Gender Justice For Women
God
What’s the Matter?
What’s the Matter?
“What’s the matter?” we say to each other.
“What’s going on? What’s happening here.”
Religion and Science ask these Questions too,
with varied Answers throughout the Ages
held tight or slowly evolving still.
“What is Matter? What’s going on?”
“Who or What created, creates?”
These Questions have been Argued, been Answered,
Answered in Words and Numbers- in Symbols
Explaining All or Parts of the Mystery.
When ‘Answers’ mean Power and Control
to our Primitive, Young Species, some zealously seek
to Dominate and are willing to Kill, to Harm,
to Force, so certain of their ‘Right Answers’.
‘Right Answers’ attack ‘Right Answers’ still
in this Technological Space-Age Day.
Sometimes it’s a matter of ‘Language’-
different ways of Expressing, Describing,
Defining the Same ‘Values’ and Understandings-
‘Arguing Semantics’ of Religion and Science.
Consider this, if you will.
From the Unseen comes the Seen
ever returning to the Unseen…
From the Formless comes the Forms
ever returning to the Formless…
From Spirit comes Matter-
the Formless in Forms of Matter
ever returning to Formless Spirit again…
From Pure Energy comes Matter
Transforming and Rearranging
Life like Jesus coming again-
Life like Buddhas reincarnating-
Life like Particles appearing, rearranging again…
Impersonal Forces and Processes, Personal Deities…
Impersonal Laws like Gravity
and Personal Saviours like Jesus
throughout World History…
Unseen-Seen, Formless-Forms,
Spirit-Pure Energy-Matter All One…
Life Itself-Nature respected or disrespected…
all Interconnected, a Unity Diverse,
a Unity of Life, seen or unseen by Humans
even ‘Arguing Semantics’ and perceiving Life
through their shared or different World Views…
We are Spirit, Energy, Formless, Forms…
In Essence, we are all One- Parts of Life’s Body-
Simultaneously In Essence Being Many
yet One great and glorious Mystery, One…
God-Spirit-Pure Energy-Life Sacred and Holy
Bless Us, Every One.
February 26, 2023
Shelley Audrey Wilson
Victoria, BC
An Old Candle
An Old Candle
An old candle rests upon a shelf.
Perhaps it gathers dust and dreams
like me in my old age…
I delight in my old photographs.
A lighted candle softly glows,
‘still life with atmosphere’…
Out of the dark, a memory appears-
little candles lit for loved ones,
bare-headed little girls Must Leave…
my little-self Religion-curious,
How could Jesus take offence?
Then came the Bible-Thumper years,
a paradigm I left behind…
I studied World Religions,
their Philosophies and Doctrines,
many a valued Holy Book.
Love of God still burned bright,
different ways of knowing God within
free of ‘guilt and shame and sin’
that blinds the sight to Peace within…
When still and quiet, Mind at rest,
my Heart shines like candlelight,
even flames in holy rapture-
Experience speaks true- God’s Love
and Presence Ever, Always here
known by those who Go Within…
I create and co-create my life
and Never does God take Offence
no matter what I say or do-
Nothing Offends, no mistake, no error,
my God is Ever, Always LOVE…
Even passing through old age, I feel
that Love-Energy, Pure and True and Real.
I may rest in dust on a shelf
but the Divine still shines Within.
(February 24, 2023
Shelley Audrey Wilson
Victoria, BC)
The Whys Surprise
The Whys Surprise
I seem to be developing
a Cultural Case of ‘The Whys’
that comes to me as a Surprise.
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Why did Men make up a Story
many people still believe,
a ‘Shame and Blame Story’,
the Tale of Adam and Eve-
Woman, the Seductive Temptress
(corrupted by an Evil Snake)
so willingly and able to lead
astray, to disobey, to deceive
Man, the ‘Fallen Innocent’,
the ‘Victim’ who must pay-
cast out from Paradise,
the Son who ‘lost his way’
because Woman ‘disobeys’-
a ‘Cautionary Tale’
told to so many Children
through the Ages and Today???
