RESOURCES
For the past few years, I have been deeply immersed in PURPOSE. Here are some of my favorite readings, poems and quotes on the topic for your enjoyment:
Your purpose "is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet."
—Frederick Buechner
Musicians must make music,
artists must paint, poets must write
if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.
What human beings can be, they must be.
They must be true to their own nature.
This need we call self-actualization
It refers to human’s desire for self-fulfillment,
namely to the tendency
to become actually what she is potentially:
to become everything one is capable of becoming.
—Abraham Maslow
Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic selfhood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we ought to be. As we do so, we will not only find the joy that every human being seeks―we will also find our path of authentic service in the world.
—Parker Palmer
The two most important days in life are the day you are born and the day you discover why.
— Mark Twain
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.— Michelangelo
Clearing
Do not try to save the whole world or do anything grandiose.
Instead, create a clearing in the dense forest of your life and wait there patiently, until the song that is your life falls into your own cupped hands
and you recognize and greet it. Only then will you know how to give yourself to this world so worthy of rescue.—Martha Postlewaite
Is the life you’re living the same as the life that wants to live in you?—Parker Palmer
The purpose of life is to create a life of purpose.—Richard Gregg
I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world! — Mary Oliver
A person’s life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art, or love, or passionate work, those one or two images in the presence of which his heart first opened.
—Albert Camus
David Whyte calls purpose “the truth at the center of the image you were born with…
the largest conversation you can have with the world.” He also adds that
“…to be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others…”
If at the soul’s core we are images, then we must define life as the actualization over time… of that originating seed image, what Michelangelo called the imagine del cuor, or the image in the heart, and that image — not the time that actualized it —is the primary determinant of your life. —James Hillman
The gift you carry for others is not an attempt to save the world but to fully belong to it. It's not possible to save the world by trying to save it. You need to find what is genuinely yours to offer the world before you can make it a better place. Discovering your unique gift to bring to your community is your greatest opportunity and challenge. The offering of that gift - your true self - is the most you can do to love and serve the world. And it is all the world needs. — Bill Plotkin
The Journey of Soul Initiation, Bill Plotkin
The Golden Thread, Holly Woods
Planet on Purpose, Brandon Peele
Regenerative Purpose, Wendy May
Active Hope & Widening Circles, Joanna Macy
True Purpose, Tim Kelley
Emergence, Derek Rydall
The Soul's Code, James Hillman
Evolution's Purpose, Steve McIntosh
The Purpose Economy, Aaron Hurst
The Red Book, Sera Beak
Vital Signs & Callings, Gregg Levoy
Seven Whispers, Christina Baldwin
The Four Desires, Rod Stryker
Presence, Senge et al.
Persephone Rising, Carol Pearson
Life Reimagined, Barbara Bradley Hagerty
Wishcraft, Barbara Sher
Finding Your Element, Robinson
The Path to Purpose, William Damon
The Power of Purpose, Leider
Living Every Day with Passion & Purpose, Kelly
Anything at all by Bill Plotkin (Soulcraft, Wild Mind, etc.) and the great poet, David Whyte
For the past few years, I have been deeply immersed in PURPOSE. Here are some of my favorite readings, poems and quotes on the topic for your enjoyment:
Your purpose "is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet."
—Frederick Buechner
Musicians must make music,
artists must paint, poets must write
if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.
What human beings can be, they must be.
They must be true to their own nature.
This need we call self-actualization
It refers to human’s desire for self-fulfillment,
namely to the tendency
to become actually what she is potentially:
to become everything one is capable of becoming.
—Abraham Maslow
Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic selfhood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we ought to be. As we do so, we will not only find the joy that every human being seeks―we will also find our path of authentic service in the world.
—Parker Palmer
The two most important days in life are the day you are born and the day you discover why.
— Mark Twain
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.— Michelangelo
Clearing
Do not try to save the whole world or do anything grandiose.
