I'm currently reading this book aside from school called Power Up your Brain: The Neuroscience of Enlightenment. It was written by an MD and a PhD, the latter of the two a shaman who has travelled the world to seek out how people find "enlightenment." The book intertwines the scientific aspect of how your brain works with the spiritual journey of seeking enlightenment, while guiding readers through a program on how to (literally) rewire your brain to find this.
While there are many aspects of the book, one aspect I found most intriguing was about the mitochondria, a.k.a. the powerhouse of the cell and what shaman's call "the feminine life force." In case you don't remember from high school biology, the mitochondria dictate how every cell ages, divides and dies, as well as which genes are switched on and off, and how neural networks in your brain are formed. Without this vital but tiny piece of the cell, life wouldn't exist. With as many cells as there are in your body, mitochondria make up roughly 10% of an average adult's body weight. The entire book focuses on syngergizing your brain, making all parts work together so you can be enlightened, be compelled to create, be peaceful, and overall, inherently happy. (It almost sounds like a self-help book, but it's not, I highly recommend it for anybody!)
Anyway, what this has to do with femininity. All the mitochondrial DNA in your body is inherited from your matrilineage (your mother's family tree), meaning the source of energy that sustains all life on the planet is truly a feminine life force. Those who are enlightened (as described by this book) have gotten in touch with the feminine life force within them.
I wanted to post an excerpt from the book, or something, and this is the only one I could find that references the feminine life force of the mitochondria:
http://www.thefourwinds.com/newsletter/Aug_10/news_alberto.php
In case you are interested in this book (seriously, everyone in the world needs to read it - the world would be a better place for it!) here's the Amazon link:
http://www.amazon.com/Power-Your-Brain-Neuroscience-Enlightenment/dp/140192817X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1302037707&sr=8-1
This book sounds really interesting and also reminded me of a favorite book, A Wind in the Door, by Madeleine L'Engle, 2nd book in the trilogy that begins with the better known, A Wrinkle in Time. In A Wind in the Door, the main characters travel through time and space in one of their mitochondria to battle a new form of darkness that is threatening to take over the world.
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wind_in_the_Door