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In this revised edition of Choosing Earth (February 2022), Duane Elgin describes how the world has transitioned into an epoch of profound change. Choosing Earth illuminates this pivotal period in our human collective journey from adolescence into early adulthood and beyond. Elgin explains how we are moving through a challenging and purposeful initiation, as he takes us through the horrors and heartbreaks of the decades ahead and describes this as a time of both initiation and opportunity. We are invited to accept and integrate the grief and losses as part of the important process of maturation. Seven major uplifts point to the ways in which we can meet this crisis and grow. Elgin suggests that as more of us wake up, billions of ordinary citizens of the Earth will call with one collective voice for unprecedented cooperation and creative action. Each one of us alive today has an essential part to play in guiding our planetary trajectory along a wiser path of healing and maturing. Choosing Earth provides a powerful catalyst for collective conversation.

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"""Choosing Earth is the most important book of our time. To read and dwell within it is an awakening experience that can activate both an ecological and spiritual revolution."" -Jean Houston, PhD, teacher, philosopher, and author of The Possible Human. "" A truly essential book for our time-from one of the greatest and deepest thinkers of our time."" -Ervin Laszlo, evolutionary systems philosopher, and author of over 100 books. ""This may be the perfect moment for so prophetic a voice to be heard."" -Joanna Macy, systems thinker, Buddhist philosopher, and author of Active Hope. ""There is wisdom in these pages to light the way through our dark and troubled times."" -Richard Heinberg, author of Peak Everything, and The End of Growth. ""Choosing Earth is timely, relevant, clear, potent and absolutely brilliant."" -Lynne Twist, global visionary and author of The Soul of Money. ""Duane Elgin's masterpiece is the most powerful and comprehensive wake-up call on Earth ... a passionate, eloquent, and wise book."" - Alexander Schieffer, professor and co-author of Integral Development. ""I have never before read a book on the global climate crisis by a ""white American male"" that has so deeply touched and enriched me."" -Rama Mani, PhD, World Future Council, convenor and organizer. ""Choosing Earth provides a bold and hopeful vision of the next 'holistic' stage of human civilization."" -Bruce Lipton, PhD, biologist, speaker, author of Biology of Belief. ""We humans have a third choice-to respect ecological boundaries and regenerate the Earth for the well-being of all."" -Vandana Shiva, environmental activist, scholar, author of Earth Democracy. ""Your excellent book is very much in line with our concerns and priorities. My warmest personal regards."" -Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations. ""Choosing Earth describes the only possibly viable path ahead-a tumultuous path of initiation to full maturity as members of the living world."" -Eric Utne, founder, Utne Reader, author of Far Out Man. ""This is one of the most important books for our time-and probably the most important document on the perils of climate change. Every politician and CEO needs to read this."" -Christian de Quincey, philosopher, author of Radical Nature, teacher. ""Duane Elgin's panoramic wisdom in Choosing Earth is vital in this time when complex, interconnected crises demand coherent, interconnections solutions. A pioneering and important book."" -Kurt Johnson, PhD, biologist, Inter-spiritual leader, professor, author. ""All life on Earth owes a debt of gratitude to Duane for awakening us to the urgency and regenerative possibilities of Choosing Earth."" -John Fullerton, former managing director at JP Morgan, founder of Capital Institute."

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"DUANE ELGIN is an internationally recognized author, speaker, and visionary who grew up on a family farm and has planted prophetic seeds all his life. His futures work includes two years on the senior staff of the Presidential Commission on the American Future, and six years working as a senior social scientist with the ""futures group"" at SRI International, where he conducted research into the deep future for the National Science Foundation. Duane is the author of books such as Voluntary Simplicity, Awakening Earth, and The Living Universe, and co-authored Changing Images of Man with Joseph Campbell and others. He graduated with an MA in economic history from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Wharton School. In 2006, Duane received the international Goi Peace Award for promoting a new vision and lifestyle that foster a more sustainable and spiritual culture. choosingearth.org duaneelgin.com Francis Weller, MFT, is a psychotherapist, writer and soul activist. He is a master of synthesizing diverse streams of thought from psychology, anthropology, mythology, alchemy, indigenous cultures and poetic traditions. Author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief; The Threshold Between Loss and Revelation, (with Rashani R�a) and In the Absence of the Ordinary: Essays in a Time of Uncertainty, he has introduced the healing work of ritual to thousands of people. He founded and directs WisdomBridge, an organization that offers educational programs that seek to integrate the wisdom from indigenous cultures with the insights and knowledge gathered from western poetic, psychological, and spiritual traditions. For over forty years Francis has worked as a psychotherapist and developed a style he calls soul-centered psychotherapy. As a gifted therapist and teacher, he has been described as a jazz artist, improvising and moving fluidly in and out of deep emotional territories with groups and individuals, bringing imagination and attention to places often held with judgment and shame. His offerings include a 10-session audio series on ""Living a Soulful Life and Why It Matters."" a 5-session series on ​""The Alchemy of Initiation: Soul Work and the Art of Ripening,"" and a 4-session series on ""An Apprenticeship with Sorrow: Community, Ritual, and the Sacred Work of Grief."""

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