Awaken 101
Toplight Books (Verlag)
978-1-4766-8231-0 (ISBN)
Discovering our meaning and purpose--our reason for being--can seem like an impossible task, especially given the tumultuous times in which we find ourselves. Through challenging provocations, uplifting narratives, and profound insights, this book emboldens readers to experience their lives, not as spectators, but as reflective, courageous and purposeful participants. We can turn toward the problems, look them in the eye, and begin the work of setting things right--we can begin the process of awakening.
Organized as a five-part journey, it explores, both cognitively and experientially, what it might mean to assume the rightful authorship of your life. By breaking out of the dominant narrative of how life should be lived, and by becoming more aware of the world around us, we can gain the tools essential for becoming open-minded, embodied, introspective and soulful human beings.
Christopher Uhl is an author and professor emeritus of biology at Penn State University. His research centers on environmental conservation and sustainability. He lives in University Park, Pennsylvania. Melissa DiJulio is an ecopsychologist, writer, and storyteller, living outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Tressa J. Gibbard
Prologue
Part I: Waking
Introduction
Asleep or Awake?
What We Believe, We Become: Are you living
or are you being lived?
Questions Rather Than Answers
Education for What?
Truthspeaking as a Catalyst for Awakening
The Story That Lives Us
Coda: Waking Up
Part II: Breakdown:
Stepping into the Unknown
Introduction
Breakdown as a Catalyst for Self-Discovery
Rites of Passage as Gateways for Awakening
Success from the Inside Out
The Seed in Each of Us
Hearing the Call
From Breakdown to Breakthrough
Coda: Breakdown
Part III: A Curriculum for Waking
Introduction
Transcending Dualism
Recovering Imagination and Play
Reclaiming Wildness
Discovering Full-Body Intelligence
Opening to Love
Living Life Now
Befriending Our Shadow
Coda: A Curriculum for Waking Up
Part IV: Awakening in Action
Introduction
Each Day as a Call to Presence
Stuff: Living Within the Story of Enoughness
Food: From Passive Consumer to Awakened Participant
Transportation: An Exercise in Awakening
Community: What Can We Do for Each Other?
Happiness from the Inside Out
Coda: Awakening in Action
Part V: Personal and Cultural Transformation
Introduction
A New Story of Self
A New Story of the Human Other
A New Story of Earth
A New Story of the Universe
Healing: Breakdown Revisited
It All Comes Down to Choice
Coda: Personal and Cultural Transformation
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
About the Authors
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.09.2020 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | notes, bibliography |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 354 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4766-8231-3 / 1476682313 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4766-8231-0 / 9781476682310 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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