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

Jean Shinoda Bolen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573243531 ISBN 13: 9781573243537

Publisher: Conari Press, 2008

Synopsis

Women May Be Our Last Hope to Save the Planet

Wake up! Arise! Earth is our home. Listen to your mother, she is calling. Urgent Message from Mother is a call to action for all the women of the world. 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.

Women coming together can produce the tipping point. "Mother" is Mother Earth, mother instinct, mother archetype, mother goddess, Earth Mother ─ the sacred feminine, the Goddess, Gaia. Women as a gender have qualities and priorities that the world needs to reverse man’s destruction of our planet, the violence that traumatizes children, and cycles of conflict and fratricidal wars. "When women are strong together, women can be fiercely protective of what we love." Bolen explains that societies and even species, when they reach a tipping point, can undergo rapid evolution. "We've learned that women gathering together in groups and telling the truth of their lives can actually change the world."

Now is the time for women to lead. Jean Shinoda Bolen’s unique combination of visionary thinking and practical how-to seeks to galvanize the power of women acting together in order to save our world. Bolen outlines the lessons we can learn from the women's movement, draws on Jungian psychology and the sacred feminine, and gives powerful examples of women coming together all over the globe to make a significant impact. Jean Shinoda Bolen's life's work, which includes her Jungian-inspired insights in The Tao of Psychology, her best-seller Goddesses in Every Woman, Crones Don't Whine, and The Millionth Circle, culminate in this timely book, Urgent Message from Mother.

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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, Jungian analyst, Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, former professor of psychiatry, and an internationally known author and speaker. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a recipient of the Institute for Health and Healing's Pioneers in Art, Science, and the Soul of Healing Award.

The Association for the Study of Women and Mythology presented her the Demeter Award for her lifetime achievement in women's spirituality.

Dr. Bolen has authored over ten books with over a hundred foreign editions. Her book inspired The Millionth Circle Initiative (www.millonthcircle.org) and led to her involvement at the UN.

She currently maintains a private practice in Mill Valley, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Conari Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1573243531
• ISBN 13: 9781573243537
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 208