Last night I finished reading Eve Ensler's "In the Body of the World"
If you don't know who Eve Ensler is you should. Go ahead and google her. She has done much on her short time on Earth. Puts the rest of us to shame. Her shame led her to do amazing things. Most of us who have been shamed by sexual abuse sometimes respond by over caring and overworking. As if our existence on the planet can only be justified by doing amazing things to correct the ills of the planet. I really resonated with this. Her book was hard to read. Raw and horrifying. As someone who works with cancer patients, I could really feel her anguish about what was happening to her body. Equally intriguing is her linking her getting uterine cancer to working with women who have been sexually assaulted aka Raped. Was it linked to her rape by her father?
Equally harrowing, she links the rape of women to the rape of the planet. I too believe that they are no different and are born of the same consciousness. When we destroy the planet we destroy our future. When we rape a woman, we destroy her capacity to bring forth the future generations. We are cancer. You and me. The resources required for us to live our entitled lives requires the destruction of the Earth. We are the Cancer. We are Rapists. We create the conditions for cancer to arise when we live in this way.
Indigenous cultures have always held that the Earth is our "mother". After all it is her "body" that gives rise to the material substance of our bodies. Ashes to Ashes, dust to dust. We are born of and return to the Earth.
We need healthy women to have healthy children to have a better future. We also need a healthy Earth for that reality to occur. Life is short in the grand scheme of things. You can spend your life doing something small like accumulating resources to maintain the illusion of a comfortable life. Or we can build something bigger than ourselves. Something lasting, something for everyone. Lets build it together the time is now.
Equally harrowing, she links the rape of women to the rape of the planet. I too believe that they are no different and are born of the same consciousness. When we destroy the planet we destroy our future. When we rape a woman, we destroy her capacity to bring forth the future generations. We are cancer. You and me. The resources required for us to live our entitled lives requires the destruction of the Earth. We are the Cancer. We are Rapists. We create the conditions for cancer to arise when we live in this way.
Indigenous cultures have always held that the Earth is our "mother". After all it is her "body" that gives rise to the material substance of our bodies. Ashes to Ashes, dust to dust. We are born of and return to the Earth.
We need healthy women to have healthy children to have a better future. We also need a healthy Earth for that reality to occur. Life is short in the grand scheme of things. You can spend your life doing something small like accumulating resources to maintain the illusion of a comfortable life. Or we can build something bigger than ourselves. Something lasting, something for everyone. Lets build it together the time is now.