Instead, create a clearing in the dense forest of your life and wait there patiently, until the song that is your life falls into your own cupped hands
and you recognize and greet it. Only then will you know how to give yourself to this world so worthy of rescue.—Martha Postlewaite
Is the life you’re living the same as the life that wants to live in you?—Parker Palmer
The purpose of life is to create a life of purpose.—Richard Gregg
I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world! — Mary Oliver
A person’s life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art, or love, or passionate work, those one or two images in the presence of which his heart first opened.
—Albert Camus
David Whyte calls purpose “the truth at the center of the image you were born with…
the largest conversation you can have with the world.” He also adds that
“…to be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others…”
If at the soul’s core we are images, then we must define life as the actualization over time… of that originating seed image, what Michelangelo called the imagine del cuor, or the image in the heart, and that image — not the time that actualized it —is the primary determinant of your life. —James Hillman
The gift you carry for others is not an attempt to save the world but to fully belong to it. It's not possible to save the world by trying to save it. You need to find what is genuinely yours to offer the world before you can make it a better place. Discovering your unique gift to bring to your community is your greatest opportunity and challenge. The offering of that gift - your true self - is the most you can do to love and serve the world. And it is all the world needs. — Bill Plotkin
The Journey of Soul Initiation, Bill Plotkin
The Golden Thread, Holly Woods
Planet on Purpose, Brandon Peele
Regenerative Purpose, Wendy May
Active Hope & Widening Circles, Joanna Macy
True Purpose, Tim Kelley
Emergence, Derek Rydall
The Soul's Code, James Hillman
Evolution's Purpose, Steve McIntosh
The Purpose Economy, Aaron Hurst
The Red Book, Sera Beak
Vital Signs & Callings, Gregg Levoy
Seven Whispers, Christina Baldwin
The Four Desires, Rod Stryker
Presence, Senge et al.
Persephone Rising, Carol Pearson
Life Reimagined, Barbara Bradley Hagerty
Wishcraft, Barbara Sher
Finding Your Element, Robinson
The Path to Purpose, William Damon
The Power of Purpose, Leider
Living Every Day with Passion & Purpose, Kelly
Anything at all by Bill Plotkin (Soulcraft, Wild Mind, etc.) and the great poet, David Whyte
CONSCIOUS AGING RESOURCES:
Organizations
Conscious Aging Alliance has collected many groups focused on Conscious Aging including these (http://www.secondjourney.org/mission/alliance/alliance.htm)
The Center for Conscious Eldering in Durango Colorado (www.centerforconsciouseldering.com)
Fierce with Age online digest and self-guided online retreats (www.fiercewithage.com)
Gray is Green responds to ecological challenges (www.grayisgreen.org)
Institute of Noetic Sciences has Conscious Aging Programs (www.noetic.org)
The Legacy of Wisdom Project in Switzerland (www.legacyofwisdom.com)
The Life Planning Network is a community of professionals and organizations dedicated to helping people navigate the second half of life (www.lifeplanningnetwork.org)
Memorial Brain Works focuses on a brain-healthy lifestyle (www.memorialbrainworks.com)
The National Center for Creative Aging focuses on the creative healing process of self expression (www.creativeaging.org)
Fruitful Aging and Recognition Rites for Elders (www.drtompinkson.com)
Sage-ing International works to change belief system from aging to sage-ing (www.sage-ing.org)
Second Journey offers workshops on mindfulness, service and community in the second half of life (www.SecondJourney.org)
The Elder Spirituality Project of Spirituality & Practice (www.SpiritualityPractice.com)
Reading
The Second Half of Life, Angeles Arrien
Ethical Wills: Putting Your Values on Paper, Barry K. Baines
Calling the Circle: The First and Foremost Culture, Christina Baldwin
Composing A Life and Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom, Mary Catherine Bateson
The Next Fifty Years: A Guide for Women at Mid-Life and Beyond, Pamela Blair
Aging In Community, Janice Blanchard (ed)
Goddesses in Older Women & Crones Don’t Whine, Jean Shinoda Bolen
Second Journeys: The Dance of Spirit In Later Life, Anthony Bolton (ed)
Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes, William Bridges
Once Upon a Midlife: Classic Stories and Mythic Tales to Illuminate the Middle Years, Allan B. Chinen MD
Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change, Pema Chodron
The Elder, Marc Cooper and James Selman
Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying, Ram Dass
Age Power: How the 21st Century Will be Ruled by the New Old and Age Wave: The Challenges and Opportunities of an Aging America, Ken Dychtwald, PhD and Joe Flower
The Final Crossing: Learning To Die In Order to Live, Scott Eberle
What Should I Do With the Rest of My Life: True Stories of Finding
Success, Passion and New Meaning in the Second Half of Life, Bruce Frankel
Women’s Lives, Women’s Legacies: Passing Your Beliefs and Blessings to Future Generations, Rachel Freed
Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform American, Encore: Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life, and The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife, Marc Freedman
The Fountain of Age, Betty Friedan
Listening to Midlife: Turning Your Crisis into a Quest, Mark Gerzon
Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death, Joan Halifax
“Granny D”: Walking Across America in my 90th Year, Doris Haddock
The Force of Character and the Lasting Life and The Soul’s Code, James Hillman
True Purpose: 12 Strategies for Discovering the Difference You are Meant
to Make, Tim Kelley
Claiming Your Place at the Fire: Living the Second Half of Your Life on Purpose, Richard J. Leider & David A. Shapiro
Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities, Richard J. Leider
Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow, Elizabeth Lesser
A Year to Live: How to Live this Year as if it Were Your Last, Stephen Levine
Live Smart After 50: The Expert’s Guide to Life Planning for Uncertain Times,
Life Planning Network (50 contributing writers)
The Third Chapter: Passion Risk and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50, Sarah Lawrence Lightfoot
I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion, Dawna Markova
The Sage’s Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice For the Second Half of Life, William Martin
Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in Without Going Crazy, Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone
Chasing Daylight: How My Forthcoming Death Transformed My Life, Eugene O’Kelly
A Hidden Wholeness, Parker Palmer
Conscious Living, Conscious Aging and The Inner Work of Eldering, Ron Pevny
Memoir of the Soul, Nan Merrick Phifer
Fruitful Aging: Finding the Gold in the Golden Years, Tom Pinkson
Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of our Elders, Mary Pipher
A Time to Live: the Seven Tasks of Creative Aging, Robert Arnold Raines
Aging as a Spiritual Practice, Lewis Richmond
Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, Richard Rohr
On Women Turning 70: Honoring the Voices of Wisdom, Cathleen Rountree
The Making Of An Elder Culture, Theodore Roszak
Successful Aging, John W. Rowe and Robert L. Kahn
The Bitch, The Crone, The Harlot, Susan Schachertle
From Age-ing to Sage-ing: A Revolutionary Approach to Growing Older, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi & Ronald S. Miller
Soul Mission, Life Vision: Recognize Your True Gifts and Make Your Mark in the World, Alan Seale
Doing 60 and 70, Gloria Steinem
Coming Home to Myself, Turning to One Another, How Does Raven Know? Margaret Wheatley
The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife, Marianne Williamson
What Really Matters: 7 Lessons for Living from the Stories of the Dying, Karen M. Wyatt, MD
Gray Heroes: Elder Tales from Around the World, Yolen, Jane
Movies
About Schmidt
Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood
Driving Miss Daisy
Fierce Grace
Finding Forester
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Get Real! Wise Women Speak
I’m Not Rappaport
Jack
The Joy Luck Club
Illusion
Men With Guns
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Mrs. Brown
My House in Umbria
Nobody’s Fool
On Golden Pond
Seymour, An Introduction
The Shell Seekers
Still Alice
The Straight Story
Strangers in Good Company
Tuesdays With Morrie
Twilight
Waking Ned Divine
Organizations
Conscious Aging Alliance has collected many groups focused on Conscious Aging including these (http://www.secondjourney.org/mission/alliance/alliance.htm)
The Center for Conscious Eldering in Durango Colorado (www.centerforconsciouseldering.com)
Fierce with Age online digest and self-guided online retreats (www.fiercewithage.com)
Gray is Green responds to ecological challenges (www.grayisgreen.org)
