Urgent Message from Mother: Gather
the Women, Save the World by Jean
Shinoda Bolen
So Glad Its Out There To Read!
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)
Personal Review: Urgent Message from Mother: Gather the
Women, Save the World by Jean Shinoda Bolen
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
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