Great Cosmic Mother

This book lays the groundwork for the whole of modern feminism. Must read.

Men often say, "Women have contributed hardly anything of importance for the benefit of Humankind." These men ignore the fact that women, half of the world population have not massacred millions, if not billions of human beings they never met before, but looked/look after the maimed victims of the by patriarchs triggered massacres. The Great Cosmic Mother can show women & men that for 6000+ years of Abrahamic brutal Patriarchy/male supremacy, men have stolen from women all truly valid wisdom accrued by women throughout tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years, and that with women's valid spirituality, natural sciences and practical knowledge men have been unable to do anything beneficial for Humankind. This for women most important book seriously empowers women, takes women home to their intrinsic brilliance, armors women against the all pervading, never ending women denigrating attacks, guides women safely through the thick anti-women mist that the Race of Women, as well as men have been stumbling through for 6+ Abrahamic-millennia. Monica Sjoo is influenced by Darwinism. I am not. No ape has ever changed into a human being. It is crystal clear that he-god in the sky, The Man did not create first him-self, a man, and then man no.2 and from man no.2 a woman. It's an absurdity. Some people believe that human beings came from some other planet and that's why we are here, but this does not explain who created 'the aliens'. Nature is permeated with cosmic consciousness and is capable of parthenogenesis, self-creates and re-creates sentient beings. This is obvious. For me it is not important how human beings came/come into existence. We come and go, and come again and go again, again and again. I simply trust in Nature's dynamic, unlimited creative cosmic consciousness. To attribute to a he or a she in the sky the creation of literally countless galaxies and all forms of Life is to compulsively box in/make small the Great Mystery of Unlimited Creativity of Cosmic Consciousness. Let IT, let conscious/aware/awake BE-ing remain a mystery. Patriarchy has tried to box-in, to kill The Mystery Of Life, is even replacing the natural birth of babies with machine-produced babies. The patriarch's/man's baby is The Machine, they replace(d) the Mother (Nature) with the godfather, they wanted to, still want to get rid of mighty creativity of The Mother altogether. All problems that men have are "caused" by their Mother (Freud the Fraud), all women's problems are penis-envy (Freud the Fraud). Women always have been, still are the main enemy of the patriarchal box-in everything cerebral-mind. Life Giving and Life Sustaining Conscious Nature, she is being boxed-in & destroyed too, all dynamic forces of life are being straight-jacketed, captured, and as much as possible destroyed by patriarchy. Patriarchy plundered/plunders and enslaves women's brilliance, raped/rapes women by declaring women their property and therefore sex-slaves, exhausts women's essence, nature and energy, slander(ed), stone(d) to death and curse(d) women who break free from their stranglehold. The no-it-all patriarchs mistreat Nature in the very same way, nor do they stop at enslaving, torturing and massacring young & adult men by the billions, they deceive and abuse all men, glorify the bloodbaths. the deaths of the male-youths who are lured with absurd and obscene promises into dying for 'holy' wars. For me it is most important to make sure that all human beings, all living beings, including Nature are treated with great care and with great compassion, that people celebrate human life, honor human and all life, above all honor women who make it possible to experience precious human life, and give women a preeminent position in governing societies, because women only can assure that people live in peace & harmony with each other and Nature. Throughout the last six millennia men have proved that they are unable to do what women did for tens of thousands, if not millions of years, create prosperity (without slavery), valid spirituality, and a relaxed, communal and peaceful life for all.

