Belonging Remembering ourselves home
Book - 2017
"We live in one of the most connected times on earth but never before have we been so lonely, so alienated from each other, from ourselves, and from the natural world. Whether this manifests as having difficulty finding community, feeling anxiety about your worthiness and place in the world, or simply feeling disconnected, the absence of belonging is the great silent wound of our times. Most of us think of belonging as a place outside of ourselves, that if we keep searching for, that maybe one day we'll find it. But what if belonging isn't a place at all, but a set of skills, or competencies, that we in modern times have lost or forgotten. In Belonging, Toko-pa explores the origins of our estrangement, how that alienation aff...ects the choices we make as individuals, and as a culture, and what are those skills to which we can apprentice ourselves, to restore a sense of belonging in our lives, and in our world."--Author's website.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Self-help publications
- Published
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Salt Spring Island, British Columbia :
Her Own Room Press
[2017]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 245 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9781775111207
- Something greater
- Origins of estrangement
- The death mother
- False belonging
- The inner marriage
- Initiations by Exile
- The symbolic life
- Trekking the creative wild
- The dark guests
- Pain as sacred ally
- Holy longing
- Competencies of belonging
- Handmaking a life
- Bearing the pleasure
- The invitational presence
- Storywells and songlines
- Tending a village
- Reciprocity with nature
- Conclusion.