So now we know about the split. We see the impact of the death of the goddess in our relationships - to each other, to money, to land, to god, to work, to life. (See previous post, Split from the sacred ) Now we need to figure out, how do we fix this? What is the solution, to get out of these patterns of violence and patriarchy? According to Baring and Cashford in The Myth of the Goddess (1991), this current Judeo-Christian myth of a single male god is a tribal myth -- meaning it was meant to apply to a certain group of people at a time of threat to strengthen their own identity and self-interest through a negative opposite (the feminine). This myth has endured and gained power over the past 2,000 years, however, and what these authors see is that this myth got stuck, in a collective arrested development with an unresolved conflict not allowing the tribe to move into the next stage. ** So how do we get past this conflict? How do we move from the duality, the oppositional, the total
Documenting a thought experiment. Reflections and reviews where inspiration and insight strike. With an inclination towards food systems, ecology, spirituality - and their interconnections. The author is Alexandra Toledo, food systems activist and thinker with roots in the US Midwest, heart in Peru and feet touching the ground in Valencia, Spain.