I've just discovered a new book - "Navigating the Coming Chaos: A Handbook for Inner Transition" by therapist/historian Carolyn Baker, with a foreword by Andrew Harvey.  It's recommended by Caroline Myss and includes insights from people like Richard Heinberg, John O'Donohue, Bill McKibben, John Michael Greer, Thomas Berry, Brian Swimme, Malidoma Some, Michael Meade, Pema Chodron, Eckhart Tolle, Carl Gustav Jung, Joanna Macy, Bill Plotkin and many others who have or are exploring the outer limits of successful living in radically changing times.

 

I'm wondering if for some of us this book might be a good way to get a "Heart and Soul of Transition" group going? It has useful chapters and exercises to kick off discussion and action.

 

Here's the description of the book: "The collapse of industrial civilization, well underway since at least 2007, presents humankind with unprecedented and daunting challenges in the area of energy, environment and economics. Just as The Transition Handbook of 2008 provided specific strategies for addressing these changes logistically, Navigating the Coming Chaos provides a toolkit of emotional and spiritual preparation for an uncertain future.  It offers us an opportunity to step across an evolutionary threshold in order to become a new kind of human being living in conscious self-awareness of our intimate connection with all life in the universe."

 

In addition to a clear, unblinking presentation of the facts of our current collective situation, Baker offers wise counsel as to how we can cope emotionally and spiritually with the spiraling traumatic changes we're experiencing. She grounds us in nature, community, beauty and Spirit as we each strive to find our calling and purpose in helping ourselves and our fellow beings to survive and thrive as we move together into an uncharted future. In this endeavor she discusses not only practical survival but also the necessity for the arts,  beauty, dreamwork, meditation, ritual and depth psychology.