THE JOURNEY OF FORGIVENESS: Fulfilling The Healing Process, first and foremost, emphasizes the process nature of forgiveness. The author, a former psychotherapist, has come to believe that forgiveness is not an event willed by an ego which desires to be free of guilt, which may long for connection with those who have harmed oneself, or which hopes to comply with the admonitions modern awareness gurus. Rather, forgiveness, the author insists, is a conscious journey requiring a thorough knowledge of the offense(s) and its effects, as well as the most essential pre-requisite, self-forgiveness. The book offers a compassionate yet courageous challenge to look deeply into the wounds inflicted, the emotional and spiritual effects of the wounds, and the psyche of the offender(s) in order to enter and complete what is nothing less than a daunting rite of passage. The author's style, poignant, poetic, and frequently disturbing, relentlessly dispels all illusions of quick-fix forgiveness but offers supportive, no-nonsense exercises for embarking on a life-changing, transformative journey.

The Journey of Forgiveness: Fulfilling The Healing Process

Self-Help

Baker, Carolyn

Motivational

iUniverse

How did we arrive where we are now: American society dominated by corporations and their interests, an economy based on war and the weapons industry, trillions of dollars missing from federal government agencies, the annihilation of our civil liberties and the shredding of the U.S. Constitution, the dumbing-down of America and the reduction of our educational system to the lowest common denominator, Peak Oil-the best-kept secret in America, and the polarization of economic prosperity and quality of life?U.S. HISTORY UNCENSORED offers a non-traditional account of our history that answers these questions and superbly connects the dots between current events and their ultimate roots. As carefully- documented as it is opinionated, this book provides a perspective that assists the reader in navigating America's precarious present and its faltering future.

U.S. HISTORY UNCENSORED: What Your High School Textbook Didnýt Tell You

History

Americas

Coming out of Fundamentalist Christianity is an autobiographical account of onewoman's journey from growing up in a rigid, troubled fundamentalist Christianhome where she discovered at an early age her attraction to women, and how shesurvived and fled the oppression of her family of origin, later coming to terms withand joyously embracing her sexual orientation and a life-affirming spiritual path. Itis an account of foolish errors and wise choices on the way to embracing all partsof herself and her total humanity-the people, places, and experiences thatshaped those choices and helped form and inform who she is today. Her currentdeep engagement in social justice activism is informed by and echoes herdaunting journey and reverberates through the last section of her book as shetakes to task not only Christian fundamentalism, but what she considers the naïveand irrelevant politics of the gay and lesbian community. Reflecting on her personalexperience she states, "As a young-adult fundamentalist Christian, agonizing overmy sexual orientation, I might have found liberation, comfort, and affirmation had Ihad access to a book that blessed it and illumined its compatibility with myunquenchable heart's desire for the sacred."An honest account of a woman accepting herself as a lesbian despite afundamentalist Christian upbringing. As a gay couple we feel less isolated becauseCarolyn isn't afraid to criticize the LGBT community for their lack of interest incompelling issues beyond same-sex marriage and AIDS.-Philip Botwinick &amp; Tom Nielsen, Organizers of the 2006 Local SolutionsTo The Energy Dilemma Conference, NYC,Woodhaven, New YorkDr. Carolyn Baker's riveting personal experience and keen intellect combine toilluminate the untruths, oppressions and mean-spirited culture that pervades oursociety, politics, and religious institutions."Coming out" stories are legion, and each and every one is to be celebrated. Bakergoes

Coming out of Fundamentalist Christianity: An Autogiography Affirming Sensuality, Social Justice, and the Sacred

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

DARK GOLD: shadow as a necessary first step in both individual and collective healing. It emphasizes and elaborates on the abundant emotional and spiritual treasures that invariably issue from shadow exploration and transformation. Dark Gold challenges us to become courageous enough to be accountable and compassionate enough to love ourselves and the earth community fiercely, even when we feel it will make no difference. (Carolyn Baker Dark Gold: The Human Shadow and the Global Crisis)

DARK GOLD: THE HUMAN SHADOW AND THE GLOBAL CRISIS

Religion & Spirituality

Next Revelation Press

Rubbish Raccoon: On Behaviors is a little book about big ideas. Rubbish leads the way to explore complex topics in a fun, easy and non-judgmental way. Using engaging illustrations and powerful vocabulary to inspire discussions between adults and children around the topic of Behaviors, Rubbish Raccoon leaves readers room to discover their own thoughts and ideas in conversational play. Parents don't need to avoid these difficult conversations because they don't have the right words. Rubbish Raccoon leads the way!