This work begins with the three words 'In the beginning...' (p.2) and ends with the three words '..to the beginning'. (p. 431) and it has 52 chapters (representing the number of weeks and seasons in a year) divided into four groups, namely: 1) Women's Early Culture: Beginnings, 2) Women's Early Religion, 3) Women's Culture and Religion in Neolithic Times, and 4) Patriarchal Culture and Religion. Two women were engaged in its compilation: Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor and it was originally written around a quarter of a century ago. Although there are a few occasions in this work when it might well be perceived that the authors are being somewhat unfair to men, this is hardly surprising when history teaches us that women have been grossly mistreated over the past three or four thousand years by men committed to male orientated religious beliefs. When attempting to 'set the record straight' it's often difficult to avoid 'going a little over the top' at times. Overall I found this work well balanced and a most enjoyable read. There are two matters in which the authors may have got it wrong. One is in their contention that humans are the only animals that sometimes indulge in sexual relations just for pleasure and not always for procreation and the other is their assumption that oestrous has always followed a monthly cycle in women. We now know that bonobo chimps often indulge in sexual activity just for pleasure. We also know that women in some hunter-gatherer communities experience oestrous no more than once a year. Then again, whereas common chimp groups are always led by an alpha male, bonobo chimp groups are always led by an alpha female. Linking onto these now well known facts would have greatly enhanced the case for female-centric religion as made in this great work. The monthly menstrual cycle seems to have developed after humans stopped moving around as hunter-gatherers and settled into farming communities when it became an advantage to have more children to help work the land and make important artefacts. Some great ape mothers (e.g. orang utans) retain a close relationship with a child until it is six or seven years old and will not breed again until it is fully able to take care of itself. These important facts are overlooked in this work. One of the important facts this book does bring out is that women do not need to become like men in order to be great leaders, scientists, writers, artists etc. They simply have to be themselves and do it their way. The saddest fact of all is that there are still too many men on the one hand and too much religious dogma on the other that together are holding women back from realising their full potential in the context of being their true selves. All told, I love this book, not least because it evidences the conception of the universe as a vast, self-regenerating womb- that of the Great Mother herself. This book leads us into understanding how the eternal feminine is at the heart of all that was, is and ever will be. We came from the womb of the Great Mother and, when we die, we shall return into it.

A must read for every woman and for men who would like to know the actual history of the world, such an eye opening read

Absolutely MUST HAVE read! It has put lot of things into right perspective in my life! Each year I pick one book what have changed my life, and this book is my 2020 transformation book.

This is an amazing life changing book and I was buying a copy for a friends birthday. BEWARE though. This seller is selling what seems like an unofficial version of the book stating it has 'A new introduction and full-color artwork' Even the front and back covers of the book I received stated there was new colour art......but there is NONE. Not one colour plate THIS IS A CON. Monica Sjoo's artwork is incredible and for those wishing to have colour plates of some of her work this is extremely disappointing.

Incredible book but ESPECIALLY for black women who are long overdue their flowers. Yes misogyny had a lot to awnser but so does RACISM and that includes perpetrated by women. ALL must humble themselves internally before claiming enlightenment…

It's no coincidence that this book is as relevant today as it was when it was written as newspaper headlines scream about the fears of women and their safety on (UK) streets.

