- Kohenet, the Hebrew word meaning priestess, signifies both spiritual leadership and embodiment of and service to the Divine. The Kohenet Training Intensive seeks to revitalize the Jewish connection with the Divine feminine and to reclaim the ancient role of women as facilitators of sacred experience. Looking deeply into our ancient tradition, we find thirteen archetypes of women serving, nurturing and strengthening spiritual community through embodied, ecstatic and earth-centered practice.
Drawing on legends and mystical teachings from the Jewish tradition, Near Eastern myth, and women's wisdom across the generations, the Kohenet training innovates uniquely feminine models of Jewish spiritual leadership, cultivating a network of women devoted to serving the Shechinah through weaving traditional Jewish practice with the emerging and evolving needs of Jews, women and the planet as a whole.
– Kohenet
Look into Jewish texts and find the heartbeat of the earth. Follow the moon's phases and feel the Shekhinah, the Divine presence. Walk among the elements and the seasons. Enter Tel Shemesh, the hill of the sun, and warm yourself by the sacred fire.
- According to the story in the Torah, the mishkan, the Divine dwelling-place, was a place where God encountered the world in a tangible way, hovering in a cloud inside the innermost shrine. Above the Ark of the Covenant, where the presence of God, the Shekhinah, rested, two golden cherubim faced one another. Aviva Zornberg, a renowed biblical interpreter, once proposed that “God is in the place where the two gazes intersect.” The cherubim faced each other on the Ark, in spite of the Israelite prohibition against images, to remind us that we meet the Divine through encounter. This is the meaning of covenant. Though Jews understand God as a unity, there is always a “twoness” to the Divine presence, for in order to be felt, the Presence must meet with another.
[tip o' the yarmulke to Aviel for tasty links. The problem with Gnosticism is that it's not Jewish enough.]
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Look into Jewish texts and find the heartbeat of the earth. Follow the moon's phases and feel the Shekhinah, the Divine presence. Walk among the elements and the seasons. Enter Tel Shemesh, the hill of the sun, and warm yourself by the sacred fire.
I love the way one path can reinforce key aspects of other paths...
"Then comes the fourth centre, the heart centre, called anahata. The word is beautiful, anahata means unstruck sound.
The fourth centre, the anahata, is very significant, because it is in the heart that for the first time you were related to your mother. It was through the heart that you were related to your mother, not through the head. In deep love, in deep orgasm, again you are related through the heart, not through the head. In meditation, in prayer, the same happens: you are related with existence through the heart -- heart-to-heart. Yes, it is a dialogue heart-to-heart, not head-to- head. It is non-linguistic.
This is the fourth centre. And Tantra says through love you will come to know this fourth centre."
- Osho
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