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so why have a creation story there's an
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old saying that goes when you know where
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you come from you have a better sense of
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where you're going I think that's true
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personally and it's true for the world
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in the state of the world now Thomas
00:24
Berry said we're in trouble because we
00:27
do not have a good story the old story
00:31
about how the world came to be and our
00:34
place in it is no longer effective and
00:38
he went on to say that the challenge
00:40
that we face is in creating a new sense
00:45
of what it means to be human the new
00:51
sense of what it means to be human
00:53
there are tribal stories creation myths
00:57
thousands of them that often gave
01:00
indigenous people their sense of who
01:02
they were in the tribe in the weave of
01:04
the tribe they knew their place and they
01:06
were able to keep the fabric and the
01:09
connectivity of their tribal people
01:12
together to sustain themselves and in
01:15
relationship with the earth but we don't
01:18
have a functional story that's allowing
01:21
that in the West our two creation myths
01:23
basically evolved around our Darwinism
01:26
and creationism Darwinism in brief being
01:31
a sense of more a random planet composed
01:34
of random acts that gave life when
01:38
there's not a deep sense of meaning
01:40
within Darwinism there are some truths
01:42
in Darwinism and natural selection and
01:45
processes but that spark of life where
01:47
we come from never thoroughly been
01:50
addressed and creationism on the other
01:53
end of the spectrum comes with so many
01:55
beliefs about the creation that it's
01:58
it's too veiled in a patriarchal
02:01
structure for many people to accept and
02:04
it's clearly missing the feminine and
02:07
more and more people not from gender but
02:09
just from understanding the principles
02:11
of masculine feminine necessity in
02:14
creating and generating life
02:17
want to see where is the feminine want
02:19
to feel that feminine imbalance in a
02:22
creation story the nog comedy texts
02:26
discovered in Egypt in 1945 revealed
02:30
that there was a creation myth that was
02:32
told for probably hundreds of years
02:35
2,000 years ago and that it was
02:39
attributed to a feminine being a
02:41
feminine emanation named Sophia in these
02:45
texts and with the emergence of the NAG
02:47
Hammadi library more people since 1975
02:52
have been working with these texts
02:55
originally written in Coptic and
02:57
remembering a whole thread of Gnostic or
03:01
direct knowing of this story and finding
03:04
their place in it so we're telling that
03:08
story very briefly in this upcoming
03:10
animation to help recede a thread of
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story that was intentionally eliminated
03:20
from Western thought and by remembering
03:24
that story we hope to create in all of
03:28
us a sense of why the feminine matters
03:31
and how to take our place as humans and
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to create that sense of what does it
03:37
mean to be a human on this living earth
03:41
at this time to restore the meaning
03:44
that's available to us so who is Sophia
03:50
how do we define that word it's a very
03:54
broad perspective the easiest thing to
03:56
say is the direct translation from the
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Greek Sophia is wisdom that's easy it's
04:01
a principle it's an important principle
04:04
the other end of the spectrum the Parana
04:07
is one of the old Hindu texts refer to
04:10
something called a phoneme from phonetic
04:14
like a seed mantra or a seed sound of
04:17
creation
04:18
Robert Lawler shared this with me that
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there is reference to soft
04:24
as that which is the thought before the
04:29
creation and that struck me as quite
04:33
profound on that end of the spectrum
04:35
there's also a reference in Kabbalistic
04:37
study to eins off our eins of our which
04:43
is the first emanation of light in the
04:46
creation so that sound that so soft
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Sophia
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very very key in the spectrum of
04:55
identifying that this isn't just another
04:57
story it actually has ancient reference
05:00
as a creative principle that's important
05:03
to me because I want to understand as
05:05
deeply as I can the nature of life and
05:08
where we come from and how that gives me
05:11
a context to be the fullest I can be in
05:15
my life there are other references to
05:19
Sophia in alchemical texts as the Prima
05:24
Materia the first substance Sophia shows
05:29
up in the songs of Solomon in the Bible
05:32
it's a presence it's wisdom I think of
05:36
