An inspiring manual for navigating humanity's collective dark night and enacting personal and planetary transformation * Explores how Sacred Activism--specifically, creative, wise, sacredly inspired action--offers an antidote to the crises facing our world * Reveals how to uncover and sustain joy and how to use it as fuel for continuing Sacred Activism in dangerous times * Includes practical maps of the dark night process and of the four-part path to transfiguration drawn from the secret depths of the mystical traditions Presenting a manual for navigating humanity's collective dark night, Andrew Harvey and Carolyn Baker explore potential antidotes, drawn from mystical traditions and Sacred Activism, to help us find inspiration and take action in the face of the daunting challenges to our world. Offering a deep discussion of our global dark night in terms of the Kali Yuga, the authors examine the dangers of a growing constellation of intractable crises--authoritarianism both in America and abroad, climate change, economic inequality, social upheaval, and spiritual malaise. They then explore the antidotes to these crises: Sacred Activism--specifically, creative, wise, sacredly inspired action--and a profound understanding of our evolutionary ordeal and its potentialities. Examining the power of joy to help enact personal and planetary transformation, they explain how joy, or ananda, is a force all mystical traditions recognize as the essence of the Divine. They reveal how to uncover and sustain joy in ourselves and how to use joy as fuel for continuing Sacred Activism in dangerous times. Drawing on the visionary teachings of mystics such as Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Sri Aurobindo, the authors show how the global dark night is part of an evolutionary mutation process and how its very intensity makes it the potential seedbed of a new embodied, divine humanity. They offer practical maps of the crises, of the shadows that this global dark night is casting, and of the four-part path to transfiguration drawn from mystical traditions. Sharing a vision of a new and focused global moment of love in action, the authors reveal that apocalypse is not inevitable--if enough people awaken to the extraordinary possibilities of Sacred Activism.

A collection of probing essays and weekly meditations, this book addresses how to prepare emotionally and spiritually for the impending collapse of industrial civilization. Author Carolyn Baker offers wisdom, inspiration, and a sense of spiritual purpose for anyone who is concerned about the daunting future humankind has created.

This book brings out the fact that although not necessarily the same, we all have a past. But more importantly, it helps us realize there is a God that loves us and is ready, willing, and able to help and deliver us. This book is a testimony that proves there is nothing that can separate me from the love of God in Christ Jesus. The Waiting Room is one of the most anointed, inspiring books that have been written in a long time. This book is raw, and it is real. It is honest and will help people from all walks of life to be delivered from their past, no matter what it was.

This book brings out the fact that although not necessarily the same, we all have a past. But more importantly, it helps us realize there is a God that loves us and is ready, willing, and able to help and deliver us. This book is a testimony that proves there is nothing that can separate me from the love of God in Christ Jesus. The Waiting Room is one of the most anointed, inspiring books that have been written in a long time. This book is raw, and it is real. It is honest and will help people from all walks of life to be delivered from their past, no matter what it was.

From as early as within her mother's womb, Rev. Carolyn Baker struggled with issues of abandonment. Her father did not want her and when she was four years old, her mother left her in the care of an aunt and uncle. When Carolyn's mother returned for her later in life, she brought her into an abusive situation that only escalated Carolyn's descent into depression, fear, and neglect.
Yet it was the divine love and power of the Lord that fi nally pulled Carolyn from her devastating existence. In "My Issues Touch the Heart of God, " Carolyn shares her incredible true story of faith and hope. She explores her troubled teenage years when she began taking drugs, and reveals the struggles of early adulthood including pregnancy, jail, and continued drug and alcohol abuse.
But in the midst of her deepest sorrow while languishing in prison, Carolyn cried out to God-and He heard her. From that moment on, she became His child and He helped her to overcome her biggest obstacles. God not only saved her life, but her soul, as well.
Deeply moving and life-altering, "My Issues Touch the Heart of God" shows you the amazing transformative power of God's love and grace. Be inspired by Carolyn's story and commit yourself to His arms

The collapse of industrial civilization, well underway since at least 2007, presents humankind with unprecedented and daunting challenges in the area of energy, environment, and economics. Just as the "Transition Handbook of 2008," provided specific strategies for addressing these changes logistically, "Navigating The Coming Chaos," provides a toolkit of emotional and spiritual preparation for an uncertain future. It offers us an opportunity to step across an evolutionary threshold in order to become a new kind of human being living in conscious self-awareness of our intimate connection with all life in the universe.

Deepening the work begun in "Sacred Demise," Carolyn Baker has assembled - and life tested - a rich compendium of tools for the inner warrior preparing to meet civilization's collapse with inner strength, purpose, and presence. In times like these that try our souls, embarking on the deep self-reflection invited by this book will be as essential as any practical preparations for the "Long Emergency."
Janaia Donaldson, Co-Producer and Host of Peak Moment TV

"Navigating the Coming Chaos" is Carolyn Baker's latest, and most important work. As we face up to the reality of collapse, the difference between those former citizens who cope and those who don't may well be a simple case of who has taken heed of the lessons contained within these priceless pages.
Keith Farnish, author of "TIME'S UP: AN UNCIVILIZED SOLUTION TO A GLOBAL CRISIS" and manager of The Earth Blog

Use this book like you would a longtime friend who is willing to listen to you thoroughly but will still ask you the tough questions. It is an invaluable tool for people who are committed to creating a fulfilling life no matter what the future brings.
Andre Angelantoni, Founder of Post Peak Living

The collapse of industrial civilization is rapidly unfolding and offers us an opportunity far beyond mere survival, even as it renders absurd any attempts to "fix" or prevent the end of the world as we have known it. Sacred Demise is about the transformation of human consciousness and the emergence of a new paradigm as a result discovering our purpose in the collapse process, thereby coming home to our ultimate place in the universe. Our willingness to consciously embark on the journey with openness and uncertainty may be advantageous for engendering a quantum evolutionary leap for our species and for the earth community.

"Carolyn Baker is tireless in her quest to understand and speak about the collapse of civilization. Her message is simple: our journey through collapse will be as much a spiritual one as a physical one, a journey back from profound disconnection to the sacred. And so our emotional, psychological and spiritual preparations will be as important as the gardens we plant, the healing skills we acquire, and the actions we take in defense of the community of life. A book of tools and exercises to help with that preparation, then, is a welcome and much-needed addition to the literature of collapse."--Tim Bennett and Sally Erickson, Writer and Producer of the documentary "What A Way To Go: Life At the End of Empire"

"Carolyn speaks with a confidence that never flinches from entering into the hardest truths of our times, or from the most difficult truths about the culture we are immersed in, so that we might emerge from the chrysalis of global crisis with open hearts and a renewed way of living on Earth together."--Juan Santos, Fourth World Blogspot