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THE OUTER GOD – Fragmented conscience and fear

Aída Reboredo Arroyo

Fragmented consciousness is anchored in the belief that the world is as we see it and as we think it; a world of disparate objects, differences and separateness. I see myself as separate from you; I perceive beings and things as independent parts of a gigantic puzzle, impossible to assemble due to a non-existent relationship between the parts. In this motley world only “I” and “mine” are real; others are images without consistency. The perception of data and its interpretation by our mind is biased by our individualistic western culture.…

MARÍA MAGDALENA – I DO BELIEVE IN YOU

Aída Reboredo Arroyo

I visited Magdala, the city of Mariam on the shore of the Sea of ​​Galilee, one afternoon in May. Magdala, today only ruins and sand, was a prosperous commercial city of salted fish where lived the woman who became to the Judeo-Christian tradition as the redeemed sinner Mary Magdalene. As when Mariam walked through the narrow streets of Magdala, now the wind of the Sea of ​​Galilee whips with deafening noise forcing to keep silence because the voices become inaudible. In May, walking quietly to the ruins of the synagogue…

GENDER SOLIDARITY – HUMAN SOLIDARITY

Aída Reboredo Arroyo

Once WE wake up from the lethargy that made us for millennia complicit in the discriminatory powers against women, what is the next step? Once we decide not to continue transmitting knowledge for the submission of a part of humanity, what is the next step? When we understand with our hearts the barbarism that for millennia we have not only endured but also legitimized and preserved as guardians, what is our next step? It is common that when one of us rejects with anger and pain the subjugated role of…