her as a an emanation that goes from the
05:40
planetary mother herself as Gaia Sophia
05:43
to an essence in the creation of all
05:46
that is and then there's a lot in there
05:49
in between the discovery of Sophia is
05:51
actually an individual one and that's
05:53
the beauty of working with a myth we
05:56
each get to create our sense of meaning
05:59
in relation to her another essential
06:05
definition of Sophia is that it's a
06:07
means by which spirit takes form a means
06:12
by which spirit takes form and that she
06:15
carries the energy signature of matter
06:17
of mother of mater so if we think of us
06:22
as being an aspect and of Sophia herself
06:25
we then are also Sophia our life process
06:30
is a Sophie anak process
06:32
also influenced by her counterpart which
06:36
the Gnostics spoke of as Christos so
06:39
it's a Christo's Sophia creation field
06:41
that we live breathe work in and
06:44
co-create with what is Gnosticism
06:49
Gnosticism another one of those great
06:51
words has meant many things in realm of
06:55
definition the word gnostic relates to
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canosa's gnosis direct knowing to Gyana
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yoga it's the knowing it's the knowledge
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base and gnostic for me is generally
07:12
going to be a small G it's the reference
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to that form of being in direct
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experience with the creative source as
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opposed to Gnostic with a capital G
07:23
which is really a way of looking at a
07:26
whole kind of thought and thinking and a
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lineage there were Gnostic schools that
07:32
came through Alexandria and Balan
07:35
tenías and different times the Cathars
07:39
would be a gnostic sect we're not so
07:42
much pursuing a line of dogma or belief
07:46
around Gnostics with a capital G but
07:50
more exploring how to have a direct
07:53
experience in a direct knowing of the
07:55
divine that we are to become that to
07:58
feel that and to allow that to be what
08:02
informs us in this relationship to a
08:06
creation story and our place in the
08:08
world how to become a more effective
08:10
human Kaitlin Matthews has a beautiful
08:14
quote about Gnosticism
08:16
she says pure gnosis is found wherever
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Sophia walks and is not dependent upon
08:24
any school of thought I love that I love
08:29
the connection between Sophia and
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Gnosticism
08:32
and the fact that direct knowing and
08:34
experience is what will make the
08:37
transformative difference to us and to
08:40
our place in this world so why does it
08:44
matter what is matter it's also related
08:49
to Sophia to the mother to ma tear and
08:52
that we are the heart of the matter we
08:56
as humans in the gnostics call us
09:00
anthropos the potential human we as
09:03
anthropos matter in this story and that
09:06
we need to take our place in this story
09:08
in order that the fruition of it the
09:12
completion of it the realization of it
09:14
comes to be we're not passive in this
09:17
time of the world we need to be embodied
09:20
active intelligent fully realized humans
09:26
so so important to take our place in
09:30
this story there's a few premises that
09:32
we have about why this matters and if
09:34
hopefully a few outcomes that people
09:36
will at least be able to consider and
09:39
that is that the earth is a living being
09:41
that's not a metaphor it actually is a
09:44
living being and this story tells us how
09:47
that could be envisioned now again not
09:50
that it historically happened but it's a
09:52
myth that gives credibility to how earth
09:56
became and became as part of the living
10:00
being of Sophia in her exploration
10:03
it's a galactic story it's not just the
10:06
creation of the world it actually is in
10:07
relationship to where we are in the
10:10
galaxy and that also feels relevant our
10:12
focus has often been so small on our
10:15
planet and our issues but we are part of
10:18
a much bigger co-creation and when you
10:21
consider that there's somewhere between
10:23
200 and 400 billion galaxies out there
10:27
it puts it in perspective that yes it's
10:31
all happening here and it's a very big
10:34
story but this is our home this is our
10:37
planet and this is the story we are all
10:39
co-creating
10:41
so as we begin again the request is to
10:44
recognize this as a myth is something
10:48
that invites you to experience all parts
10:50
of it as yourself as if it were a dream
10:53
and you are all parts of the story and
10:56
that they're going on all the time and
10:58
if there's anything in it that you don't
11:00
particularly feel resonant with just let
11:03
that go and find a place that perhaps
11:06
speaks to you with the ideal outcome
11:10
