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Maria Madonera

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Seitenzahl: 48

Beschreibung

Maria Madonera is a painteress and poetess since her adolescence. Her profound philosophic, psychological and political understanding is emphasized by the universal concept of Yin and Yang. Maria Madonera is German, but grew up in Pakistan. She has experienced the rich Pakistani culture, however, also the problematic segregation of women and men. Her ideas of female and male existence are far beyond the conventional male/female concepts of global societal structures, or simple feminism. Her focus is concentrated on the universal feminine energetic aspect of life, and especially so in the domain of art itself. The author has complemented the texts with 19 fine drawings, several graphic designs and some photos of her oil paintings, thus putting the right and left hemisphere into a perfect balance. Read and enjoy this bibliophile edition.

Leseprobe

This book is dedicated to my parents.

To my good humoured, gentle, hard-working father,

and to my mother, who always promoted me

in education and to be self-sufficient and independent.

Special thanks to my husband, who, being my best critic,

enjoyed reading the manuscript.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Afghanistan as an Example of Thousands of Years of

MASCULINE WARFARE

Blue

The Soviet War in Afghanistan

The US-led War in Afghanistan

Warlords, NOT Warladies

YIN and YANG, the Cosmic FEMALE and MALE Energies

The Rainbow

YIN and YANG as Energetic Qualities

YIN and YANG, Feminine and Masculine Energies Represent a Universal Union

YIN and YANG in the Art of Life

Green and Red

History of Yin and YANG

List of Feminine and Masculine Energy

Consequences

The so-called “Jihad”

Central Asian People and Muslim Culture Women in a Male Dominated World. Globally.

Sufis, the Outlaws

A Bad Reputation

As a Female

The Burqa

YIN and YANG as a Motor to Success

Rhinos are Women, Women are Rhinos

The Great Ruins

Female ENERGY Should Lead the World

Conquer Oneself

TABLE OF DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS

MOUNTAINS

LIBERTY

PROTECTION

QUESTIONS

EYING A BOOK

NEVER WARLADIES

BOTH SIDES

THE SEEKER

WATER, THE ELEMENT OF YIN

WATCHING

TIMES ARE CHANGING

ENCAGED

BREAKING BOUNDARIES

KNOWLEDGE

THE MESSAGE

MOONS ALL NIGHT

BURQA

INNER STRENGTH

VALUES

COMPASSION AND WISDOM

JUSTICE AND FREEDOM

Curriculum Vitae

Portrait of the Artist

Press Review

Madonna`s Pics

Reproduction of Paintings

All drawings/paintings by Maria Madonera

All texts by Maria Madonera

All Rights Reserved by Maria Madonera

All Copyrights by Maria Madonera

www.maria-madonera.de

Photos of oil paintings COMPASSION and FREEDOM, ink drawings THE SEEKER and INNER

STRENGTH by Alexandra Meister

Photos of oil paintings WISDOM and JUSTICE by Piotr Szafraniec (www.piotrszafraniec.pl)

Technical Assistance: Nicole Weber, Mehmet Tuncer

Afghanistan as an Example of Thousands of Years of

MASCULINE WARFARE

Human and political tragedies, like the one that is still unfolding e.g. in Afghanistan (or in other parts of the world), are nowadays presented live by smartphones, I-phones, tablets, PCs, TVs. All is happening in real time. But, these kind of tragedies are living history, as they repeat themselves since ages. It’s just now that we can literally see them, watch them unfold as they are happening right now. What is happening in real time? The familiar pattern.

Masculine power has always been in warfare. Nothing new.

In pre-historic times hunters were targeting beasts for their livelihood, which was quite a dangerous affair at times. But in our precious “civilized” era humans are not only brutally hunting animals (wildlife and domesticated animals via slaughter-houses), but are hunting down humans as well.

Actually, only the weapons have changed. They have become more lethal, more “sophisticated”, more complicated to deal with, and deadlier in their result. Military Commanders don’t even need to see the enemy, they can simply just press a button.

So, in fact, fundamentally, nothing much has changed since thousands of years. Be it Alexander the “Great”, be it Genghis Khan or Bai Qi (the extremely brutal general of the Chinese Qin dynasty), the continuous expansions of the Roman Empire, or all sorts of tribes invading Central China, or Europe, or White men invading the Americas, or Africa, or African and Asian warlords, whoever. They led wars, demanded to be celebrated because they killed a lot of people (and in previous times also millions of horses) and “gained” new territories and new resources, which, by human standards, they had absolutely no right to claim and obtain. And never mind the utmost price, the extreme suffering and the loss of uncountable human lives of their own people and of others. This age-old disaster continues up to this very day, our so-called modern era.

And it happens in Afghanistan too. It happens in Iraq, in Syria, Kashmir, in the Amazon, in Yemen etc. For the moment, let’s return our focus to Afghanistan:

MOUNTAINS

Just as a reminder:

The British marched in because they thought, well, if we don’t do it, the Russians will (but this was just hypothetical at that time), and then maybe the Russians will march into India, which is a precious part of “our” British Empire.

So, it’s better we march down there.

And that is just what they did. This was the first British-Afghan war.

But, of course, this was not the first invasion or conflict in the region, as every country is a continuous mosaic of invasions and expansions, wars and religious conflicts, and with it, unspeakable human horrors and tragedies.

And what about the horses? Do people ever even think about it, how, historically, millions of these divine, beautiful, loyal, vegetarian, intelligent, sensitive creatures got wounded and died horribly in those man-made battlefields?

Do any so-called “conquerors” of any country for that matter, think that tribes, or ethnic communities would welcome an invasion? Well, of course not. And obviously, the invaders never cared.

Although the Afghans were badly equipped, they defeated the British Army of 1800-plus soldiers, in eighteen-hundred-something. What a totally unnecessary human tragedy of extreme suffering and loss of lives on all sides! Afghanistan posed no threat at all to the British Empire. On the contrary, it was the British Empire that was a threat to Afghanistan.

What a big deception spurred by masculine, political colonial Egos, wanting to go down in history as the great, powerful guys.

But the British were not the first and not the last to get into the region.

LIBERTY