Aquarius now : radical common sense and reclaiming our personal sovereignty
What Thomas Paine did for the American Revolution with the publication of Common Sense, Marilyn Ferguson does for the trans-personal revolution. Marilyn Ferguson is one of the preeminent thinkers, gatherers and interpreters of research on the cutting-edge fields of human consciousness. The Aquarian Conspiracy, published in 1980, has sold millions of copies, is continuously in print and was hailed as the "handbook of the New Age," by USA Today. In her newer book, Aquarius Now, movement pioneer Ferguson reexamines the paradigm shift to a more mindful society. She sees us caught in a mindless materialism that threatens our material existence. We are seduced by what she calls the 'Cult of Numbers, ' obsessed with competition, with winning and losing, afraid of anything that can't be seen or measured and in the grip of an economic model that says only that which generates economic growth is worth pursuing. What can we do? Ferguson boldly tells the truth: we have no enemy except ourselves and the mess we've made individually and collectively by refusing to see what we're doing to our own bodies, to society and the earth itself. We've refused to consider the clues in front of our faces. The imbalance we see outside ourselves only mirrors the imbalance within. The way to heal the imbalance is to heal ourselves. The way to heal ourselves is to pay attention, to witness. We need to take responsibility for our own actions. We need to heed the words of the myriad teachers and skills at our disposal. We need to learn to rely on our own "radical common sense." The task is not to climb a mountain, but to navigate a river. We have to stop thinking of ourselves as conquerors and start thinking of ourselves as fellow travelers with other human beings and every living being on this planet, including the planet itself. Ferguson dares to ask the question, "Can we change?" and concludes that we can and we must change. The Age of Aquarius will occur when we want it to occur
1 online resource (x, 213 pages)
9781609256609, 1609256603
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A time to move : the new visionaries are revolutionaries with common sense
Waking up in the dark : with the vision to dream
The selves we travel with : the repertory company
Challenge and the art of self-encouragement : the athlete
Choosing to be intelligent : the hunter-gatherer and the scout
Tuning in to the field : the dowser
Kindling the flames of intuition : the firemaker
The drive to discover : the artist scientist
Finding the right engagement : the sacred warrior
Creative responses to fear : the holy fool
Liberty and the law of levity : the free spirit
Remembering the future : the navigator
Creating the future : regaining personal sovereignty