Moving Toward the Millionth Circle: Energizing the Global Women's Movement (Feminist gift, from the Author of Goddesses in Everywoman) - Hardcover

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 157324628X ISBN 13: 9781573246286

Publisher: Conari Press, 2013

Synopsis

The Power of Heart-Centered Feminine Activism

Uniting women from all walks of life. While women’s individual experiences and stories differ, there remains to be a uniting factor that draws women from around the world together. In this book for women, author Jean Shinoda Bolen calls upon this uniting factor, this feminine spirit ingrained in the soul of each woman, as a source of motivation for activism. As a result, this activism focused on women empowerment is person-focused and heart-centered.

Contribute to great change. Each of us wields the power to make change. By channeling our passions into all that we do, our voices and our actions, we take this world one step closer to being a better home for all who live in it. But joining with others is key to this effort. Bolen emphasizes the importance of relying on a support system, particularly women’s circles, in order to grow in influence.

The beginning of a new era. The metaphoric millionth circle is the tipping point into a post-patriarchal era. It is through the process of a growing number of people changing their perceptions and behaviors that a new era will begin. Those in the circles feed the activism by strengthening each other, and in turn, the movement as a whole. This spiritual book for women serves as a practical and poetic call to action, inspiring women and others to follow a path with soul.

Open up Moving Toward the Millionth Circle and discover...

• A deeper dive into The Millionth Circle Initiative
• Words of passionate wisdom from an internationally known author and speaker
• A rallying cry for all women seeking change

Readers of Warrior Goddess Training, Women Who Run With Wolves, and Wild Mercy will find another source of feminine empowerment in Moving Toward the Millionth Circle: Energizing the Global Women's Movement.

About this title

From the Author:

"Activism is a personal choice. It is a passion for a cause expressed
through actions, funding, communication, as well as prayer, rituals, and art."
--from Moving Toward the Millionth Circle: Energizing the Global Women's Movement.

I wrote this sister book/sequel to The Millionth Circle: How to Change Ourselves and The World for heart-centered activists who are motivated to act by compassionate action, a sense of sisterhood, or fierce mother bear protectiveness which is a combination of love and outrage. I wrote it when efforts for a 5th World Conference on Women (5WCW) encountered obstacles and resistance even after the UN Secretary General and President of the General Assembly issued a joint statement in strong support on International Women's Day, 2012. and I turned to writing as an expression of my activism. The last UN women's conference was in Beijing in 1995 --before widespread use of the internet, way before the millennial generation entered adulthood. 
 
I wrote it to inspire you to act out of consciousness and choice to step up and take on what is meaningful, fun--even when difficult, and motivated by love, which only you can know to be true. Activism is then an individuation step and soul work. I wrote it so more circles with a sacred center would form and groups in existence might transform into circles. I wrote it with the hope and intention that it would be in print when the UN Commission on the Status of Women met the first two weeks of March 2013 and that I could gift copies of the book away to NGO delegates and UN people. This became possible because of exceptional support from my publisher (Conari). Synchronicity, serendipity and grace helped all along the way.

The first copies of Moving Toward the Millionth Circle arrived on January 21,Inauguration (and MLK) Day!  It was such a delight to hold the little book. In this author-mother's eyes:  she is gorgeous1 My hope is that she will go into the world and be taken to heart.
 
I wish now that I had included how an idea spreads geometrically with the example of he 3 to the 19th power (it is in the Preface to the paperback of Urgent Message From Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World.)  If three women speak of something each believes is true to 3 others, and they in turn speak to 3 others, in 19 steps the message will reach 1,162,261,487. When a critical number of people change beliefs in what is possible, then perceptions and actions follow.  This Inauguration Day was a reminder.  Remember history? Slavery and denying women the right to vote was once what was. These expressions of patriarchy were transformed. Compassion and courage grow in a circle of equals with a spiritual center--as members of AA know. In the consciousness-raising groups that became the Women's Movement in the 1970s, equality was a sacred mission.
 
I believe that the feminine principle is rising into consciousness through women and exceptional men and that the fate of planet and humanity depends upon each of us.
 
With love, hope, perseverance and optimism!
 
Jean Shinoda Bolen

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: 2013
• ISBN 10: 157324628X
• ISBN 13: 9781573246286
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 113