Belonging
Subtitle: remembering ourselves home
By: Toko-pa Turner
Publisher: Her Own Room Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781775111207
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Loneliness; Belonging (Social psychology)
Description: "We live in one of the most connected times on earth but never before have we been so lonely, so alienated from each other, from ourselves, and from the natural world. Whether this manifests as having difficulty finding community, feeling anxiety about your worthiness and place in the world, or simply feeling disconnected, the absence of belonging is the great silent wound of our times. Most of us think of belonging as a place outside of ourselves, that if we keep searching for, that maybe one day we'll find it. But what if belonging isn't a place at all, but a set of skills, or competencies, that we in modern times have lost or forgotten. In Belonging, Toko-pa explores the origins of our estrangement, how that alienation affects the choices we make as individuals, and as a culture, and what are those skills to which we can apprentice ourselves, to restore a sense of belonging in our lives, and in our world."--Author's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Something greater; title: Origins of estrangement; title: The death mother; title: False belonging; title: The inner marriage; title: Initiations by Exile; title: The symbolic life; title: Trekking the creative wild; title: The dark guests; title: Pain as sacred ally; title: Holy longing; title: Competencies of belonging; title: Handmaking a life; title: Bearing the pleasure; title: The invitational presence; title: Storywells and songlines; title: Tending a village; title: Reciprocity with nature; title: Conclusion.