It’s 4000 BC. Worldwide, Mother Goddess is the central
archetype. But suddenly, She turns deadly: the Sahara and the gigundo central-Asian deserts form.
Great masses of people starve. Salvation (rain)
now comes from the sky, so people turn away from dry-as-a-bone Mother Earth,
and toward moist Father Sky.
In groups where people share
food, no one gets enough, and the group goes belly-up in a hurry.
In other groups, the strongest (young males),
grab all the food for themselves, and these groups survive. A new way of life starts: strong men bashing
the weak is not only okay, it’s all that gets you a pat on the back, a wink of
the eye, a nod and a high-five.
Institutionalized warfare,
slavery and inequality begin. And spread, eventually, via violent force, to even the still-green areas of the earth.
If we recognize
and erase “Starvation Culture” (which still eats away at us today -- but
subliminally) and turn back to Mother Earth as our guiding archetype, we could
possibly dump and ditch war, inequality and environmental destruction – all the
things that could be spelling our d-o-o-m.
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Want more of this? Get
your hands on a copy of Switching to
Goddess: Humanity’s Ticket to the Future.
And get your local library to drop a copy on its shelves, too. The human race might just thank you for it.
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