that it helps you to create a better
11:13
sense of who you are
11:15
in this story as Thomas Berry said we
11:18
need a new story and we need to create
11:21
the sense of meaning as a human in the
11:25
story enjoy identify with the ineffable
11:32
one the incomprehensible oneness no
11:37
light no senses only a potential of
11:42
being perhaps it's warm an inner
11:46
generation of heat the beginning of an
11:51
inaudible murmur that perhaps begins to
11:55
roll and resound through a vastness not
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bound by space or time because they do
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not exist yet
12:04
and indefinable utterance echoes
12:09
throughout a limitless emptiness feel it
12:15
pulsing and spiraling from this silent
12:18
sonar field infinite droplets of pure
12:22
light emerge open and unfold into a
12:25
spiraling dream of luminosity like a
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flower opening in a thunderous flash
12:32
creation begins to ignite the darkness
12:39
swirling spirals of dancing light
12:42
decorating infinity experiencing this
12:46
mythic imagination as though it were
12:49
unfolding within you as you watch
12:51
perhaps as you awaken each morning from
12:54
a dream this world in between sleeping
12:58
and waking is full of swirling light not
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yet embodied a field of consciousness
13:04
awaiting expression through you we are
13:08
all the aspects of the stream as Sofia
13:12
the first idea of creation the emanation
13:16
of limitless light
13:22
envision or imagine the white fire core
13:25
of the galaxy producing the pattern of a
13:28
toroidal movement pouring through the
13:31
intensity of the galactic center
13:33
a potent mass of power light and
13:37
activity the force of creation emerges
13:41
from the absolute alumnus of the
13:43
ineffable one upon the lace pattern and
13:46
proportion of the field of geometry the
13:50
field that supports all manifestation
13:53
this creative force has an intense
13:56
longing for Tunis that is for the
13:59
experience of and with another from
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Tunis arises the power of multiplicity
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by which the original absolute one
14:10
enters into the play and the outpouring
14:13
as the universal all
14:16
appearing as a galactic spiraling
14:19
movement of our own Milky Way galaxy we
14:24
take our place in the infinite universe
14:27
the Gnostics call the core of this
14:30
universal process of plural this white
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fire core plural ma meaningfulness or
14:38
the thoughts of God or the original idea
14:43
this pattern is similar to the look of a
14:46
cell in our own physical body we can
14:49
feel and connect with this power of life
14:53
as the origins within your own soul
14:58
imagine now the serpent like torrents of
15:01
energy massive writhing energies in the
15:04
core of the galaxy these energies become
15:07
distinct as the one begins exploring EA
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these energies massive and torrential
15:16
are known in the Gnostic texts as the
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Aeons a Greek word meaning and
15:23
cycle process the Aeons manifest sensory
15:28
worlds through dreaming the one creates
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multiple emanations in the plural
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each with a masculine feminine polarity
15:37
sort of the yin and yang vortices
15:39
they're always in movement vitally
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interpenetrating each other
15:50
these ions form pairs which are called
15:54
scissor jeez together these emanations
15:57
begin to project the thought form a seed
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is formed from the geometries that
16:02
underlie all creation and the pleura
16:05
McDreamy was to cultivate this seed
16:08
towards an imaginal being called
16:11
anthropos the possible human this
16:15
dreaming of all the Aeons perhaps
16:17
resembles a group of gardeners facing a
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fertile empty field
16:21
I'll might they design a place of beauty
16:24
potential home for Humanity the Aon seed
16:30
their imagination as an energy of gold
16:33
that takes form across untold spans of
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time in the outer reaches of the galaxy
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28,000 light-years from the core the
16:45
ions look beyond the radiant core to the
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place where that seed of life is perfect
16:51
not too far not too close to the heat of
16:54
the galactic center
17:10
among the emanations in the galactic
17:12
core there exists one coupling that the
17:15
Gnostics referred to as Cristo Sophia
17:18
Sophia as the feminine was curious
17:21
interested enthralled and intensely
