A New Republic of the Heart, Terry Patten
A New Republic of the Heart, Terry Patten
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A New Republic of the Heart
An Ethos for Revolutionaries--A Guide to Inner Work for Holistic Change

Author: Terry Patten

Narrator: Terry Patten

Unabridged: 15 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/30/2018

Synopsis

A vision to address our environment, economy, politics, culture, and to catalyze the radical whole-system change we need now

Recasting current problems as emergent opportunities, Terry Patten offers creative responses, practices, and conscious conversations for tackling the profound inner and outer work we must do to build an integral future. In practical and personal terms, he discusses how we can all become active agents of a transformation of human civilization and why that is necessary to our continued survival. Patten's narrative focuses on two aspects of existence--our dynamic but fractured and threatened world, and our underlying wholeness and unity. Only by honoring both of these realities simultaneously can we make sustainable changes in ourselves, our communities, our body politic, and our planetary life-support system. A New Republic of the Heart provides a comprehensive understanding and inspiring vision for "being the change" in a way that can address the most intractable problems of our time. Patten shows how we can come together in our communities for conversations that matter and describes new communities, enterprises, and forms of dialogue that integrate both inner personal growth work with outer awareness, activism, and service.

About The Author

TERRY PATTEN is a philosopher, activist, social entrepreneur, and author of A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries. Over the last fifteen years he has devoted his efforts to the evolution of consciousness by facing, examining, and healing our global crisis through the marriage of spirit and activism. He co-wrote the book Integral Life Practice with Ken Wilber and a core team at the Integral Institute. Patten is the founder of the "Beyond Awakening" teleseminar series and Bay Area Integral. He also founded Tools For Exploration, a consciousness technologies company, and is involved in restorative redwood forestry and fossil-fuel alternatives. Patten holds degrees from the University of Michigan and John F. Kennedy University (MA in consciousness studies) and has taught at the University of Notre Dame, Columbia University, and San Francisco State University.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Clare on December 17, 2018

I enjoyed this book, but am giving it four stars because the contents won't be for every keen nature lover. If you are more inclined to debate philosophy than science, want to sway your fellow human with discourse rather than charts, film footage and statistics, and enjoy expanding your vocabulary,......more

Goodreads review by Peter on March 07, 2019

Whilst 'A New Republic of the Heart' is a comprehensive and seemingly all-inclusive commentary on personal revolution and societal change, it is a work that often struggles to deal adequately with the issues that it raises. The reason for this is that it is a book of concepts; one with a strong sense......more

Goodreads review by Caroline on January 24, 2021

Much as I enjoy Patten's optimistic, at times ethereal style, I found parts of this frustratingly simplistic. The evolutionary world view is beguiling and empowering but it feels glib without any reference to older world views centred by a profound connection with all life forms. This world view, un......more

Goodreads review by Kathryn on April 06, 2018

I was delighted to read this book. Terry is lucidly integrating many streams of consciousness that I feel passionate about, Consciousness, spirituality, science, social and ecological responsibility. Yet loudest is his respect for the Mystery. He is willing to face reality with clear eyes and a humb......more

Goodreads review by Cheryl on April 18, 2018

For those despairing about what's happening in the country and around the globe socially and ecologically, this book provides a reasonable way to step forward into a greater possibility for us all.......more

Quotes

“A New Republic of the Heart should be required reading for all humans over the age of sixteen.”
—Stanley Krippner, PhD, coauthor of Personal Mythology
 
“What we have here is possibly the finest example of the making of the possible human, and with this, the development of a possible world.”
—Jean Houston, PhD, author of A Passion for the Possible
 
“Terry Patten has woven together strands from evolutionary neuroscience, deep ecology, integral theory, and spiritual wisdom to offer a practical path forward out of humanity’s current morass. Fascinating, fast-moving, and heartfelt, this book is a gem.”
—Rick Hanson, PhD, author of Buddha's Brain and Hardwiring Happiness
 
“Patten clarifies how our wicked problems require us to grow beyond debate, one-upmanship, and other non-communication, to talk and listen in new ways. He’s right on the mark—we must reknit our social fabric—our collective future requires it.”
—Joan Blades, cofounder of MoveOn.org and Living Room Conversations
 
“Superb, exciting, sane, and enlightening—a social activism that is also personal, emotional, spiritual, ecological, relational, and that points toward the very leading edge of evolution itself.”
—Ken Wilber, author of The Integral Vision and Grace and Grit

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