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Coming back to life5/7/2023 ![]() "The Dalai Lama nailed it: a timeless manual for Earth healers, inspires actionable hope. Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee Ph.D., Sufi teacher and author, Spiritual Ecology, the Cry of the Earth Joanna Macy and Molly Brown outline the simple and essential choices we need to make, and give us the tools to make this shift. "Here is a blueprint for our present time-an honest and openhearted appraisal of our globally destructive and abusive behavior, and the work required to transform, to shift into a life-sustaining culture. Pointing the way forward out of apathy, it offers personal counsel as well as easy-to-use methods for group work that profoundly affect peoples' outlook and ability to act in the world. Coming Back to Life introduces the Work's theoretical foundations, illuminating the angst of our era with extraordinary insight. ![]() The Work that Reconnects has spread around the world, inspiring hundreds of thousands to work toward a life-sustaining human culture. New chapters address engaging communities of color, children and teens in the Work. In this fully updated edition of Coming Back to Life, they show how grief, anger and fear are healthy responses to threats to life, and when honored can free us from paralysis or panic, through the revolutionary practice of the Work that Reconnects. Many of us fall prey to despair even as we feel called to respond to these threats to life on our planet.Īuthors Joanna Macy and Molly Brown address the anguish experienced by those who would confront the harsh realities of our time. We are beset by climate change, fracking, tar sands extraction, GMOs, and mass extinctions of species, to say nothing of nuclear weapons proliferation and Fukushima, the worst nuclear disaster in history.
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