Forwarded from Max Morris
Navigating distress and complexity
Forwarded from Max Morris
"complex" doesn't have to mean "impossible"
Forwarded from Max Morris
"life is not like that"
Forwarded from Max Morris
Amenability to transformative change :-)
Forwarded from Max Morris
Pockets of even temporary collaboration :-)
'Significantly, Eve’s punishment for her “sin” consists of patriarchal marriage. Her desire must be only for her husband, she must leave her Garden and follow him over the barren male-ordered earth, condemned to unwanted pregnancies and painful childbirth. In other words, patrilocal marriage, in which she is isolated from the women’s collective and deprived of her ancient knowledge of herbal contraception and narcotics used for painless labor. She is no longer priestess and midwife to the Goddess. She will now bear children bitterly and they will “belong” to the man. She must also passively make love to Adam on her back, he enacting the male Sky Father over her meek female Earth. She must play the role of “corrupt matter” chained to a husband forever striving to “free” his immortal spirit from her.
Eve is still Everywoman. With other world creation myths reduced to “only fairy tales,” the Old Testament Genesis is still treated with seriousness and respect in the Western political and cultural world. Even people who are not practicing Jews or Christians are affected by it, for the patriarchal notions enshrined in Genesis are at the base of all our cultural, political, and economic institutions. In contradistinction to the U.S. Constitution, we might add, American law and custom have always been heavily influenced by the Bible, because the men who make law and custom have been raised to believe the Bible is “the truth.” No need to point out to women, in the 1980s, that anti-abortion legislation, job discrimination, pay inequity, and marriage laws against women are still roundly justified in the U.S. Congress as “God’s will.” Genesis is quoted to “prove” that God designed women to be dependent helpmates to men. Any legislation or custom that might free women from such economic or biological or social dependence, anything that might further women’s autonomy of choice, is bulldozed by the Bible-quoters as a “threat to the family”—i.e., the biblical patriarchal family, which has indeed historically depended on female slave labor. Sex inequity, otherwise known as “God’s plan for man,” has for two millennia been a major bastion of support for a class-economic system designed to profit the few by underpaying the many. “God” is used to justify this system because all else fails to justify it; and the God of Genesis, who wrote the rules for sex inequity in our part of the world, now sits in the executive boardrooms of most global corporations, making sure these archaic but lucrative discriminations are interwoven tightly into our high-tech futures.'' -Monica Sjöö and Barbara Mor, The Great Cosmic Mothe
Eve is still Everywoman. With other world creation myths reduced to “only fairy tales,” the Old Testament Genesis is still treated with seriousness and respect in the Western political and cultural world. Even people who are not practicing Jews or Christians are affected by it, for the patriarchal notions enshrined in Genesis are at the base of all our cultural, political, and economic institutions. In contradistinction to the U.S. Constitution, we might add, American law and custom have always been heavily influenced by the Bible, because the men who make law and custom have been raised to believe the Bible is “the truth.” No need to point out to women, in the 1980s, that anti-abortion legislation, job discrimination, pay inequity, and marriage laws against women are still roundly justified in the U.S. Congress as “God’s will.” Genesis is quoted to “prove” that God designed women to be dependent helpmates to men. Any legislation or custom that might free women from such economic or biological or social dependence, anything that might further women’s autonomy of choice, is bulldozed by the Bible-quoters as a “threat to the family”—i.e., the biblical patriarchal family, which has indeed historically depended on female slave labor. Sex inequity, otherwise known as “God’s plan for man,” has for two millennia been a major bastion of support for a class-economic system designed to profit the few by underpaying the many. “God” is used to justify this system because all else fails to justify it; and the God of Genesis, who wrote the rules for sex inequity in our part of the world, now sits in the executive boardrooms of most global corporations, making sure these archaic but lucrative discriminations are interwoven tightly into our high-tech futures.'' -Monica Sjöö and Barbara Mor, The Great Cosmic Mothe
Hardness of belly and lymph from small excess sugars; pain, bloat, sickness.
Food security, food sovereignty; food resource stabilization, food misinformation, food marketing, food trauma, food apartheid.
The word 'food' looks funny writ lots of times...
What is safest for the body while being held down and harmed?
Starvation, despair.
We can trace from the symptoms we catalog to the world we deserve to manifest. We can trace from the resourcing we recognize as necessary through the challenges we have encountered in establishing that resourcing.
When supply gaps and stopgap decisions are made, how do we avoid life-threatening compromises?
If we chart a new path to travel, there is some place to go. On one accessible path, there would be no way to avoid some one thing without entertaining some new thing; here is another possible path. And here is another possible path.
Cleansing fresh vegetables and fruit in combinations that support the nutrient needs of the body have been starvation in the past, impossible or unabsorbable, but are no longer the same as before.
Despite the murky dark, something new is possible now.
Somatic vehicle weeps dark matter tears, yearns entrenched dreams of healthy air and strength and reconstruction of detoxification pathways.
Thrashes in its prison.
Begs silent screaming hope, relief for light and function.
Make the prison pretty enough, no one will suspect imprisonment --- until they're caught themselves in the same trap.
Bars solid, doors clapped shut.
Maybe all are done for.
But is it locked?
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Food security, food sovereignty; food resource stabilization, food misinformation, food marketing, food trauma, food apartheid.
The word 'food' looks funny writ lots of times...
What is safest for the body while being held down and harmed?
Starvation, despair.
We can trace from the symptoms we catalog to the world we deserve to manifest. We can trace from the resourcing we recognize as necessary through the challenges we have encountered in establishing that resourcing.
When supply gaps and stopgap decisions are made, how do we avoid life-threatening compromises?
If we chart a new path to travel, there is some place to go. On one accessible path, there would be no way to avoid some one thing without entertaining some new thing; here is another possible path. And here is another possible path.
Cleansing fresh vegetables and fruit in combinations that support the nutrient needs of the body have been starvation in the past, impossible or unabsorbable, but are no longer the same as before.
Despite the murky dark, something new is possible now.
Somatic vehicle weeps dark matter tears, yearns entrenched dreams of healthy air and strength and reconstruction of detoxification pathways.
Thrashes in its prison.
Begs silent screaming hope, relief for light and function.
Make the prison pretty enough, no one will suspect imprisonment --- until they're caught themselves in the same trap.
Bars solid, doors clapped shut.
Maybe all are done for.
But is it locked?
https://t.me/MaxMoRadio/3945
https://t.me/IntuitiveKitchen/1580
https://t.me/IntuitiveBridge/652
'The Night’s Watch Oath
“Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night’s Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.”\
“Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night’s Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.”\
Forwarded from Max Morris
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