Episode 190: Glynda-Lee Hoffmann - The Secret Dowry of Eve: The Hidden Treasure of the Feminine Revealed

11/22/23 • 88 min

The real revelation came when Glynda-Lee Hoffmann started studying the Hebrew letters of the Qabalah,their patterns of energy and the profound messages they hold for us. In a moment of awe, she discovered the explosive birth of the universe encoded within the Genesis story that exposes an incredible secret about the role of Women in our human story.

The Qabalah is known as “the language of light” or as some say ”a language for the revelation of the divine light” which reveals to us a much different interpretation of the human story as told in Genesis.

Now, before you jump to any conclusions about the relevancy of the ancient story of Genesis in todays “modern times” let me assure you that this particular message is right on time with what’s happening in the world, and is actually profoundly hopeful and inspiring!

My guest, Glynda- Lee Hoffmann’s remarkable work plays like a detective story through ciphers, clues, ancient mythology and quantum science! If you’d ever listened to Jill Bolte Taylors Ted Talk called “My Stroke of Insight” then you know how profoundly inspiring her message has been as one of the most popular TED talks ever recorded! Imagine then, making a discovery about the “feminine” part of the human brain and where we are now in our human evolution that takes Jill’s Bolte Taylors “stroke of insight” even further into new territories that expand our understanding about the potential and possibility of where we are headed.

As far as Glynda and her incredible discoveries are concerned, we are at the Apex of what she insists up until now we have been in “the 7th day of creation” bringing us right to the precipice and potential timely portal into the New World! Will our primal brains, and our dominant masculine aspects keep us in lower functioning neural patterning leading to our inevitable self destruction, or will we actually transcend our limited way of seeing the world and our place in it as the feminine aspects of the brain comes online so that we can cross over the threshold into the New Earth?
Tune in to find out more in this incredible episode with Glynda- Lee Hoffman author of The Secret Dowry Of Eve: Women’s Role in Developmental Consciousness. Prepare to be amazed by what she shares about our potential fruition as the feminine (or angelic) aspect of our brains begin to blossom!

Topics covered:

Glynda-Lee’s work challenges the traditional narrative of Eve's subservience and offers a fresh perspective on her role in the Genesis story
Glynda-Lee dives deep into her lifelong study of Kabbalah
Combined with scientific knowledge she unveils the true significance of Eve's contribution to our transcendence and wholeness.
Learn how it's Eve's inner world, the feminine awareness within us, that completes and empowers us as humans.
Unlock the hidden secrets of the feminine and the incredible fertility of our universe.
Unravel the hidden symbolism within Genesis, Kabbalah/ Quabalah and fairy tales
Explore the connection between feminine energy, personal growth, and the path to a more nurturing culture.
Transform your perspective to a whole new understanding of Eve's role in human consciousness as the Hero of our Human story.
Glynda-Lee shares a transformative experience that unveils the secret of the universe's inception
Understanding the role of the prefrontal cortex in personal and social growth (Where we are now!)
We examine and challenge patriarchal viewpoints and emphasize feminine empowerment through the lens of the Qabalah
The significance of the number seven in biblical contexts.
The integration of feminine and masculine aspects of human awareness and how they are interdependent
Storytelling as a potent tool for communication and change.

Special Guest: Glynda-Lee Hoffman.

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Topics covered:

Glynda-Lee’s work challenges the traditional narrative of Eve's subservience and offers a fresh perspective on her role in the Genesis story
Glynda-Lee dives deep into her lifelong study of Kabbalah
Combined with scientific knowledge she unveils the true significance of Eve's contribution to our transcendence and wholeness.
Learn how it's Eve's inner world, the feminine awareness within us, that completes and empowers us as humans.
Unlock the hidden secrets of the feminine and the incredible fertility of our universe.
Unravel the hidden symbolism within Genesis, Kabbalah/ Quabalah and fairy tales
Explore the connection between feminine energy, personal growth, and the path to a more nurturing culture.
Transform your perspective to a whole new understanding of Eve's role in human consciousness as the Hero of our Human story.
Glynda-Lee shares a transformative experience that unveils the secret of the universe's inception
Understanding the role of the prefrontal cortex in personal and social growth (Where we are now!)
We examine and challenge patriarchal viewpoints and emphasize feminine empowerment through the lens of the Qabalah
The significance of the number seven in biblical contexts.
The integration of feminine and masculine aspects of human awareness and how they are interdependent
Storytelling as a potent tool for communication and change.

Special Guest: Glynda-Lee Hoffman.

Support The Revelation Project

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Episode 189: Celene Lillie - The Thunder Perfect Mind: Defying Conventional Gender Rules to Embrace Union & Divinity

What would it mean if the voice of God were a woman?

Many of you are familiar with my beloved returning guest and Scholar, Dr. Celene Lillie, from our episode together about her book The Rape of Eve an episode that continues to be one of my most popular.

Today she joins me for an inspiring, evocative, gender-bending, and ever-twisting exploration of an ancient text known as The Thunder Perfect Mind, the self-portrait of a divine feminine being.

In this episode we discuss this ancient text which sustains itself for some nine pages of papyrus - sometimes commanding the scene like a goddess, other times disdained and thrown down in the dirt, she keeps challenging those around her. Still other times, she shape-shifts into a masculine form or intentionally contradicts conventional expectations of her previous utterance.

