Patriarchy and Spirituality: How Cultural Wounds Hijack Your Spiritual Path. (EP10)

Patriarchy is deeper than cultural institutions or social norms — its root is a spiritual wound. Patriarchy is the result of a soul-body split, a dissociation that includes disconnection from the body, loss of groundedness or connection with Mother Earth, and spiritual bypass. Our cultural wounds are physiological, emotional, and spiritual — severing us from our true Self, from embodied spirituality, and from divine feminine wisdom. This is the split that fuels sexism, colonialism, capitalism, and the ecological crisis.

 Understanding where patriarchy comes from helps us understand that healing patriarchy’s wounds will not come only from social activism or institutional changes. Societal healing and collective awakening will come from our personal spiritual healing and embodied inner work. Healing from patriarchy requires trauma healing, a spiritual path of reclaiming wholeness in embodiment, and a spiritual awakening that includes reconnection with the earth and our bodies.

This episode explains how we got into this mess, and the next episode explains how we get out of it.

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1:16 - Modern Western Culture

3:05 - Culture's Unpreparedness for Resilience

7:08 - Culture Infused into Spirituality

9:24 - Survival Programming

11:56 - Building the "Castle in the Sky"

15:17 - Map of Energetic Frequencies

19:10 - Dissociation --> Intellect

21:14 - Repressing the Feminine

23:07 - Patriarchy IS Dissociation

25:02 - Patriarchy in History (Christianity, Witch Hunt, Colonialism)

27:25 - Man vs Nature

28:39 - New Age Traps

30:03 - Qs to Heal Internalized Patriarchy

31:34 - Meditation: Dissociation vs Wholeness

32:55 - Goal of Your Spiritual Practice

33:58 - What Patriarchy in Your Spirituality Looks Like

39:55 - Qualities of Your Spiritual Practice

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We are looking at a culture built on the body's survival response. We are looking at dissociation into intellect and then a validation of this dissociation by being condescending toward that which it has left behind and repressed, due to fear. We are looking at Man's fear of Nature: of the feminine, of the wild, of the helpless nature of the human in the hands of God. We are thus looking at healing as the movement of choosing to Turn Towards: towards embodiment, emotion, experience. This episode is basically the societal-level version of the "Trauma and Resilience" episodes.

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Keywords:

Patriarchy, social change, root causes, healing patriarchy, collective healing, collective awakening, societal healing, trauma healing, embodiment, emotional trauma, somatic healing, soul retrieval, inner healing, emotional healing, colonialism, capitalism.

Meditation, consciousness, esoteric wisdom, nonduality, spiritual awakening, spiritual practice, mindfulness, psychology, trauma healing, emotional healing, somatic healing, personal development, embodiment, ego-death, meditation, new age, bhakti, buddhism, christianity, hinduism, indigenous wisdom, indigeneity, energy healing work, ancient wisdom, sangha.

