Imagining A Sustainable and Regenerative Society

Written by Daniel Pinchbeck

Narrated by Justine Willis Toms

Change is going to come no matter what, so it behooves us to engage our imagination toward the kind of future we want. We need to go deep into what truly makes us happy. Pinchbeck is advocating nothing less than the need to embrace our responsibility for understanding what’s happening and play an active part in caring for the world. Even though the ecological data are frightening, he looks at the situation as an opportunity, as a kind of potential for global awakening, and an initiation that could shift humanity from its present self-involved, ego-based state to something more inclusive and transcendent.

He emphasizes the need for good ideas to be in place in this unfolding planetary crisis, and reminds us of Milton Friedman, who has said that when a crisis comes the ideas that get applied are the ones that are lying around. Pinchbeck says of emerging social structures, “If you look at the history of evolution, biologists talk about how cooperation is more successful than competition.” He also outlines many present models of cooperation and he feels that this time in our human history can serve as our initiation to the next level of consciousness: ecologically, socially, politically, and spiritually. (hosted by Justine Willis Toms)

• Language: English
• Publisher: New Dimensions Foundation
• Release date: Mar 7, 2017
• ISBN: 9781987116465

Daniel Pinchbeck

Daniel Pinchbeck is an author and journalist whose feature articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone,and Esquire, among others. His first book,Breaking Open the Head, was heralded as the most significant work on psychedelic experimentation since Terence McKenna. His second book, the bestselling 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, links indigenous prophecy, the environmental crisis, and modern technology in a new paradigm www.2012thebook.com. Pinchbeck is a monthly columnist for Conscious Choice magazine and the editorial director of RealitySandwich.com.

Reviews for Imagining A Sustainable and Regenerative Society

[Ashlynn Manning · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Exciting to hear pragmatic ideas about potential solutions to the climate crisis. Excellent interview!

[Jeanette Fritsche · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A quick jaunt into ideas we the humans could implement to turn our existence around. Check it out!