Hello all,
This week's wisdom comes from a short video (25 min) lecture by Lyla June Johnston, on the Sacredness of Twoness. Lyla has been inspiring me with her writing and lectures for a while—I previously featured her and posted a lecture she did at MIT Solve in 2019.
In this talk she gives background and context to the modern concepts of gender that include the two-spirit gender (from the linked Wikipedia Two-spirit page "contemporary pan-Indian umbrella term used by some Indigenous North Americans to describe Native people who fulfill a traditional third-gender (or other gender-variant) social role in their communities.")
Lyla's talk is summarized as follows:
"From ancient times our faith traditions teach us that everything is inextricably united as a sacred whole. This eternal and perennial wisdom is hard to grasp by the human mind, which tends to see the world dualistically: right/wrong, male/female, sacred/profane. The contemplative, non-dual mind, however, can restore our understanding of the interdependence of all things. It holds paradox, and it is unitive. This session will explore how unifying, and balancing the complementary feminine and masculine aspects of Divine Wisdom is essential to our approaching wholeness, and the non-dual mind."
June is Pride month, so this message of the diversity of nature and people is a good one for us to hear again, "together there is nothing that we cannot achieve"
All the best,
Holly
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