Losing The Cosmos

The diamond squid is the only cephalopod species known to be monogamous, where male and female couples of the same size remain together from their juvenile stage until death. Source Wikipedia.
Anilao Critters, Anilao Janao bay, Philippines, shot early this year, 2022.

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“When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.”

— D.H. Lawrence

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For centuries human beings have clung to a belief that in order to get ahead, communities — including countries — have to exploit their neighbors. This is the foundation for the old military empires — from ancient China and Greece to the British Empire — to today’s post–World War II neocolonialism.

The insatiable quest to beat out any possible competitors (real or imagined) has been rapidly draining our planet of its most precious resources.

— John Perkins, “Hoodwinked”

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“Throughout patriarchal history women have experienced surges of Memories of an Archaic Past. Patriarchal men have done everything they could to stop women from this Re-membering.

— Mary Daly, QUINTESSENCE

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“…the universal doctrine teaches that all visible structures of the world-all things and beings-are the effects of a ubiquitous power out of which they rise, which supports and fills them during the period of manifestation, and back into which they must ultimately dissolve.”