Lectures For Lifelong Learners!

In the early 1970s, green activists invoked Mother Earth, with demands to “Stop the Rape of the Earth,” and advice to “Love Your Mother.” This understanding of Earth as Mother is ancient and worldwide, but modern cultures tend to dismiss this naming as unscientific, childish, fluffy or “primitive.” But, Earth as Mother is both an ancient and contemporary scientific and a spiritual understanding. It also is political as a global Indigenous movement agitates for the Rights of Mother Earth and some rivers and mountains have legally been recognized as having rights in New Zealand and other nations. When we know and call Earth Mother this helps us to understand the connections between a culture’s domination, abuse and exploitation of the Earth and violence against women and calls for an alternative green consciousness and way of life.