A Pathway To Union

—John Middleton Murry
British literary critic

You are about to embark on a journey into the far reaches of pure spirit where mind and heart exist in a state of unity in the soul, and into the depths of the human psyche where the qualities of mind and heart are divided against each other. You may encounter experiences along the way that shake your cultural conditioning and belief systems to the core.

Required for your adventure are a questioning and open mind, a trusting and open heart, and the willingness and courage to explore. A sense of wonder will enliven your expedition.

This transformative journey grants you an opportunity to expand your belief systems and view cultural conditioning from another perspective: the gift of a new kind of consciousness. When you give yourself permission to neither accept nor reject the contents of this book, you can do your own research and questioning. The ideas that resonate with you may be adopted or set aside, at your discretion; an open heart and mind assist with this process.

Who Will Find This Book Useful?

Are you becoming aware that you are dissatisfied with the old belief systems that have informed your personal life and have informed governmental, judicial, medical, cultural, and religious institutions for the past five thousand years? Do you care deeply about saving the planet, about relationships and social justice, and about personal and global growth and transformation? Have you wondered how to navigate through relationships during these rapidly changing times? Are you open to embracing all aspects of yourself—including feminine and masculine qualities? Are you looking for practical, grounded, easily implemented tools for living as a human infused with a divine essence? Read on—you will find much to expand your conscious awareness and feed your Spirit. You will discover your invaluable worth and the contribution your personal transformation makes to the collective shift humanity is now undergoing.

A Pathway to Union provides the foundation, the tools, the understanding, and the vision for traveling the road of transformation. The information in part 1 offers the support you need to lay the pathway for personal transformation through integrating the feminine and masculine. The tools for building a vehicle infused with conscious awareness, so crucial for changing beliefs and behaviors, are described in a practical and easily applied manner in part 2. And finally, in part 3 you get a glimpse of how marrying the feminine and masculine, the heart and mind promotes personal, cultural, national, international, and spiritual transformation. Change begins with you. Collective shifts occur as a result of individual transformation.

I have applied ancient knowledge in an updated, fresh approach to everyday twenty-first century reality. My goals are for you to feel a connection to the material and to be able to use the tools to enhance your life during this chaotic time of massive transition. When the information is accessible, it can be implemented now or it can plant a seed that may germinate at a later time.

A Pathway to Union Defined

Marrying the Heart and the Mind came to me during a meditation several years ago. I knew it was the title of a book, but I did not feel like I had anything new or different to add to this particular topic, so I went about the business of counseling clients and giving personal growth workshops. Then in March 2006, I began to have dreams about the pentacle, the planet Venus, and the number five; all three are ancient symbols of the divine feminine. As a result of these dreams, I was able to connect the heart with feminine qualities and the mind with masculine qualities, and I understood that the marriage of these two qualities was the topic of the book I was to write.

On the morning of March 18, 2007, just before awakening I saw an ankh, the Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol representing eternal life and the Divine Eye—male and female. I realized that the loop at the top of the ankh represents the womb, the feminine, and the heart. The perpendicular line extending below the loop represents the phallus, the masculine, and the mind. The horizontal line between the heart and the mind symbolizes the High Heart. This forms the bridge between the two qualities and the portal into the Divine Matrix, a quantum energy field, from which you can live a conscious life of right human relations using both the heart—the feminine—and the mind—the masculine.
In the dream I learned that the masculine qualities of action, decision making, leadership, and thinking must always contain the feminine characteristics of caring, nurturing, compassion, creativity, and feeling. If you superimpose a life-size ankh symbol onto the physical body, you see that the heart is in the head and the mind is in the heart, resulting in unity consciousness. This creates a fusion and synthesis—the Higher-Self archetype—in the human body at all levels: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. You can think with the heart and feel with the mind—union.

The ankh is simply a symbol to help you remember the characteristics and meaning of your divine nature. The image itself is not to be confused with the attributes of divinity. It is only a reminder of your own personal inner knowing and feeling. In this book you will explore how to implement these lofty concepts into your daily life in a practical, creative, transformative way.

In the twenty-first century humankind is poised at the threshold of a great social transformation: the sacred marriage of feminine and masculine qualities and characteristics—a love story! How can people create this marriage? How does transformation occur? How does humanity step up to the next turn of the evolutionary spiral, individually and collectively?