This is a time when we hear a lot about the Three Wise Men…but today I want to talk about Three Wise Women…Hazel Henderson, Jean Houston, and Barbara Marx Hubbard.
A number of years ago these three extraordinary human beings sat down to have a conversation — a wide-ranging discussion that might best be described in the editorial review appearing on Amazon.com…
“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.
“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 happen to know all three of these ladies — two of them (Jean and Barbara) quite well — and I can assure you that their breathtaking conversation is well worth your eavesdropping. I consider these three people to be among the most brilliant thinkers on the planet. You will, too, (if you don’t already) after reading this book. To me it is remarkable that a conversation which took place 30 years ago could have so much relevance today. It is a tribute to this remarkable trio that this is true.