Derek, I am really moved by this eloquent post. And perfect timing for Mothers' Day!

You are completely right, in my opinion. We have the ability and responsibility to maintain a symbiotic relationship with our planet. But we have stepped way off the path of doing that. We've trashed our planet and all the other life forms that inhabit it, plants and animals, including our own species. Our own denials of half of ourselves, the feminine, have wreaked havoc.

The feminine has insight, emotions, feelings, intuition, strength, understanding, love, intelligence, creativity, to name a few. The masculine has focus, intelligence, protectiveness, ingenuity, body strength, inventiveness, and much more, but is incomplete without acceptance of the feminine. The masculine fears the feminine's insight and emotions, which they outwardly consider as weak. They don't necessarily understand it, but they fear they could be outwitted by it. No "real" man can let that happen! This is why they have tried to control and obliterate women. They have brutally used their physical strength to do it. They don't SEE how these qualities can HELP them...in a symbiotic relationship. Just look at the cultures that forbid any kind of freedom to their women, totally suppressing them to the point of hiding them under oppressive garb. Look at how women have been "branded" with their husbands' names, to show ownership of them by their husbands. Look at the rapists who want to punish and control women. Look at how the masculine has deprived the feminine of education and the right to vote in the past. The true feminine, as god created her, is powerful. Why does the masculine have so much terror of that, that he wants to kill her?

With that in mind, how can we, as a species, be truly symbiotic with our world? Masculine superiority complex harms and invalidates the feminine reality. This causes the feminine so much pain, and legally has put her is a position of inferiority and inability to realize her full potential, as God has created her and given her.

This position has been prevalent in the entire world, forever. It's easy to see how this has caused the formidable imbalance reigning on this planet. It has cascaded down through all living things. Now, we are almost at a point of no return.

This is a huge pill to swallow for most people, I think. We need a massive healing of ourselves. A massive move to acceptance of our emotions. A massive moment of clarity and vision. The question is: Are we beyond that?