[Scpg] exciting new book: "Navigating the Coming Chaos" by Carolyn Baker

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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.
 
 
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