(The message here of course-
Do Not Dare To Disobey!)
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Why did Men conceive their God
as Male with ‘Body Parts’ like them,
punishing and condemning,
a commanding Father-Figure,
a Fearsome Final-Authority
(often Imagined with a Beard)
they’d best Worship and Obey,
denying Females any rights
or they’ll lead all Men astray???
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Why must Women hide their hair,
hide their bodies, hide their faces,
hide their intelligence and abilities,
(Disobedience demand ‘penalties’
harsh and cruel, some Cultures say.)
only serving Men to please
still Today in many Cultures
claiming God demanding these
Gender Laws and Rules to please
Deity or is it Deities???
(It may depend on where you live.)
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Why are Women in some Cultures
painted, filmed, stripped nude
then judged indecent, even lewd,
an ‘Em-bar-rass-ment’ to Women,
(though some Women desire Women)
a ‘Sex-As-Dirty Tease’ for Men-
(though some Men desire Men)
Men believing they’re all Superior
from Stories told by other Men,
like God is Male with ‘Parts’ like them,
they’re ‘in His Image’ after all,
didn’t God talk to Mostly Men
in Scripture Stories, Tales for Men
and those Compliant Women
living well by pleasing Men???
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As in Science, we Advance
through our Courageous Questions
to help us Understand.
(Perhaps even become ‘The Wise’?)
Who has Intelligent Answers
to Beliefs we carry still
in World Views, in Laws that guide us,
in God-Beliefs we kill and die for
even faring into Space?
Respecting All, the Human Race,
maybe now we’ll discover
God is Ever, Only Love.
(God Bless Us All, Everyone.)
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February 23, 2023
Shelley Audrey Wilson
Victoria, Bc
Strangers
Strangers
I don’t know your Soul’s agenda.
I don’t know the Path you take
co-creating and navigating
the life you have or wish to make.
I don’t know your life story,
what has brought you peace or worry,
what now gives your life meaning,
the values of your being.
I don’t know who you are
as a Stranger near or far
living the life you’re in,
your thoughts and feelings within.
Perhaps someday, somehow we’ll meet
greeting each other as a Friend,
sharing our thoughts with trust,
never because we must vent hate.
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Celestial beings and bodies, we gravitate,
we orbit, we move and resonate
with push and pull of forces
bringing us together, pulling apart.
Evolving to ‘Global Consciousness’, then
‘Citizens of the Universe’ so very
strange and beautiful and diverse, we’ll see
that ‘strange’ isn’t wrapped in fear
when true Love of Life grows here.
Even now, some live in higher Awareness,
Caring Connection, Spirit of Unity,
Voluntary Sharing, Global Community,
Re-Defined, Re-Divined Family-
inclusive, not exclusive,
expressing a higher form of Love
and Respect for Life far above
what most of Humanity sees now.
Most Humans have few Opportunities,
few Basic Necessities, food and shelter,
no indoor plumbing, electricity,
rights and freedoms, that we Humans
all could have if we’re All Willing,
not declaring “It can’t be done “
or “thank God” because Those Billions
don’t include you and me.
Have we made ourselves ‘Strangers’
to a God of Pure, Unconditional Love by
justifying selfishness, greed, indifference,
or acting out anger as violence (offence-defence)
‘claiming’ and ‘blaming’ an Angry God, even
a Fearsome, Vengeful, Violent God.
Are we even ‘Strangers’ to ourselves?
The Spirit of God is Love and our Spirit is too.
God Bless Us Everyone.
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February 23, 2023
Shelley Audrey Wilson
Victoria, BC
(photo taken by my daughter last year)
Bio-Gems
Bio-Gems
We are all Triune Beings,
Sentient Bio-Gems
of the Creator Life Itself-
that Prime Source Spirit
of Purest Love and Light
Creating and Recreating
through the Wondrous, Glorious
Nature of Itself- Visible Nature
of Formless, Invisible Spirit-
Many-Faceted, Sparkling
Consciousness Energy
Pervading Myriad Forms.