Institute of Noetic Sciences has Conscious Aging Programs (www.noetic.org)
The Legacy of Wisdom Project in Switzerland (www.legacyofwisdom.com)
The Life Planning Network is a community of professionals and organizations dedicated to helping people navigate the second half of life (www.lifeplanningnetwork.org)
Memorial Brain Works focuses on a brain-healthy lifestyle (www.memorialbrainworks.com)
The National Center for Creative Aging focuses on the creative healing process of self expression (www.creativeaging.org)
Fruitful Aging and Recognition Rites for Elders (www.drtompinkson.com)
Sage-ing International works to change belief system from aging to sage-ing (www.sage-ing.org)
Second Journey offers workshops on mindfulness, service and community in the second half of life (www.SecondJourney.org)
The Elder Spirituality Project of Spirituality & Practice (www.SpiritualityPractice.com)
Reading
The Second Half of Life, Angeles Arrien
Ethical Wills: Putting Your Values on Paper, Barry K. Baines
Calling the Circle: The First and Foremost Culture, Christina Baldwin
Composing A Life and Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom, Mary Catherine Bateson
The Next Fifty Years: A Guide for Women at Mid-Life and Beyond, Pamela Blair
Aging In Community, Janice Blanchard (ed)
Goddesses in Older Women & Crones Don’t Whine, Jean Shinoda Bolen
Second Journeys: The Dance of Spirit In Later Life, Anthony Bolton (ed)
Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes, William Bridges
Once Upon a Midlife: Classic Stories and Mythic Tales to Illuminate the Middle Years, Allan B. Chinen MD
Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change, Pema Chodron
The Elder, Marc Cooper and James Selman
Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying, Ram Dass
Age Power: How the 21st Century Will be Ruled by the New Old and Age Wave: The Challenges and Opportunities of an Aging America, Ken Dychtwald, PhD and Joe Flower
The Final Crossing: Learning To Die In Order to Live, Scott Eberle
What Should I Do With the Rest of My Life: True Stories of Finding
Success, Passion and New Meaning in the Second Half of Life, Bruce Frankel
Women’s Lives, Women’s Legacies: Passing Your Beliefs and Blessings to Future Generations, Rachel Freed
Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform American, Encore: Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life, and The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife, Marc Freedman
The Fountain of Age, Betty Friedan
Listening to Midlife: Turning Your Crisis into a Quest, Mark Gerzon
Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death, Joan Halifax
“Granny D”: Walking Across America in my 90th Year, Doris Haddock
The Force of Character and the Lasting Life and The Soul’s Code, James Hillman
True Purpose: 12 Strategies for Discovering the Difference You are Meant
to Make, Tim Kelley
Claiming Your Place at the Fire: Living the Second Half of Your Life on Purpose, Richard J. Leider & David A. Shapiro
Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities, Richard J. Leider
Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow, Elizabeth Lesser
A Year to Live: How to Live this Year as if it Were Your Last, Stephen Levine
Live Smart After 50: The Expert’s Guide to Life Planning for Uncertain Times,
Life Planning Network (50 contributing writers)
The Third Chapter: Passion Risk and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50, Sarah Lawrence Lightfoot
I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion, Dawna Markova
The Sage’s Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice For the Second Half of Life, William Martin
Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in Without Going Crazy, Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone
Chasing Daylight: How My Forthcoming Death Transformed My Life, Eugene O’Kelly
A Hidden Wholeness, Parker Palmer
Conscious Living, Conscious Aging and The Inner Work of Eldering, Ron Pevny
Memoir of the Soul, Nan Merrick Phifer
Fruitful Aging: Finding the Gold in the Golden Years, Tom Pinkson
Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of our Elders, Mary Pipher
A Time to Live: the Seven Tasks of Creative Aging, Robert Arnold Raines
Aging as a Spiritual Practice, Lewis Richmond
Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, Richard Rohr
On Women Turning 70: Honoring the Voices of Wisdom, Cathleen Rountree
The Making Of An Elder Culture, Theodore Roszak
Successful Aging, John W. Rowe and Robert L. Kahn
The Bitch, The Crone, The Harlot, Susan Schachertle