17:24
alert by the possibility for creation
17:27
that existed in this golden seed
17:30
anthropos she begins to travel by
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herself her attention so riveted on this
17:38
experiment in the outer arm of the
17:40
galaxy that she unwittingly passes
17:44
through a veil with unexpected
17:46
consequences being that she is a primal
17:50
force of creation an emanation of
17:53
divinity itself she unexpectedly gives
17:57
birth to a distorted life-form
18:00
the Gnostics call the Alda BeOS he who
18:05
then assumed himself to be the God who
18:08
created it all and who had no other gods
18:11
before him was thrown out from her light
18:16
form along with other creations of his
18:20
intention which are represented here as
18:24
imperfect geometries they
18:27
robotic mechanized aspects of the
18:31
creation
18:33
this is a vision of how the fall into
18:37
matter a fall into time and space into
18:41
the forces of gravity might be explained
18:44
Sophia Falls it's not a sin it's no
18:47
shame but the laws are different here
18:51
than they are in the galactic core we're
18:57
going to pause for just a minute and
18:58
talk a little bit about the archons i
19:01
partly love this story because it's one
19:03
of the only creation myths that actually
19:06
speaks about the creation of a negative
19:09
energy in our solar system and yet
19:15
many traditions have names for this
19:18
energy they are called the archons in
19:21
this Greek myth which translates to Lord
19:25
other words have been the Anunnaki the
19:29
Watchers the Bible refers to the
19:32
Nephilim the asuras
19:35
harmonic beings many traditions
19:38
recognize there is an energy that has an
19:43
influence on this planet that's quite
19:45
powerful and the Gnostics were very
19:47
specific that the characteristics of
19:51
these are conic beings were very clearly
19:56
related to robotize ation mechanization
20:00
and the fact that they were masters of
20:03
what's called simulacrum they could
20:06
create a perfect imitation of something
20:08
but it wasn't the thing itself so if an
20:13
Archon created a pearl might be a
20:16
perfect plastic pearl look just like a
20:19
pearl but it isn't a pearl it doesn't
20:21
have the energy and the quality of per
20:24
oldest but that that's not meaningful to
20:27
them simulacrum x' were as good as the
20:31
real thing it's a key point when you
20:33
look at what's going on in the world
20:34
a lot of imitation of the real thing
20:38
a sunset might be another experience of
20:40
simulacrum if you can feel it as you're
20:44
watching the Sun go down and the warmth
20:46
and the quality of the breeze on your
20:47
skin and you're experiencing the amazing
20:51
change of color the shift in light very
20:56
different than if you're watching it on
20:57
a screen might be a beautiful vision of
21:01
a sunset on a screen it's very different
21:03
the direct experience might be the
21:05
Gnostic experience the simulacrum
21:07
through mechanization is more the are
21:11
conic experience
21:13
I personally don't make archons into
21:17
evil I make them as an aspect of myself
21:21
as in this myth something in me that
21:24
actually is related and can appreciate
21:26
them work with the tools of
21:28
mechanization technology etc but
21:33
important that they don't become my god
21:36
right so the god of technology that I
21:40
might worship that every day very
21:42
different than to go out and sit with a
21:44
tree and be with the Sun has to be in
21:47
balance so within this myth there's a
21:50
few very key quotes of what happens when
21:53
Sophia realizes that she has violated
21:56
one fundamental principle which might
21:59
even be one of the only laws of creation
22:01
in the universe and that's in the
22:03
generation of organic life there needs
22:07
to be the balance masculine feminine and
22:09
in her enthusiasm she penetrates the
22:12
veil and unintentionally creates without
22:16
the balance of her masculine Christo's
22:21
self and so that yin-yang balance is
22:25
disturbed but she's a powerful emanating
22:27
goddess so there still is a creative
22:30
energy that is thrown off of her and her
22:33
story then continues because she is
22:37
responsible for having made this
22:39
creation so the text has this wonderful
22:42
quote in the hypostasis of the archons
22:45
hypostasis is a word that basically
22:47
means
22:48
the personhood so the personhood of the
22:52
Lord hypostases of the archons which is
22:55
in the nog comedy text and they write
22:58
that this violent eruption of alien
23:01
life-forms was something like an
23:04
abortion a spontaneous miscarriage of
23:07
divine power and this creation was a
23:10
surprise to Sofia herself and it also
23:16
brings in to call what it might mean for
23:18
her to be falling so that she falls into
23:21
time and space has this experience in
23:24
the density of matter in this outer arm
23:27
of our galaxy and now she's in a
23:30
different field of creation and perhaps
23:33
one of the key quotes in in the texts at
