Joanna Macy

Verbindungen

• ~ vertritt The Work that Reconnects

Beschreibung

Joanna Macy, 2. Mai 1929 – 19. Juli 2025

https://www.joannamacy.net/main

Internetfund:

• The Greatest Danger (Meinungsstück von 2008)

  What disintegrates in periods of rapid transformation is not the self, but its defenses and assumptions. Self-protection restricts vision and movement like a suit of armor, making it harder to adapt. Going to pieces, however uncomfortable, can open us up to new perceptions, new data, and new responses.

  [...]

  In primal societies, adolescents go through rites of passage, where confronting their own mortality is a gateway to maturity. In analogous ways, climate change calls us to recognize our own mortality as a species. With the gift of uncertainty, we can grow up and accept the rights and responsibility of planetary adulthood. Then we know fully that we belong, inextricably, to the web of life, and we can serve it, and let its strength flow through us.

  Uncertainty, when accepted, sheds a bright light on the power of intention. Intention is what you can count on: not the outcome, but the motivation you bring, the vision you hold, the compass setting you choose to follow. Our intention and resolve can save us from getting lost in grief.

Auftritte:

• What Could Possibly Go Right: Folge 89
• Post-doom: Cecil Dowd Macy 2019, Dowd Macy 2021