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Announcing Scholar Salon 19: Register for January 13

“Like a Tree: How Trees, Women, and Tree People Can Save the Planet”

with Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen

Wednesday, January 13, 2021 at 3 pm Eastern Standard Time 

Jean Shinoda Bolen and friend

In this time of ecological and social upheaval, Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen returns us to timeless wisdom found in her book, “Like a Tree.” Gloria Steinem says of this poetic and inspirational book, “Like a Tree is the rare book that not only informs, but offers a larger consciousness of life itself.”  This remarkable book grew out of Jean’s practice of walking among tall trees and also mourning the loss of a Monterey pine that was cut down in her neighborhood.

How many of us recognize that we are “tree people? Jean’s presentation covers the subject of trees from anatomy and physiology to trees as archetypal and sacred symbols, and issues a call to learn from and protect our environment. She speaks about deforestation, global warming, and overpopulation, as well as the work of individuals and organizations to save trees everywhere. Her presentation is a strong and positive call to ecological activism and spiritual reflection.

 

Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, an internationally known speaker and author of thirteen influential books in over one hundred foreign editions: The Tao of Psychology, Goddesses in Everywoman, Gods in Everyman, Ring of Power, Crossing to Avalon, Close to the Bone, Goddesses in Older Women, Crones Don’t Whine, The Millionth Circle, Like A Tree, Urgent Message From Mother, Moving Toward the Millionth Circle, and Artemis: The Indomitable Spirit in Everywoman. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a past Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, and a former board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women, the Association for Transpersonal Psychology, and the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. She is a 2020-21   Lifetime Achievement Award honoree from Marquis Who’s Who.  

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Announcing Scholar Salon 18: Register for December 2

Deep Economy: the Maternal Gift

with Genevieve Vaughan

Wednesday, December 2, 2020
12 pm (Noon)  Eastern Standard Time 

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Patriarchal Capitalism/Capitalist Patriarchy is an artificial system that is destroying the Earth and her children. We need to return to the deep economy of the mother, based on the model of unilateral giving to needs, that every child has to experience in order to survive. Recognizing and validating this model puts us in alignment with Mother Earth and allows the creation of community on that basis. Unilateral gifting has not been seen as structural but recognizing it in the structure of language as well as of the economy, can restore it to the central place in our lives as the source of shared meaning and reveal a newly understood sense of who we are as a species. This will allow us to unite to transition toward alternatives to Capitalism and Patriarchy under the leadership of those who recognize and promote the maternal model. most of whom are women.

 

Genevieve Vaughan

Genevieve Vaughan (b.1939) has lived between Texas and Italy most of her life. She founded the all-women multicultural Foundation for a Compassionate Society 1988 – 2005 in Austin, the International Feminists for a Gift Economy network 2001-ongoing and the Temple of Sekhmet in Cactus Springs Nevada (1992-ongoing). She is the author of For-Giving(1997), Homo Donans (2008), The Gift in the Heart of Language(2015) and the editor of Il Dono/the Gift (2004), Women and the Gift Economy(2007), and The Maternal Roots of the Gift Economy (2018). An Issue of the Canadian Women’s Studies Journal: Vol. 34, Feminist Gift Economy: A Maternalist Alternative to Patriarchy and Capitalism (2020) has just appeared. See www.gift-economy.com

Gen Vaughan with Sekhmet
The week before our Salon, check out this free webinar on the Gift Economy: 

Matriarchal Gift Economy: Breaking Through

November 27 2020 4 pm to 7 pm GMT

with Vandana Shiva (India), Darcia Narvaez (USA), Heide Goettner-Abendroth (Germany), Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot Nation), Mary Condren (Ireland), and Genevieve Vaughan (USA/Italy). Moderated by Letecia Layson (USA)

and — Save these dates for upcoming ASWM Salons:

January 13 at 3pm Eastern Standard Time
Like a Tree: How Trees, women and Tree People Can Save the World

Jean Shinoda Bolen

January 27 at 3pm Eastern Standard Time
Title TBA: Animal mysteries in the Paleolithic
Susan Moulton

February 10 at 3pm Eastern Standard Time
Living in a Sentient World
Judy Grahn

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Announcing Scholar Salon 17: Register for November 18th

Hieroglyphic Thinking
with Normandi Ellis

Wednesday, November 18, 2020
3 pm Eastern Daylight Time 

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Normandi Ellis at Alexandria

Words are magic. They operate on many levels through both sound and symbol. Egyptian priests understood that language and thought could create realities if the exact words are uttered at the right time, properly intoned, and filled with intention. They called their magical language of hieroglyphic symbols medju neter, which is literally translated as “the Word of God.” These symbols were said to have been created by Isis and Thoth, and were presided over by the goddess Seshet, keeper of the Akashic records.