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Transcript

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Patriarchy is not just sexism. Colonialism and capitalism. It is an energetic imbalance where the soul and the body are no longer in union. Where the identity of self is no longer in union with Mother Earth, where the aspects of the psyche are no longer in union between intellect and emotion. Patriarchy is the institutional effect of disembodiment, we can't heal patriarchy until we have actually healed the relationship between the soul and physicality. Welcome to the Ground of Love. I'm your host, Olivia Frazao. This is a podcast for people who are deeply dedicated to the spiritual journey. You are here for self-growth care, for others, and being of service to the world. This podcast is in service to you to help you remember who you are and why you are here, you will receive inspiration, clarity, and no BS Love. We are walking each other home. Let's begin. This episode is about. How cultural wounds are hijacking your spiritual path. So here we are thinking that we're sovereign beings doing some spiritual practice and meanwhile, we have all of these blind spots because we have been breathing the air of a wounded culture our entire lives. So where is it that we can start looking under the hood and find out what are the deepest, deepest, deepest wounds that have caused the patriarchy that we live within? That is then infusing itself within our own self-concept, within our own energy body and within our own spiritual paradigms and spiritual practice. Because we're all stuck in this stuff potentially to different degrees or in different ways. But we all have this because we're all living within culture. So the culture that I'm talking about here is what I'm calling modern western culture. There are a lot of different ways you can talk about this. I could basically center it in the US as the US has exported this basically around the world. Okay? So this is a culture of intellect. It's a culture of capitalism. It's a culture infused with Christian values and also scientific, materialist atheist values. And it's a culture that is highly. Focused on the success of the individual and of the individual as the unit, rather than community as the unit, and success as some form of getting to the top of achievement, going through some type of competition, and high likelihood, a high expression of the intellect. So those are the basics of this cultural premise. And now we're gonna look at the wound of this culture and of how this culture has created wounds in all of us. We have blind spots from the great deep physiological and psychological wounding that everybody has as. Animals, human animals on earth, and where that survival instinct has infused itself so deeply in our culture, where our culture is then infusing itself into our spirituality, When there is a difficulty, a reality that is hard to deal with, that we don't have the tools to handle, we end up in a defense mechanism towards it. So the reality here that our culture has not prepared us for, and that our culture itself is what I would say allergic to because it's afraid of it, is the reality of suffering and death. So we're starting on. The four noble truths here, or at least a little piece of it from Buddhism suffering and death. When I say those words, you're probably not like, wow, what a fun episode, right? This is the stuff that our culture pushes under the rug, represses or shames or villainize, or anything else. This is the stuff that we are taught. From a very young age onwards to look away from. And so there is not a school of life that has taught us to make friends with these inevitabilities, with basically what we've signed up for. The moment that we incarnate, this is the deal. This is what we will encounter, is suffering in death no matter what. No matter in what form this is inevitable within life. So our culture has stripped of us. The needed resilience to deal with the most known inevitable of life, the most known inevitable of life. This is crazy. I literally just said that these are what we can for sure expect out of life, and they are exactly what our culture has completely. Removed from us any capacity of preparation or resilience, rather than being friends with pain, we are taught to shame our own feelings. We are taught to run, hide, et cetera. Now we could say that there is an aspect of our physiology, of our biology, of our nervous system, our fight, flight, freeze response that has this, let's say, allergy towards suffering and death. Right? It's like I'm gonna do anything I can to get away from that stuff. Yes, the biological body is made to survive. The biological body is made to fight these things, but our culture can have the maturity to have a spiritual relationship with suffering and death rather than an animal relationship with it. Where we have basically continued this survival tactic on the cultural level. Which is, I'm gonna fight my suffering. I'm gonna run away from my suffering, or I'm gonna freeze and dissociate and not know how to deal with it. I'm gonna somehow fight death. I'm gonna somehow run from death, or I'm gonna somehow be completely glassy-eyed and have no idea how to deal with what's happening. So it is time for our culture rather than on a mental and emotional and philosophical level. Taking those survival tactics of the nervous system, it's time instead to live a true mature spirituality. So now we're going to look at how. These aspects of our culture's underdeveloped capacity to handle pain. How that has infused itself within our spirituality, because whatever spirituality we currently practice, whatever lineage, whatever practices we have, whatever cosmology we have, inevitably it's within culture, we are living in society. We have grown up high likelihood. At least 99% of everyone listening to this has grown up outside of a monastery, right? Has grown up in a regular family school community, et cetera, out in the world. So it is inevitable and we need to be very, very, like, we need to watch this with a watchful eye, like a watchdog. We need to be very vigilant about the fact that. Culture has infused itself in everything we see and understand and do, including our