We are all Triune Beings,
Sentient Bio-Gems,
Souls Co-Creating Ourselves
through Wondrous Light-
that Sparkling Energy
Ever-Moving, Exploring Itself
as Light-Spectrums of Mind
through Functions of Brain
and Colour-Spectrums of Emotions
that Move to Free or Bind,
Enriching Our Understandings,
Experiencing Our Lives.
We are all Triune Beings,
Sentient Bio-Gems,
Bodies of Mysteries and Senses,
of Taken-For-Granted Wonders,
Cohesive Atomic Structures
Appearing Solid and Firm
yet Carrying Quantum-Space,
Carrying Liquids and Gases, Bodies
Appearing Solid and Firm and
then Disappearing From Sight-
Each Body a Universe In Itself,
Parts of the Cosmic Universe,
Reappearing in Constant Change.
We are Sentient Bio-Gems-
Wonders of Life, Wonders of God,
all Beautiful to Behold,
Beginning to Understand…
February 20, 2023
Shelley Audrey Wilson
Victoria, BC
Misty Memories
Misty Memories
Flowers
Flowers
Compassion Acts-Two
Compassion Acts-Two
When our World shakes and quakes,
moved by deadly Forces of Fear
that divide, fracture, collapse
even the strongest, most powerful
Systems, Structures and Lives,
some Minds fall down into Despair.
Some Hearts crack open wide
to let the Love inside come out.
Even hard Hearts break to show Care,
to be the hands and tools of God
ever present in our World.
Words alone are never enough
to touch and heal deepest Sorrows
and to Free us from our Fears.
When Need calls out, Compassion Acts
without self-interest calculated.
Is the ‘Only Way’ or the ‘Direct Way’ blocked?
We find Another Way, Another Road,
or make one fast beside, even rough,
letting go what doesn’t work and
determined to break through-
bulldoze away ‘It can’t be done’.
We bring in Rescue Angels from above
with wings and blades to carry
like planes and helicopters
swiftly Overcoming Limitations
and Delays intentional or not.
We are all creators, problem solvers,
here to Experience, to Choose
who we are and to Decide
for ourselves who we’re not.
We all live in a quickly changing World
of increasing Challenges that shake
us to our Foundations, our Spirit
calmly observing whether we ‘live or die’.
(Our Spirit knows it cannot die.)
In every Challenge, we may ask
‘What would Love do now?’
then our Spirit can reveal ‘the How’.
God helps those who help themselves
and others. Compassion Acts.
February 9, 2023
Shelley Audrey Wilson
Victoria, BC
Compassion Acts
Compassion Acts
Many minds grow cold and numb
to traumas, to conflicts and violence
when world views clash and take
form to shake a fragile World.
Bombs and bullets shake the World.
Weapons of light and sound shake the World.
Alarms and warnings go unheeded.
Some minds calculate, analyze, strategize
how to kill and kill and kill.
Some minds calculate, analyze, strategize
how to keep alive, alive and well,
the unresponsive Heart of Man
shocked again, again, again,
whether shocked for good or ill.
The Living know full well
that when Humanity has a will, a will
to live in peace, it finds a way.
God helps those who help themselves
and others. Compassion acts.
February 8, 2023
Shelley Audrey Wilson
Victoria, BC
Reaching In Reaching Out
Reaching In Reaching Out
We grow from Infancy
enlarging, expanding
our perceptions,
our experiences,
our knowing,
reaching in reaching out
of our Cradle, our Home,
our World, our Universe,
our great Unknown…
Once we seemed
the very Center
of all Creation
by One or More Beings,
Powerful Caring Giants
focused on nurturing,
providing for all
our Human Infant needs
or not…
Slowly we outgrew
our Cradle, our Home,
our World, our Universe
reaching in reaching out,
enlarging, expanding
our perceptions,
our experiences,
our knowing at last
we Live On The Edge…
Then we began to wonder,
Is this the only
Earth-like World
or are there Many?
