The critical situation in which our planet finds itself is no longer in doubt. Some things are already collapsing while others are beginning to do so, increasing the possibility of a global catastrophe that would mean the end of the world as we know it.
As individuals, we are faced with a daily deluge of bad news about the worsening situation, preparing ourselves to live with years of deep uncertainty about the future of the planet and the species that inhabit it, including our own. How can we cope? How can we project ourselves beyond the present, think bigger and find ways not just to survive the collapse but to live it?
In this book, the sequel to How Everything Can Collapse, the authors show that a change of course necessarily requires an inner journey and a radical rethinking of our vision of the world. Together these might enable us to remain standing during the coming storm, to develop a new awareness of ourselves and of the world and to imagine new ways of living in it. Perhaps then it will be possible to regenerate life from the ruins, creating new alliances in differing directions - with ourselves and our inner nature, between humans, with other living beings and with the earth on which we dwell.Table of Contents
ForewordNotes
Preface
Notes
Introduction: Learning to live with it
The change in attitude over the last few years
Surviving … is that all?
A branch of collapsology directed towards inner experience
Expanding out to ‘collapsosophy’
Breaking down walls
Notes
Part One: Recovery
1. Experiencing the impact
Living through the disasters
Giving people the bad news
Notes
2. Regaining our spirits
Resilience after disasters
Living and dancing with the shadows
Notes
3. Moving on
Mistrusting optimism
Mistrusting hope
What about the children?
Notes
Part Two: New Horizons
4. Integrating other ways of knowing
New scientific (in)disciplines
Outside the ivory tower
Towards a post-normal science
Notes
5. Opening to other visions of the world
From the universe to the pluriverse
The emergence of a pluriversal mycelium
Notes
6. Telling other stories
‘Zombie’ stories
Stories as weapons for large-scale subversion
Stories of times to come
Notes
Interlude: Entry to collapsosophy
Rediscovering connections through ecopsychology
Accepting our feminine side through ecofeminism
Notes
Part Three: Collapsosophy
7. Weaving connections
Between humans
With ‘other-than-humans’
With deep time
With what is beyond us
Notes
8. Growing up and settling down
Emerging from patho-adolescence
Reconciling our masculine and feminine sides
Restoring the wild
Constituting ‘rough-weather networks'
Notes
Conclusion: Apocalypse or ‘happy collapse’?
The inner path and the outer effect
Survival as the first step
Making breaches and holding on to them
Notes
Afterword
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