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YES! I understand this for within my life the "face" of the Goddess can be The Magdelene, Kali, Yemoja (aka Yemaya), or Oya.

A year ago, I received the Empowerment for White Tara from Gankar Tulku Rinpoche. It was a wonderful experience, but what amazed me was that the White Tara--who has 21 "manifestations"--easily took on the "faces" of the Goddess that were so deeply ingrained in my life! So, the White Tara took on the face of the Magdelene, the Black Tara the face of Kali and Oya and Yemoja were found in several of Tara's embodiments!

~NAMASTE~

Yes, dear Jahfree . . . and my beloved brothers, as well!

It is not that I do not value the perspective of men (I LOVE the male species *wink*) . . . it is that I am almost always surrounded by them and I am now reaching out to my enlightened and aware sisters. Where I am, I am a healer and teacher to other women . . . but have no one to relate directly to.

Bless You, Beloved Brother . . .
And the other men within this tribe who love and honor Goddess and her daughters~

> When humans reach the stars and other solar systems I am sure they will find interesting forms of the Goddess that are not humanoid. I suspect they will recognize Her in these bizarre forms.

The Goddess, that seems to be the center of our future, is seldom recognised by science fiction. It is almost as if science makes them blind!

But I love to see the Goddess in the internet herself, emerging through the brilliant connections I make. Every time I use Google I invoke the goddess of the googleplex, of inconcievable multiplicity of forms. And everytime i use Amazon I am dealing with the brazen one-breasted warrior queen of commerce, proudly standing taller than others on the field of defeated retail enemies! Hahaha.

Seriously though, with the web we touch on the outer limits of human knowledge and we are free then to test our own. After a google or amazon search it befits us to ask what we really know. In the past this was a serious problem: a german-speaking thinker could hardly hear what her chinese contemporaries were saying or feeling. Now the vital sense that humanity is made whole in mind is realized by the net, in micro forms such as tribe.

In Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy the Goddess takes seven forms in the seven main female characters of the trilogy: Maya, Ann, Nadia, Jackie, Hiroko, Phyllis and Bao, roughly analogous to Shakti expressing through the seven main chakras. But the sense of the sacred is not the main theme of these books, and the settlement of Mars by humans is. I have amused myself arranging these characters into the various transformations of Shakti at each chakra. Ann is clearly the third chakra and Maya the second, but what about the others? *shrugs*.

I feel space travel will not happen without a fairly drastic shift in human culture towards a feminine-centered culture and to Gaia. We can't make long trips without animals and plants to care for, and bacteria to care for us. It is sensible that we take a smaller form of the Gaiasphere with us in to space, in which case we need to look at biotech and nanotech to discover what the Goddess will look like in space and on other worlds.

This is a scenario that has interested me enormously for many years. I have developed the notion of a biocomputer, a sort of overmind linked to the ecology of a system at every level from bacteria to animals which at once manages and directs the system towards its highest good. I have developed this partly as a speculation on how to best deal with the advent of an ecological catastrophe on earth, but is has become a model of how to adapt to the existing systems on the planets. A few examples may be useful:

Aphodite is an airbourne biocomputer which engineers heat-tolerant bacteria in the Venusian atmosphere. Her source of power is from a heat-bacteria biocomputer deep in the Venusian crust named Vulcan or Hephaestus, who generates energy from heat and transmits it to Aphrodite. The relation between the two biocomputers, Aphrodite and Hephaestus, is symbiotic and focussed on producing a planet friendly to the full range of Gaia (earth) bacteria.

The moon on the other hand is airless and so the biocomputers are organised around industrial needs. Artemis manufactures weapons, Diana creates culture and music, and Hecate (on the dark side) manufactures base metals and exotic electronic curcuitry. The humans that live in each biocomputer are immunised against the other two, and each exists as a little world of plants, animals, bacteria and humans-types, isolated physically from others.

These are a few bizarre scenarios of the future. Biotech specifications will mean that mixing with humans from outside your area maybe dangerous, and the need to coordinate an entire biosphere, beyond human abilities, will probably require a biocomputer to do the job.

Warm rgds,

Paul Bard.