How to Summon The Divine Mother

Chapters

• 1:41 Introduction on Mother's Day
• 2:38 Lessons in Respect and Manners
• 4:03 Art, Design, and Creative Spaces
• 7:14 Intuitive Cooking as Life Philosophy
• 14:41 The Concept of Divine Mother
• 19:27 Invoking Divine Mother in Meditation

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:51

Yo yo yo. What's up guys? Welcome back to the 8am podcast. It is Mother's Day at the time of recording, and so I thought I would do a little honoring to my mother and share some things that I've learned from my mother, and I think I also kind of want to talk about the concept of the divine mother, which is always interesting. But, man, it's, it's hard to, it's hard to begin. I think if my mom, my mom, listens to these and I think she's probably going to tear up even the fact that I decided to make a episode where I talk about her. But it's, it's really hard to begin.

Speaker 1: 1:36

You know how much I've learned so far from my mother, and I just wanted to go through like a few of those things I think all of us can relate to. You know, wisdom that our mothers have given us because, at the end of the day, they want what's best for us. Um, mothers, I think, have a lot of deep wisdom to share. Um, so, yeah, uh, one of those, one of those things, um, that the first thing that, funny enough, comes to mind is just this whole idea of respect. I think that growing up, you know, my mom really emphasized like manners, saying please and thank you. You know, if I, if I would go and sleep over a friend's house, it was like make sure that you, you know, take the sheets off the bed and you put them in the laundry machine. You know you, you clean, your, you clean your dish, you clean your plate and put it in the dishwasher. You always say thank you and these you know. These are things that like from a very early age I was taught, and I think really just that you know they go a long way, because they kind of go beyond just I guess, like what you might consider just menial house things, like you know it's. It's kind of just like you know you, just you just show up wherever you go with, with respect, you're nice to, you're nice to waiters, you know you tip well, you, you're nice to staff at hotels, like things that, um, you know little, things that that that have to do with respect. I certainly certainly learned from my mom and I think um are are extremely important.

Speaker 1: 3:13

I think another thing you know, the, the, the biggest thing that I learned, I learned from my mom, is almost impossible to put into words because it has to do with, like, art and design and, um, beauty, um it, you know I I can't like, like having. I was just actually, even before this, I was in my mom's art studio and she's always had an art studio. Uh, ever since I was a little kid, she's been doing art forever and painting and has had art books around the house, and so I can't really begin to possibly explain how that has impacted my brain, just growing up and having. She's a college art professor too, so she's taught drawing one, drawing, two, painting art history. She's been a teacher for a very long time professor too, so she's taught drawing one, drawing two, painting art history Like she's. She's been a teacher for a very long time. Um, and so, like I you know it's hard to in any way like wrap that into a podcast. Uh, however, um, I I think that like the core thing that both really both my parents have taught me, but definitely my mom is like the core thing that both really both my parents have taught me, but definitely my mom is like the importance of just go, of having this is a, I think, a pretty actionable space or thing.

Speaker 1: 4:23

Having like a space for your creativity, like a designated zone where you can close the door and just create, and it doesn't matter what it is, doesn't matter if you're kind of struggling to come up with stuff, but you just show up and you, just you just create whatever your soul needs you to create. And everyone kind of, I think, experiences this differently. Like if you're a programmer or developer or whatever, like it's going to be completely different than if you're an artist, like a painter, um, but like whatever it is, you need to create your zone of like, peace and creation and you know you need to like protect that space at all costs. And like I like, for example, like my, my mom, sometimes, if she's like having a hard time in the studio, like I'll, I'll go and I'll have to like even knock on the door and be like can I come in, like is this an okay time? And so I think, like having that sort of protective energy around your creative area is pretty, you know, important, and that's something that I've taken very seriously and I think it's allowed me to be the person that I am. I mean, I guess even like recording these sort of these on the fly podcasts, as I do from my phone. I even, you know, I'll go to like a special place to record them. I'll make sure the energy is right and I guess, unless I'm, you know, walking around recording like I was in the last episode, but you know, I I like to make sure that the zone that I'm in is like a protected creative kind of zone, and so that's something that I absolutely learned from my mom. Now, man, what else I think?

Speaker 1: 6:08

Another thing obviously is, like you know, in regards to like health and wellness and food, one thing that I guess this is all kind of wrapped into one thing, but one thing my mom has always done is when it comes to like cooking meals. She never followed a recipe and I think I probably get my inability to like follow instructions from her, but there's something to be said in the lesson of like the art of just letting your creativity kind of fly, without regards to like just totally following your instinct. Um, in life in general, but in the art of cooking as well, like, just kind of like. My mom will just like take a bunch of ingredients like whatever kind of her intuition calls her to, and the grocery store should just look at stuff and be like this looks, this looks nice, this looks like it's calling my, my spirit, and she'll kind of like gravitate toward it and put it in the cart and put a bunch of things in the cart and also like lots of different colors, different colors of the rainbow.

