What else rules us, anywhere we go on earth?

[Nada Jung]

"What is being born in the collapse and dissolution of the old mythologies — the old belief systems which have divided instead of uniting humanity — is the recognition that we do not live in a dead, meaningless universe but within a Sacred Cosmic Order."

~ Anne Baring, "The Dream of the Cosmos"

“The world which men have made isn’t working. Something needs to change. To change the world, we women need first to change ourselves – and then we need to change the stories we tell about who we are. The stories we’ve been living by for the past few centuries – the stories of male superiority, of progress and growth and domination – don’t serve women and they certainly don’t serve the planet. Stories matter, you see.”

~ Sharon Blackie, "When Women Rose Rooted"

"The God of Patriarchy, from the beginning, has been a God of War and Economic Exploitation. Incessant warfare and economic exploitation have characterized the four-thousand-year history of this male God. It is no surprise that the world of today, the apotheosis of patriarchy, is a world of war and money. What else rules us, anywhere we go on earth?

In the modern world, we are told there are two very different and competing economic power systems, but in fact they are ontologically the same, deriving from the same God of War and Exploitation, from the same patriarchal definition of human life as a function of some larger, abstract category: “God,” “the state,” “the marketplace.” To define human beings as functions, or exploitable means, rather than as sacred ends in ourselves, is to create by definition a perpetual state of war."

~ Monica Sjöö & Barbara Mor, "The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth"
Art: Virginia Lee