The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

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Réa and Weller have breathed in personal and collective pain and are breathing out compassion, wisdom, wakefulness, and beauty. He would feel he had to restrain these parts of himself in the future if he was to receive my love once again.

The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sac…

Paradigm shift means creating uplifting alternatives to capitalism and the consumer culture in every way possible.Almost daily we witness media footage of animals whose mates and family members perish, and the surviving creature sits or lies beside them for hours or days engaging in what can only be inferred as deep grieving. I’d been living with a free-floating state of unease, but I’d largely sidestepped direct encounters with my losses. This collection of fifteen essays and reflections were written over the years, often in response to local or cultural experiences. At this point in history, it seems that we will either destroy ourselves or find a way to build a sustainable life together.

The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred

Rashani Réa's 108 stunning, full color collages are accompanied by six chapters of exquisite, soulful writing by Francis Weller. In their absence we turn to secondary satisfactions: rank, privilege, wealth, status — or, on the shadow side, addictions.One man, struggling with alcoholism, had a dream that he was walking into a bar, oblivious to a beautiful woman standing there. We fear it is irreparable because we think it is not something we have done wrong—it is simply who we are. Erschütterung’ is something that shakes us out of the ordinary flow and out of our usual sense of time into an extraordinary state.