Worldshift Happens! is about having the courage to change when it is time to change. Our world is at a turning point now. How, then, shall we face our fears and open our minds and hearts to new ways of thinking and being? What might our lives look like when we do? This book explores some new ways of framing reality, looking aging and death straight in the eye, and telling the fictional story of a family of survivors of the Great Shift in the year 2125. They live hard and they live well: they have had to learn from the mistakes of their forebears, have survived despite great hardship, and they know how to turn adversity into an adventure. They live a life that might be called "utopian." Buddhist teacher Joanna Macy says, "This is a rare, brave and most original book; I am honored you have shared it with me...I applaud the idea of conveying possible future scenarios in story form rather than dull expository projections..."
Worldshift Happens! is about having the courage to change when it is time to change. Our world is at a turning point now. How, then, shall we face our fears and open our minds and hearts to new ways of thinking and being? What might our lives look like when we do? This book explores some new ways of framing reality, looking aging and death straight in the eye, and telling the fictional story of a family of survivors of the Great Shift in the year 2125. They live hard and they live well: they have had to learn from the mistakes of their forebears, have survived despite great hardship, and they know how to turn adversity into an adventure. They live a life that might be called "utopian." Buddhist teacher Joanna Macy says, "This is a rare, brave and most original book; I am honored you have shared it with me...I applaud the idea of conveying possible future scenarios in story form rather than dull expository projections..."
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