SHE WHO SPINS THE COILS OF CREATION

Della-Madre offers a feminist reappraisal of science and the universe in this philosophical work.

The author, a speaker, writer, and independent scholar, believes that our universe is, at every level, female. From ancient mythologies across the world to modern understandings of genetics (which prove that we’re all initially female in the womb), clues abound suggesting the inherent female nature of Mother Nature. Della-Madre also posits that all things in the universe are created and connected by electricity—known in various traditions as aether, plasma, prana, or chi, among other terms—and that this Electric Universe is alive in a way that the cold, gravity-governed universe of modern physics fails to understand. With this book, Della-Madre attempts to “connect the cosmologies of the Female Universe and the Electric Universe” while revealing the great crime of history that has obfuscated these cosmologies: specifically, that the eternal female “has been hated, tortured, raped, and murdered for millennia by a devastating virus-like infestation of male dominance and violence fueled by worldwide misogyny.” From the Epic of Gilgamesh and megalithic monuments to a revisionist history of whom she considers to be the West’s most overrated male scientists and philosophers, Della-Madre puts forth a radical new vision of the universe that is, according to her, as old as the cosmos itself. The author is a skilled storyteller, and her treatment of language is playful, if sometimes slightly jargon-heavy. For example, she theorizes a feminized alternative to evolution called “vulvalution,” which she defines as the “process of the coiling, turning, spiraling electric energy rolling and winding out the oneness of creation from the gyne/vulva/womb of the gynocentric uni/yoniverse” (the text also capitalizes the maternal main words like plasMA and MAtrix). The book’s premise requires Della-Madre to depart from historical and scientific consensus across multiple dimensions, and not all readers will be willing to follow her. While this book seems unlikely to foment the revolution she hopes for, those drawn to feminist spirituality will likely find much here to ponder.

An intriguing and wide-ranging argument for revising our preconceptions about the universe.