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Yvonne from the Holistic Moms Network San Fernando Valley Chapter Pt.2 - Episode 19
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I share a bit of my background as a scholar, eco-educator, and natural parenting advocate who's worked towards creating a new cultural story that incorporates the anthropological research of eco-feminists. I emphasize the importance of the recovery of the knowledge that before the dawn of patriarchy several thousand years ago, for the vast expanse of human history spanning hundreds of thousands of years, all of our tribal ancestors lived in what Riane Eisler, in her book the Chalice and the Blade, calls "partnership" rather than "dominator" models of society.
I advocate for educating new generations with this rewoven 'ourstory' and for dismantling the destructive myth of the progression from "savagery, to barbarism, to civilization". I note that by suppressing the cultural memory of traditional balance and holism, we're forced to assume that to ever achieve it would be utopian. And that by viewing cultures that value building community more than building empires as primitive, the dominator culture has justified slavery, conquest, environmental destruction, and genocide.
We end with a sense of hope for the future if we can succeed in our efforts to reach out locally and build sustainable communities.
-Moving Boxes Man
