Seven Steps to Handling Uncertainty with Grace and Co-creating a Livable 21st Century
Many people feel anxious about today’s barrage of alarming events (COVID, economy, inflation, supply chain risk, cultural, political, climate disruption, resource scarcities, war, etc.). Older people are wondering what world they are leaving behind for their (grand) children. While younger folks are anxious and worried about the future and diminishing possibilities to live a full life on a vibrant planet.
We wrote this book because we believe there is a better way to really help people out of anxiety and hopelessness fast so they can live with grace and joy and work on a truly thriveable 21st century.
A radically different approach must begin with learning how to see the big picture of what is now playing out on a global, cosmological scale. While the expression is “Can’t see the forest for the trees,” using the Cosmic Lens will help you see the forest AND the trees.
The Cosmic Lens is available on Amazon in paperback, e-book (Kindle) and audio format
The Cosmic Lens is a book that offers a needed spark of hope in our time of great confusion and conflict. It is written in an easy to understand style, tells a message with stories and quotes and thoughtful analysis. I recommend it heartily.
Dr. Suzanne Cook-Greuter, Independent Scholar, internationally known as the leading expert in mature ego development and self-actualization
Many of us are anxious and asking ourselves – how will I survive, let alone thrive in a world where everything is uncertain and falling apart? The Cosmic Lens is an important book for this time because it presents a surprising and radically new direction…. asking “what does the world need, instead of what do I or we need.”
What if we learn to embrace the unknown and start to understand that first going inside ourselves is the entry way into a new world and toward a whole new way of being, for the world AND for ourselves?
This seems contractionary in a world in crisis because, instead of doing things, The Cosmic Lens asks us to slow down and sense more deeply in what is here, in ourselves and in our environment and in Nature.
The book highlights how we will discover and understand the natural flow of life. If we allow to sense deeply and listen, we will find that there is much essential information beyond what we rationally can know.
In spite of the metaphysical nature and grave premise, The Cosmic Lens is anything but new-agey. Instead, it includes numerous practical tips and to-the-point quotes, as well as peer-reviewed survey results.
The book is easily readable and includes multiple engaging self-assessments and action steps. It is a clear and hopeful guide for people who are in search of a new way forward in these disruptive times.
Geesje Stroo, Author of Learning in Living Light in a More Soulful Universal Education
Not just another self-help or leadership book,
The Mantis and the Mirror provides readers with positive, uplifting guidance for life in today’s chaotic world, as well as a deep sense of place and purpose. At its deepest level, the book answers existential questions that most of us have asked at some point:
– Why am I here?
– What is my purpose?
– What is my existence, in fact, this Planet/Universe about?
For eons, humans have opened their hearts and minds to stories. If we want to really empower ourselves and evolve we need universal stories such as The Mantis and the Mirror that offer truth, wisdom, humor, and above all: beauty and joy.
The Mantis and the Mirror is available from Amazon and from Lulu.com.
Thomas Berry – historian, priest and author of The Dream of the Earth, The Universe Story and The Great Work.
IN DUTCH
The purpose of the book is to introduce the visionary and amazingly prophetic writings of Thomas Berry to a wide audience. In this case, a Dutch speaking audience.
His thinking is more relevant today than it has ever been: he doesn’t only speak about a global ecological and human crisis but by drawing on both spiritual insights and the findings of the new sciences, offers guidance on the way we could move beyond it. His writings are part of the leading-edge literature on the worldshift that awaits us and forms the principal challenge of our day. Yet his books don’t reach more than a fraction of the readership that now is ready to receive and respond to his message.
Thomas Berry, Profeet voor de Aarde is available form Lulu Press
