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Sacred Demise:

Walking the Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization's Collapse
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iUniverse, Feb 23, 2009 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 334 pages
The collapse of industrial civilization is rapidly unfolding and offers us an opportunity far beyond mere survival, even as it renders absurd any attempts to "fix" or prevent the end of the world as we have known it. Sacred Demise is about the transformation of human consciousness and the emergence of a new paradigm as a result discovering our purpose in the collapse process, thereby coming home to our ultimate place in the universe. Our willingness to consciously embark on the journey with openness and uncertainty may be advantageous for engendering a quantum evolutionary leap for our species and for the earth community.

"Carolyn Baker is tireless in her quest to understand and speak about the collapse of civilization. Her message is simple: our journey through collapse will be as much a spiritual one as a physical one, a journey back from profound disconnection to the sacred. And so our emotional, psychological and spiritual preparations will be as important as the gardens we plant, the healing skills we acquire, and the actions we take in defense of the community of life. A book of tools and exercises to help with that preparation, then, is a welcome and much-needed addition to the literature of collapse."--Tim Bennett and Sally Erickson, Writer and Producer of the documentary "What A Way To Go: Life At the End of Empire"

"Carolyn speaks with a confidence that never flinches from entering into the hardest truths of our times, or from the most difficult truths about the culture we are immersed in, so that we might emerge from the chrysalis of global crisis with open hearts and a renewed way of living on Earth together."--Juan Santos, Fourth World Blogspot

  

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Review: Sacred Demise: Walking the Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilzation's Collapse

User Review  - Emily - Goodreads

I haven't even gotten to the introduction yet and the person who wrote the forward already referenced Richard Heinberg (author of Peak Everything) and Viktor Frankl. I think I'm going to like this book. Read full review

Review: Sacred Demise: Walking the Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilzation's Collapse

User Review  - Rachel - Goodreads

I've been around the idea of collapse for about two years now. What this book did for me was help me realize that it is how I BE WITH what is happening is actually a more important core undercurrent ... Read full review

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Contents

Foreword
xii
Introduction
xx
The Four Deadly Myths
li
Chapter 1What is Collapse?
1
Chapter 2Paradigm ShiftBeyond Capitalism or Political and Economic Systems
15
Chapter 3What Does Collapse Require Us to Face?
31
Chapter 4The Darkness and the Divine
43
Chapter 5A Culture of Two YearOlds and the Gift of Collapse
55
Chapter 11The Daunting Reality of Political and Social Repression
141
Deep Listening and TruthTelling
155
Chapter 13Raising the Next Generation As the World Ends
183
Chapter 14MirthMaking Amid Crumbling and Chaos
197
Chapter 15Telling Ancient Stories and Writing New Ones
207
Chapter 16What the Creatures Can Teach Us
225
Chapter 17In Sickness and in Health
247
Chapter 18Soulsickness and Emotional Collapse
267

Chapter 6Who Are You Really Wanderer?
73
Chapter 7Savoring the Moment All Things Are Slipping Away
93
Chapter 8Beauty the Gift That Visits and Vanishes
107
Chapter 9Scarcity Abundance and Alternative Forms Of Exchange
119
Chapter 10LossGateway to the Gold
131
Chapter 19Hospice As Holy Ground
279
Chapter 20Bringing Back the World
303
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
315
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