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. Macy and Brown present exercises and practices for group work in seven modules: (1) affirmation coming from gratitude, (2) despair worl owning and honoring our pain for the world (3) the shift seeing with new eyes, and (4) deep time reconnecting with past and future generations, (5) the council of all beings rejoining the.
The lively, personal presentation of Joanna’s work will appeal to workshop facilitators and participants alike, as well as anyone with an interest in personal transformation. Table of Contents Foreword by Mathew Fox 1. A powerful visual tool building on Joanna Macy’s book Coming Back to Life (see below), this valuable resource is a light in the political darkness of our time. 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". 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.
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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.
We are beset by climate change, fracking, tar sands extraction, GMOs, and mass extinctions of species, to say nothing of nuclear weapons proliferation. 4.39 Rating details 194 ratings 12 reviews. 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. Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work that Reconnects. 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.