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Those of us who have been indoctrinated by the Western system of thought must begin by reconnecting with the pachamama, the Cosmic Mother. Western thought is built on a very limited perceptual foundation that may have been revolutionary in the 1600s when René Descartes envisioned a mechanistic, predictable universe based on Cartesian coordinates. But we have outgrown this simplistic reasoning. We now understand, at least theoretically, that mind and matter are implicitly connected. But the damage caused by the mechanical model has been done. Our task now is to heal the wounds in our psyche caused by the Cartesian split, a split that literally tore us from the breast of the divine Cosmic Mother.