Dreaming the Past, Dreaming the Future: A Herstory of the Earth [Paperback]

Diane Stein (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1991

We all want to know what will happen to the earth and to those who come after us, our children and our grandchildren. Diane, seeking an answer, has gone to women visionaries and seers: women who channel the future and those who bring it to life in their writings. This is the time, Diane avers, for women to define what needs to be changed and begin to do the work. By women’s power of thought and creation, we together can make a better world.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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About the Author

DIANE STEIN is a popular and acclaimed healer and the best-selling author of Essential Reiki and 25 other books in the fields of metaphysical healing, women's spirituality, and alternative health. She lives and teaches in Florida.

 THE AUTHOR SCOOP

Read any good books lately?My favorite reading is science fiction, there are new good books coming out every day.  Look at Sharon Shinn, Tamora Pierce, Ann Bishop, and so many more talented women fiction writers.If you had to boil your book's message down to one sentence, what would it be?Serve the Light, trust the Light, make a difference in the world with who you are and what you do.

What are you working on now?I prefer to keep future books a secret until they are finished.  No one will know until the manuscript is mailed in.Do you eat your vegetables?I have been a vegetarian since 1983.  I do eat my vegetables.If you had a superpower, what would it be?Wonder Woman, of course.How long did it take you to write this book?  I have been working with herbs for over 35 years, so you could say it took that long to write it. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 231 pages
• Publisher: Crossing Pr (September 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0895945193
• ISBN-13: 978-0895945198
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,480,181 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

DIANE STEIN is the author of Essential Reiki, Essential Energy Balancing, and more than 30 books in the fields of metaphysics, women's spirituality, and alternative healing.

She teaches Essential Reiki and Essential Energy Balancing workshop weekends, mostly for women, in Florida (contact [e-mail] if you are interested in attending). See her website www.dianestein.net for books, handmade gemstone Goddess jewelry, antler and crystal ritual wands, workshops for women and more.

Coming up: books on ebook, and some formerly out of print books returning on ebook and in print. New in December, 2011--Prosperity and the Light from ARE's 4th Dimension Press, also coming Healing Flowers A-Z from The Lotus Press. Watch for the return of Brede's Garden Essences and the Lords of Karma video on DVD--coming soon, see www.dianestein.net.

Diane does private phone sessions for healing, karmic release, psychic reading, etc. Cost is $125 for 1/2+ hour. Contact [e-mail].

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12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars bias vs balance, December 13, 2007

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perla "Being. Differently." (Planet Earth) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Prophetic Visions of the Future (Paperback)

When I first read this book in 1998, I felt that the lowest rating should be 0 stars because after I read it from cover2cover, I immediately threw it away. I didn't even want to donate it to the local library. By writing and publishing this book, the author is guilty herself of practicing an opposite-gender-bias equal to that practiced against women by religious men and male historians of our patriarchal world history.

The author, in this book, reveals her biases, fears and hate of men. She forgets that one of the deepest meanings of Feminine divine is Community and Sacred Interconnection. It is a patriarchal programming and mindset that creates Heirarchy and Inequality of one over another. Her envisioned future of powerful women who dominate over men, continues this karmic cycle.

I wrote this review 10 years ago when I began to first be curious about prophecies and also became aware of the patriarchal history of gender bias against women. this book presents visions and prophecies strongly tainted with the bias that societies will be better ONLY IF women are the dominant forces and the ruling class. Although I too believe that females' gifts and contributions are part of our modern day world's healing process, as the author does, I do not believe that female rule and domination is The Answer to the human race's higher evolution as is illustrated in this book.

I was disappointed to have found, in this book of prophecies, future utopias describing men in inferior roles, ignoring their undeniable potential to contribute to society as equals. Stein's prophecies put forward, matriarchal cultures and societies that continue PATRONIZATION and INJUSTICE of one gender over another, that is the female sex over the male sex. How can a healer of Ms. Stein's caliber put forward an imbalanced future that renders males' talents and gifts inferior to that of females'? Don't we women have love for our sons, and the sons of our daughters? And so the gist of my review is that this future that Stein has prophesied is just as bad as patriarchal societies that have been doing injustice to women. Deep down in our deepest selves, our souls, we are beyond ego and illusion, we are beyond male and female, are we not? But in this future envisioned by Stein continues to incur karmic debt... it is a future that still is imprisoned by yet another set of rules, dogma and illusion...

Our individual and collective lives need women to reclaim their Masculine and the Men to Reclaim their Feminine(which usually takes place it mid-life transitioning time AKA "mid life crisis").

Prophecies are echoes of possible futures. The visions of this book are of a future not beneficial or desirable for the advancement and evolution of the human race (and who cares what gender you are!) since whether you are a woman or a man should not even be a point of privilege and cause for inequality in the future.

If prophecy is fulfilled by where our attention is given, then I cannot give this book any more attention. For my hope of the future is not filled with more gender bias, inequality and oppression (or of any other sort), but rather for balance and healing.