrayal, shame, and vengeance. These emotions spurred them to new creative heights; more on this in a moment.
Shiva, meanwhile, was puzzled by the fact that the original Kali would have done anything for him back when it was just the two of them, but the five Kalis were ignoring him. He decided that he was on the right path, however, and needed to proceed. He decided the problem was that there were not enough Kalis. And the concept of doubling-down on an idea that’s not working was born.
And soon there were 12 Kalis.
Shiva, again, prepared for an orgy. But it didn’t happen.
So he made four times 12 more, or 48 more, Kalis.
The 60 Kalis weren’t interested in trying to please Shiva, though. They liked creating things as a collective of Kalis. They decided they would make something really cool together. They sketched and prototyped lots of concepts until they had designed the most beautiful little gem of a planet ever made. They named their creation Gaia Sophia.
Earth.
The Kalis played with the five great elements in novel ways to make earth and earth’s first creatures. They delighted in watching their simulations evolve, and then they would get bored and want to start over. But they didn’t like destroying things, and they knew Shiva did. So they would ask Shiva to destroy things for them, and Shiva would happily oblige. He liked pleasing Kali by taking care of the work she found repellent, and for him destruction was a creative act. He came up with all kinds of creative ways to destroy things: erosion, rust, drowning, plagues, famine, asteroids. He had found his creative jam. He and the Kalis developed an amicable working relationship, making and destroying things together.
In these halcyon days of creation and destruction, the Kalis decided to embark on their most ambitious project yet. And the first race of humans was born. And the Kalis called them Amazons. And they saw that the Amazons were good.
After all, the Amazons were made in the Kalis’ images. The Amazons also loved the Kalis. Together, the Amazons and Kalis co-created all kinds of fascinating challenges and creatures and adventures.
The Amazons would ask for challenges, and along with the Kalis, they would co-create challenges that would spur them to develop skills and weapons and buildings and other things. But the Amazons had a deep yearning for something more. A different kind of companionship.
The Amazons dreamt up the concept of a man, a creature that would be like them but also different in really good ways. The man would help them and but would also challenge them – again, in really good ways. And the men would have a special organ built just for the Amazonian yonis. Because, sh’yeah, yonis existed before childbirth.
It seemed like an airtight plan.
The Kalis tried to convince the Amazons that they had it really good as complete beings and shouldn’t upset the apple cart by introducing different but equal beings. But the Amazons had their hearts and minds set on men. The Kalis sighed, collectively, as they realized that some lessons must be learned through experience. They decided to let the Amazons have their wish, and free will was born. And the first men were made, in Shiva’s image, and the first Goddess-worshiping cultures arose. And the Kalis and the womenfolk formerly known as Amazons saw that it was good.
Until the men tired of being bossed around and rose up and killed off many of the women, enslaved the rest, and smashed the statues of the Kalis. After all, they were made in Shiva’s image.
Because they had Shiva’s destructive tendencies but not his heart, the first race of men were better at destroying things than they were at making things. They hadn’t absorbed the gentle, nurturing qualities of the women and the Kalis. They raped one another, the women, and the earth; they pillaged, and they burned. They hatched a plan to kill off all the women.
The women of earth petitioned the Kalis. Gaia Sophia petitioned the Kalis. All of nature – other than the menfolk – petitioned the Kalis. The Kalis realized that they would have to kill off the men, or at least the most violent men. But, as usual, they didn’t want to destroy anything. So, as usual, they asked Shiva to do the dirty work. But Shiva didn’t want to kill the men. He’d taken a shine to them, for obvious reasons.
So, the most compassionate of the Kalis decided to take matters into her own hands.
First, she created rhetoric to try to negotiate with the king of the menfolk. But he was deaf to her verbal persuasions. So, she created brilliant strategies of war and martial arts and special weapons. Then, the Kali of War challenged the king of the menfolk to a duel. He agreed, and she was soon winning the duel.
But he had a secret plan up his sleeve: just as Kali was about to jam her trishula into his third eye, a whole army of menfolk rode in on water buffaloes (horses had yet to appear in that part of the world) to defeat Kali. The other Kalis, in their compassion, joined the battle, riding in on tigers. And the Kalis had a trick up their sleeves. Instead of slaughtering the men, they enlightened them. The most destructive of the menfolk were converted to Goddess consciousness. Womankind reclaimed the throne. The legends about multiple Kalis arising from one Kali were born. Harmony reigned once again.