Is this the only
Inhabitable World
for forms of Life
unlike our own,
different Evolutions,
perceptions, experiences
unlike our own?
Is this Universe
the only Evolving Creation
by a Divine Being-Beings,
a Divine Energy-Energies,
a Divine Force-Forces,
a Divine Process-Processes,
Quantum and Cosmic,
or not…
Is this the only
Universe of Galaxies
or are there Many,
Many Universes,
Multiverses Seen Unseen
with Many Big Bangs?
Is this the only
Conscious Universe,
the only Seen Unseen
Intelligent Creation
creating, evolving,
perceiving, experiencing,
knowing Itself
even through All That Is,
even through the Many
Infant Creators, us?
Are we all Part Of
a Conscious Multiverse
reaching in reaching out…
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February 3, 2023
Shelley Audrey Wilson
Victoria, BC
I Once Believed
I Once Believed
I once believed in a God of Contradictions, a Parent Almighty, a Loving Creator God of Unlimited Power who was Powerless to Make Humans Obey, especially Women, a God who Needed the Help of Men to Fight Ancient and Modern Wars, to Obey and Kill on Command, Obedient to Commandments and Punishing Laws, a God of Wrath.
I once believed in a God of Sacrifice, a Death Dealing God who Required us to Demonstrate Obedience through our Self Sacrifice and the Sacrifice of our Loved Ones, especially the Innocents, the Child, the Children of God, Sons and Daughters of Man, the countless Sacrifices of Harmless Animals to a Primitive God still worshipped by many.
I once believed in a God of Rewards and Punishments, Rewards of Heaven, of Paradise, for Blind Faith and Blind Obedience, for the Right Genes, the Right Religion, the Chosen, the Elect, the Superior Few- a God of Jealousy, Vengeance and Cruelty to All Others- the Unbelievers, the Infidels, the Heretics, People of the Wrong Religion or Race or Politics, the Wrong History and Geography, the Wrong Beliefs, a Very Exclusive and Elitist God.
I once believed in a God who used Angels (those Humans and Extraterrestrials) with powerful Weapons to Destroy whole Cities, even the Children too- Innocent Infants, Toddlers and Teens, Children of Men and Women in the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time (Collateral Damage), Justified Death, Horrific Killing for Power and Control of Earth. Was it they who told us about the Horrors of Hells? I wonder.
I once believed in a God of Retribution, a God of Karma Making us, Forcing us, to Return Again and Again until we Got It Right, until we Outgrew our Unacceptable Behaviours, our Sins born of Ignorance that Mother of Evils, until we finally Saw the Light in our Meditations and Prayers or through our Devotions, Adorations and Rituals Considered Needed to Get It Right, Enlightened At Last.
I walk in the Wonder of Life Itself Letting Go of anything Less than Pure Love and True Freedom, those Other Names for God…
January 19, 2023
Shelley Audrey Wilson
Victoria, BC
I Wonder
I Wonder
I wonder about many things- things beyond my intellectual and emotional comprehension as well as those things I think and feel that I understand in some small measure.
‘How great Thou art’ I often say to Life, to God Present in the Essential Nature of Every Being and in Every Atom of Everything, in the Forces and Elements of Nature and in the Great Mystery Beyond Everything- the Great Oneness of It All.
I wonder about ‘big things’ and ‘small’.
This morning I was wondering about our Human uses of Earth’s Resources. Where would we be in our Technologies of Information and Communication, our Technologies of Transportation, our Manufacturing and Distribution of so much of our Building Materials, our Furniture, our Adornments, our Medical Technologies, our Food Production, our Basic Needs and Comforts and Entertainments that we enjoy- if not for Mining whether judged by some as ‘exploitations’ or ‘wise use’ by others? How would we be living without our Mining Industries?
