How very beautiful this is. I especially loved this truth you highlighted:
The need to conquer and control became accepted human behavior in relationship to the earth, to nature itself. Even the God of the Old Testament gave mankind dominion over all the earth and all living things upon the earth. (Genesis 1:26)
I am so very glad you linked this piece.
Well, thanks for the superlative comment. I'm going to give you my .02 worth! Indeed when one reads the old journals and books from the 1600's through the 1800's it is apparent that they considered nature/wilderness to be the literal enemy that must be conquered. So we've come a long way, but of course there is more to do. I've wondered if the myth of being cast out of the Garden of Eden was actually a lamentation about coming out of the wilderness, out of nature into the cities and plowed fields of agriculture. It's not only women who have been abused by Toxic Masculinity and Patriarchy. Men have been too. And so it goes... until we transform.