
Coming Back to Life
New Society Publishers
Published on 1. October 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
223 pages
978-0-86571-391-8 (ISBN)
Description
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. Coming Back to Life provides a much needed update and expansion of this pioneering work. 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.
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". 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. Table of Contents Foreword by Mathew Fox 1. To Choose Life 2. The Greatest Danger: Apatheia, The Deadening of Mind & Heart 3. The Basic Miracle: Our True Nature & Power 4. The Work that Reconnects 5. Guiding Group Work 6. Affirmation: Coming from Gratitude 7. Despair Work: Owning & Honoring Our Pain for the World 8. The Shift: Seeing with New Eyes 9. Deep Time: Drawing on Past & Future Generations 10. The Council of All Beings: Rejoining the Natural World 11. Going Forth 12. 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
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". 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. Table of Contents Foreword by Mathew Fox 1. To Choose Life 2. The Greatest Danger: Apatheia, The Deadening of Mind & Heart 3. The Basic Miracle: Our True Nature & Power 4. The Work that Reconnects 5. Guiding Group Work 6. Affirmation: Coming from Gratitude 7. Despair Work: Owning & Honoring Our Pain for the World 8. The Shift: Seeing with New Eyes 9. Deep Time: Drawing on Past & Future Generations 10. The Council of All Beings: Rejoining the Natural World 11. Going Forth 12. 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
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Language
English
Place of publication
Gabriola Island
United States
Dimensions
Height: 155 mm
Width: 230 mm
Weight
400 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-86571-391-8 (9780865713918)
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Persons
Joanna Macy is a teacher and tireless workshop leader from Berkeley, California.