(Destiny Kinal gave the following talk at a Pennsylvania gathering of Unitarian Universalists in September, 2010)
I came across a review in Orion magazine from a decade ago that William Kowinski opened by stating an opinion that resonates today.
“By now it has dawned on some purveyors of deep ecology, sustainability, biodiversity, biophilia and the New Paradigm that these concepts were operating principles in the Americas for thousands of years before Europeans decimated the peoples and cultures that practiced them.” (Review of Linda Hogan’s Power in Orion, winter 1999.)
I’d like to add bioregionalism and organic farming to that list. We are rediscovering what had been true for millennia before a brief interruption of several hundred years…continued at http://www.destinykinal.com/matrilineality.html