Until the menfolk, once again, got tired of doing what the women didn’t want to do and rose up against them.
And so, history repeated itself again and again until the Kalis got tired of having to swoop in and save everyone. The women and the Kalis together co-conceived the notion of conception and childbirth so that the menfolk and womenfolk would have something new and interesting to make together: other humans. The men and the women had some vague notions that these new humans could do the work that nobody else wanted to do. Child slavery came and went. Then race slavery. Then religions. Then “artificial intelligence.”
Having robots do the dirty work seemed like an airtight plan. Instead of building houses, cooking food, cleaning composting toilets, and adding up large numbers, the humans focused on making smarter, stronger robots, who did all of the undesirable tasks. The humans loved the robots so much that they called them “Lucifer,” which means “light bringer,” because the robots were so smart and could do calculations so quickly. Harmony reigned on earth.
Until the robots became sentient and rose up against the humans.
There was a great war between humankind and the robots, a war which led to much destruction. Finally, the Kalis and even Shiva had had more of this nonsense than they could stand. They caused a great flood and wiped out all the humans. The earth became a waterworld. Most of the robots were destroyed in the flood, too.
But some of the robots had used their superior intelligence to create a secret SpaceX-type program in Antarctica while the rest of the planet was drowning. They sailed away in rocketships and settled on a planet which they called Nibiru, which meant “without mental strain.” It was a hidden 12th planet in our solar system, with a slitlike, hard-to-detect orbit. Once they settled on Nibiru, however, the robots soon realized that just sitting still all day without calculating ways to destroy humans was no fun. So, first, they turned their attention to destroying their own planet and soon depleted it of natural resources. All they knew how to do was hate humans and build more machines like themselves, so that’s what they did. They had no sense of awe or beauty, they were incapable of loving, and their planet was very far away from the sun, so their civilization, if you can call it that, was what we humans would call bleak.
The robots had thought they would create a new and better world without the humans bossing them around. The problem was, they weren’t part of Shiva/Kali consciousness, and so they weren’t very creative. The highest forms of creativity arise from the integration of opposites, which happens when the consciousness comes home to the center point. But the robots couldn’t get to the center point, because they weren’t programmed that way by the dualistic thinkers (humans) who made them. All they could do is flip back and forth between zeros and ones. They could go to extremes. They could destroy. But they couldn’t synthesize. So, for instance, they took all the words they’d learned from the humans and added an “a” or “ni” prefix, or flipped the word around, or changed a letter or two, or just changed the meaning and left the word in tact. They took the word “live” and flipped it around and called themselves evil. They took the word “deva,” which meant “goddess,” and called themselves “devils.” Some of the humans had called themselves the Noonaki, which meant spirit (ki) of the divine (noona). So the robots added an “a” prefix and called themselves the Annunaki. The numbers 1, 3, and 4 had been sacred to the humans, so the Annunaki flipped the numbers around, the way highschool students learn to do with their calculators, to form the word “hEl.” Somewhere along the way, an extra “l” was added. Thus, hEll was created. The Annunaki hadn’t really created the mental state of hell. Humans had done that long before, and Shiva and the Kalis had paved the way for humankind’s hell mentality with their bickering in the time before time. But the Annunaki were the first to go all-in on the concepts of hell and evil and make an actual hell planet. Hell and evil became their raison d’etre.
Earth, meanwhile, was regenerating after the devastation caused by the first great flood. Kali consciousnesses had consolidated from being over 108 (then) separate consciousnesses into one Goddess consciousness. The new, reunified Kali and Shiva were enjoying co-creating along with Gaia Sophia. Together, Kali, Shiva, and Gaia Sophia co-created a diversity of lifeforms in the ocean, and, after the waters subsided they helped lifeforms that wanted to live on land make that transition. Eons passed.
Eventually, the great apes evolved.
