Women of Wisdom: Empowering the Dreams and Spirit of Women
by Kris Steinnes
2008 Award winning finalist for Best New Non-Fiction from USA Book News
2009 Bronze award winner for Body-Mind-Spirit from Independent Publishers.
This is a unique book with inspiring stories, art and poetry combined with strong voices of best selling women authors and leaders in their fields. Throughout the book they share thought provoking ideas that explore the hidden potentials and gifts that reside in the depths of the feminine spirit. Women who are seeking for meaning in their lives will find this book a powerful tool to guide and inspire them.
For seventeen years women have been attending the Women of Wisdom gatherings to uncover and celebrate the power of feminine spirit. In this compilation of spiritual, academic, and artistic contributions from professionals and lay people, poetry mixes with history, visual art with the inner spirit, and the intellect with soulful longing, creating an inspiring kaleidoscope of feminine reverence. This book offers practical and moving guidance that speaks to the divine within us all.
Key aspects of the book:
• Thought provoking essays from some of the greatest women thinkers and writers of our time from the Women of Wisdom Conference.
• Exercises to explore the topics in each chapter gives the reader an experience of their own personal journey towards self-awareness.
• Personal stories sharing life changes from their WOW experience
• Women of Wisdom’s story and development of key aspects of the conference – art, music, ritual theater, and circle leadership.
• The reader is taken on a journey through the conference with empowering presentations, workshops, ceremonies, art, poetry, stories, and circles.
• Art and poetry displayed throughout the book add a visual element that moves the reader to experience the creative feminine. Many of the poems are songs from well-known musicians from the women’s music movement such as Holly Near, Rhiannon, Cris Williamson, Ferron and Libby Roderick.
• Diversity of more than sixty contributors sharing their experience of the power of the feminine voice.
The ten key women presenters discuss many current problems facing women and our society today and offer words of hope and wisdom to help women tackle these problems that relate to their personal life.
Women of Wisdom presenter feature... Rianne Eisler
Riane Eisler is the bestselling author of The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future, Sacred Pleasure, Tomorrow’s Children, The Power of Partnership, and most recently The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics. Dr. Eisler is a cultural historian and evolutionary theorist, President of the Center for Partnership Studies, cofounder of the Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence, and consultant to business and government organizations on applications of the partnership model. She has done pioneering human rights work, expanding the vision of international organizations to include the rights of women and children. She keynotes conferences worldwide.
Quotes from Riane Eisler
Page 200
I believe that feminine consciousness is today more essential than ever, because it is women who must lead the changes in our world. For me, this consciousness has a spiritual dimension. But it is not spiritual in the conventional sense, because for me, spirituality is putting love into action. We must reclaim our heritage as spiritual leaders. This is our great challenge and opportunity; to join with one another and with enlightened men to build the foundations for a more equitable, peaceful and joyful world.
Page 213
The rise of the domination model includes a spiritual model of men as divine and women as merely carnal. If we have the divine Father and Son, but no Goddess to workshop, then it follows that men are above women and therefore have a right to dominate us. If the divine is male, then all that is female is not divine. What is lost then? The female, the Earth, the sensuality and sexuality of the body are all left behind to be denigrated and dominated.
But we can reclaim the sacred feminine.
Page 217
What we found in many cases is that the status of women is a better predictor of general quality of life than Gross Domestic Product, the conventional measure of a nations’ economic health. At the time of our study, Kuwait and France had the same GDP, but the infant mortality rate was twice as high in Kuwait than in France, where the status of women is of course much higher.
It’s absurd to talk about caring for children when the work - the women’s work of caring for children – is so devalued that it isn’t even includes in Gross Domestic Product….
If it’s not included, it’s not visible, and policy makers will not see it, and will not support it. So we’ve got to change that. View this photo~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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2008 Award winning finalist for Best New Non-Fiction from USA Book News
• Thought provoking essays from some of the greatest women thinkers and writers of our time from the Women of Wisdom Conference.
• Exercises to explore the topics in each chapter gives the reader an experience of their own personal journey towards self-awareness.
• Personal stories sharing life changes from their WOW experience
• Women of Wisdom’s story and development of key aspects of the conference – art, music, ritual theater, and circle leadership.
• The reader is taken on a journey through the conference with empowering presentations, workshops, ceremonies, art, poetry, stories, and circles.
• Art and poetry displayed throughout the book add a visual element that moves the reader to experience the creative feminine. Many of the poems are songs from well-known musicians from the women’s music movement such as Holly Near, Rhiannon, Cris Williamson, Ferron and Libby Roderick.
• Diversity of more than sixty contributors sharing their experience of the power of the feminine voice.
The ten key women presenters discuss many current problems facing women and our society today and offer words of hope and wisdom to help women tackle these problems that relate to their personal life.
Quotes from Riane Eisler
Page 200
I believe that feminine consciousness is today more essential than ever, because it is women who must lead the changes in our world. For me, this consciousness has a spiritual dimension. But it is not spiritual in the conventional sense, because for me, spirituality is putting love into action. We must reclaim our heritage as spiritual leaders. This is our great challenge and opportunity; to join with one another and with enlightened men to build the foundations for a more equitable, peaceful and joyful world.
Page 213
The rise of the domination model includes a spiritual model of men as divine and women as merely carnal. If we have the divine Father and Son, but no Goddess to workshop, then it follows that men are above women and therefore have a right to dominate us. If the divine is male, then all that is female is not divine. What is lost then? The female, the Earth, the sensuality and sexuality of the body are all left behind to be denigrated and dominated.
But we can reclaim the sacred feminine.
Page 217
What we found in many cases is that the status of women is a better predictor of general quality of life than Gross Domestic Product, the conventional measure of a nations’ economic health. At the time of our study, Kuwait and France had the same GDP, but the infant mortality rate was twice as high in Kuwait than in France, where the status of women is of course much higher.
It’s absurd to talk about caring for children when the work - the women’s work of caring for children – is so devalued that it isn’t even includes in Gross Domestic Product….
If it’s not included, it’s not visible, and policy makers will not see it, and will not support it. So we’ve got to change that. View this photo~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~