A turn toward life
”Earth, isn’t this what you want: to arise within
us, invisible? Isn’t your dream to be wholly
invisible someday? —O Earth: invisible! What, if
not transformation, is your urgent command?”
—Rainer Maria Rilke
in chaotic and uncertain times
A TURN TOWARD EARTH AS A LIVING PRESENCE WITHIN US
How does connection with nature help overcome early trauma in individuals and societies? What is the healing power of a life-giving cosmology (a comprehensive origins story) that brings us back to meaning and a sense of belonging to the universe?
Part memoir, part lyrical essays and poetry, Sacred Earth Rising Within carries a powerful message of hope for the human prospect.
about the author
K. Lauren de Boer is an essayist, poet, and composer with a special interest in landscape and the human imagination. As Executive Editor of EarthLight magazine in the 1990s and 2000s, he played a pioneering role in fostering dialogue on the interconnected themes of ecology, spirituality, and cosmology. His essays and poetry on Earth, creativity, and spirit have appeared in a number of magazines and book anthologies.
featured praise
“This is a fabulous book, and a creative and original development of the new cosmology. The focus on trauma puts it at the very center of spiritual concerns of our contemporary society. The power of the narrative and the force of its reflections on the deep issues kept me going right through from the first to the last page. It is loaded with quotable passages; they pile up powerfully in so many places.
Lauren de Boer has given birth to a work that will heal so many struggling souls. A beautiful achievement!”
—Brian Thomas Swimme, Evolutionary philosopher and author of Cosmogenesis
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