Rubbish Raccoon: On Behaviors

Children's Books

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Carolyn Baker Wellness

Rubbish Raccoon: On Emotions is a little book about big ideas. Rubbish leads the way to explore complex topics in a fun, easy and non-judgmental way. Using engaging illustrations and powerful vocabulary to inspire discussions between adults and children around the topic of Emotions, Rubbish Raccoon leaves readers room to discover their own thoughts and ideas in conversational play. Parents don't need to avoid these difficult conversations because they don't have the right words. Rubbish Raccoon leads the way!

Rubbish Raccoon: On Emotions

The collapse of industrial civilization is rapidly unfolding and offers us an opportunity far beyond mere survival, even as it renders absurd any attempts to "fix" or prevent the end of the world as we have known it. Sacred Demise is about the transformation of human consciousness and the emergence of a new paradigm as a result discovering our purpose in the collapse process, thereby coming home to our ultimate place in the universe. Our willingness to consciously embark on the journey with openness and uncertainty may be advantageous for engendering a quantum evolutionary leap for our species and for the earth community.
 "Carolyn Baker is tireless in her quest to understand and speak about the collapse of civilization. Her message is simple: our journey through collapse will be as much a spiritual one as a physical one, a journey back from profound disconnection to the sacred. And so our emotional, psychological and spiritual preparations will be as important as the gardens we plant, the healing skills we acquire, and the actions we take in defense of the community of life. A book of tools and exercises to help with that preparation, then, is a welcome and much-needed addition to the literature of collapse."--Tim Bennett and Sally Erickson, Writer and Producer of the documentary "What A Way To Go: Life At the End of Empire"
 "Carolyn speaks with a confidence that never flinches from entering into the hardest truths of our times, or from the most difficult truths about the culture we are immersed in, so that we might emerge from the chrysalis of global crisis with open hearts and a renewed way of living on Earth together."--Juan Santos, Fourth World Blogspot

Sacred Demise: Walking the Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization's Collapse

New Age & Spirituality

This book brings out the fact that although not necessarily the same, we all have a past. But more importantly, it helps us realize there is a God that loves us and is ready, willing, and able to help and deliver us. This book is a testimony that proves there is nothing that can separate me from the love of God in Christ Jesus. The Waiting Room is one of the most anointed, inspiring books that have been written in a long time. This book is raw, and it is real. It is honest and will help people from all walks of life to be delivered from their past, no matter what it was.

The Waiting Room

Spiritual

Trafford

Return to Joy is a compelling and potent invitation to the reader to consider that joy is the ultimate nature of reality and that its absence lies at the root of the current, unprecedented global crisis. In this book, Andrew and Carolyn mine the mystical wisdom of the ages that places joy at the core of our existence and purpose as a species, moving forward to consider in depth the myriad enemies of joy in our time. As we tend the fires of joy, we celebrate its seven flames and nurture its ubiquitous presence whether in the background or the foreground of our lives.

Return to Joy

HARVEY, Andrew

In the boldest and most daring book either author has ever written, Andrew Harvey and Carolyn Baker confront us with the life and death reality of the global crisis and the fact that four crucial strategies must be employed not only to survive the dark night, but to inhabit our bodies and our lives with passionate authenticity, honesty, vigilance, community, compassion, and service. These strategies are Reconnection, Resistance, Resilience, and Regeneration. Deep and unprecedented reconnection with self, others, and Earth must be our mission, regardless of the outcome. Distinguishing between “problems” which have solutions and “predicaments” which can only be responded to, Harvey and Baker articulate precisely how we have arrived at this unprecedented juncture and offer strategies of resistance against the fundamental enemies of humanity and the Earth. Such a response demands of us something far deeper than what conventional religions and visions of activism call for--nothing less than living and acting from the Sacred Self, both without illusion and totally committed to compassion and justice even, if necessary, in hopeless situations.
With Trump, it’s as if the Titanic has hit the iceberg. We are the passengers. The only question before us, and before the whole world, is how we stop the ripping of our hull. The original Titanic sunk due to human arrogance. There is still time for us to save ourselves with the power of humility, resistance and renewal. This book offers a compelling and profound pathway for human survival after hitting the iceberg.
—Jim Garrison, Founder and President of Ubiquity University.
A powerful manual for a spiritual revolution! Read it, pray it, reflect on it, and then start acting on it...because the future of the world depends on it.
—Adam Bucko, co-author of Occupy Spirituality and The New Monasticism

Savage Grace: Living Resiliently in the Dark Night of the Globe

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