Urgent Message from MOTHER: Gather the Women, Save the World
by Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
Published by Conari Press/Red Wheel
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Reviewed by Connie Anderson
Author Bolen's 1999 book, The Millioneth Circle, generated a new way for women to become activists from within their own circles. This book continues that important work.
Several well-known women are quoted as saying, and I paraphrase here: If Jean says "Gather the women, I'll be there...."
MOTHER here is Mother Earth, who puts out a call for women to become strong women.
Dr. Bolen shows that when women worth together worldwide, we can shift from the path of domination and violence that threatens us to a better world, that we don't have our masculinity to prove. Women can be the savior of the Earth.
The concept of "gather the women" evokes all kinds of emotions. It is for women whose identity is not tied to their relationships with men--they have a strong sense of sisterhood.
Following on the well-fought, well-earned world of changing influences of the women's right to vote (suffragette movement) and the women's movement in the '60s, according to Dr. Bolen, is women preparing to move toward piece.
Peace, as the author explains, is both small and huge in scope: stopping violence in families, at schools, our streets and workplace to terrorism and war.
Her earlier Millioneth Circle concept is a metaphor for the circle that, added to the rest, brings about a critical mass that would bring about new ideas.
The book ends with a discussion guide and Circle Experiences as well as resources. Here chapters say it all:
- Mother's Day
- Mother Earth/Mother Goddess
- Monotheism/Doing Without Mother
- Mother's Day
- Mother Earth/Mother Goddess
- Monotheism/Doing Without Mother
- Mother Needs You!
- Antidote 1: The Visible Power of Women Together
- Antidote 2: The Invisible Power of Women's Circles
- Anything We Love Can Be Saved
When you read about what women have accomplished, you'll wonder what your role is, because we all have a role in saving Mother EARTH.
Armchair Interviews says this is a very personal book, asking women to get involved.