Description
Book SynopsisA poignant and inspirational guide for a journey toward ecological spirituality and sustainable culture. Each chapter contains an essay and spiritual practices designed for both group and individualized reflection. Exercises include a wide range of suggestions such as guided meditations, journaling prompts, creative art projects, and ideas for concrete action. Readers can choose the exercises that best suit their personalities, lifestyles, and unique journeys
Trade Review“With empathy and penetrating insight, Rebecca James Hecking helps all of us, whatever our background or beliefs, become more intimate with the natural world—and with ourselves. She knows that soul-nourishing communion with the divine is about right relationship to the larger body of life. May this book inspire a generation of heart-led, visionary activists!” —Michael Dowd, author of Thank God for Evolution
“This book beautifully participates in what Thomas Berry has named the Great Work of our time, providing an excellent ‘how-to’ for groups and individuals seeking to meet the ecological urgency in renewed relationship with Earth and Cosmos and self.” —Glenys Livingstone, author of PaGaian Cosmology
Table of ContentsIntroduction
How to Use This Book
One: The Path of Awakening
Beginning with Love
Facing Ecological Reality
Mindless Living
How Much is Enough?
Cogs in the Machine
Industrial Civilization and Everyone Else
Two: The Path of Un-Learning
The Problems of Progress
Images of Earth
The Right to Life
Rethinking Genesis
The Vending Machine God
Letting Go and Moving Forward
Three: The Path of Discovery
Deep Time Journeys
Across the Wide Universe
Becoming Conscious Animals
Rare, Precious, and Not at All Inevitable
Reality?
Transformation
Four: The Path of Creation
Everyday Sacred
Facing, Embracing, Transcending
Slow Life
Meeting Our Soul’s Needs
Widening Our Circle
Falling in Love
Finding Your Own Way
