Dear Ecofem, [repost freely to others at your will]
Au revoir! Thanks everyone for an interesting testing ground for gender paradox.
Thanks esp. Maureen for the kind words and interest, to which I shall reply
in detail
and Stefanie for being the most tolerant list 'manager' on the planet.
Below are a set of key links into the Genesis ecofeminist, Christian,
Islamic, Buddhist, Taoist, Shamanism and plain ecological greening of the
planet pages. I am offering this to those of us who can see beyond our
gonads and our limited traditions to help show us how to understand the
complexity of the healing. Please access these as you wish and get back to
me if you want to help promote free democratic ecofeminist renewal of
nature in all her diverse forms by the short, quick, dangerous
revolutionary route of the hieros gamos.
Let me try to explain the key principle briefly. The reproductive
oppression of man over woman is the core of ecocrisis and the 'death of
nature' as Carolyn Merchant put it so well. Although we live in a
'scientific' age, human religious traditions are responsible for a
continuing existential dilemma in which man has oppressed woman out of fear
of her reproductive liberty and in turn repressed and dominated nature as
an extention of this fatal error, partly because of the closer link of
woman to the physical immortality in childbirth itself.
Female reproductive choice is thus the sociobiological key to saving the
biosphere.
The tradition of the hieros gamos was last celebrated formally as a
tradition in full power by Jesus and Magdalene. This is the root and
source of Christianity usurped by Peter and the orthodoxy. The Song of
Songs shows us how it can become the 'Jerusalem spring' again for nature
and for woman and man.
I am not in any way trying to recapitulate Jesus' footsteps which brought
an epoch of martyrdom, bloodshed and witch-burning, but to renew the
tradition of life, fully consummating the hieros gamos, to bring the two
principles of the Tao back together. This has to be done in a way which
cements diversity back into the existing religious traditions
authoritatively, accepting them and culminating their history
constructively as well. Only this way will the death curse on the witch
authoritatively be broken and all the paths come 'towards the one' - as the
Sufi Pir Vilayat Khan put it.
So we are performing what is called 'apocalypsia' - the Bridal unveiling,
ending the patriarchal epoch as a cultural process of awakening. The Black
Book of Many Colours is the key work to tie all the traditions together
into the bundle of life - that is the prophesied immortal age reflowering
biodiversity.
I truly belive that when the gaggle dies down here, after I am gone, you
will turn to one another and slowly begin to comprehend what I have offered
you and you will suddenly realize this is our chance to really get it
together and save the life of the planet, which has through all the long
evolutionary epoch of 3900 million years been coming to this point of
fulfilment - a point which through our folly is being wasted, not least by
the spermatogenic winner-take-all greed of capitalism.
I am not self-aggrandising to do this. It is very frightening and very
dangerous. The way you treat me, think how the Christian and Islamic
fundamentalists will wring their hands with glee.
Right now there is a desperate need to get the Many Coloured work firmly
into print. Anything any of you can do to help trigger this is humbly
appreciated. Controversy is as much a key to this as support as you have
seen and as Jesus knew, but I ask all of you on my bended knee, lets get
this whole show on the road - in it we shall all become the Messiahs and
Black Madonnas of the saving of biodiversity. We can do it with grace,
because there is a vacuum in the world psyche, a broken heart waiting to be
filled with the sheer love of life in the immortal age.
I apologise to Nicole, Ginger, Heather, Jessica and all "these women" who
stand before me wholeheartedly, for every harsh word I have ever uttered,
just so we shall not be brokenhearted, but let us go forward for the
diversity of life and free the moment. It is not me who is your leader, I
am but the mustard seed. Fate has chosen all of us. Nicole, just because
she stands in the tradition and has been witness to this very process,
inherits a deep responsibility to the Black Stone - a more ancient one by
far than the Muslim tradition she now attests.
I am not leaving ecofem because of chaos - that is my speciality, but to
begin my sabbatical to the US, the Amazon, Europe and the Middle East for
the millennium to promote renewal of biodiversity in the return of the free
woman to Earth - the lost 'Shulamite' - the black queen of Wisdom - or ever
the Earth was.
as I have said before, True (tough) Love - for this reason was I born, Chris K
And rose up, and thrust him out of the city,
and led him unto the brow of the hill, that they might cast him down
headlong.
But he passing through the midst of them went his way (Luke 4:29)
Here are your links all of which come through the Genesis:
http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/genesis.htm
Many Coloured Book Intro
Biodiversity/Gene Tech Pages
http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/saceve.htm
http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/genes/genes.htm
The sociobiological RENEWAL
http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/renewal/renewal.htm
Ecofeminist Floodtide
http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/renewal/voices.htm
Christian Transfoliation
http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/rebirth/rebirth.htm
Islamic Pages
http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/zulu/zulu.htm
Buddhist Greening
http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/budd/bud.htm
Tao
http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/tao/tao.htm
Shamanism
http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/twelve/tw1.htm
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Chaos is the Mother of Invention - Necessity the Offspring
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Chris KING, Phone: 0064-9-3737599 # 8818
Senior Lecturer Mathematics Fax: 0064-9-3737457
University of Auckland E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand.
http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/genesis.htm
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