The Great Parents
The narrative we have been born into: the Great Parents of modern Western culture are God and Nature.
God is typically imagined as a father, Nature as a mother.
Both are recognized as ineffable sources of life; but God is considered sacred while Nature is considered anything between the polarities of sacred and profane.
Nature has been considered profane for religious reasons. More importantly, because it is a sin to defile or destroy the sacred, Nature has to be considered profane—or the culture that destroys it has to acknowledge that it is committing an enormity. This is why, in our culture, Nature is seldom valued as sacred.
There’s a problem with that valuation, though. If we consider our own lives to be sacred, then Nature has to be sacred; for, like God, it is the source of our lives.
We have been born into a narrative that views God and Nature as opposites, as antagonists; but could it be that, as every child wishes of their parents, they are in love?
And, could it be that our survival depends upon our endorsement of a narrative of parents who are in love, instead of one that views them as divorced?
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