I bought several copies of this book originally and loved it. I liked the way she said we could define our own morality and intelligence and didn't need degrees from male-supremacist owned and abusive governments, institutions, schools it gave me the revolutionary idea that language, art, music - everything has been defined by people that are afraid of - or submissive to - corrupt male institutions. Christians practice child torture and abuse, the slavery and subjection of women - only their trained b*tches (their words not mine) can speak in public. Try to get a dissenter to speak. An intelligent woman who calls them on it. Not gonna happen. i don't want to be a submissive dog, but there's a lot of pressure from everywhere - the solution - we can invent our own art, spirituality, language - anything we want and we don't have to abuse animals women children like they want us to - we can defy them. The problem - I ordered this book again recently and it was rewritten with a bunch of catholic propaganda (more women slave stuff) replacing her critical analysis of current male abusive religions and about six times as thick as the original which was a thin, good book. Also watch out - good ideas in here orginally, but the snake on the cover makes me think Christian propaganda. They love to set up Goddess and God or pagan tribes that are seemlingly women-friendly or kind and gentle friendly,, but have serpents in the background, the word witch or b*tch somewhere in the mix defining us. They sucker us into believing that we're "owning" those words. One born every minute. They are doing this with the so-called Witchcraft or Wicca - which they have created to trap you. Also, Serpents in art represent venomous lies (but they suggest to us it means wisdom or something) and the fact that the art on the cover has snakes makes me think Christian trap. They like to trick you by setting up these group traps and saying that love for women, equality, safety of children, men being good - not hurting us or animals/children are in fact venomous lies. They are spin artists and are themselves snakes in the grass. They set up these things as venomous traps for women's rights people. If you are a man, woman, anyone who loves - watch out for these and other many traps that try to trick you into hurting anyone, worshipping the creators, (bio-tech people) who are cruel and hate those who resist their predator pyramid scheme. Also free press is a lie. Just try and get your stuff out there if it's against predation, male supremacy, child abuse, animal abuse or anything - and try not to have it altered and see what happens. They have people that alter it for anyone they have cornered that wants to get out. Many people probably get these copes. They have people in law enforcement, postal service, government - everywhere. They say they're "protecting their children" from outside religions. But in fact, they want to make sure their "little women" stay forever submissive, obedient and "subject in all things" and silent as their books says. They want slaves, and are willing to practice child sacrifice and torture - so their protection of children thing falls flat. Sometimes they threaten authors and force them to say what they want also. The christian mob will terrorize you if you try to escape. If you receive a rewritten account of this book, or other Goddess book - two things, they could own the author - or terrorize her into "converting" like they most likely did to Marion Zimmer Bradley - as well as myself once - or they might have rewritten copies which they send to people. They have been known to hurt people's pets, children or anyone who defies their male supremacist regime. Be careful and try to get real information to people. The only way is to deliver it personally. Even then - they're watching you can have a network that replaces books, controls and threatens, as well as owns media and government, and practices abusive techniques to shut people up. Women be silent and all that. I bet they want us to shut up. Books like this are almost always in some way controlled, altered, or used to trap the people attracted to them. Did you know there are several secret "brotherhoods" of hate that practice assault of women, terror, abuse and such. They have much power and our government is controlled by them. If you tow the line you are safe, if you try to escape - target zone for you. They have ways of making sure you end up in the loony bin, in jail, dead or destroyed socially. Freemasons, Catholics, Christian sects - watch out for them. Almost all of them practice some form of occult or Christian women abuse and child sacrificial abusive religions. Anyone who dissents is a target. They practice the art of propaganda dedicatedly and control information. Do not believe they are benign. Gay kids have been killed and tortured, women, children, animals - anyone. If you are animal rights, women's rights, the rights of the small and helpless - you are their enemy. We need protectors and we need to get strong and smart. Please, pay attention. The new thing is to pretend that they don't own everything and are David, when in fact they are Goliath. They pretend that slave-owners are victims and that the men in power are poor, abused misunderstood people. They are not. They have money, they own government and almost all information including the internet. Also they use spy tech, bio-tech, psyche stuff, image warfare, planting of evidence, and other techniques to keep you quiet. If you are bio-tech creation they can also use yourself against yourself. They remove impulse control and then like all animatronic animals, manipulate you into doing things that can harm you or set you up for more abuse, mentally, physically or sexually. Study this tech because it's the secret they keep from us - among others. That tech you see in Star Wars - the 3-D imaging in the air, is what they used to use to create "apparitions" to make Catholics think they saw the Virgin Mary - so guess what - slavery of women is true! God told them. They're not gods. Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Just like in the book (if you get the real version) they use advance tech (for many of us) to convince people that they are gods and that - guess what - the gods want you to be their slave!! What a revelation. They recruit men into rape and abuse religions by trying to make it funny or selling it - or threatening those men who defy them. Is it really true that men are this.... easy to destroy their heart and soul??! I can hardly believe it myself. Some are uneducated, some - they just prey on their greed, or passiveness in the face of evil - like all of us really. Please wake up. I'll be surprised if this gets out there unless someone helps. I can't post on the internet usually. They may alter it. Women need to wake up. The right to bear arms was so that government didn't have the power to do this to us. I'm not sure that bearing arms will help in a word of bio-warfare and weapons of mass destruction, war destroys us anyway, but the intelligence to fight the problems and cure the problems will. Education people. And we can only do that with free press. Please. Help solve the predation of men so we can speak freely in public without harm. One solution - do not go with Christians, Freemasons, or groups of men that keep information from you, spy on you, use weapons to intimidate, or keep you from positions of power and authority, do not include you in the truth or in decisions that effect you, or abuse animals or children. Refuse as much as possible to give them sexual pleasure, or be servants to them. As much as possible do not buy their (really incredibly beautiful) art that sells abuse. It takes strength. Keep your heart muscle strong. So - great book when I first got it. Introduced me to a revolution, Christian controlled traps or not, there were good ideas in here. Just sort out the bad ones. You can create, you don't need to endure this world of hurt and abuse. You can try to be free, kind, gentle, powerful, loving, end their abuses, attempt to cure predation, illness slavery and death, get stronger, get involved in creating this world.

When the book arrived, my first impression was that it was fairly thick, with a generous length of approximately 500 pages. However, once I started reading, I found it hard to put down. It is exceptionally well written, thoughtfully structured, and covers every aspect of the subject in depth. I highly recommend it to anyone and everyone—it is definitely a must-read!

Good book. Arrived fast and in good condition

Livre en excellent état, livraison rapide, Merci! 10/10

A really good book to be read by everyone