own self-concept, including our concept of God and divinity, and including our concept of the spiritual path. And not only our concept of it, but thus how we act within it and thus what we experience it to be, as a result, it is all infused with culture. So if I just named culture as having a survival reaction to pain from the level of the nervous system, fight, flight, freeze, rather than a reaction to pain from the spiritual level, which has true capacity, which has both transcendence and embodiment, embodiment we'll get to those concepts later. We are going to be at a massive disservice in our spiritual path. If it's still infused in this way without us having a sharp eye towards catching that because we will literally be taken in the opposite direction to where we need to go. So now let's look at how this happens. We're gonna go through the map. Okay. We're gonna go towards the forgetting that culture has infused itself within our spirituality, and then we're gonna undo that forgetting. So here we go. So we start at the location that we were just talking about, which is pain. Pain meaning any form of human suffering, as well as the concept of death. I'm including death because we have a survival programming. So survival programming has in the priority to keep the physical body alive. What is the effect of that on the emotional, mental, energetic, and spiritual aspects of ourselves? The number one reaction to suffering that our culture and even our physiology has taught us is the reaction of turning away. That is gonna be our number one. Thing to look at, and we all do it because life is painful and because we have an immediate, often even just on the subconscious level, you don't even have to consciously decide it. It just happens. We have an immediate reaction to pain that says, I don't want this. We all have this. And so we turn away. There is some kind of a split off from presence. Where now there are two rather than one. Rather than self and experience being one and being here in the present moment, we have now said no to the present moment and we have now categorized ourselves as slightly separate from, or very separate from whatever stimulus we're not able to be in relationship with. So when we talk about. The plight of humanity, being that of separation from true nature. I'm talking about a mechanism that is constantly both causing and perpetuating that sense of separation because we cannot have wholeness when we are constantly turning away from aspects of our experience of life, of ourselves, of our feeling, et cetera. So right now we're already seeing the number one root cause. There is an overwhelm emotionally, mentally, physiologically, in the environment that we are not able to deal with both in the outer world and in the inner world. In this case, they're mirroring each other. There's an overwhelm likely in both, at least in the inner world, and there's a lack of capacity to handle that overwhelm. Now when we can't handle it, we're going to turn away. In that turning away. Now what happens? We are going to construct a world upon this new location. So we have said no to the here. Now we have said no to full experience and we, let's say imagine right now that you're turning your head from, instead of looking in front of you, just turn your head and look to the side or behind you. We've deviated our seeing and now we're looking at a new location. What's gonna happen now is we're going to build our. What we don't know, but is our temporary home in that new location. I like calling it a castle in the sky. The reason I call it a castle in the sky or a house of cards. You'll hear me saying both of those phrases often, either in this episode or in future ones. The reason I call it that is twofold. I say that it's in the sky because the issue here is when we turn away what we create or what we've just experienced. Is dissociation, it's a leaving and dissociation is the experience of the psyche, the energy body, the soul, whatever level you wanna see it at, going up it. It's literally going to higher frequencies rather than more grounded frequencies. So that's why I say that we're going to a castle in the sky sometimes. I also call it a house of cards because a house of cards will easily blow over. And this castle that we have built for ourselves, it can look very fancy and very elegant, but in reality, it's a house of cards. It's a creation. It's not our real home. It's makeshift, it's temporary, and it's made by us. It's not home itself. It's a derivative of creation. So when we create this split, we have lifted ourselves up off of the earth. This is a defense mechanism from not being able to handle pain. In order to handle pain? We need groundedness because this is where our empowerment in the physical body is. Our physical body, our energy body, we need to be literally embodied. Our energetic self, our soul, these are different things, but I'm just putting them together right now. Need to be literally located within the body. And when I say within the body, I mean including the lower body. I mean We are operating at a register that is a, a deeper register. It's a frequency that is quote unquote, a lower frequency. When I say lower, I do not mean worse. That's a massive misnomer, which is actually my point here. Our culture has made us actually think that it's bad, which means it's blocked our way home. This is part of the issue, so we're gonna talk about energy, like kind of the basic energy body very quickly right now, so that I can name what I'm talking about. And a lot of you know this, so I'm gonna go quick through this. If you imagine right now that around you is this big, let's say egg shape, circle of light all around you, above your head to below your feet, and around around you, in front and behind everything, okay? The center of it is your central channel going through your body, along your spine. And you have what I'll call here, the the earth root, which is your roots going down to Mother Earth and your heaven root, which is your crown opening to upwards to what we would call the heavens. Now imagine that there are these strata, okay? Like the chakras are going vertically up along the body, right? Each of them is holding. A different frequency range. So