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The Wise-Woman Archetype

Menopause as Initiation

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The Wise-Woman Archetype

By: Jean Shinoda Bolen MD
Narrated by: Jean Shinoda Bolen MD
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Physician and Jungian analyst Jean Shinoda Bolen takes us to the horizon of our understanding about the special wisdom that comes to women after menopause in The Wise-Woman Archetype. Join the best-selling author of Goddesses in Everywoman as she plows ancient ground to uncover the roots of the sacred wise woman/crone archetype. Early societies, Bolen teaches, looked at menopause as a "withholding of the blood", not to make a child, as in youth, but to make wisdom. Bolen shows how women today can tap in to this powerful archetype and reclaim their natural wisdom and authority.

©2009 Jean Shinoda Bolen (P)2009 Jean Shinoda Bolen
Aging & Longevity Personal Development Spirituality

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And I think I have heard it already on youtube. Saying that, I listened to it again. I wish her books were on audible. Crossing to Avalon for example.

This a 50 minute talk JSB gave to a group of women

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Thank you... thank you, thank you. More information like this should be available to all women

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