Speaker 1: 7:13

Because in her at least kind of intuition and instinct, you know, different color food typically means you're getting a lot of different nutrients, and so you know she gets all these different color foods and she brings them, you know, back home and she has like a general sort of instinct or intention or direction of where she wants to take the, take the meal, but she'll, you know she'll, she'll kind of put everything out and then she'll just kind of start, and there's always she has a few staples, just like olive oil and and garlic and and um lemon, um salt, uh, olive oil, garlic and lemon and everything you know, um, everything kind of just like garlic and lemon and everything you know um, everything kind of just like ideally organic or like quality ingredients of course, and then she'll just kind of start putting things together and you know. So just some of the examples of things my mom will cook or like you know like, uh, one of my favorites is like artichoke, uh, artichoke hearts, um with broccoli and chicken all in like olive oil and garlic and um, you know, I think typically some like herbs or things along those lines, and so that's always, um, that's always something that she's. She's put together other ones I really like. I mean she, she makes very good steak and you know, it's always just totally improvised. It's like she had one the other day. Like her, her stews were always very interesting, cause she just there's never a recipe and she just throws things together.

Speaker 1: 8:45

And so, yeah, I think, like obviously taking that as like a cooking lesson is is interesting, but it's also it's also something to be like doing that in life, you know, and to just be like, well, what if in life you don't have much of a plan, you don't have much of an instruction, but you just sort of go with your intuition, instinct, and I think, like reflecting on my life, um, that that definitely lands, you know, like I, my, my mom actually it's funny she got me this notebook for for Christmas, um, even though we're Jewish, we celebrate Christmas because my dad's Catholic but got me this notebook and I'm looking at it right now. It says I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes that makes planning my day difficult. That's a quote by EB White and that's on the cover of this journal that she got me and so, yeah, I feel like that. That's kind of like the micro sort of thing that I observed with my mom is, like through cooking, and I've kind of taken it beyond that and sort of just how I live my life. It's like I have a general intention. I don't know exactly what's going to happen or where or how to like build it up, but I'm just going to move in that direction and just listen to whatever instincts. I'm kind of being called to. I could give a perfect example of this like right now I'm sort of trying to figure out if I should do an event in New York. Now I kind of like talked about it on Instagram, but there's just I don't know for reason, like the idea of a New York event. At least right now, it's just not entirely clear. I know for certain I want to do one in Bali, but the idea of doing a one in New York, it just feels a little bit, I don't know. There's something a little bit um off about it in my in, I don't know.

Speaker 1: 10:33

However, another idea that I've had that's kind of coming up is the idea of going into the woods and doing like a Vipassana, kind of like a silent retreat type thing. And I've wanted to do this for like I did it for the first time during the pandemic like a three day at home Vipassana. But this time I kind of want to just like go into the woods and just like find like a you know like Airbnb in the woods, like a cabin of sorts, and just do that. I did it somewhat recently actually. I recorded a couple of videos and stuff there and it was very productive. But I think I want to do like an actual, like you know, like full day at least. Maybe just one full day it's probably the most I can do right now, just with all the uh stuff I'm building, but probably just one full day of just total silence, total stillness and just nothingness and just seeing kind of what that brings.

Speaker 1: 11:28

And yeah, again, this is all kind of stemming from the whole uh the whole cooking thing. It's like I have this like loose ingredients of things that I want to do. It's like I have this like loose ingredients of things that I wanna do. It's like there's a New York event, there's a Bali event. There's like a possible sort of silent Vipassana kind of retreat type thing. And then there's also, like this is further in the distance, but there's like a potential, like Europe type thing. Europe, I mean that would be, I guess, maybe July-ish, possibly, maybe I mean that would be, I guess, maybe July-ish, possibly, maybe I don't know, I don't know. These things are just like floating in the ether of my existence, in my mind, and I'm just kind of feeling out, um, feeling out, if this is, uh, if this is what I want to do, so, yeah, that's another lesson. So I think you know.