when I say strata, imagine like horizontal lines going across the air parallel to the ground, and the lower in the body it correlates to lower energy frequencies. When I say lower, I mean a lower tone, like in music. versus a higher tone, like, oh, or whatever, right? So that's what I'm calling low and high, because it's literally a low tone in terms of sound, and it's literally a low tone in terms of where it's located. It's located, if we go low enough, it's located deep within the earth. Now you'll see simply through language and concept how our culture has already infused misunderstanding into this map. Are you ready? Most people say, oh, that person is high vibe. What does that mean? It means they like them, or you know, it's a compliment. Oh, oh, that's a low vibration. Most people say that to mean. That something is kind of like wrong or messy or dirty or something that they don't like. It's a judgment. I'm correcting that right now. That language use is incorrect because there is no higher being better and lower being worse. The entire fact that people use that language reveals the reality that our culture has confused people. So people are actually needing to embody lower tones, lower registers, meaning that is our pathway back into the body. And we'll talk more about that in a little bit. The wound that has occurred, the cultural impact of this turning away from suffering that I named earlier. This, I don't want that. And the dissociation, what it does is it throws us up. It throws us upwards. Imagine the soul being on earth and being like, this is crazy. I don't want this. I'm out. Right? When there's a lion chasing a gazelle and the lion is about to bite into the gazelle to kill and eat the gazelle, the soul of the gazelle is like, peace out guys. I'm about to die, so I'm flying out before this hurts. So the soul of the gazelle goes by and flies up, and then the carcass of the gazelle is eaten by the lion. Right? We as animals, we do that, oh, there's a, there's a tough situation at home. People are fighting in your family and then you're sitting there at the kitchen table and your ears are kind of hearing sound as they're talking, but you're no longer paying attention to them because you've checked out. That's what people call checking out. You're gone. Where are you? You're floating somewhere above and behind yourself. You're gonna be up and out. That's the dissociative response. So our culture, what happened was check this out. This is so crazy, but I'm sure you'll recognize it. And I know you already know this. Our entire culture, modern Western culture. Is living basically on, a little castle in the sky. So we are not built into the ground. Our neighborhoods of the cultural psyche are not built into the ground. They are a floating island of. like a whole, imagine a whole neighborhood on a cloud, and that is our kingdom up there of dissociation. What is that on the, day-to-day level? Let's make this tangible, is the experience of being stuck in your head, in your intellect. Think about how this culture is not embodied, but it's hyper intellectualized. Why? Let's put this back in comparison to the map that we just did about the body in the energy field. Where is your head? Is it at the top or at the bottom of your body? It's at the top, obviously. Right. So that is basically the only part of us that is functioning at this point because we're hanging out only in our upper fields. So the only thing in terms of all of our capacities that's left for us is our intellect. That's what we're going to operate within. So this whole, the castle in the sky that we have created, the culture floating on this island of dissociation that we are living within, that has a huge gap between where we are and where we actually need to be, which is the ground is an entire world built. With intellect as King. King, not queen King, because this is the patriarchy. I am literally describing the patriarchy right now. So let's look at how this relates to the patriarchy and the ways that we usually look at, let's say gender dynamics right now I'm just gonna do the polarity of masculine and feminine in terms of concept. If you want to, you can also put this in terms of gender. In other episodes, we can go into queerness. Right now we're just going into the masculine and feminine polarity and how it has shown up in the patriarchy between, what we call women and men our culture values and puts on a pedestal being rational, being logical, and being intellectual. That is the leadership of this kingdom. That is what this kingdom bows to, what has been thrown under the bus. As a result, the emotional body vulnerability and messiness, because those things, which by the way are considered the feminine, which are considered like less than. Right. Oh, you're so emotional. She's so dramatic. You need to be more logical about this, right? There's a condescension towards emotionality. Why? Because those aspects of what you could call the feminine that are pushed down in this culture are unpredictable. And the whole point of this dissociation and this hyper intellectualization. Is to create this false experience of control. We're making everything very dry, very mechanistic, and as if we could control life, as if it were a great computer. And all we have to do is schedule everything and press buttons. You see this on every single level. You see this dissociation. This is the experience of patriarchy. Patriarchy is not just sexism. It's not just what you see institutionally around the effects of colonialism and capitalism. It is an energetic imbalance where the soul and the body are no longer in union. Where the identity of self is no longer in union with Mother Earth, where the aspects of the psyche are no longer in union between intellect and emotion. The patriarchy is a result of disembodiment, of not being in our bodies. Not being in the body is not a result of patriarchy. Patriarchy is the institutional effect of what happens when we are not in our body, and then obviously it creates a loop, but the healing of it, we can't heal patriarchy until we have actually healed our own connection with our body and our connection with our body includes our connection with the body of Mother Earth, with the land. So