Ebook If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging, by Sharon Blackie
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If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging, by Sharon Blackie
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About the Author
Sharon Blackie’s is a writer, storyteller and psychologist, and has an wide international following through her Singing Over the Bones online community and her editorship of the nature writing magazine EarthLines. She lives in the hills of Donegal, Ireland. As well as her popular blog, Sharon’s large Facebook reach and active Twitter correspondents gives Sharon fans across the globe, from ANZ to USA.
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Product details
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: September Publishing (UK); 2nd Revised edition edition (April 18, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1910463663
ISBN-13: 978-1910463666
Product Dimensions:
5.5 x 1.2 x 8.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.7 out of 5 stars
91 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#11,756 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I love this book! A personal Heroine's journey, an intimate portrait of the shape and spirit of the land, and so much ancient wisdom in the Celtic stories. It is most profoundly a call to women to reclaim their native power and wild genius to bring the Earth and our selves back to wholeness, holiness. Quoting Jeanette Armstrong: "When we way the Okanagan word for ourselves, we are actually saying 'the ones who are dream and land together.' There are wonderful poems and provocative questions for the reader: After telling the story of the Selkie, the author asks In what ways have you lost your skin? How did you lose it? Are you wearing a false skin? I felt so inspired and hopeful after reading the journey of psychologist and storyteller Blackie finding her way back to her wild soul, I almost want to change the title to WHEN women rise rooted. Because it is possible, it is happening, and books like this are precious trail guides. This is one of the new stories, one that tells us how to be brave and bold and powerful. Unlike the Hero's individual quest and journey, we are rooted in both the land and community. Our voices, our songs, can sing life back to the rootless Wasteland of modern civilization. Especially as Elders, we can and must speak for the Earth, for life. ""If there is to be a change, it will come from us. Right here. Where we stand. Women were always the story-givers, the memory-keepers, the dreamers. Listen now to the lands long dreaming. Do you see what it's dreaming? It's dreaming you." (p. 361)
This remarkable book could have been three distinct and absorbing works: an autobiography, a history of Celtic heroines, both mythical and real, and a persuasive plea for women to lead mankind in adopting a way of life that will preserve the earth for generations to come. Sharon Blackie seamlessly interweaves the three to make the whole greater than the sum of its parts.She was born and raised in England’s bleak industrial northeast where I had my first job as a professional chemist in the 1960s and experienced pollution first hand. Drapes disintegrated after a year. The river Tees was acidic, greenish-brown, and iron laden from my employer’s process to make, ironically, whiter than white titanium dioxide.Blackie describes her difficult working class childhood there, her abusive father who left when she was three and her alcoholic mother, in few words but with heartbreaking dispassion. She rose from this to a PhD in neuroscience, and employment with a major international tobacco company, which is how I came to know her almost thirty years ago. She worked at both its English and American headquarters. Living, as she has subsequently, restoring and running a croft in Ullapool in northwest Scotland, then, when that town became gentrified, battling the gales and hard manual labor on another croft on the stormy side of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, are a far cry from the comforts of a regular salary and first-class travel. After four years there, she and her second husband David, a former RAF Tornado pilot who breaks all stereotypes one might expect, gave up the struggle of running their large croft, and moved to the tranquility of Donegal in the northwest of Ireland. Through the crofting years she and David, who I have not met, also founded and managed Two Ravens press and published EarthLines magazine.As an Anglo Saxon male in his mid-seventies I was unlikely to pick up a book on Celtic heroines. I am glad they provide the core of If Women Rose Rooted for the lessons their lives provide. For these alone I would recommend that my contemporaries both read and purchase it for their daughters, granddaughters, nieces and great-nieces. Blackie uses these heroines, and what some of the few current surviving native peoples do in their cultures, as exemplars for what she encourages women around the world to do, even if living in our increasingly unlivable environment which, after Eliot, she names The Wasteland.Transformative power, and women’s role in developing it to halt degeneration of our fragile environment is Blackie’s third and major theme: “Once upon a time, the people of our Celtic nations knew what the indigenous peoples of other lands knew: that our fate is inseparable from the fate of the lands we live on, and the fate of wider Earthâ€. “Women are spinners and weavers….Once we knew the patterns for weaving the world; we can piece them together again. Women can heal the Wasteland. This is what women do. This is our work.â€While Blackie puts much of the blame for the Wasteland on the west’s Judeo-Christian heritage and its support over the centuries for male domination in our society I am not convinced that this is the whole story. I am not scholar enough to argue with her, but do note, that male domination exists, with few exceptions, in most human societies, regardless of religion (spiritual path) or lack thereof. Even the Buddha, who with Jesus is one of two men I admire the most, has yet to see a female Dalai Lama. Hinduism may come closest to accepting female spiritual leadership with Ammaji, the hugging guru, and the currently best known, in the USA. It was the Bhagavad-Gita that Eliot, the Anglo-catholic, explores in the Waste Land. I believe he would have enjoyed Sally Kempton’s Awakening Shakti: The Transformative Power of the Goddesses of Yoga.My intent with this minor criticism is not to detract from Blackie’s call to arms. For all I know my remaining male chauvinism may be part of my genetic code, not my Judaeo-Christian upbringing, but that is irrelevant. Society needs to change its values for earth to return to Blake's green and pleasant land. Blackie herself is an eloquent exemplar as are many other women she describes of how we must change. May their numbers grow exponentially and may we men join and support them.Lance Reynolds
This book was so fantastic I could hardly put it down. I thoroughly enjoyed how it was a form of memoir wrapped in how to view culture, myths, and legends, and their connection to the land, in new ways.Initially, I thought it was going to be about women's *spirituality,* but it's not -- in fact, the categories on the back are listed as self-development, feminism, and environment. Once I shifted my perspective, some of her comments made a lot more sense to me. This is an excellent example, and reminder to myself, of how we can easily become prey to our own situation and context as an overlay upon someone else’s and then become puzzled at the contradictions. Blackie seems to view the Celtic myths, stories, and legends as a way to relate psychologically and physically — not spiritually per se — to the land.
Scotch-Irish Blackie was born in England and has lived mostly in Scotland and Ireland. She offers the Celtic traditional stories of “first things,†which “honor Women as the creators of life, the bearers of the Cup of knowledge and wisdom, personifying the moral and spiritual authority of this fertile green and blue Earth†– and great stories they are. She mixes her personal story and poetry with the old stories. Here is how she states her understanding. “The sense of belonging to the world that those of us in these Western lands once had, that sense of deep rooting in the Earth, is all but dead. The patriarchy crippled it; Modernity dealt it the final blow. As a woman, I want to make it live again. We belong to each other, this land and I. The Eco-Heroine’s Journey is a journey back to a solid rooting in the land where we live and the traditions of our native places.†Her advice to older women: Pass your wisdom on. Tell your own story. Your truth shatters hypocrisy. When necessary, become fierce. Be wrathful.
I found this book to be illuminating, heartening and empowering. Among its many gifts, it names the work that must be done: the sacred task of bringing the world into balance. Strong women are essential to this; nothing else makes any sense. So it is that women must reclaim their power and sovereignty. This is no small task, but the book clears away the brush to reveal how the path unfolds, how our struggles can actually be doorways, and how we can find great sustenance in Nature. Many of us have already be have been walking this path, perhaps without full awareness. With this book comes a click of recognition: Now I see who I truly am and I know what I must do.
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