but i have been influenced by terrence mckenna , who , in a book called the archaic revival , articulated a different , and , i think , a much broader view ; the real division between masculine and feminine is not a division between men and women but rather a division between ourselves as conscious animalsomnivorous , land clearing , war makers , supreme expressions of the yang , and the circum global mantle of vegetationthe ancient metastable yin element that constitutes by far the major portion of the bio mass of the living earth .