“You are Planet Earth” is the working title of the book I’m writing. The aim of the book is to collect and present the full scope of the insights that have emerged from our experiences of leaning out into our wider Embraces.
Sharing the beauty of being held unconditionally, and the surprising epiphanies we gain from taking the first-person perspective as one of our wider Embraces.
The book is where the journey, the practice and the implications of the insights all come together in one coherent text. However, this will take some time, and in the meantime, you are very welcome to join the exploration by participating (www.widerembraces.org) and/or reading about the ideas (stinadeurell.substack.com).
Stina Deurell
Book Chapters:
A. Introduction
About the importance of becoming aware as planet Earth, if we humans and the biosphere are to flourish over the next billion years. And a brief introduction to the Wider Embraces background and method.
B. The Past – Forgiveness
Forgiveness is about how we deal with the past in the present moment and how it will affect our future.
As long as we are stuck in the past, we are stuck in a future determined by our past. To take our next evolutionary step, we have to broaden our circles of solidarity, forgive our collective past, and adopt a new view on expansion and exploitation.
C. The Future – Healing the Splits
Chapters about how we could transcend and heal some of the splits inside our human culture: We vs. them, nature vs. culture, and religions vs. science.
D. The Now – Our Wider Embraces
Chapters about navigating and sensing into the “inner side” of the scientific worldview. Moving from intellectual knowing that you are a physical, biological, and cultural being, to experiencing our deep belonging to everything we are part of. We are held unconditionally by all our wider Embraces.
E. You are Planet Earth
Final chapters about how we are expressions of Life on Earth and how we can move forward, hopefree. Becoming a planetary-aware humanity. Or a humanity-aware planet.
I look forward to reading each chapter as they emerge.
Sounds both somewhat familiar and completely intriguing.
I love the way you describe this Stina, your words and the journey they weave parallel my own journey in and through and with the Wider We