Book Club
Heart-full ones,
So much is inflamed right now. Inflammation from the microscopic to the personal to the collective to the global:
~ Covid/health
~ Suicides
~ Fractured personal relationships
~ Gun violence
~ Pro life/pro choice
~ Inflation
~ Cancel culture
~ Twitter mobs
~ Wars/nuclear potential
~ Climate crisis
It can make one feel rather helpless, with one issue after another suffering from intractable fights. Possibly all these polarized issues are rising to the surface to shine a spotlight on them, and the way we've tried to solve them that so far has not worked.
Big change is needed.
I'm totally taken by a book I'm reading, one that is impacting my life at the deepest level, "The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible" by Charles Eisenstein.
"We live today at a moment of transition between worlds. The institutions that have borne us through the centuries have lost their vitality; only with increasing self-delusion can we pretend they are sustainable. Our systems of money, politics, energy, medicine, education, and more are no longer delivering the benefits they once did (or seemed to). Their Utopian promise, so inspiring a century ago, recedes further every year. Millions of us know this; more and more, we hardly bother to pretend otherwise. Yet we seem helpless to change, helpless even to stop participating in industrial civilization's rush over the cliff."
This book gives me hope.
It gives me courage to face head on the looming catastrophes.
And not try harder.
Try different.
Be different.
I invite you to join me in a book club to explore a powerful possibility. A possibility of another way. A possibility of ease, and a different way to embrace internal change. A possibility of interconnections, from the most personal level to the global. Exploring the power of the Story that is woven into the fabric of our society.
I believe that this book is a way to embrace a different way, and what's needed to weave in the New Story. This can be one layer of learning a new way, together, in community.
We'll invite in all our parts to explore the New Story of Interbeing - hopeful parts, skeptical parts, despairing parts, and whatever else comes up for you. One key to living the New Story is to integrate it on a deep level in each of our psyches, and that involves welcoming all of our parts into the dialogue.
BOOK CLUB - The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible
Four Sunday evenings, 7-8 pm CDT
July 10th
July 17th
July 24th
July 31st
FREE!
We'll be meeting on zoom.
Sign up here.
Read more here.
Buy the book at Bookshop:
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible a book by Charles Eisenstein (bookshop.org)
Or Amazon:
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible (Sacred Activism): Eisenstein, Charles: 9781583947241: Books: Amazon.com
With love and hope and possibility,
marta