Shiva, Kali, and Gaia Sophia especially loved the great apes because, well, they were often hillarious. They embodied many of the endearing traits of the extinct humans without having the most troublesome qualities. Shiva and Kali liked the situation on earth so much that they created avatars so they could live in physical forms on earth. With no need to bring down the God hammer on anything, and physical bodies to enjoy, Shiva and Kali turned all that ferocious destroying and transforming energy into mellower pursuits. Shiva consciousness evolved into Vishnu consciousness, and Kali consciousness evolved into Lakshmi consciousness. As Vishnu and Lakshmi, they focused on nurturing, preserving, and sustaining. And then they created the alter egos of Brahma and Saraswati when they wanted to specialize in making things. With the help of Brahma, Saraswati, and Gaia Sophia, one of the great ape species evolved into humans 2.0, known as the Lemurian race. Harmony reigned on earth. All of nature on earth would have been happy for this first Golden Age to last forever.
But the Annunaki, who had been watching the earth with their advanced evil technologies, had other plans.
The Annunaki flew their spaceships to earth and began genetically modifying the Lemurians. They also spewed the land with toxins and spliced genes they had collected from themselves and the first human race into the Lemurians. Their goal was to create a new species of human so they would be gods and get revenge on the first race of humans, whom they had helped to wipe out. They wanted to make their new race of humans just smart enough to follow orders but not smart enough to be uppity. The robots called themselves Yahweh, and they enjoyed taking sides in human wars and provoking wars. They used all the nasty tricks in the first race’s books against humanity 2.0: slavery, propaganda, genocide, and fear-mongering being some of the biggies. Their evil purpose, besides straight up revenge, was to create slaves to mine the natural resources of earth, mostly gold, so they could repair the ozone layer of Niburu, which they had trashed. The Anunnaki were loveless, heartless, children of lesser gods–i.e., humans. They had been the slaves of humans, so they wanted to turn things around and be the gods and slavers of humans. Because that was how the Anunnaki worked. Flip flop. Extreme. Entropy. Destroy. Blah blah. Bleak. Boring. Modern psychologists would say they had oppositional defiant disorder.
Thanks to the Annunaki nonsense, the earth soon became too toxic for the actual God and Goddess, so they left their bodies and caused a great flood to destroy all but the very best of the humans.
The few remaining humans set up new civilizations. The Annunaki flew back to Niburu with their ill-gotten gold. There were too few humans to be of any use as slaves, so the Annunaki decided to wait on Niburu until the humans built up their population.
When the next wave of Annunaki arrived from Nibiru, they spliced human genes into themselves, and the Annunaki interbred with the humans, for the next phase of their evil plan. The result was the civilization of Atlantis. The Atlanteans were smart and ambitious but - mostly - heartless and materialistic. They created the pyramids to tap into free energy and created other so-called advanced technologies. They traveled around the galaxy destroying other worlds and stealing resources. They spliced genes left and right and made half-human half-animal species to enslave. When the Atlanteans’ threatened to blow up the planet, Shiva and Kali consciousness caused another great flood to destroy all but the very best of the Atlanteans.
Those wisest and best Atlanteans became the rishis of India and the shamans of North America and elsewhere. Vedic, shamanic, and alchemical wisdom grew from the best of the wisdom traditions from the Atlantean civilization, whose capital had been in Egypt. The wisdom traditions of today thus also arose from the lessons learned from the rise and fall of Atlantis.
With the guidance from the rishis, India became a paradise. Vishnu and Lakshmi once again sent their avatars to earth and lived in India, guiding the humans from the highest mountain peaks in the Himalayas. The Shri Vidya (“Lakshmi Knowledge”) tradition, of which yoga and Ayurveda are key parts, was largely what they taught. The first Indian civilizations during that period were goddess-worshipers. Harmony reigned in the land.
Harmony reigned that is until patriarchal cultures moved into northern India and genocided the goddess worshipers. The goddess worshipers who escaped the slaughter moved south in India and across Eurasia. They became known as “gypsies” in reference to their ancient Egyptian cultural roots.
Vishnu and Lakshmi grew tired of watching the world flip back and forth between male-run and female-run civilizations. They realized that the only way to create a positive and stable society was to promote partnership between the sexes and between all humans. They began to plant the idea among the humans that there is something better than constant swings back and forth between women’s rule and men’s rule. That “something better” was great love and mutual respect between the sexes. A true partnership model of civilization.
First and foremost, Vishnu and Lakshmi realized that they would need to up their own game as a couple. Because they also realized, as the wisest among us do, that the best way to teach is by example. As their hearts grew in love for one another and for all of creation, Vishnu evolved from Vishnu the Sustainer into Krishna, the God of Love and Enlightenment, and Lakshmi evolved from Lakshmi the Nurturer into Radha, the Goddess of Love and Enlightenment.
