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 message. 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.
The end of this interview features one woman, Deborah Koppel Mitchell, creator of Spheres Women's Circles, who has started to gather women together to answer to this urgent call.
This interview was made possible by kind permission of The Message Company at The International Conference on Science & Consciousness.
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