Death: The End of Self-Improvement

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This book celebrates the great stripping process of aging, dying and spiritual awakening. Beautiful, poignant, at times humorous, transcendent, messy, down to earth, refreshingly honest—the book explores death, and more importantly, being alive, through a rich mix of personal stories and spiritual reflections.

Joan writes about her mother’s final years and about being with friends and teachers at the end of their lives. She shares her own journey with aging, anal cancer, and other life challenges. She explores what it means to be alive in what may be the collapse of civilization and the possible extinction of life on earth due to climate change.

Pointing beyond deficiency stories, future fantasies, and oppressive self-improvement projects, Joan invites an awakening to the immediacy of this moment and the wonder of ordinary life. She demonstrates a pathless path of genuine transformation, seeing all of life as sacred and worthy of devotion, and finding joy in the full range of our human experience.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07ZYRQ62Y
Publisher ‏ : ‎ New Sarum Press
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 3, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 5.0 MB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #298,453 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #175 in New Age Mysticism (Kindle Store) #227 in New Age Mysticism (Books) #1,868 in Occult (Kindle Store)
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