Cosimo is delighted to announce the publication of The Power of Yin by renowned modern philosophers Hazel Henderson, Jean Houston, and Barbara Marx Hubbard, and edited by Barbara DeLaney.

This is the first project I’ve shepherded from manuscript to finished book since I started working with Cosimo, and I’m very excited about it. There seems to be something in the zeitgeist lately about the interconnectedness between spirituality, feminism, and eco-awareness — it’s not merely a resurgence of the early essence of Earth Day in the 1970s but a new awareness that feminine attitudes, expression, and approaches to interacting with the world are going to need to be brought to bear if humanity is to make it through the next century.

And Hazel Henderson, Jean Houston, and Barbara Marx Hubbard were talking about this thirty years ago. Here’s the description from the back of the book. Yeah, it’s a little “marketing-y,” but I wrote this, and I honestly believe it:

What are the best tactics to take to head off global environmental disaster? Is industrial society in decline, and if so, how should we manage its dismantling? How can humanity better integrate itself into the continuum of evolving technologies that surround us? Three of the most influential feminist philosophers of the 1970s met over two weekends in 1977 and 1978 to discuss the challenges facing society in the late 20th century… and their revelatory, inspiring conversation, reproduced here for the first time, is startlingly fresh and relevant for us today, as we rise to meet the challenges of the new millennium.

With an uplifting spiritual perspective on the human experience and a uniquely feminine approach to interacting with the universe, Hazel Henderson, Jean Houston, and Barbara Marx Hubbard — with an able assist from editor Barbara DeLaney — here offer a magnificently feminist, grandly humanist, rousingly hopeful approach to the myriad challenges facing planet Earth and her people today.

The Power of Yin is more than a brilliant conversation. It is an invitation to women and men everywhere to express their own genius and empower their highest values and goals, to seek out others who attract them in this quest for personal development, to form ever deeper friendships, and to join together in spirit and in action to help evolve the human community on planet Earth.

Who are the authors? Hazel Henderson is a world-renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, and consultant on sustainable development. Jean Houston is advisor to UNICEF in human and cultural development, and a principal founder of the Human Potential Movement. Barbara Marx Hubbard is president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution and a cofounder of Washington D.C.’s Committee for the Future.

I know I kinda have to say things like this, but The Power of Yin is a really fascinating book, and an important one, too. So check it out.

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