Tag: joanna macy

On Staying Sane in a Suicidal Culture (Joanna Macy)

staying sane in a suicidal culture photo of water surrounded by lots of greenery

Update 2025: On staying sane in a suicidal culture. Trump is now actively pushing to locking up and not only pathologizing but criminalizing more and more people. ...he's actively pushing, forced treatment and confinement for those with psychiatric labels now. Concentration camps and murder for everyone he doesn't like. Getting locked up in asylum is the same as murder if you weren't clear. This is how it went in Germany too. If you weren't worried about immigrants, natives and people of color, start worrying now. We're all in this together. We care about everyone or we care about no one.

Let your pain tell you that you are not alone

To be able to suffer with is good news because it means you can share power with, share joy with, exchange love with. Let your pain tell you that you are not alone. What we thought might have been sealing us off can become connective tissue. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

Gratitude: Where Healing the Earth Begins

the earth being sensitive to the earth and its suffering

We have received an inestimable gift. To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe—to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it—is a wonder beyond words. It is an extraordinary privilege to be accorded a human life, with self-reflexive consciousness that brings awareness of our own actions and the ability to make choices. It lets us choose to take part in the healing of our world....

...That our world is in crisis—to the point where survival of conscious life on Earth is in question—in no way diminishes the value of the gift of life; on the contrary. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

Transform despair

Job’s Despair by William Blake transform despair

Transform despair ~~ To reframe what we've generally  been told about mental anguish and suffering by the mental illness system is a very important part of healing. Psychiatry makes out that the individual is sick. A much more honest as well as empowering way to view much mental anguish is to see ourselves as part of the web of life. Our despair is telling us something very real and valid.

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Uncertainty

Joanna Macy on Uncertainty...she is just stunning. Beautiful. In this inspiring film clip Joanna Macy talks about the gift uncertainty plays in sparking our passion, creativity and focus for the work of The Great Turning, coming into a sustainable relationship with the earth. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soZ7ztuqTdM Other wonderful posts on Beyond Meds featuring Joanna Macy's work see:... Continue Reading →

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