what is it? It's the relationship between the soul and physicality. So now let's look at where spirituality has taken this dissociation and created values around it. Because we already talked about how culture itself has created values, a value system that actually values this dissociation. As I said, intellect and logic and all of that feels like it's placed on a pedestal and it's condescending towards the feminine, towards earth, towards women, towards messiness, towards emotion. So how can we now map this onto maybe what you experience in your spiritual paradigm? First, let's look through religion very quickly. The Abrahamic religions. Okay? I am not doing the Asian religions because the Asian religions actually have a lot more wholeness and integration. Especially I would say the poster child of the integration we're really looking for would be Taoism from what I understand of it. So we're gonna go towards the Abrahamic traditions, and specifically I'll speak from the Christian lens. Where do we see this dissociation revealing itself? Looking down on things related to earth or physicality as if they were bad or dirty. Or wrong or not spiritual. Societally women are considered dangerous. Spiritual women in Europe and then later in other places experience the witch hunt. What is that? It's the intellect, the dissociated intellect, in this case through the archetype of men, but it's the consciousness of the dissociated intellect, afraid of the magical unknown. And then basically it kills it. It kills whoever is carrying the frequencies of the magical unknown, which is women who were shaman's, healers, et cetera. When the colonizers, when the white Europeans went to other parts of the world and saw indigenous people who do have this groundedness and oneness with Mother Earth. They would then call them savages because it's the dissociated intellect that has no understanding of embodied reality, and thus judges it. Why? Because it's a threat to the self that is attempting to protect itself by dissociating, shutting off, putting a wall up, and then controlling everything. So what is the ultimate route if we're looking on a human level? Of where this originally happened, because right now I'm talking about religion. I'm talking about gender. I'm talking about different cultures, white versus indigenous. Now we're gonna go pure human man versus nature. What happens when the hurricane comes, your, your house is gonna get blown away. So now instead of building a house made of reeds, you want a house made of brick. So it's man's attempt to protect ourselves from nature herself, from Mother Earth herself. From the great winds, from the great waves, from the great reigns. It's the human wanting to close ourselves in an air conditioned apartment building 35 floors above the earth. Where it's always 72 degrees inside, even when it's 15 degrees outside or a hundred degrees outside, I'm using Fahrenheit. This. All of this. These are simply different examples of how patriarchy infuses itself. What am I defining? Patriarchy as the dissociation of intellect away from body. That's on the, let's say the human level. On the spiritual level, you would have the dissociation of soul from human experience. So in, let's say more new age culture, are the traps of spiritual bypass where love and light is all that people want now. I mean, I want that too. I don't see why people would want anything else, but you can't think that that's all of reality and that the rest is bad or not value messy scary. Getting your hands in the dirt. Figuring things out as you go, dealing with, you don't wanna deal with, you can't throw that all in the garbage or under the bus or under the rug. So the new age culture has created a false sense of ground. It is built within that castle in the sky. It is built as a result of these cultural wounds. It is spirituality within the cultural wounds, not transcended from them. It's a spirituality of wanting some things in life, but not others. Valuing some aspects of self, but not others wanting to push ourselves away from, or look away from, or judge that which we can't handle, and that which we're deeming bad, low, or somehow inferior. So the way that, the way that dissociation maintains itself is by seeing itself as better than. So where are you? Now we're gonna make this personal. Okay? Where are you seeing yourself as a spiritual person, as a spiritual practitioner, as someone on a spiritual path, as better than other people? And where are you seeing yourself as not wanting to live on Earth? Because it's quote lower than you. This is a massive issue. This is not the reality of your superiority. This is your fear of pain masking itself as superiority. So the whole, I don't belong here. My planet is better than this. These humans are really effed up. That whole narrative is a narrative of fear. It's a narrative of I don't know how to be in my embodiment. I don't know how to handle this level of stimulus. I don't know how to be in lower frequencies and hold my power and my center without getting thrown off center, and thus I'm gonna judge this entire planet, or I'm gonna judge certain people or a certain consciousness and say that I'm better than it, because that allows me to maintain my dissociation and create a story that legitimizes my dissociation. And I can live in my castle in the sky, where all I wanna do is be in my, now my spiritual intellect is do my meditations where I'm meditating, coming up out of the top of my head. Every time I meditate, I'm going to the high fields. I'm not meditating in the body or with Mother Earth, or even at least in the heart center, the center of everything, which I've been taught by my teacher. Ron Young is the best place to meditate in the heart. But instead, these meditations and what people are valuing in the new age culture are all head centers. Like what do people care about in new age culture? They wanna talk about the third eye and psychic perception. What is all that? Now you're trading in high fields with each other, with no low fields present. That's like having, you're having one part of. Reality without the other. It's like trying to eat a sandwich without the bread. I have no idea why that was the metaphor, but it's like you're trading