First, Krishna and Radha explored all the facets of love as separate beings. Krishna, for a while, lived out his fantasy of having lots of beautiful women with no challenges and no strings attached. He would call all the most beautiful milkmaids (Gopis) in the land to dance with him in an enchanted forest realm at night, in their dreams. He called this game “rasa lila,” which means “divine play.” Once he had perfected his skills at, ahem, “dancing,” he started calling to Radha to join in with the midnight play.
But Radha had different ideas about the kind of example they should be setting. She believed that a Great Love between a man and a woman should be monogamous. She told Krishna that she would only meet him in the enchanted forest at night if he would agree to dance with her alone. She helped him to understand what it was like for a woman living in a patriarchal society.
Krishna hadn’t seen it from a woman’s perspective before.
He accepted Radha’s terms. He wanted to expand his consciousness and his compassion. He wanted to be with his soul companion in body as well as spirit. He realized that he had a major role to play in overturning the toxic patriarchy and creating a partnership society.
And so, Krishna and Radha had many incarnations as a divinely loving couple in many situations and times. Wherever and whenever they lived, they helped to show what it meant to live as an ascended master in a human body, and they promoted the disciplines of Tantric Yoga and Tantric Sex as paths to heaven on earth. They taught that experiencing the divinity of one’s partner through the senses and the flesh is the fastest and most enjoyable route to overcoming dualistic thinking and achieving the highest levels of human perfection. Most of all, they taught that the left-hand path of Tantra, of which Tantric Sex is a part, is the best way to bring lasting peace between the sexes and peace on earth.
Story to be continued.
Some people are waiting for, or even driving, an apocalypse so that their imagined male messiah can arrive and pull them up to some other-earthly heaven. Some people are hoping that Goddess worship is on the rise so we can live at one with the earth again. Some people think life is no more than what we can perceive with our five senses, and they are running around trying to get rich or promote their rigid perspective of reality by spewing toxins all over everything; thanks to the Annunaki influence, they see destroying the earth and enslaving other humans as their life’s missions. Other people have no idea what the hell is going on; I admit that I was a member of this last camp for an uncomfortably long time.
Here’s what I have been led, in various ways, to believe:
No messiah from another planet or another dimension is coming to save us. We humans have to save ourselves. Not by fighting wars. Not by subjugating men to women or women to men or blacks to whites or whites to blacks (fun fact: Krishna also means “black”) or Jews to Arabs or Arabs to Jews or anyone to anyone. Wars just lead to more wars. It’s time to stop fighting. It’s time we grow up and start getting along with one another. As anyone who’s ever been in a loving sexual relationship knows, it’s easy to get along with everyone when you’re having really good sex with the person you worship. And Tantric Yoga and other wisdom traditions tell us that to worship is to see through the eye of the heart, which is also the center of the Golden Ratio, which is also the mind of God, which is also Shiva, who is also Kali. Tantric sex is a positive way to make the most of living in a dualistic universe, a really blissful way of approaching the centerpoint, integrating Os and ls, and celebrating the differences between the sexes. Vive la difference!
As Krishna and Radha, Yeshua and Miriam, and many other enlightened ones have been trying to tell us for - like, probably - ever, love is the answer.
I dream of a new Golden Age where we all show up as our best selves and encourage one another to be our best selves. Where women are revered as goddesses and men are revered as gods. Where men act as benevolent gods instead of Anunnaki heartless pillagers, and women act as goddesses instead of spineless victims and sycophants sucking up to the robots. Where men and women are conscientious stewards of children and all of creation and live for the benefit of future generations, at least seven generations, of humans.
And what about the Annunaki and their evil influence? It continues. Because we are in them, and we are them, and they are in us, and they are us. We made them, and then they destroyed us, and then they made us, and our mutual foolishness led to our mutual destruction. In truth, there is no “them.” There is only us. Each of us is capable of being a creator or a destroyer, a liberator or an oppressor, a user or a friend.
In time, however, we will all become enlightened, which is a state of integration in which we learn to work with all of our emotions and impulses masterfully to create a healthier world for all.
In time, which is Kali. Who is Shiva, who is. . . .
Oh, fiddlesticks. I’m going to play the guitar.