Urgent Message from Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World | 
| Author: Jean Shinoda Bolen
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ISBN: 1573243531
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In its original edition, this culmination of Jean Shinoda Bolen's life's work sold over 25,000 copies. Now in paperback for the first time Urgent Message from Mother is a call to action for all the women of the world. This 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 and making a significant impact. "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 earth." (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) "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)
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 another way? July 9, 2008
I wonder if it may be possible for all of us, women and men, all beings, in one way or another, to work together to heal the Earth? There are some wonderful thoughts and ideas here. However, I find that whenever its an "us" against "them" premise, divisions, alienation and blame not unity or healing occur. I am in complete agreement that our global community and the Earth are in danger. I am hopeful we can all work together, with out marginalizing anyone, male or female, one culture or faith or another, to heal our divisions and bring peace to the world. Its everyone's work, responsibility and oppurtunity to step out side their comfort zone to do this work, especially with those we feel are contributing to the problems. No one is distincly to blame for all that has occured, each of us plays a part and this is our greatest strength in finding a way to peace, it empowers each of us to make a difference. As life long activist, I have come to understand we each bear responsibility and compassion for our actions and toward the actions of others. Lets get to work and create a world where war and intolerance and blame will be no more, it will take each of us.
 Kill all males? June 15, 2008
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I wonder if the author has given any consideration to the fact that it was a "man," James Lovelock, who came up with the "Gaia hypothesis?" See his 1979 book Gaia: A new look at life on Earth. It came about when he worked at NASA and the name was suggested to him by William Golding who thought the notion of the earth as a self regulating system ought to be credited with the Greek goddess "Gaia." The author bends over backwards to not use male gender or to use terms such as "mankind," or "he," or "him." The author thinks that women, in their traditional role, are suppressed by white Christian males. However, any cursory glance at Islamic cultures, asian cultures, african cultures, namely pagan cultures, will note that women are viewed in such cultures as something less than human. It isn't a coincidence that "only" in Western Christian society are there such things as love songs and poems written by men to women. Unlike India, where this author's philosophy is practiced, women aren't burned alive on funeral pyre. After seeing what this author says, it's obvious that the author is under some delusion that white Christian males need to be punished for their nonexistence sins against women. Why is Hugh Hefner's or any rock star's objectification of women treated as "liberation" while the sanctity of a Godly woman who is full time homemaker castigated? The latter holds her in high esteem in her role as mother to her children and wife to her husband. This book represents the core of feminism, which is paganism and lesbianism. The hypocisy is evident when such women make men the object of hate simply because they are men. Like the Bible says, all have sinned and have come short of the glory of God, no one is righteous, not one, except Jesus Christ. The idea that a male energy is ruining the environment is something only a babbling imbecile would say. Is she implying mass genocide of males to appease this earth goddess? I think so. The problem with the world is "sin," not the environment. The deterioration of the environment is a byproduct of sin. We see this when greedy oil men pollute our waters or when greedy companies brutally kill innocent seals for perfumes. The Bible is the only book that holds women to high esteem. The Son of God chose a woman as a vessel for the incarnation. And Proverbs describes the ideal woman in a way that would be shocking to any misogynist. By the way, it is ironic that this woman can believe she's a god and yet cannot believe Jesus is God. The latter is far more credible in light of the resurrection. By raising Himself from the dead, Jesus did something no one has done and is in a better position to explain how He did it.
 Time to Pull Out a Sixth Star June 6, 2008
For me this book is a Bible.
It's worth six stars at least, and in my opinion Amazon.com needs to dust off a sixth star to accommodate it.
As you glide through Urgent Message, you begin to feel hopeful again, safe, and sheltered, and you think maybe it's possible after all for humanity to save itself. One reason for this is that Bolen not only lays out a roadmap to the future, she radiates a quiet confidence that her roadmap will indeed lead us to world peace, egalitarianism, and a good life for all.
But many miss the major point of the book. The point is not that women can save the world, but that a return to Mother Goddess will save the world. Only with female deity at our backs, like a good, strong wind, will women be able to switch things around for the planet.
Of course being an incarnation of the Mother Goddess Herself, Bolen also talks about where men come into the picture here. (Like all healthy mothers, the Great Mother plays no favorites; her boys are as valuable, lovable and magnificent as her girls.)
In the back of the book, I've scribbled page numbers for a long list of snippets to post on my weblog (some are already there). A few of my favorites:
"Women and Goddess became co-opted and lost in the politics of patriarchy; we forgot who we are, and we are now finding pieces, hidden in myths, dug up in archaeological sites, uncovered in the Gnostic Gospels.... The promised land? A land long settled by Goddess-worshiping, art-creating, peaceful people who had sacred groves..." (p. 146).
"If Mother Archetype, Mother Goddess, Mother Earth... placed a classified ad in the `Help Wanted' section ... the ad might read: `HELP WANTED: Everywoman. Home keepers for Earth. Must keep premises safe for all. Have concern for children's needs and development, ability to manage resources, resolve conflicts, work collaboratively, ask questions, listen, and learn from the experience of others, be empathic, and act with compassion for the benefit of all, including generations to come" (p. 74).
"Awe of the supernatural or divine is archetypal. There is in us all a tendency toward the spiritual - an orientation topward an invisible presence, to something greater than ourselves that cannot be fully known. Spirituality unites us - in silence, in awe, in devotion, and in soul connections. Patriarchal religions divide us into the saved and damned, heathen and Christian" (p. 71).
"The message from Mother is urgent. The half of humanity in charge of the world's agenda is led by men addicted to power and maintaining their dcominance. Only now, there are weapons of mass destruction.... And, if patriarchal religions continue to exercise control over women, there will soon be more people than the Earth can sustain. Our beautiful blue and white planet, this garden island in space, our Mother the Earth needs our help" (p. 47).
"Boys and men are afraid to be like women."
"Until women are equal partners in setting values, it is not safe for boys and men to be feeling and nurturing people without suffering from patriarchal judgments that they are not man enough..." (p. 97).
Jeri Studebaker, author of Switching to Goddess: Humanity's Ticket to the Future
URGENT MESSAGE FROM MOTHER May 24, 2008
I recommend this book to every woman so she will share the URGENT MESSAGE FROM MOTHER with all her relations and we will secure our future unto the seventh generation and beyond. Jane Hardwicke Collings Midwife, Mother, Grandmother
Compelling and relevant May 5, 2008
If your belief in a better life for everyone on this planet includes compassion and increasing recognition of Spirituality, then this book lets you know that you are not alone. Real solutions, ideas, projects, and direction are provided by Jean Shinoda Bolen in an embracing and encouraging context that can excite the mind, heart, and spirit of everyone who reads this book.
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