The godhead to me is a manifestation of god. Since the proper scope could never really be achieved to perceive God (or the universe) in its absolute entirety), when "God" is perceived it is perceived as the godhead - that is to say it is a perceptible form of God - an interpolation of the infinite. Because the godhead contains within it infinite forms (at least it should seem based on my observations), it should make sense that any number of attributes, be they male or female have the potential to be exhibited, but it doesn't necessarily negate the other. It's merely a temporary matter of perception, conditioning and analysis.

I am less able to grasp what God would be than the fish in my fish tank could grasp what I am.

If I read the intent of the OP correctly, this is about personal perception. So:

I have had a number of godhead type experiences, of different orders of magnitude. I would define these as experiences where you are confronted by the absolute; the end of the road, the place beyond where further seeking is pointless. The mountaintop.

And being a puny human, this is filtering through my perception. As with all things I perceive, my experience is built up of language from my own vocabulary, so this by definition will color the experience. My experience of God is of "Self in its wholeness"; since my day to day experience is from a male perspective, that tends to color my perception of the absolute.

In my single most intense white-light experience, the sense of universal Self was absolute, and the concept of gender did not exist. So it may be that the depth of the voyage determines how much of your day-to-day perceptual baggage comes along to color the experience.

From a personal perspective, I thought of God as a male for most of my life, but I've since arrived at a Pandeist outlook on life, a worldview where God is equivalent to existence. Therefore, I see God as without gender, but at the same time, every other gender imaginable.

thanks man

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I totally agree ! you put it much better than I ever could

I can't decide whether or not infinite understanding, infinite acceptance, infinite light, infinite love, and unrelenting spiritual ecstasy can be interpreted as masculine or feminine.

Perhaps I don't follow the question, they are neither to me. Godhead for me, is the illusion of being one with everything, it takes on no sexual form for me.

In those other realms though, when I haven't quite reached Godhead, I meet feminine entities way more often than masculine ones.

Global put it beautifully, I would express it saying that gender is a subset of reality, while the godhead is reality.

So perceiving it more in one gender or the other completely depends on which manifestation of the godhead you're looking at, and how are you looking at it.

i think of the Godhead as a verb rather than as a noun, an eternal coming together in the fiery passion of universal communion and then a separation into the 10,000 things, creating the world anew moment by moment in an infinite variety of forms, something we are both part of and necessary to

neither, "the god head" isnt a spirit, its an enlightened state of spiritual connectivity to perhaps "god" and "god" doesnt have a gender, unless u programmed to believe so

There are some very wise and beautiful descriptors on the god head and the infinite consciousness on here.

It just goes to show the power of psychedelics and how people who take them can have experiences and realizations that they would never otherwise have in this body.

i am honored to be a full member of this forum :-)

peace

I already posted a few posts back, but I got to thinking.

Ordinarily I don't ponder God too much, because it get's too messy, what with infinite dimensions, convergent/divergent series, and so on. The question is a good one, though.

We see things in genders because of the fact that we are a species made of two genders. Biologically, we have half the DNA coming from male and half from female to make a new human. That seems to be how sex developed on this planet. While it's true, nature seems to be filled with duality, and perhaps our two genders are a product of that, maybe not.

Suppose on another planet there were three genders. Three beings have to come together, each giving 33 1/3 % DNA each to make a new being. They might ask the same question and debate whether God is grab, sugrabe, or finelic in gender (yeah, I just invented three space genders, deal with it).

So like many others on this thread, I assume God is without gender. But maybe, God is comprised of an infinite number of genders.

If God is indeed the embodiment of a human gender (actually, probably the other way around), I would have to pick female. Females don't create 100% the genes of the baby, but they do take a single cell, made whole by the male, and create a whole other human. So it makes sense to me, if God had a gender it would be more female due to the creative nature of God.

Neither, the godhead or creation itself, is neither male or female, no language can be used to give it a description. It cannot be known, only experienced individually. To suggest the Godhead is feminine or masculine I feel isn't so much wrong but naive, any kind of word to describe it takes away from it's true identity.

Another way I could say this is, giving the godhead a title or language attaches conditions to an unconditional and unexpecting nature. It is everything and everything cannot be with form.

Very true and very well put!

of course Mystic0, you are right -- neither one word nor ten thousand words can describe the indescribable -- and yet it is in our nature to try, in words, in music, in art

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_(word)

It may carry male connotations but does not to my knowledge mean male in a defined way.

I believe in the Trimurti, not as deities though.

The representation of shiva as both male and female addresses this concept of gender, identifying god as gender neutral.

both. and then some.

I think the common answer would be that God has no gender, it is spirit instead, etc etc etc. But, I say that God itself is a creation of our own imagination, and so I am not opposed to assigning it masculine or feminine qualities, which are also figments of the our imagination in the universe in which we find ourselves. I imagine God as being a masculine presence. He is creative and forceful. Feminine qualities are like God's gift to the universe. I say it is the feminine energy which drives God to create. Feminine energy is the masterpiece in which God wishes to create, and enjoy.