This is an unusual kind of introduction because the topics I am covering in this book are unusual. This introduction will provide some background information for the rest of the book as well as the backstory on my experiences in coming to write it. We live in a female universe. All life in the womb is female first. As above, so below. There is very little to no acknowledgment of this fact in mainstream science nor is there much interest in what the implications of such knowledge might hold. We live on a female planet and refer to Nature as Mother. Nature does not only exist on Earth. Nature is the cosmos, the word itself coming from the Latin nasci, meaning "to be born." She is the sovereign all-pervading energy of the universe. The word matter is derived from the Latin mater, meaning "origin, source, mother." The word mother means different things to different people. In a patriarchal society like the global one in which we live, mother is usually synonymous with women who have children. It is also associated with the dyad of mother and father, implying that mother is defined by the presence of father in a cosmology encompassing a yin/yang mythos. This book is not about mother as child-bearer nor about mother as part of a dyad nor about that which is "part" of the whole. This book is about the sovereign mother-she who gives birth from herself to herself, the self-seeding, self-generating parthenogenetic mother, the female source of creation. She is the whole, the cosmic MAtrix, which comes from Latin origins meaning "uterus," "source," and "origin." So Nature is that which is born from the cosmic source MAtrix, the uterine place of origin.