Like many other important ancient scripts, The Thunder: Perfect Mind was discovered in rural Egypt, where the dry air inhibits decay of ancient material. Thunder belongs to the increasingly famous Nag Hammadi collection of what appear to be mostly early Christian documents, all found in the same jar in the hills above the Nile. It is likely that the Nag Hammadi documents had been collected by an early desert monastic community. Found in the mid-twentieth century and translated within several decades afterward, these documents were initially published in English in 1977, but only accessible to the general public within the last generation. Thunder was one of 52 Nag Hammadi documents.

Thunder has nevertheless already distinguished itself in public consciousness and has captured the imaginations of many. It stands vigil at the beginning of award-winning novelist Toni Morrison’s works Jazz and Paradise. Umberto Eco also cited it in his novel Foucault’s Pendulum. Julie Dash’s award-winning 1991 feature film, Daughters of the Dust, opens with a long citation fromThunder. Its text also anchors a 2005 film by Jordon and Ridley Scott, whose shortened version has appeared widely as a commercial for Prada women’s fashions.

More in this episode:

Why you can not utter the name of God in Hebrew and how it can be spoken through the breath
Learn how women once occupied a huge range of possibilities before patriarchal rule
Hear the deeper meanings of THUNDER and why these texts have been considered “seminal”
Learn why this piece pushes against our contemporary notions of what is possible and inspires our imaginations
Why the word “occupy” can be so problematic and how we can bring more nuance to our understanding of embodiment
How the poem THE THUNDER PERFECT MIND invites us to claim all of our “stuff” and be with the messiness of our lives without being diminished by them
How Human Design and The Gene Keys give us freedom from being “all things to all people”
Why The Thunder Perfect Mind is medicine for what is happening in the world at this time

Celene Lillie is Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder; an Adjunct Professor at the University of Oklahoma and The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology; and the Dean of the Westar Institute's forthcoming Academy (launching this Fall). Her scholarly work focuses the New Testament, the Nag Hammadi Codices, and other early literature of the Jesus movement, with a particular interest in gender and violence. She is the author of The Rape of Eve: The Transformation of Roman Ideology in Three Early Retellings of Genesis; co-author (with Jaeda Calloway, Maia Kotrosits, Justin Lasser, and Hal Taussig) of The Thunder: Perfect Mind: A New Translation and Introduction; and Director of Translations for A New New Testament (edited by Hal Taussig).
If I were to name one connected specifically to my work, I'm interested in bringing forth voices that are typically marginalized or hidden in early Christian literature.

Special Guest: Celene Lillie.

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Episode 191: Paul Levy - Undreaming Wetiko: Breaking the Spell of the Nightmare Mind Virus

In this episode, I introduce Paul Levy, a pioneer in spiritual emergence and the author of Undreaming Wetiko: Breaking the Spell of the Nightmare Mind Virus.

I’ve been fascinated by this concept for years, since it ties in with how I describe the way the “trance of unworthiness” impacts women. In fact, I think Wetiko and “the trance” may be the same thing, just impacting men and women differently. For men, it’s a consuming and a tendency to destruct on the outside, for Women, it happens more covertly, turned inward on themselves instead of a tendency of harming others.

Ultimately, Wetiko is a term, aptly named by Native Americans to describe what they saw as a "mental illness" that came with white colonizer settlers who aggressively stole land from the indigenous, and were driven to kill and take what was not theirs. They would destroy and consume, even at their own expense, and behaved in ways that seemed “possessed” as if by an evil spirit.

Paul expands on this by sharing his personal encounter with Wetiko- which he believes is a byproduct of unhealed generational trauma that gets passed on. His encounter is hrough his father's abusive behavior and his subsequent realization of its pervasive nature. In this episode we explore how Wetiko manifests in our psyche, and how it influences our "collective madness” - the profound impact it has on individuals and society.

Many would consider what’s playing out in Israel and Palestine a form of Wetiko.

Paul emphasizes that we must recognize darkness as a form of illumination and we discusses the role of personal projection in the perpetuation of Wetiko.
We delve into the shamanic archetype of the wounded healer, healing trauma, and retrieving lost parts of the soul as a means of healing Wetiko.
The conversation also touches on childhood experiences, ancestral trauma, how to break generational patterns, and the power of expressing our creativity as our access to healing. The power of being disruptors in our families and society, challenging the status quo and creating change.

*Throughout the episode we also cover: *

What it means to “awaken” from the dream
Mass Psychosis and how we could see this through Covid
What the nightmare of our reality is
The parallels between Wetiko and the trance of unworthines
How Wetiko consumes us
The importance of awakening to our true nature
Embracing grief, and forgiving ourselves for the harm we have caused
Nurturing our inner creative spirit
Questioning our perceptions of reality
The importance of connecting with others to transform the collective unconscious
The power of being disruptors in our families and society, challenging the status quo and creating change

Topics discussed: Wetiko, spiritual emergence, Carl Jung, Tibetan Buddhism, colonization, mass psychosis, mental illness, psychiatry, collective madness, projection, shamanic archetype, trauma, ancestral trauma, generational patterns, expressed creativity, perception of reality, grief, interconnectedness, creative spirit.

Special Guest: Paul Levy.