Towards Wholeness Balancing Masculine and Feminine Qualities: A North American Woman's Journey in Agriculture

摘要

We are presently in a world order in which the mega-industrial-corporate world with its extreme masculine energies are in powerful control. "The scientific revolution in Europe transformed nature from terra mater into a machine and a source of raw materials; with this transformation it removed all ethical and cognitive constraints against its violation and exploitation. ...The act of living and of celebrating and conserving life in all its diversity - in people and in nature - seems to have been sacrificed to progress, and the sanctity of life been substituted by the sanctity of science and development. ...A new awareness is growing that is questioning the sanctity of science and development and revealing that these are not universal categories of progress, but the special projects of modern western patriarchy.