Quiet Wisdom in Loud Times: Rise of the Wounded Feminine - Softcover

Kayta Curzie Gajdos

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0991556607 ISBN 13: 9780991556601

Publisher: Brandywine Creek Press, 2014

Synopsis

In The Girl Who Played with Fire, the second story of the Larsson trilogy, Lisbeth Salander, the protagonist, is shot by her father and buried by her half-brother. But at dawn, her hand rises from the grave. Stunning! Here it is: the rise of the wounded feminine despite patriarchy’s destructive violence.

Quiet Wisdom in Loud Times considers her attempted murder by a brutal father and her resurrection despite it, to be the resounding metaphor of our times: we are in a global crisis of an old order of the patriarchy that wants to maintain the status quo of wealth and power. Yet the feminine principle, so wounded by the violence against it, continues to rise up.

The wounded feminine principle refers to both women and men.

Women have come a long way since the 1960’s, but that really isn’t the whole story. In fact, the story is not even about women only. It is about men also. It is about something, in fact, beyond both men and women, and that is the rise of the wounded feminine soul energy that needs to be part and parcel of all of us. Why now? We are at a very important time, where there are huge psychic upheavals happening.

Right now life is still in patriarchal dominator mode. But this is not about gender. Women can be daughters of a rigid patriarchal structure as much as men can be its sons. Likewise, men, as well as women, can carry the collaborative, partnership model that attends to the feminine, relational aspects of life.

Quiet Wisdom in Loud Times explores the rise of the wounded feminine principle, as well as its burials in relation to the environment, money, politics, and the media, with particular attention to the Larsson trilogy.

By addressing the rise of the wounded feminine, Quiet Wisdom in Loud Times can help us face courageously the powers that be, while not collapsing into the indifference and apathy that define letting the patriarchy continue its violent way. This book elucidates how in relationship to one another and to the earth, the wounded feminine shall rise.

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From the Back Cover

We courageously face the powers that be. We must remind ourselves not to collapse into the indifference and apathy that allows the patriarchy to continue its violent ways. We must individually and collectively see the interconnection: That violence against women is connected to violence to the Earth is connected to climate change to plutocracy to politics. But it is our collective connection to the feminine principle that can heal the violence. In relationship to one another and to the earth, the wounded feminine shall rise.

"Filled with compelling and important information that we all need to read, digest, understand, learn from. And live with! Please read this book: it will help you awaken to a new way of looking at the truth of our lives."
-Dan Gottlieb, Host of Voices in the Family

"Dr. Gajdos ... with an informed, passionate, and incisive voice articulates the outrages against the feminine principle which have governed the Western world for so many centuries. ... one finds her "quiet wisdom" accurate, prophetic, and embracing the only path for healing our broken world, our sundered psyches."
-James Hollis, Jungian Analyst,Author of such books as What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life

"This book can launch us on a journey: We can recognize the wounds we have so often overlooked and then commit ourselves to acknowledge, undo, and heal them."
-David Richo, Author of How to be an Adult in Love

"This is a book for our time; written with conscientious compassion and feminine wisdom--a thinking woman's call to awaken a shared consciousness that is our power. "
-Colleen O'Connell, Chief Administrative Officer, Won Institute of Graduate Studies

Written eloquently in a perceptive woman's clear and conscious voice, Quiet Wisdom in Loud Times raises our awareness to the grave danger we face as a species if we fail to reinstate the feminine in her rightful place, not only in our minds, but more importantly in our hearts."
-Russill Paul, Author of The Yoga of Sound

"Dr. Gajdos has brought together her many and varied experiences, broad knowledge, and memorable observations into a book that can help all of us find our own inner peace, as well as strive for peace among nations."
-Karen Porter, Director, The Chester County Peace Movement

Edition details

• Publisher: Brandywine Creek Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0991556607
• ISBN 13: 9780991556601
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280