Urgent Message from Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World (Eco Feminism, Mother Earth, for Readers of Goddesses in Everywoman) - Hardcover

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1573242659 ISBN 13: 9781573242653

Publisher: Conari Press, 2005

Synopsis

The message to all women of the world is "Wake Up Arise Do not ask for permission to gather the women. What cannot be done by men, or by individual women, can be done by women together. Earth is Home." Jean Shinoda Bolen's life's work -- her Jungian-inspired insights in The Tao of Psychology, the blockbuster Goddesss in Every Woman, the empowering Crones Don't Whine and The Millionth Circle -- all lead up to this book. It is an urgent message and an empowering one. "When women are strong together, women can be fiercely protective of what we love." Bolen's poetic polemic explores the psychological, spiritual, and scientific aspects of women as collaborators for change. She begins with a Jungian examination of the idea of the Holy Grail archetype as "every woman's secret" and the transformative power of the sacred feminine -- the Goddess, Gaia, Earth Mother. Bolen explains Rupert Sheldrake's Theory of Morphic Resonance, which describes how societies and even species can undergo rapid evolution when they reach a tipping point. She explains that "we've learned that women gathering together in groups and telling the truth of their lives can actually change the world." She points to a fascinating UCLA study proving that women react to stress differently than their male counterparts. Instead of the "fight or flight" reaction, women have a "tend and befriend" response as a result of an increase in oxytocin, the maternal bonding hormone. While men become more adrenalized and aggressive, women nurture and protect -- biologically. From this and other compelling evidence Bolen makes a strongly convincing case that now is the time for women to lead -- to fiercely protect all that we love. Urgent Message from Mother offers a unique combination of visionary thinking and practical how-to and is Jean Shinoda Bolen's most activist work to-date. Written in a lyrical language that inspires, this book seeks to galvanize the still untapped power of women coming together to change our world. Listen to your mother; she is calling.

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From the Publisher:

"Jean Shinoda Bolen’s Urgent Message from Mother is a book whose time has come. Our earth home and all forms of life in it are at grave risk. We men have had our turn and made a proper mess of things. We need women to save us. I pray that many will read Bolen’s work and be inspired then to act appropriately. Time is running out."

— Desmond Tutu "This is the most inspiring and optimistic book I’ve read in years. It tells how women working together can bring us peace and save the planet. Jean Shinoda Bolen invites us all to join the next, most powerful wave of the women’s movement. Count me in!" —Isabel Allende "Always urging us into circle and into peace, the healing power of Jean Shinoda Bolen’s work and thought transforms all who will allow encounter. Jean never tires of wanting, and working for, our freedom, our healing and our health." —Alice Walker "Jean Shinoda Bolen shows us how the cult of masculinity is endangering us all. Women and men are equally human and fallible but at least women don’t have our masculinity to prove—and that alone may make us the main saviors of this fragile Spaceship Earth."

—Gloria Steinem Urgent Message from Mother is a heart-shaking book which offers a powerful vision of why the world must change and how such a pivotal undertaking might be accomplished. In these compact pages Jean Shinoda Bolen courageously brings us to the brink of an erupting and necessary wisdom and to a feminine spiritual activism whose time is here and now.

—Sue Monk Kidd, author of The Mermaid Chair and The Secret Life of Bees "Never have we needed the wisdom of Jean Shinoda Bolen more. This book brought me back to my spiritual center reminding me how much we need the stories of women to restore empathy to the world. Bolen has given us all an assignment: Gather, circle, act. Mother Earth is asking for our help. How can we not respond?"

—Terry Tempest Williams, author of The Open Space of Democracy "An inspiring call to action, powered by real examples of how women can save the world."

—Gloria Feldt, author of The War on Choice : The Right-Wing Attack on Women’s Rights and How to Fight Back and former president, Planned Parenthood Federation of America "If Jean Shinoda Bolen says, ‘Gather the women,’ I’m there. Urgent Message from Mother is a call to the deepest womanself—our passion, our wisdom, our intelligence, our love. Just reading the book gives comfort and hope, reminding us who we are and what we’re capable of doing. Bravo!" —Marianne Williamson, author of A Return to Love "Urgent Message from Mother is a passionate book, a call from the heart. Drawing from archeological and cultural sources, Jean Shinoda Bolen shows that we can shift from the path of domination and violence that threatens us all to a world of peace and partnership-if women worldwide put our love into action at this critical moment in history." —Riane Eisler, author of The Chalice and The Blade, Sacred Pleasure, and The Power of Partnership

About the Author:

Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., is a psychiatrist, a Jungian analyst in private practice, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California Medical Center, and an internationally known lecturer

About this edition

• Publisher: Conari Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1573242659
• ISBN 13: 9781573242653
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 187