March 7, 6:30 pm

the "Earth Talks" Book Club presents

"The most remarkable feature of this historical moment on Earth is not that we are on the way to destroying the world  we've actually been on the way for quite a while. It is that we are beginning to wake up, as from a millennia-long sleep, to a whole new relationship to our world, to ourselves and each other."

"Earth Talks" will offer a safe place to nurture the Earth-centric aspects of our nature.  Utilizing the books and essays of some of today's greatest wisdom teachers, we will gather as a mutually supporting circle learning from both these important texts and one another. Through discussion, reflection and process we will expand our sense of connection and the reach of our compassion to deeper inclusion of the natural world.

On Monday March 7th at 6:30 pm we will explore the work of Buddhist scholar and deep ecologist Joanna Macy.  Participants our encouraged to read her book Coming Back to Life, her essays and/or watch some of her online videos (links below).

$5- 10 is the suggested donation for participating though no one will be turned away.

Joanna will be featured on KET2 in an upcoming airing of Natural Heroes in April!

"The Courage to See, the Power to Choose" with Joanna Macy, PhD

Gaian Teacher Joanna Macy PhD, is a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. A respected voice in the movements for peace, justice, and ecology, she interweaves her scholarship with five decades of activism. As the root teacher of the Work That Reconnects, she has created a ground-breaking theoretical framework for personal and social change, as well as a powerful workshop methodology for its application.

Her wide-ranging work addresses psychological and spiritual issues of the nuclear age, the cultivation of ecological awareness, and the fruitful resonance between Buddhist thought and contemporary science. The many dimensions of this work are explored in her books including Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age (1983); Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World 1998); Joanna's memoir entitled Widening Circles (2000); World as Lover, World as Self (2007), and A Year With Rilke, (with Anita Barrows, 2009).

"To Live in the Fullness of Time", Joanna Macy

Many thousands of people around the world have participated in Joanna's workshops and trainings. Her group methods, known as the Work That Reconnects, have been adopted and adapted yet more widely in classrooms, churches, and grassroots organizing. Her work helps people transform despair and apathy, in the face of overwhelming social and ecological crises, into constructive, collaborative action. It brings a new way of seeing the world, as our larger living body, freeing us from the assumptions and attitudes that now threaten the continuity of life on Earth.

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