Speaker 1: 12:13

Summing up, so far, the manners, respect manners, always kind of cleaning your dishes everywhere you go, whether that's literally or metaphorically or symbolically, and having a creative space. And number three is just in cooking and in life, having a general direction, but not being so stringent with, like, exactly everything you wanna do. And honestly, I feel like that's enough for this episode. That's like those are. It's definitely not everything I've learned from my mom, of course, but I kinda wanted to keep this one pretty potent and honestly, like if you really reflect on those, if I really reflect on, to keep this one, you know, pretty potent and honestly, like, if you really reflect on those. If I really reflect on those at least, I feel like that's like my whole life, Like there's like what else? What other lessons do I need? It's like create every day, have a space to create, have a general idea of where you want to go and then, along the path, be nice to people, be respectful, that's, that's it. I guess, like the other side of it is, you know, health and wellness and, like I didn't even go into all like that, you know being like putting, treating your body as a temple, having a spiritual practice, like all of those things are super key. My mom had always been a Yogi. You know, like she can stand on her head at, uh, you know, yoga classes and stuff, uh, which is something I can't even do, and so, you know, I think I got a lot of that like spiritual side from her as well.

Speaker 1: 13:45

And speaking of the spiritual side, let's go into the second part of this podcast, which is about the divine mother. So, of course, like you know, the mother figure is kind of the embodiment of the divine mother, and the divine mother in, you know, in like, at least in kind of, I guess, like Eastern, more Eastern traditions, is typically mother nature, mother, the mother of the mother is like all of creation. But when I think of the divine mother, I think of, like the ocean, the trees, the sky, everything in the physical manifestation, the father, god. The father is typically associated with, like the, the all of everything, like the, the, the base vibration of everything. So I guess it includes the divine mother, but it's all like the Divine Father typically, I think, includes the unmanifest energy. So, like the unmanifest is, the things that have yet to be created are kind of more the masculine pole, whereas all of creation is the more feminine pole, the Divine Mother. Creation is the more feminine pole, the divine mother.

Speaker 1: 15:00

And so with the divine mother, I mean even as I'm recording this, I'm, I'm uh, again, I'm on Cape Cod, which I seem to normally get into a flow of recording these for some reason when I'm here, but it feel like I'm just kind of, I feel like that, like the, the divine mother is so inspiring and it's like is so inspiring and it's like whoops, just like dropped my phone, sorry if that like smashed your ear. Um, uh, like that it's so, it's so beautiful, like I'm just I'm driving, like it's just like nature everywhere, the sky, the sun is setting and there's all just different types and forms of beauty everywhere you look and this is the Divine Mother. It's like this wild, just totally awe-inspiring creation. Divine mother is also like the aspect of God that represents, you know, uh, love and comfort and protection and guidance and kind of the motherly love that you, you know, you may or may not have received from your, from, from your mother. And it's like the nurturing force, the, the, the, the caring force, the loving force, but it's the loving, the divine mother. When we talk about that, it's like those aspects and those qualities as manifested in, in, in the all right, and so, like people can kind of channel that right, like humans can channel it. But in general it can be manifested through nature, it can be manifested through even yourself, it can be manifested in like the form of when you're, when you're meditating and you, um, you kind of sense into, like, the, if you, you can kind of like call out to the divine mother and sort of ask for, for the divine mother to, to, to nurture you.

Speaker 1: 16:57

Yogananda, who's, you know, I spoke about a bit in my the previous episode here he talks about how, like when you're in meditation and you feel like you're maybe not getting anywhere. You know you can basically call out to the divine mother, like, okay, let's say you're in meditation and like you're just in like a stream of thinking, and like you know you, you're irritated and you just have pains or irritations inside your body or whatnot. And so if you what Yogananda says is, if you call out to the divine mother, you almost instantly get a response. Get a response because kind of like you know, when you, you, you can imagine, like if a woman has a baby and the baby wakes up in the middle of the night and starts crying, the mother like just can't resist but go and and comfort the baby, hold the baby, give the baby what it wants and nurture it back to sleep.

Speaker 1: 17:53

And it's, it's the same thing with, like, the aspects of the divine, the aspects of God, where, if you're, you know we are all right, we're all God's children, and if you are in meditation and you're struggling or you're just going through a difficult time in life in general, you don't even necessarily, I don't think, have to be meditating and you call out to the divine mother and you know, you kind of invoke that energy, invoke that presence of love and nurturing and peace, you can summon the Divine Mother energy, and so that's, you know, that's something that you can do and it's something that I've tried and experimented with, just having kind of followed the advice of Yogananda, and I think I definitely feel it. It's like if you invoke peace and joy and meditation and specifically kind of out to the divine mother aspect of God, it will pretty much I would say like unequivocally it will, it will just come to you, you'll feel it, you'll feel a presence. So I think that's what I'd leave you with today. I hope that this, this episode, was you with today. I hope that this episode was inspiring and insightful and you're thinking about your own mother and giving her love, and you know, I give a great warm gratitude and loving energy out to all the mothers out there if any are listening to this, and I also encourage you to do your own sort of calling out to the Divine Mother frequency in meditation and just kind of see what happens and if you get a response, let me know. I'm curious to see.

Speaker 1: 19:30

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