by Nada Khader Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a deeply harmful practice that is rooted in ancient patriarchal culture and involves the cutting of varying amounts of female genitalia as a form of social control. Over two hundred million women and girls in the world today have been subjected to this form of torture.... Read more
Recipe Corner is a regular column by Liina Laufer Here are two delicious eggless, whole grain cakes that can be served in loafs, frosted in layers, or dribbled with a sauce (such as apple, lemon, or caramel sauce). They are adapted from recipes in Cooking for Consciousness by Joy McClure and Kendall Layne, which can st... Read more
by Nada Khader In her recently released memoir, Nancy Niiti Gannon takes us to a world of monks and nuns and Tantric Guru, far away from the humdrum of our 9-to-5 lives in the West. She shares with us her extraordinary encounters with the founder of Prout (Progressive Utilization Theory), Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, who in... Read more
by Miirabaii On the weekend of October 12-14 two simultaneous retreats were held at Ananda Viplava in Cairo, NY. Young margiis gathered for the Yoga Justice retreat, while some of the older social activists gathered for the third Prout Planning seminar. Prout is the acronym for the Progressive Utilization Theory, and... Read more
Proutcast Blog with Dada Veda and Mirra Price I’m sending an excerpt on pseudo-culture from this longer podcast on social justice and gender issues. I feel it is relevant in the political climate we are experiencing in this country today. Proutcasts are with Dada Veda who interviews students of the Progressive Utilizat... Read more
We have a new edition of our newsletter publication, Rising Sun. You can download a PDF version, but you need to open this post to use the link. The Winter 2019 edition is available as a PDF download here: https://www.proutwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/Rising-Sun-January-2019-For-Emailing.pdf Hope you enjoy reading it!... Read more
by Mirra Price I just went to see “Bombshell” with Charlize Theron as Megyn Kelly and Nicole Kidman as Gretchen Carlson. It was powerful to see how these women brought down serial sexual harasser, Roger Ailes of the Fox News Network. What struck me the most was the silence of dozens of women who had […] Read more
by Mirra Price Recently I had an upsetting experience in which an organization I had been in a leadership role for nearly a decade, abruptly ousted me from that role for a period of time. When that time period was over, we had a meeting which I thought would be about how I would resume […] Read more
by Mirra Price On the heels of the Me#Too! and Time’s Up! Movements, is the beginning of a transformation in the power structure between xanax men and women. I wholeheartedly support the myriad women who have stood up and called out sexual misconduct, some for recent sex crimes and some for sexist violent action... Read more
You can download it as a PDF here: https://www.proutwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/screenshot.jpg The individual articles will be available soon as posts at this site. Read more
By Miirabaii Price and Dada Maheshvarananda We all would like to think that we’re in control of all of our perceptions and our decisions. The suggestion that we may have been manipulated into buying something, whether it’s clothing or political rhetoric, is repugnant. Yet it happens all the time. Why? Because as human... Read more