The Sacred Sofia

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Where two or more are gathered, I am there among you" 
~Mathew 18:20

In another era, the Hellenistic era, there was the idea of having a relationship with the sacred Sofia.  In our modern way of thinking we associate Sofia with sound judgment, clear thinking, practical wisdom and intelligence, but that wasn't the original definition.  Sofia was to Plato like a muse. He courted her.  Socrates, in Plato's Apology, presents himself as a man who knows nothing and yet was among the wisest.  

The Sofia I am referring to is the wisdom of the gathered.  The gathered meeting. The spiritual being that joins with us when we are in a place, in person, and ready to approach the movement of spirit.  Where there is an intention. A waiting and yet no specific expectation.  A place of not knowing. 

This wisdom really has very little to do with modern thinking about wisdom.  It is more akin to a "positive knowing" about something.  Hard to pin it down, but when you hear a message in meeting that resonates on a deep level you have the feeling that you connected with something bigger than yourself and bigger than each person in the room.  

In a world drowning in information, technology and noise -- hearing the Sacred Sofia is a like a cool glass of water to the parched man dying of thirst.  

~ Joseph Olejak