in some chakras and not others. You can't do that. That's like saying, Hey, I will give you a pet fish. Do you want the head or the tail? The fish is the whole body. I don't know where these are coming from, but I hope this is helpful for someone. So what happens? Here's another thing that we see in spiritual circles when we're living in this castle in the sky. What is your spiritual practice? We just talked about going up outta the top of your head, right? Or we just talked about psychic stuff. Why? What's the goal? What is the goal of your spiritual practice? Is the goal transcendence? And if so, what does that mean? What is transcendence? Is it like peace out guys? This place, this place gets a one star rating. I'm not doing this. Peace out. I'm gonna meditate all day until I can just hover above all of it for the rest of my life. Is that what Transcendence is? That's avoidance. That's spiritual bypass. That is a fear response. So let's all get very real here. Of course, the majority of us, potentially all of us, are in a fear response because this world is very scary because suffering is in everyone's life and because death is waiting for all of us, not an easy pill to swallow. So let's look at what our little kingdom in the sky is made of. this whole kingdom that we created of the intellect and of the high fields spiritually. We're going to make a list of all of the qualities that reveal dissociation when we're living in this kingdom in the sky. It's gonna go all the way body psychology, spirituality, energy, body and the levels of cultural norms and cultural institutions. Let's look at all of these turnings away, all of these split offs, all of these ways that separation has infused itself within everything we do. This is the whole point. It's everywhere in our daily life, in our awareness of ourselves, in our experience, of our own embodiment or lack thereof in our relationships, in our culture, and in our spiritual paradigm and our spiritual practice, and thus in our concept of our own identity, our spiritual ego. You ready? Here we go. Soul separated out from physical body, The body is considered dirty. Bodily acts, are considered dirty. That is the religious dissociative lens energetically living in only the higher fields of our personal energy field and not having access to, our lower fields, or not having a sense of safety of, or a sense of feeling within our lower fields, in our personal energy field and within our body. Psychologically, the intellect running on hyper drive. That's when someone says, I can't get out of my head, or my, or My thoughts don't stop. Or I am constantly in a state of anxiety where I'm overthinking. Not only are most people stuck here. But two, even greater things happen. First, it is valued and being embodied in the physical body and being in the emotional body are considered inferior. Why? On a cultural level, they're considered, quote unquote, feminine and crazy. On a deeper level, they are considered a threat. To a false sense of control that this whole mechanism was created to allow ourselves to believe in. The whole reason we're living in the castle, in the sky, in the first place is to basically run away from the big scary bear that might eat us and hide in our castle that we created that has really nice air conditioning. So we're hiding from the suffering and the threats and the scariness of life. In our false sense of control. That's what this is all about. So on a cultural level, anything related to the feminine and to nature, and thus indigeneity would be considered wild and savage in a way that is looked down upon by, let's say, the patriarchy or the. The white colonizer mentality. What is that? It's the hyper intellectualized mentality. It's the, the religion of God is only up there and not down and in and within. So it is a culture that has been infused by spiritual bypass itself through Christianity, in this case, on an institutional level, the way that our entire relationship with Mother Earth is experienced, how we have turned her into a commodity, how we have built. Giant cities for us to live in where we are all living within concrete or brick or glass and we have paved everything and no longer have our feet on the ground. We have literally physically separated ourselves out of physical contact with our actual earth home that our body is made of, and we have turned our great mother. Who is a consciousness who has given us life and continues to breathe life into us in every moment we have turned her into a thing for us to use that that is an it. That is lifeless in the mind of the dissociated intellect. That is how patriarchy sees nature. This is not random. It's a result. Of the psyche that wants to control, feeling threatened by the wildness of what life truly is. This is the underlay, this is the root of why on the surface level our great institutions and nations and the whole business world, et cetera, treats Mother Earth as this throwaway commodity. It is the mind wanting to believe in its little lie to itself of I am in control because of a level of fear that is so massive that it cannot be even acknowledged, let alone dealt with around realizing that we have no control of what's really happening to us, what's of the great winds of life and what they will actually blow in our face. So now let's look at spiritual practice Because there are a lot of practices out there. And some of them perpetuate this cultural wound and some of them heal you back out of it. What are the spiritual teachings that you are practicing right now? And here's my number one question. Are they perpetuating this dissociation or are they helping you come back into your sense of embodiment, come back into your sense of belonging and come back into your visceral experience of interconnectedness and rootedness? So I'm gonna pause here. in the Next episode we're gonna look at the path that helps us come back to grounded spirituality, and what a grounded spirituality looks and feels like. thank you for being with me in The Ground of Love. You can follow this podcast to receive the next episodes, and who is it that comes to mind to share this episode with? Who Could Benefit? Is it a family member? 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