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Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World Paperback – October 1, 1998

by Joanna Macy (Author), Molly Young Brown (Author), Matthew Fox (Foreword)

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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

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Molly Young Brown teaches at the Graduate School of Holistic Studies at John F. Kennedy University.

Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: New Society Publishers; F First Paperback Edition Used edition (October 1, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 086571391X
ISBN-13: 978-0865713918
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces
Average Customer Review: 12 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #532,593 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #205 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > New Age & Spirituality > Gaia
- #1586 in Books > Science & Math > Environment > Environmentalism
- #2637 in Books > Science & Math > Nature & Ecology > Conservation

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KimE

and I really enjoyed it and found it to be a great help ...

February 1, 2016

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This is a necessary read for when our ecological dilemmas come crashing down on us and we feel a bit overwhelmed and trapped by them. But then again, Joanna Macy has many books on that same topic. I've only read this one, and I really enjoyed it and found it to be a great help for overcoming some of these feelings that we just don't want to deal with.

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John D. Nachtrieb

important read

June 20, 2013

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Joanna Macy is someone everybody should read at least once. Her perspective on how we struggle and suffer provides a point of view that passes over most people, and is very helpful and useful for understanding what we are experiencing and how we feel--and how we can use our feelings as a way to better understand what is happening in our world and how we can move forward to heal ourselves and our planet.

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T. Francene Watson

This book is literally life saving.

October 1, 2009

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As a collective, we are finally ready to read Macy's work. In this state of Blessed Unrest we are getting more aware of our own grief around the world we have created around the global industrial complex, Macy and Brown remind us of our authentic selves, and provide a road map for creating relationship strong enough to undo and generate life. Through the piece we (re)member that we are what we've been waiting for.

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JR Crombez, Ph.D.

Good read

February 19, 2015

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This was another super book by Dr, Macy.

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Eliza J. Combs

This book is amazingly beautiful! And a wonderful tool with ideas for doing ...

December 9, 2016

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This book is amazingly beautiful! And a wonderful tool with ideas for doing group work as a therapist or facilitator.

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Mr. Robin Pryor

Creative

November 14, 2009

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A creative, imaginative and very practical book concerned to respond, individually and especially in group contexts, to the environmental perceptions that wilol give new life to Earth and we Earthlings

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Inspiring

August 20, 2015

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Inspiring, practical, uplifting. We all need these experiences every day!

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Dorothy M.McKenna

... gets across ideas that would make our world a better place in which to live

July 30, 2014