From Age-ing to Sage-ing: A Revolutionary Approach to Growing Older, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi & Ronald S. Miller
Soul Mission, Life Vision: Recognize Your True Gifts and Make Your Mark in the World, Alan Seale
Doing 60 and 70, Gloria Steinem
Coming Home to Myself, Turning to One Another, How Does Raven Know? Margaret Wheatley
The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife, Marianne Williamson
What Really Matters: 7 Lessons for Living from the Stories of the Dying, Karen M. Wyatt, MD
Gray Heroes: Elder Tales from Around the World, Yolen, Jane
Movies
About Schmidt
Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood
Driving Miss Daisy
Fierce Grace
Finding Forester
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Get Real! Wise Women Speak
I’m Not Rappaport
Jack
The Joy Luck Club
Illusion
Men With Guns
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Mrs. Brown
My House in Umbria
Nobody’s Fool
On Golden Pond
Seymour, An Introduction
The Shell Seekers
Still Alice
The Straight Story
Strangers in Good Company
Tuesdays With Morrie
Twilight
Waking Ned Divine
I am intrigued with the shadow and not just because it's the season of gray in Chicago. sounds strange, I know, if you've been in Circle with me where we focus on the good, the gold, shine our light! In "the Edge" Circle, my longest running Circle, we have taken a deep dive into wholehearted living, as Brene Brown calls it, which requires embracing the good, the bad, and the ugly. And so we are lovingly embracing our shadows in the safe container of Circle! No one writes about it better than Debbie Ford (The right questions, the shadow effect, the secret of the shadow).
If you've been in Circle with me before, you know I am a voracious reader. I enjoyed Martha Beck's latest, Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Crete the Life You Want. She is singing my song! I absolutely loved Jean Houston's latest The Wizard of Us: Transformational Lessons from Oz. Not only does she know how to tell a great story, but also Jean imbues the story with process and plan that this activist loves! Speaking of activism, while in DC recently, we happened upon an incredible place: Busboys & Poets http://www.busboysandpoets.com/. Besides great food and poetry open mic nights (and an Inaugural Peace Ball) they actually have a bookstore with a section on Activism. Their mission is to teach children to change the world! I fell in love! Picked up this little book we should all read: Speak Peace in a World of Conflict by Marshall Rosenberg. The subtitle says it all: what you say next will change your world.
I am inspired by Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone's brand new tale for transformation entitled Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy! Not only do they highlight the crises of our times (yes, we're in quite a mess!) but they also provide useful practices for healing and empowerment (yes, we can awaken, arise and hope while being active!). "What helps us face the mess we're in is the knowledge that each of us has something significant to offer, a contribution to make. In rising to the challenge of playing our best role, we discover something precious that both enriches our lives and adds to the healing of our world. An oyster, in response to trauma, grows a pearl. We grow, and offer, our gift of Active Hope."
Evolutionary Enlightenment by Andrea Cohen. Just read it! And if you haven't seen the movie, Journey of the Universe, do it! Or pick up Brian Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker's book of the same name.
Homo Deva: Evolution's Next Step by Mary Belknap. Here's what Jean Houston has to say about it:“Homo deva is at once rich and profound in its exploration of new ways of being. In a time that suggests that we have no alternative but to grow or die, Mary Belknap offers a pathway into our future selves that is both practical and achievable. To dialogue with the ideas in this book is to discover the evolving self that is latent in every one of us.”
~ Jean Houston, Ph.D., author, Jump Time
Sera Beak's The Red Book: A Deliciously Unorthodox Approach to Igniting Your Divine Spark....Just read it! It is as delightful as it sounds, and quite informative and inspirational, too. She sums up dozens of works she has read; the materially is wonderfully synthesized and entertainingly presented. Here's the ending (fear not, it gives away nothing): "Celebrate change. Trust your unique process. Realize who you are. Release your divinity into the world. We are waiting."
