Carolyn Baker - Radical Regeneration

RADICAL REGENERATION:

Birthing the New Human in
the Age of Extinction

CAROLYN BAKER AND ANDREW HARVEY

RADICAL REGENERATION:

BIRTHING THE NEW HUMAN IN THE AGE OF EXTINCTION

Copyright 2020 Carolyn Baker and Andrew Harvey.

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ISBN: 978-1-6632-1195-8 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-6632-1196-5 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2020920960

iUniverse rev. date: 10/30/2020

The specific medicine for the shock of despair
is the deeper shock of meaning.

Charles Upton, The Spirit of The Antich rist

ENDORSEMENTS

This is a demanding bookbut our times are demanding. It is an honest bookand our times demand truth. It is a personal book wherein the authors speak of mystical visions they have received and need to share. It is an exciting bookI looked forward to how it would endand was not disappointed. Read it, and pray it, and dare to live it generously.

~Matthew Fox, American priest, theologian, and author

Can we accept both the inevitable ordeal ahead of us and the irrepressible creativity of our world? As self-aware and creative humans who are conscious of our future deaths, the balanced duality of impermanence and emergence is helpful to recognise. Now, as ecosystems collapse and societies break down, we are invited to recognize that balanced duality exists for our civilisation as well. By doing so, we can embody that irrepressible creativity during disruption and collapse. It is a massive relief to be reminded in this book that such a path has always been there for us, with wisdom teachers pointing the way, from across many cultures. Rather than stick with the possibilities of human extinction, we can serve the possibility of a new, more conscious human species unfolding from irrepressible creativity. To help us along the path, Radical Regeneration should be in yours and everyones backpack.

~Jem Bendell, Professor, Climate Author and Activist

The genius of this book is the knowledge that this catastrophe is a necessary precursor to a radical transformation that we are co-creating with the divine. Knowing this changes everything. Radical Regeneration is an indispensable guide for what lies ahead.

~Betty J. Kovcs, Ph.D., author of Merchants of Light: The Consciousness That
Is Changing the World and The Miracle of Death: There Is Nothing But Life

Radical Regeneration reminds us that man has done this to our world, and only a transformation of our civilizations, which begins in our body, speech, and mind, can birth the world to come. Will it be ash? Or greener, fairer, sustainable? Ponder, practice, read. This is the Shamans moment.

~Chris Beyrer MD, MPH, Desmond M. Tutu Professor in Public Health
and Human Rights, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,
Senior Scientific Liaison, COVID Vaccine Prevention Network, Co-VPN

A mind-bending guide to the great transformation at hand! Ancient shamans in the Americas foretold the dark time we are in and called it the Pachacuti, the End of the Age. Andrew Harvey and Carolyn Baker invite us to rise to these times as a grand initiation, to be renewed in splendor, or to stand idly and be swallowed by Kali, the goddess of time and death. No ones life will remain untouched. Which will it be, he asks you and I must decide.

~Alberto Villoldo PhD, Bestselling author of One
Spirit Medicine , and Shaman Healer Sage.

The unprecedented disruptions of our times a perfect storm of pandemic, species extinction, soil degradation, social upheaval and climate change require unprecedented guidance. That is what Harvey and Baker compassionately and brilliantly offer with Radical Regeneration. Spurning false hope and myopic predictions, they offer something of true value: a grand, visionary understanding of what this global unraveling means for us both personally and collectively. It is a shocking, clear-eyed assessment, and its effect is to provide the reader with a well of strength from which to draw, that we might help one another find our way forward. Spend time with it, let its message seep into you, and you will find yourself newly readied for whatever is to come.

~Philip Shepherd, author of Radical Wholeness and New Self, New W orld

The Coronavirus pandemic offers a trial run for how we will act during more severe upheavalnamely, worsening climate crisis. In Radical Regeneration , elders Carolyn Baker and Andrew Harvey build on the shoulders of their previous works, showing us how to choose the personal and collective transfiguration necessary not only to endure and thrive through current chaos, but how to create any livable future. Covid is our training ground for how to make the most of this dark time that ultimately has our best interest in mind. Read this book to empower yourself on a path of initiation instead of procrastinationto heal yourself and the worldbefore its too late.

~Jack Adam Weber, L.Ac., author of Climate Cure: Heal Yourself to Heal the Pl anet

In this most timely book Andrew and Carolyn offer a magisterial duet of prophetic magnitude. With passionate clarity of conviction, they do not flinch from making us face the absolute mortality of this death stage of human evolution or its suspenseful uncertainty. The temptation would be to stay there, to wallow in this dark night, refusing to look into its opacity and closed to that moment they believe in, when we see light after death. Rather, they warn us of the unavoidable turmoil that lies ahead. They can also see the cataclysmic dangers of failure. But their faith in sacred action and the many skilful tools of the wisdom traditions, show us a way through and beyond the tempest we are sailing in.

~Laurence Freeman, Benedictine monk, Director of The
World Community for Christian Meditation

If ever we needed a guide book that truly addressed the crises of our times while inspiring us with guidance and wisdom, this is that book. Talk about Divine timing. These authors provide readers with hope and practical insights, the perfect combination that calms inner chaos. Its a must-have book.

~Caroline Myss, Author of Anatomy of the Spirit and
Intimate Conversations with the Divine

This is no time for niceties. This is the time to get to work to save our species. Radical Regeneration meets us right where we are, deep in the heart of our collective dark night of the soul. It meets us here, and it ushers us into the next stage of human possibility, wisdom in hand. Baker and Harvey have been predicting this rite of passage for decades. And they have been preparing the tools we will need to guide us through. This brilliant book is not merely recommended. It is mandatory , if we are going to survive as a species.

~Jeff Brown, author of Grounded Spirituality and Soulsha ping

This is the path of horror and hope: horror as the Divine Mother burns away every delusion, every narrative, every ism, every ideology to which you so desperately cling; and hope as She leaves you naked, fearless, creative and engaged in the work of being a blessing to all the families of the earth (Gen. 12:3). Carolyn Baker and Andrew Harveys Radical Regeneration is our field guide to the sublime crucifixion of person and planet the Mother brings.