Warrior nomads, they not only imposed their own rigid authoritarian rule, replacing matricentric values with patriarchal ones, but also inflicted an ideology and the style of divided consciousness (such as we've just discussed) that shattered the finely wrought symbiosis between humans, nature, culture and spiritual realities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Jean Houston: Moving Beyond the Pathology of History: Why We Need a Shift in Human Consciousness] Reference