Books I recommend for Awakening Activists
Birth 2012, Barbara Marx Hubbard
Evolutionaries, Carter Phipps
Iron Butterflies, Birute Regine
Speak Peace in a World of Conflict, Marshall Rosenberg
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, Nicholas Kristof & Sherlyn WuDunn
Urgent Message from Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World, Jean Shinoda Bolen
Change the World: How Ordinary People Can Achieve Extraordinary Results, Robert E. Quinn
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, David Bornstein
Blessed Unrest, Paul Hawken
If Women Ruled the World: How to Create the World We Want to Live in, Sheila Ellison, ed.
A Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink
From Outrage to Courage, Anne Firth Murray
Books I recommend for Practicing Mindfulness
Just One Thing, Rick Hanson
The Mindfulness Revolution, Barry Boyce, ed.
Being Peace, Thich Nhat Hahn
Care of the Soul, Thomas Moore
Fire in the Soul, Joan Borysenko
Leave Your Mind Behind: The Everyday Practice of Finding Stillness Amid Rushing Thoughts, Matthew McKay
Living Deeply, IONS (DVD and book)
Meditation for Beginners, Jack Cornfield
The Meditative Mind, Daniel Goleman
Mindfulness, Bliss & Beyond, Ajahn Brahm
Minding the Body, Mending the Mind, Joan Borysenko
Moments in Between: The Art of the Quiet Mind, David Kundtz
The Miracle of Mindfulness, Thich Nhat Hanh
Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation, Sharon Salzburg
Wherever You Go, There You Are, Jon Kabat-Zinn
Your Soul’s Compass, Joan Borysenko
Chicago’s 50 Best places to find peace and quiet, Karin Horgan Sullivan
Other Highly Recommended Reads:
Anything by Barbara Marx Hubbard....this visionary octogenarian is profound. I guarantee you will learn something new and be motivated to live your best life. I have taken her online course called "Evolutionary Metamorphosis" and recently went to a retreat she led on this topic and am an Agent of Conscious Evolution graduate! This is really BIG, exciting stuff! Begin with Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of our Social Potential and then read Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence. Her latest is Birth 2012! This is one amazing human being!
Evolutionary Enlightenment by Andrew Cohen. I took a wonderful course called "Ten Agreements of Evolving Women" on The Shift Network! Great insights! To live a new worldview, we need to begin with our own Declaration of Interdependence and make new agreements!
The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image, Dr. Leonard Shlain's amazingly researched and logical thesis is that the advent of the alphabet resulted in the demise of the goddess! The implications for us are astounding!
Jump Time: Shaping your Future in a World of Radical Change by Jean Houston. How can we, the people of the parenthesis, make a better world? After reading this one, I am ready for a Personal JUMP Time! Let's go! If you ever have the chance to hear her speak, she will rock your world!
Anything by Barbara Marx Hubbard....this visionary octogenarian is profound. I guarantee you will learn something new and be motivated to live your best life. I have taken her online course called "Evolutionary Metamorphosis" and recently went to a retreat she led on this topic and am an Agent of Conscious Evolution graduate! This is really BIG, exciting stuff! Begin with Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of our Social Potential and then read Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence. Her latest is Birth 2012! This is one amazing human being!
Evolutionary Enlightenment by Andrew Cohen. I took a wonderful course called "Ten Agreements of Evolving Women" on The Shift Network! Great insights! To live a new worldview, we need to begin with our own Declaration of Interdependence and make new agreements!
The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image, Dr. Leonard Shlain's amazingly researched and logical thesis is that the advent of the alphabet resulted in the demise of the goddess! The implications for us are astounding!
Jump Time: Shaping your Future in a World of Radical Change by Jean Houston. How can we, the people of the parenthesis, make a better world? After reading this one, I am ready for a Personal JUMP Time! Let's go! If you ever have the chance to hear her speak, she will rock your world!