From the essay ‘Forgetting Our Power’ from the book ‘Be The Orca: A Menopause Manifesto’:
“If all living things are linked, if all humans share a collective unconscious,
then the only way to stop our epidemics of trauma, damage, and depression, the plagues of diabetes and chronic pain, is to work toward ending the suffering of all beings. For those of us who eat meat, most of the livestock today live an entire life of suffering. How is that nourishing us?
This change to a disposable world happened in my lifetime, and I believe
we can fix it.
We are women, microcosms of the Earth itself. We heal, we create, we
nurture. It’s time to tap into our calling, to heal ourselves, to love each
other, and to change the world. Seems like a big ask. But is it? There are
168 hours in a week, can you spare a few to help another? Can you spare
one or two to learn something new? Can you find a few to get involved in
guiding government? When we remember our power, our strength, and
our ability to unite, we can achieve anything.
Have I mentioned The Donner Party? Do you know about them? A group
of pioneers took a bad route west and got stuck in a 100 year snow storm.
They turned to cannibalism before the summer thaw came, is how history
speaks of them, however there is another part to that story. Most of the
survivors were actually the women, not because they became crazed hatchet killers. That was the men.
The women pooled together little things they had, from a few tablespoons of lard to a leather shoe sole, they made soups and stews and tried to avoid the mania. The women survived because they came together and shared their resources. Many of the men died in fights and conflicts with one another and not actually from starvation. Yet, in that same moment of desperation, the women came back to their power, their will. Do you think they all agreed on politics or interpretations of the Bible? Doubtful. At some point natural law won out over man’s laws.
To hell with man’s laws, those have given us suffering and subjugation.
So many worship one who hung on a cross, but how many women have
burned at the stake in anonymity? No more! Arise! Embrace your true
nature.”