5/10 The Basic Miracle: Our True Nature and Power "Coming Back to Life", Readings and Practices

In this episode Joanna Tomkins, a Work that Reconnects facilitator, reads selected extracts from Chapter 3 of the book "Coming Back to Life" by Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown. 

“THE GREAT TURNING ARISES in response to what we know and feel is happening to our world. It entails both the perception of danger and the means to act. As conscious, embodied beings endowed with multiple senses, we are geared to respond: instantly we leap from the path of an oncoming truck, dash to douse a fire, dive into a pool to save a child. This response-ability has been an essential feature of life throughout human evolution; it allows us to adapt to new challenges and generate new capacities. It enables whole groups and societies to survive, so long as their members have sufficient information and freedom to act. In systems terms, response to danger is a function of feedback — the information circuit that connects perception to action. Appropriate response depends on an unblocked feedback loop."

This episode will navigate through the following structure:

Chapter 2: The Basic Miracle: Our True Nature and Power

part 1: Living Systems Theory

part 2: Ancient Spiritual Teachings

part 3: The Miracle of Mind

part 4: the Nature of our Power