Mother Earth:  Revisioning the Sacred

Mother Earth: Revisioning the Sacred is a long overdue documentary that brings the female image back into balance with our male dominated society.  Mary Hopkins beautifully shares the history of the female image in art and in society, elegantly bringing together the story of the sacred female.  Hopkin's research raises question such as:  What happened to Sacred image of the female? Where did She go? And why is the female image becoming a powerful icon for many modern artists in the 21st century?

The documentary explores the subtle and sometimes hidden theories of why the female image has lost strength in our culture, and to what effect her decline has influenced our art, our thinking and ultimately our relationship to nature.  Hopkins explores through a three-part perspective these questions and more.

The first part discusses how deeply the male point of view dominates our culture, and then leads us to the realization that along with a male god, there also are divine qualities in the archetype of the human female.  The second part also uses art history as a tool to understand how Western civilization lost the Goddess and how this loss compromises the quality of our lives.  In the last section, the works of modern women artists are used to balance the divinity of male and female.  This visual journey is about shared qualities of order, justice, unconditional love and nurture.

Recommended For:  those who feel the earth and human culture are out of balance, historians, ecologists, spiritual communities, women's spiritual circles, clergy, Comparative Religion and Women's Studies instructors.  Individuals who feel cultural dissonance will find this material to have an integrated point of view offering spiritual support and comfort.  This video is excellent for discussion groups, and is a must-see for anyone who has read the bestselling work The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown.

See below for information on the companion teaching guide for the video. 
 

Order the video through Rowe Camp and Conference Center, the project's sponsor.  Use the secure form, or call Rowe at 413-339-4954.  You can order by mail:   Rowe Camp and Conference Center, Kings Highway Road, PO Box 273, Rowe, MA 01367.

Here is the link for a pdf version of the teaching guide to the video. This is a large file.  If you do not have broadband or similar capacity, we suggest you view the file in 4 parts:

Teaching Guide part 1          Teaching Guide part 2       Teaching Guide part 3     Teaching Guide part 4

This tool is a helpful teaching aid with text, descriptions of slides, footnotes and short essays on salient points.  Make sure you have Acrobat Reader on your computer to view the guide (available for free on the Adobe website).  You are welcome to download the guide using Acrobat's Save function.