23:36
this point when Sofia and yelled obey
23:42
authority n't and she says you are
23:45
mistaken blind one there is an immortal
23:49
child of light who came into this realm
23:52
before you and who will appear among
23:56
your duplicate forms in your simulated
24:00
world humanity exists and the offspring
24:05
of the human strain exists and in the
24:10
consummation of all of your works its
24:14
entire deficiency of truth will be
24:16
revealed and dissolved in this luminous
24:21
child anthropos that luminous child that
24:28
we each are who will play a key part in
24:33
the dissolution of these are conic
24:37
beings in our organic beautiful world
24:42
back to the story
24:50
faced with the artificial world system
24:53
of the archons Sofia slowly transforms
24:57
from her plural form into a dense
25:00
material body the intensity of her
25:04
divine light diminishes but a celestial
25:08
light comes to her aid the cosmologies
25:11
in the NAG Hammadi texts describe a
25:14
complex set of events in which the a on
25:17
Sofia aligns her power with a newborn
25:20
star who bears witness to her encounter
25:23
with yaldabaoth the Lord Archon and this
25:27
star called Saba is our son
25:38
the Sun glorifies Sophia and Sophia in
25:41
return pours upon the Sun a light of her
25:45
own divine light to assist his
25:47
recognition and his condemnation of the
25:50
Lord our Khan
25:55
Sophia in order to redeem her action
25:58
that created the archons determines to
26:01
become the earth Sophia does not create
26:04
the earth
26:05
she becomes it loaded with inorganic
26:08
sediment from the galactic limbs her
26:11
massive currents of cosmic light convert
26:15
into the elements of a planet her cosmic
26:18
galactic fire becomes the heat of the
26:22
fires that warm the condition for life
26:25
which eventually is designed to include
26:28
a home for the golden seed of anthropos
26:31
the golden child the elements become
26:36
expressions of her body and of her being
26:39
and we imitate her in our own physical
26:43
bodies the ways that we experience the
26:45
elements earth air fire and water
26:48
because we are also made from the same
26:51
substance Sophia is transforming from a
26:57
plural ik emanation in the fire of the
27:00
galactic core to the fire in the air of
27:02
the elements in a different density of
27:05
the creation it's all an experiment for
27:08
her the winds of creation are exploring
27:12
this expression of life in this density
27:15
of existence it's a dance a play
27:19
witnessed by the great beings in the
27:22
plural all without judgment all with the
27:26
great interest as seeds of life are
27:29
creating unexpected beauties and Gaia
27:32
Sophia's expression of the elements of
27:35
weather of power the water of life gives
27:40
rise to movement and emotion and
27:42
passions
27:44
a rushing spontaneity of that which is a
27:52
vital constituent of the fluids of all
27:55
living things water ice steam snow fog
28:01
do so many forms and expressions
28:13
water covers 71% of Earth's surface it
28:18
is a miracle of life on this planet it's
28:22
also capable of holding impressions of
28:25
thought and projections of energy and
28:28
carrying them
28:30
across the face of the earth
28:45
Sophia's bones and structure the density
28:49
and rock come into form as patterns of
28:53
earth ground land and crystalline
28:56
structures they take shape through the
29:00
atoms and molecules arranging themselves
29:02
in symmetry
29:16
phases and facets reflective of the
29:19
underlying geometry of all creation
29:24
geology giving rise to growth and life
29:28
forms the history of earth and rocks
29:31
that register the biological changes
29:34
that Gaia Sofia undergoes
29:41
the goddess Sofia produces a world and a
29:44
habitat for a multitude of life-forms
29:47
and species creating at a prodigious
29:51
rate life force moves through the
29:53
elements to create the diversity of cell
29:56
structure microbes see life beings who
30:01
swim eyes that see and creatures that
30:05
live birds mail owns all the thoughtful
30:09
life on this planet all different
30:12
expressions of the body so
30:30
including that original seed expression
30:33
of anthropos the potential of human
30:36
being realized as divinity envisioned us
30:39
on this planetary body we find our place
30:46
in consonants with this creation holding
30:51
lines of light reweaving the pattern of
30:56
Sofia's own intelligence as we stand on
31:01
the high mountain tops reweaving
31:06
connection reweaving integration and
31:10
remembering her dreaming
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we are the immortal child of light
31:19
anthropos who embodies the direct
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knowing that when anthropos remembers
31:26
the first origin all mother all father
31:29
Sophia Christos at the galactic core
31:33
cosmic balance is restored in this world
31:36
and we take our place in the stories
31:39
continued unfolding
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