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Meditations for Coming Back to Life Joanna Macy has developed an international following over the course of 40 years as a speaker and workshop leader on Buddhist philosophy and the deep ecology movement This new, completely updated edition repositions the classic work within the context of deepening global crises and the cognitive, spiritual and perceptual revolutions occurring all around us. The Council of All Beings: Rejoining the Natural World 11. The original Coming Back to Life has helped people transform denial, despair and grief in the face of the social and ecological challenges of our time. Deep Time: Drawing on Past & Future Generations 10. Despair Work: Owning & Honoring Our Pain for the World 8. The Basic Miracle: Our True Nature & Power 4. The Greatest Danger: Apatheia, The Deadening of Mind & Heart 3. Table of Contents Foreword by Mathew Fox 1. We are beset by climate change, fracking, tar sands extraction, GMOs, and mass extinctions of species. The rest of the book offers both personal counsel and easy-to-use methods for working with groups in a number of ways to profoundly affect peoples' outlook and ability to act in the world. The first third of the book discusses with extraordinary insight the angst of our era, and the pain, fear, guilt and inaction it has engendered it then points forward to the way out of apathy, tio "the work that reconnects".
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Molly Young Brow n is a teacher, trainer, counselor, and author of four previous books on psychology and Earth-based spirituality. 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. Joanna Macy is a scholar, eco-philosopher, teacher, activist, and author of twelve previous books including Coming Back to Life.
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Coming Back to Life provides a much needed update and expansion of this pioneering work. 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. 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. 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.