Even more ‘Technologically Primitive’ Civilizations Mined to create Weapons and Utensils, Mining from Earth’s Resources too. How would they have lived without Mining?
When we are Mining the Moon, the Asteroids and the Planets, like Mars, how will Humanity benefit? Will very few benefit, as it is today? Or, will our Insatiable Need for Weapons to solve Problems, resulting in Extensive and Irrational Inventories of Weapons with the Profiting Need for their Use so more can be made, work to create our End? Will we create better Solutions through Spiritual Evolution of Understandings and Actions before we Self-Destruct? I wonder.
We are Complex Creatures, even more Complex than our present Machines, though A.I. in Machines is Advancing rapidly with our help- to the Point where it may soon go Beyond Serving us into Completely Ruling us. Our Creation, our Machine World, may Replace us Bit By Bit, Part By Part. We may laugh and scoff now, but what will we Become?
Where are we heading as we ‘Advance’, as we Move Forward? How will we Change Direction if we don’t like where we’re headed? How do we Navigate a Path Between Extremes?
As Individuals, we just pop in and out of Life Here on Earth. Where is our Collective Free Will of Humanity- as a Species of Human Animals and as Spirits in God-given Flesh- taking us?
In this Century, we have Almost taken some Exits from Life Here, as has happened with other Species. That Potential is now with us every single Day through those in Power (elected or not) as well as through Transformations of the Planet Itself creating Its Own Solutions.
In some Timelines, we’re all no longer here. I wonder what the Story of This Timeline will be?
January 16, 2023
Shelley Audrey Wilson
Victoria, BC
Transformations
Transformations
Earth transforms now and then
dramatically or little by little
when land masses slip and slide.
We’re just along for the ride.
We’re each here for a little while
as individuals and as species too.
Sometimes we even return
and continue our Great Adventures
evolving fast or slow as we do,
Star-Seeded again by Life
both here and by Life beyond
our Planet, Alien Interventions,
some of which we fear
as hostile or even divinely benign.
We’re all just passing through
this realm of joy and pain,
Souls on a Great Adventure,
Life’s experience to gain.
Some seek comforts in safe havens,
others seek danger to feel alive.
Some feast on their desires,
others struggle to survive.
Divine Creations, we evolve
by thought and deed and consequence,
paths well worn or those less travelled.
Attitude rules Circumstance.
Some are challenged by misfortune,
loss of all that’s valued here,
stripped of everything but Spirit,
Love expressed in those held dear.
We weep our own and others’ losses,
seeking answers as we pray.
None can judge the Soul’s Agenda
as we journey on our way.
We’re all just passing through.
A Unity Diverse…
We’re Life in many forms
throughout the Universe.
Here for a little while,
we travel in and out of Time
exploring Life Itself,
the mundane and sublime.
Our Lives are wondrous Journeys.
We challenge ourselves to grow,
exploring all conditions
through which we come and go.
Nothing here is forever.
We must leave it all behind.
Back to Source All Beings go,
beyond the limits of Mind-
beyond boundaries of Soul-
back to the Great Oneness we go,
that Oneness we call Heaven-
the God-Light and our True Home.
From and to Home we come and go
playing out our Great Adventures,
transforming Life as we know it,
creating realities loving or fearful
in multiple Timelines and Roles
or making another Free Will Choice-
Not Going Out and Staying Home.
January 13, 2023 Victoria BC
Note: I inserted my poem titled ‘All Just Passing Through’ and ‘Just Passing’ first written on May 14, 2008 then revised October 26, 2018, May 24, 2021, October 6, 2021 and now included in ‘Transformations’ January 13, 2023 with further revisions and transformations perhaps)
Shelley Audrey Wilson
(a.k.a. Shell, Shelley Demers (by marriage)
a.k.a. Ariel and Ariel-Shelley (as in Percy Bysshe Shelley)
a.k.a. Pumpkin (Dad’s) and Sheillelagh (Mom’s) nicknames)
Love
Love
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