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Paperback – 240 pages
6 Inches × 9 Inches (w × h)

Weight: 400 Grams
BISAC: SELF-HELP / Spiritual
Publisher: New Society Publishers
ISBN: 9780865713918
Pub. Date: 1998-01-01

About the Authors

Joanna Macy

Joanna Macy is a scholar, eco-philosopher, teacher and activist from Berkeley, California. She is the author of 8 books including Coming Back to Life and Widening Circles and has also produced a 3-DVD set entitled The Work that Reconnects.

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Molly Young Brown

Molly Young Brown has been a trainer, workshop leader and consultant for many years. The author of three previous books on spirituality and healing the environment, including Growing Whole: Self-Realization on an Endangered Planet, she teaches at the Graduate School of Holistic Studies at John F. Kennedy University and is based in the San Francisco Bay area.

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Coming Back to Life

Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World

by Joanna Macy & Molly Young Brown



Many of us feel called upon to respond to the ecological destruction of our planet, yet we feel overwhelmed, immobilized, and unable to deal realistically with the threats to life on Earth. Coming Back to Life provides a much needed update and expansion of Macy's pioneering work, Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age which, since 1983, has sold 30,000 copies. At the interface between spiritual breakthrough and social action, Coming Back to Life discusses with extraordinary insight the angst of our era - the pain, fear, guilt and inaction it has engendered - and then points forward to the way out of apathy.

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