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Coming Back to Life
The Updated Guide to The Work that Reconnects
Joanna Macy, Molly Brown
- 379 pages
- English
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Coming Back to Life
The Updated Guide to The Work that Reconnects
Joanna Macy, Molly Brown
About This Book
Inspiration, practices, and meditations to empower us in the face of planetary suffering: "True wisdom for tough times." âJohn Robbins, author of Diet for a New America Deepening global crises surround us, causing many to fall prey to denial and despair. Coming Back to Life shows how grief, anger, and fear are healthy responses to the harsh realities of our time, and that when honored through the revolutionary practice of the Work That Reconnects, they can free us from paralysis and move us toward creative action. This new, completely updated edition of the classic text illuminates the extraordinary Work that has inspired hundreds of thousands to make strides towards the creation of a life-sustaining human culture. Buddhist scholar and environmental activist Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown introduce the Work's theoretical foundations, revealing the angst of our era with remarkable insight. Pointing the way forward out of apathy, they offer personal counsel as well as easy-to-use methods for group process that profoundly affect people's outlook and ability to act in the world. "If you want to connect with your joy even in the midst of sadness, if you want to see new life arise out of despair, Coming Back to Life has my highest possible recommendation." âJohn Robbins, author of Diet for a New America and co-founder and president, The Food Revolution Network "A must for all who want to mobilize humanity in service of all beings. These concepts, exercises, and meditations have proven to work across generations, religions, ethnicities and races." âRabbi Mordechai Liebling, Director of Social Justice Organizing, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Permissions
- Message from Dalai Lama
- Foreword
- Preface by Joanna Macy
- Preface by Molly Young Brown
- Chapter 1: To Choose Life
- Chapter 2: The Greatest Danger â The Deadening of Heart and Mind
- Chapter 3: The Basic Miracle â Our True Nature and Power
- Chapter 4: What is the Work that Reconnects?
- Chapter 5: Guiding the Work that Reconnects
- Chapter 6: Coming from Gratitude
- Chapter 7: Honoring Our Pain for the World
- Chapter 8: Seeing With New Eyes
- Chapter 9: Deep Time â Reconnecting with Past and Future Generations
- Chapter 10: Going Forth
- Chapter 11: The Work that Reconnects with Children and Teens
- Chapter 12: Learning with Communities of Color
- Chapter 13: Meditations for the Great Turning
- Appendix A: Chief Seattleâs Message
- Appendix B: The Bestiary
- Appendix C: Ethics and Declarations of Rights
- Appendix D: Bodywork and Movement and Using the Spiral in Writing Workshops
- Endnotes
- Resources
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors