Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (915 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 086571391X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Joanna Macy is a teacher and tireless workshop leader from Berkeley, California.
. About the Author Joanna Macy is a teacher and tireless workshop leader from Berkeley, California
Guiding Group Work6. Many of us feel called to respond to the ecological destruction of our planet, yet we feel overwhelmed, immobilized, and unable to deal realistically with the threats to life on Earth. Noted spiritual and environmental thinkers Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown contend that this crippling response to world crisis is a psychological defense mechanism that has been endemic since the years of the Cold War arms race, when we had to adapt within a single generation to the horrific possibility of nuclear holocaust.Since its publication in 1983, Joanna Macy's book, Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age has sold nearly 30,000 copies and has been the primary resource for groups of men and women confronting the challenging realities of our time without succumbing to paralysis or panic. The Basic Miracle: Our True Nature & Power4. At the interface between spiritual breakthrough and social action, Coming Back to Life is eloquent and compelling as well as being an inspiring and practical guide. Despair Work: Owning & Honoring Our Pain for the World8. Deep Time: Drawing on Past & Future Generations10. Affirmation: Coming from Gratitude7. Going Forth12. Coming Back to Life provides a much needed update and expansion of this pioneering work. The Council of All Beings: Rejoining the Natural World11. To Choose Life2. Meditations for Coming Back
Inspiring, universal truths about self, community and world. Without having to consult a post-modern dictionary, Joanna Macy and co-author, Molly Young Brown give inspiring and heartfelt explanations and examples of their lifework: dealing with the roots of conscious and unconscious pain that we all feel with regards to ourselves, while bringing home the concept of our connectedness to this wo. This book is literally life saving. T. Francene Watson As a collective, we are finally ready to read Macy's work. In this state of Blessed Unrest we are getting more aware of our own grief around the world we have created around the global industrial complex, Macy and Brown remind us of our authentic selves, and provide a road map for creating relationship strong enough to undo and gener. Amber Dahlin said A Wonderful Resource. This dear book is rich with group minglings, guided meditations, other exercises, and all of the theory to go with them. It's a great resource for anyone interested in or involved with mediating workshops, anyone that knows a group that's interested in moving beyond pain and sorry and connecting deeply with the earth and with each ot