I'd like to share with you some ways of talking with the divine now, I'm assuming that you've gotten this far in your life and you probably have one or two ways, at least, maybe five or 10 ways that you already know. So I'm just going to add a couple more. To your to your idea and your concept about this. We've already talked about what spirituality is, what is the divine? Well, again, I'm not here to define things for you a few ideas that I have to share with you about what the divine is. I feel like the divine is everything.

I feel like the Divine Consciousness flows through absolutely everything. I also feel that the divine is divine love, and therefore, the consciousness that connects everything is divine love, and I work with that powerful force all the time. I see divine love acting in the world and transmuting and changing things In really positive ways, the divine a lot of beliefs are the divine is the creator and maybe not an actual masculine force or a feminine force. But perhaps those two forces put together. I encourage you to develop your own relationship with the divine. Another aspect of the Divine is nature.

A lot of us really connect with the divinity and the sacredness of nature. I mean, who hasn't felt emotionally moved by watching a beautiful sunset. So the divine is actually everything, in my opinion, and the divine is energy that flows through everything. The Silent mind, empty mind mantra, one of the huge benefits of that, besides creating sacred space, in your own mind, is to create that blank canvas. When you can get to state of consciousness where you have a beautiful clean clothes peaceful mind, like the placid Lake, when you look out over a lake and the water is really, really still, if you get to that point of consciousness, then it's easier to put a prayer like a boat, a little paper boat, sweet, little precious. Maybe the sales are made out of feathers or something like that, floating on that placid lake.

And the contrast between the placid lake and the prayer, the invitation, the invocation, the idea of something that you want to manifest in your life will come in so much more clearly the Divine Will see the contrast between the lake and the little boat and be able to hear and see and acknowledge your prayer just that much easier. Imagine from a divine perspective having to sift and sort through all of your daily thoughts on a daily basis. The Divine like Okay, got that got that got that okay doing that okay taking care of that, that that that will in you yourself maybe having conflicted thoughts. I don't have enough money I sure want more money, I don't have enough money, I want more money. Well, the divine doesn't really know what to do. So it just stirs the money pot and gives you all kinds of money experiences, the more we can train ourselves to have this really placid state of consciousness, this peaceful mind.

And then to put one thought, one prayer, one intention in the middle of that placid mind, and really pay attention to the detail. This is called creative visualization, and manifestation. It's a technique that you can use to actively commune with the divine. Another Of course, wonderful thing to do in that placid state of consciousness is to be profoundly grateful for what you already have. And we'll get into the benefits of gratitude a little bit later in this class. Next, we'll go into A journey to introduce you to the God and the goddess to the masculine and feminine.

A lot of people are familiar with the masculine and may never have met the divine feminine, maybe in one of her forms, two, four forms, maybe not, in general, maybe not having a heartfelt connection with her. So that's what I'll offer you next.