of potentiality or power being the great mother goddess or
Mahadevi that is known as 'Kali'.
At first dimly sensed within the light of the Divine
Awareness that is Shiva, these potentialities gradually took
the form of ever clearer, more lucid and light-filled dreams
- dreams of infinite potential worlds, infinite potential
realities and infinite potential beings – individual
consciousnesses or 'Jiva'.
Shiva not only embraced all these potential worlds and
beings in the transcendent light of his unbounded
awareness – but through that light automatically released
them from the womb of the Great Goddess into free and
autonomous self-actualisation, as Her autonomous powers
of action or 'Shaktis'.
The countless individualised selves or Jiva that make up
our physical world of human beings then evolved through a
long road – one which led them to falsely believe that they
were entities separate and apart from one another and from
the Divine, beings whose womb or matrix was Matter or
Energy and not The Mother and her power of potentiality.
The Jiva even came to believe that their physical
actuality was the product of some cosmic accident and that
even consciousness was their personal private property –
not a uniquely individualised portion of the Divine
Awareness that is Shiva.