  "Return
of the Dark/Light Mother
or New Age Armageddon?
Towards a
Feminist Vision of the Future"
by
Monica Sjöö
The
picture on the left shows the 1992
edition and the picture on the right the
1999 updated and extended version.
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In the book Monica
exposes at the roots of the New Age movement a deep mistrust
of Earths life giving wisdom which must be rediscovered if we
are to survive another thousand years.
This new and revised edition of
the influential and controversial book originally published by
The Womens Press (titled "New Age or Armageddon?" )
contains expanded critiques of channeling and genetic
engineering along with more than 40 photos of Sjöös
paintings which place the Earth in her many forms at the
center of a feminist vision for the future evolved from the
integrated, wholistic, life-giving wisdom of our living Mother
planet who doesnt need to be saved by spacemen who would turn
Earth to light or sterilized by corporations who would own the
Mother seed.
328 pages, ISBN 1-891 386-07 7, September,
1999, Plain View Press
This
book is unlikely to be reprinted again,
but we still have some copies left.
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Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Questioning the New Age Movement
2. Dreaming the Sacred Land
3. Explorations of Consciousness
4. Banishing Darkness
5. The Lord is a Consuming Fire
7. From the Rebirthing Movement to Biological
Engineering
8. Traditional Shamanism and its New age
Manifestations
9. The Harmonic Convergence
10. New Age Channelings: Who or What is being
channeled?
11. False Transcendence: The Gurus or the Goddess
Notes
Bibliography
What
people say about the second edition:
"In this awesome book,
Monica Sjöö
casts her brilliant and critical eye on
the New Age Movement with all its delusions,
contrasting it with the grounded, earth-based
shamanism of ancient and present-day woman-centered
cultures. One of the world's foremost visionary
artists, Sjöö
reminds us again and again that earth
(physical matter, our bodies, the cycles of birth and
death) remains sacred despite modern tendencies toward
leaving the body (and the planet) behind. Instinctual,
heart-opening, and gut-wrenching, this book is a
deeply-felt personal journey radically shared, and
illustrated with the artist's incredible
paintings."
Vicki Nobel, author of Motherpeace: "A Way to
the Goddess through Myth, Art and Tarot".
"Monica Sjöö
is the great
global Amazon, a Sweed, but belonging to all
countries. She weaves the story deftly as she paints
her images all from deep inspiration. She carries the
word from continent to continent, her images of the
Fates and Goddesses loom large like our dreams, A
sister, a mother, a great soul."
Z. Budapest, psychick, teacher and initiator,
author of "The Holy Book of Women's
Mysteries", "Grandmother Moon", "Goddess in the
Office", "Goddess in
the Bedroom", and "Summoning the
Fates".
"Here is a passionate expose of
the danger of a New Age consciousness which denies the
economic and political realities of our lives. A
longtime committed feminist, activist and artist, Sjöö
drawn on her amazingly comprehensive research to
document her conclusions which are both a gift and a
warning for every human being on Mother Earth."
Jean Mountaingrove, co-editor of
"Woman Spirit"
magazine.
About
the first edition:
 As more and more people begin
their search for a more spiritually fulfilling life
that ties in their needs for social justice, this book
could easily become a primer that will generate many
questions that must be answered if we are to move
forward.
J. Antionette Johnson-Gross, Mama Bears News
& Notes
Sjoo, visual artist cum
ecofeminist, provides us with a cutting critique of
what has come to be known as the New Age Movement. . .
. She believes that Earth is dying and that New Agers,
with their focus on light, transcendence and galactic
beings, are deaf to its cries. . . Money-spinning,
instant spiritual gratification, and blatant
exploitation of indigenous cultures lie at the heart
of a movement whose heritage comes from a patriarchal,
capitalist system.
Monica Lynch, Spare Rib
The New Age is shown to
discourage political questioning and to have little
awareness of race, sex or class or even to welcome it.
This is a very revealing and disturbing insight into
the philosophy and background of the New Age and its
so-called gurus, and a welcome questioning of it.
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First Edition
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