Carolyn Baker writes with passion, insight and courage about a topic that most people turn away from – the emotional, psychological and spiritual aspect of what she and many others call "collapse." Collapse is the convergence in our times of economic unraveling, resource depletion and human created climate instability that could bring the destruction of the world economy, … [Read more...]
The natural limits of confronting our limits
LOAVES AND FISHES This is not the age of information. This is not the age of information. Forget the news, and the radio, and the blurred screen. This is the time of loaves and fishes. People are hungry, and one good word is bread for a thousand. -David Whyte It’s Memorial Day, 2013, and I’m awaiting my flight to Denver from Baltimore. This year, re-entry from … [Read more...]
From the vault: Review of Sacred Demise
Carolyn Baker’s book, Sacred Demise: Walking the Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization’s Collapse, offers a very strong dose of reality. While Baker saves some of her most gasp-worthy assertions for the end of her book, it's safe to say that there isn’t a page that doesn’t possess qualities similar to those of cod liver oil: it’s for our own good … if only there were … [Read more...]
A soulful guide to society’s collapse
In some ways it's antithetical at this early stage to be writing a review of Carolyn Baker's Navigating The Coming Chaos: A Handbook For Inner Transition. I only received my review copy in early March. And as a workbook that invites deep personal exploration, I couldn't just devour this in a month's time. Yet book reviews are meant to be a relatively quick process. Ideally, … [Read more...]