Comments - As I continue to reflect on ... - Gaia Community2024-03-28T14:16:10Zhttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=5313775%3ABlogPost%3A16349&xn_auth=no... and as far as the very co…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2024-03-26:5313775:Comment:1326352024-03-26T09:56:31.598ZMichael Grovehttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
... and as far as the very concept of "HOW the curious case of being British has had so much influence on the overall process" • no better example of this phenomenon was recently released than the broadcasting of Edward & Wallis: The Bahamas Scandal on Channel TV, here in the UK.<br />
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... and as far as the very concept of "HOW the curious case of being British has had so much influence on the overall process" • no better example of this phenomenon was recently released than the broadcasting of Edward & Wallis: The Bahamas Scandal on Channel TV, here in the UK.<br />
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<a href="https://www.memorabletv.com/news/edward-wallis-the-bahamas-scandal-23-march-channel-5/" target="_blank">https://www.memorabletv.com/news/edward-wallis-the-bahamas-scandal-23-march-channel-5/</a> We all carry within us an a…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2014-03-07:5313775:Comment:164062014-03-07T09:20:12.669ZMichael Grovehttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<div class="page" title="Page 8"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span><strong>We all carry within us an ancient, ancestral awareness of matter as the womb of all things</strong>, </span><span>a sense that matter is alive through and through. But to speak of matter as inanimate is to think </span><span>of mother as inanimate, to imply that the…</span></p>
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<div class="page" title="Page 8"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span><strong>We all carry within us an ancient, ancestral awareness of matter as the womb of all things</strong>, </span><span>a sense that matter is alive through and through. But to speak of matter as inanimate is to think </span><span>of mother as inanimate, to imply that the female, earthly side of things is inert, is just an object.</span></p>
<p><span><strong>If we want to really throw a monkeywrench into the workings of the patriarchy</strong>, then we </span><span>should </span>stop speaking as though matter is in any way, at any depth, inanimate or inert.<br/><br/></p>
<p><span><strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/michael.grove.98/posts/784303298264590" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Every indigenous, <em>oral culture</em></a> that we know of</strong> - <em><strong>every culture that has managed to </strong></em></span><span><em><strong>sustain itself </strong></em></span><em><strong>over the course of many centuries without destroying the land that </strong></em><em><strong>supports it</strong></em> - simply refuses to draw such a distinction between animate and inanimate matter. <br/><br/><strong><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48582.The_Spell_of_the_Sensuous?ac=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Abram</a></strong> during an interview with Derrick Jensen entitled ...<br/><strong><a href="http://www.wildethics.org/essays/interview_derrick_jensen.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alliance for Wild Ethics</a></strong> || <strong>The Perceptual Implication</strong></p>
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