About The Power of Yin
"The resources are going to run out in fifty years! Why do you suppose people like ourselves are trying to find these alternate modes of being, and to tap the enormous ecology of inner space? The ecological holocaust is twofold: it has to do with the gross overuse of our external environment, and the incredible underuse of internal environment."
—Jean Houston, speaking in 1977, The Power of Yin
What are the best tactics to take to head off global environmental disaster? Is industrial society in decline, and if so, how should we manage its dismantling? How can humanity better integrate itself into the continuum of evolving technologies that surround us? Three of the most influential feminist philosophers of the 1970s met over two weekends in 1977 and 1978 to discuss the challenges facing society in the late 20th century... and their revelatory, inspiring conversation, reproduced here for the first time, is startlingly fresh and relevant for us today, as we rise to meet the challenges of the new millennium.
With an uplifting spiritual perspective on the human experience and a uniquely feminine approach to interacting with the universe, Hazel Henderson, Jean Houston, and Barbara Marx Hubbard—with an able assist from editor Barbara DeLaney—here offer a magnificently feminist, grandly humanist, rousingly hopeful approach to the myriad challenges facing planet Earth and her people today.
The Power of Yin is more than a brilliant conversation. It is an invitation to women and men everywhere to express their own genius and empower their highest values and goals, to seek out others who attract them in this quest for personal development, to form ever deeper friendships, and to join together in spirit and in action to help evolve the human community on planet Earth.
HAZEL HENDERSON is a world-renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, and consultant on sustainable development.
JEAN HOUSTON is advisor to UNICEF in human and cultural development, and a principal founder of the Human Potential Movement.
BARBARA MARX HUBBARD is president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution and a cofounder of Washington D.C.’s Committee for the Future.
The POWER OF YIN: Celebrating Female Consciousness
By Hazel Henderson, Jean Houston, Barbara Marx Hubbard and edited by Barbara DeLaney
Cosimo Books, July 2007
Personal Development, ISBN: 1596058870
Paperback, 196 pages, 6x9 inches, $14.95, £11.95
