May 5, 2025 by Dido
All that’s laid out in this website is a Paradigm Shift, a fundamental system change, out of patriarchy, colonisation, capitalism, into a culture based on a different set of values.
Why is it important to think of it as a complete system change?
To create a life-supporting way of living for our future, we must put LIFE as our central priority, not greed. From this root, this beautiful tree can blossom.
To see it as a whole different paradigm, opens up the way to imagining more boldly, a new and adventurous vision. It makes you think, Okay, we can start again. It opens the mind to a wider sense of possibilities than if we just start with what we’ve got and think, What do we adjust, tweak?
Let’s push the vision out further. We will need to make quite radical changes.
When we see the two systems are based on very different patterns, we have a clear map, that we can use, for anything we wish to create.
We can identify ways of doing things that we want to leave behind, and ways of doing things that would create a healthy world. They are based on different underlying values.
THE MOTHER TREE OF LIFE
Life is the main root value of this tree. From this root grows the tree we need for our future.
–
THE PATRIARCHY TREE
The root values from which this tree grows is not life! money. power. This is the present system most of us live under. It is not helping us survive!
Here is my drawing of the hierarchy of values in patriarchy.
Please remember, this is values that are associated with men in that system. It is NOT about what men naturally are. Far from it. Or women. Patriarchy has extreme stereotypes for men and women. All of us are much bigger and more beautiful than that.
–
Hearts’ Ecosystem
this is my drawing of a Hearts’ Ecosystem. Each heart is a person with animals indicating aspects of their personality. It sums up the general pattern.
various people have been working with it as:
ecofeminism,
matriarchy
social permaculture
spiritual permaculture
partnership
maternal gift economy
great turning