The Great Re-imagining - Richards, Theodore
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These are the end-times. We hear this sentiment in one way or another from various sources, from the fundamentalist preacher to the scientist warning us of climate change. This is a time of economic uncertainty, political oppression, and cultural unraveling. Apocalypse, in the ancient world and today, is the experience of disconnection, of unraveling. It is when old gods are dying and the old stories no longer have meaning. Drawing from sources ranging from the ancient apocalyptic traditions to contemporary science, The Great Re-imagining explores the deep narratives that have brought us to…mehr

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These are the end-times. We hear this sentiment in one way or another from various sources, from the fundamentalist preacher to the scientist warning us of climate change. This is a time of economic uncertainty, political oppression, and cultural unraveling. Apocalypse, in the ancient world and today, is the experience of disconnection, of unraveling. It is when old gods are dying and the old stories no longer have meaning. Drawing from sources ranging from the ancient apocalyptic traditions to contemporary science, The Great Re-imagining explores the deep narratives that have brought us to the brink of apocalypse and invites us to re-imagine our place in the world.
Autorenporträt
Theodore Richards is a philosopher, poet and novelist. As the founder of The Chicago Wisdom Project and editor of the online magazine Reimagining: Education, Culture, World, his work is dedicated to reimagining education and creating new narratives about our place in the world. He has received degrees from various institutions, including the University of Chicago and The California Institute of Integral Studies, but has learned just as much studying the martial art of Bagua; teaching in various settings and students; and as a traveler from the Far East to the Middle East, from southern Africa to the South Pacific. His books include Handprints on the Womb, a collection of poetry; Cosmosophia: Cosmology, Mysticism, and the Birth of a New Myth, recipient of the Independent Publisher Awards Gold Medal in religion and the Nautilus Book Awards Gold Medal; the novel The Crucifixion, recipient of the Independent Publisher Awards bronze medal and the USA Book Award; Creatively Maladjusted: The Wisdom Education Movement Manifesto, finalist for the USA Book Award; his most recent novel, The Conversions; The Great Reimagining: Spirituality in an Age of Apocalypse, recipient of the Nautilus Book award; and A Letter To My Daughters: Remembering the Lost Dimension & The Texture of Life. He lives in Chicago with his wife and daughters.