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Announcing Scholar Salon 16: Register for November 4

Beyond the Trees: Ecofeminism and Connections to Current Movements for Change
with Jeannette Kiel, PhD

Wednesday, November 4, 2020
3 pm Eastern Daylight Time 

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Ecofeminist activism works to address and transform the interconnected injuries to folks and to nature caused by attitudes of sexism, racism, classism, speciesism, and more. It does not exist in a vacuum and is connected to movements beyond the ecological. In this presentation, I first briefly discuss the foundational ideas of ecofeminism and then examine how ecofeminism connects to current activist movements. Lastly, I present examples of ways folks are connecting their ecofeminists visions with current movements.

Jeannette Kiel PhD is an ecofeminist activist, artist, and scholar. Jeannette believes that all forms of injustice are interconnected to nature and that these must be addressed to create real change and transformation for peace to thrive in our world. Her artwork also addresses her identification as a Mestiza or mixed-race Philipino-Black woman. Jeannette teaches Psychology and Women and Gender Studies at Sacramento City College and Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies at CSU Stanislaugh. Jeannette earned a Ph.D. in Women’s Spirituality from the California Institute of Integral Studies (San Francisco), an MA in Women’s Studies from San Diego State University, and BA in Psychology from Alliant International University (San Diego). For more information: www.jeannettekiel.com.

 

Afrotree by Jeannette Kiel

Save these Dates for Upcoming Salons:

November 18 at 3pm Eastern Standard Time
Hieroglyphic Thinking
Normandi Ellis

December 2 at Noon Eastern Standard Time
Deep Economy: The Maternal Gift
Genevieve Vaughan

January 13 at 3pm Eastern Standard Time
The Creative Soul in the midst of Winter
Jean Shinoda Bolen

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Announcing Scholar Salon 15: Register for October 21

When the Moon and Sun are Daughters of Mother Earth: Analysis of Basque Cosmology
with Idoia Arana-Beobide

Wednesday, October 21, 2020
3 pm Eastern Daylight Time 

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Eguzki Amandrea, the Mother Sun (amaroa.com)

What does it mean to have a feminine worldview?  How does it manifest?  The recently inaugurated exhibit in Bilbao (Basque Country, Spain) titled ‘Izen Izan’ (to name, to be) cited the “Dominion of the feminine: The matriarchal character of Basque mythology.“ And yet, little was explained about the meaning of the words ‘dominion’, ‘matriarchal’, or what the divine feminine might mean in a society.

Ilargi Amandrea, the Mother Moon (amaroa.com)

The Basque are enigmatic peoples, considered ‘Europe’s mystery people,’ that live in Europe along the Pyrenees mountains facing the Atlantic Sea, between France and Spain.  Marija Gimbutas mentioned that Basque mythology shows clues of the ancient matriarchal pre-Indo-European worldview.  Furthermore, since the Basque language is the only indigenous non-Indo-European language surviving in Europe, the Basque remain with a strong adherence to their ancestral origins.  Even if the present Basque culture has been molded by influences of Indo-European and Latin (Christian) acculturalization, the language and the ancient belief systems tell us of a reality of a feminine-centered worldview.   

I will introduce the feminine elements extant in Basque society, as Heide Göettner-Abendroth’s theory of Modern Matriarchal Studies entail.  I will explain the principles of its innate Basque mythology, and scholarly interpretations of the reality of the world when the three celestial bodies that sustain life for humans: the earth, the sun, and the moon, are all feminine. To conclude, I will analyze the role of women in these systems in Basque traditional society, and its meaning and possibilities for contemporary life.

Idoia on the beach in Basque Country

Idoia Arana-Beobide is co-founder of ‘Network on Culture,’ home of the online journal Matrix: A Journal for Matricultural Studies and the Global Matricultures Research Network. She is also the Managing Director of Douglas Cardinal Architect Inc., a leader of Organic Architecture.  A student of humanism, Idoia graduated with Museum and Interdisciplinary Studies in Medieval History and holds a MA in Religion and Public Life.  Idoia is a Euskalduna (Basque speaker) presently researching the source and manifestation of Basque identity through mythology and matriculturalism. 

Save these dates for upcoming Salons

November 4 at 3pm Eastern Standard Time
Beyond the Trees: Ecofeminism and Connections to Current Movements for Change
Jeannette Kiel

November 18 at 3pm Eastern Standard Time
Hieroglyphic Thinking
Normandi Ellis

December 2 at Noon Eastern Standard Time
Deep Economy: The Maternal Gift
Genevieve Vaughan

January 13 at 3pm Eastern Standard Time
The Creative Soul in the midst of Winter
Jean Shinoda Bolen

Benefit of Membership - ASWM

The Salon recording will also be available to members after the event. 

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