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Jem Bendell

Michael Dowd's recording of Jem Bendell's much discussed and vitally important paper, Deep Adaptation, and other important essays and posts written by Professor Bendell since the summer of 2018.

Jem Bendell - Deep Adaptation

My favorite "Post Doom Soul Nourishment" audio files, from Michael Nabert, Paul Chefurka, Jem Bendell, Catherine Ingram, Barbara Cecil and Dahr Jamail, Jonathan Franzen, Alan Weisman, Roy Scranton, Vicki Robin, James Allen, Dave Pollard, Rupert Read, Emily Johnston, Collapsosaurus Rex, and Samuel Alexander. A link to the text version of each file is in description box. All these audio files, plus two dozen other excellent ones along similar lines, can be found here: “RIP Homo colossus": https://soundcloud.com/michael-dowd-grace-limits/sets/rip-homo-colossus

Post-Doom Soul Nourishment

TEXT: https://jembendell.com/2021/05/13/after-angry-acceptance-fifteen-unhelpful-responses-to-anticipating-collapse/

Jem Bendell - After Angry Acceptance - Fifteen Unhelpful Responses To Anticipating Collapse

Introduction to Deep Adaptation book - Jem Bendell and Rupert Read

TEXT: https://sustainablesong.medium.com/how-ill-die-when-and-why-a75933ed1cc5

Michael Nabert - How I'll Die, When And Why

Apr-May 2023 GQ (UK) article on Jem Bendell, "The doom seer of climate chaos"
TEXT: (1) https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/jem-bendell-deep-adaptation-climate-change-interview-2023 
(2) https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-04-18/i-was-wrong-to-conclude-collapse-is-inevitable/ 
(3)https://www.facebook.com/jem.bendell/posts/pfbid02chYDvK6LS7hHJkLXG6tXbKMPYdWKxyTShzCptCcXMLcMGjf1zZvEB7MaeRHDa5tql?comment_id=160424359985846&notif_id=1681600882951054&notif_t=comment_mention&ref=notif

Jem Bendell - The Doom Seer Of Climate Chaos - GQ April - May 2023

Introduction - recognising and responding to collapse, in "Breaking Together" by Jem Bendell (published May 9th 2023).

In this Introduction Professor Bendell outlines the full argument of the book. The chapter is narrated by Matthew Slater. 

Full audio book:
https://www.audible.com/pd/B0C8PHMP35/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-354993&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_354993_rh_us

To read more about the book:
https://jembendell.com/2023/04/08/breaking-together-a-freedom-loving-response-to-collapse/

Good Works (GW) believes that critical thought and open debate are some of the most important contributions to ensuring we are able to create a fairer, balanced and harmonious world for all living creatures. The views expressed in this book are those of the author and do not represent the views of Good Works or The Schumacher Institute.

Breaking Together

Introduction

Introduction to Breaking Together by Jem Bendell

Food Collapse is Chapter 6 in "Breaking Together" by Jem Bendell (published May 9th 2023 by Good Works).

To read more about the book:
https://jembendell.com/2023/04/08/breaking-together-a-freedom-loving-response-to-collapse/

Follow this soundcloud account to receive notification as audios of chapters are released. 

To download a copy of this chapter:
https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/6927/

Good Works (GW) believes that critical thought and open debate are some of the most important contributions to ensuring we are able to create a fairer, balanced and harmonious world for all living creatures. The views expressed in this book are those of the author and do not represent the views of Good Works or The Schumacher Institute.

Food collapse - Chapter 6 of Breaking Together

"Breaking Together" by Jem Bendell is published May 9th 2023. In Chapter 1 "Economic Collapse - a time of limits and contradictions" Professor Bendell provides a summary of the economic data and theory that supports the view that the collapse of industrial consumer societies has already begun. The chapter is narrated by Matthew Slater. To read more about the book:
https://jembendell.com/2023/04/08/breaking-together-a-freedom-loving-response-to-collapse/

Economic Collapse - Ch 1 of Breaking Together, by Jem Bendell

The following excerpt is from a longer talk recorded at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. The topic of the evening was “Wisdom Working for Climate Change.” People of the world are unconsciously mourning the devastating impact we are having on our planet. Stephen Jenkinson answers the question “Is it too late to avoid catastrophe?” To learn more about Stephen Jenkinson and his teachings, visit orphanwisdom.com - Recorded and produced by Ian Mackenzie (ianmack.com)

2014 - Grief: Wisdom working for Climate Change by Stephen Jenkinson

DESCRIPTION:
In June 2018, generative somatics (gs) created a podcast with Spenta Kandawalla, Prentis Hemphill and Staci K. Haines, hosted by adrienne maree brown. We had a conversation about trauma, oppression, healing and organizing for structural change. We dug into the connections between personal, collective and structural transformation, and between healing and building collective power. We also explored the term Healing Justice. What does embodied healing have to do with creating liberation? 

HOST:
adrienne maree brown is author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is a writer, social justice facilitator, pleasure activist, healer and doula living in Detroit. She is on the teaching bodies of generative somatics and Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity.

GUESTS:
Prentis Hemphill  is healer, Somatics practitioner, teacher, writer and organizer who works at the intersections of healing and justice. As the former Healing Justice Director at Black Lives Matter, Prentis committed to supporting and nurturing the brilliant strategies of organizers and healers to address trauma, move through conflict and center wholeness in the BLM network and in the broader movement for Black freedom and liberation. Prentis continues their ongoing work as a teacher of somatics and personal transformation with Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD), a training program for Black organizers throughout the US, and with generative somatics, which is focused on bringing a politicized Somatics practice to movement building organizations. Prentis has worked for years with communities developing transformative responses to violence and envisioning new ways of being together, including work with generationFIVE and Communities United Against Violence. Prentis is committed to transformation on the cellular level and the belief that who we are and how we are in our most intimate spaces is vital for our collective liberation.

Spenta Kandawalla is a co-founder of generative somatics (gs).  She is an auntie, acupuncturist and herbalist, generative somatics teacher, and member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC). Over the past 13 years, Spenta has been studying, teaching, and growing generative somatics work for organizers, movement builders and healers across the country. She is committed to helping move and expand work at the intersection of healing and organizing toward more freedom and possibility for all of us.

Staci K. Haines is a co-founder and the Executive Director of generative somatics. She integrates trauma and healing and a systemic analysis of power, into this unique and powerful work. Staci is committed to the interdependence of personal, collective and systemic transformation: “We are shaped by our deeply personal experiences and our social conditions. Through embodied transformation and collective action we can move ourselves, communities and society toward what is life­ affirming. The focus of gs is to bring the transformative power of somatics to serve social and environmental justice movements.” Staci is also a founder of generationFIVE, which has the mission to end the sexual abuse of children within 5 generations. She is the author of Healing Sex: A Mind Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma (Cleis 1999, 2007).  

THANK YOU
Producer: Janvieve Williams Comrie
Music: Oakland-based collective Mass Bass.

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Trauma, Healing & Collective Power

Listen to the full episode here:
http://www.deida.live/podcast/your-problems-create-your-gifts/

From the album: “Stages and Revelations“
Length: 12mins 05secs
Format: mp3 download



Your Problems Create Your Gifts

Description:

This free track is taken from David Deida’s new album “Stages and Revelations“.

Listen in to Track 12 – “Your Problems Create Your Gifts“ as David shares essential teachings for men and women:


• Your gift is developed through your problems
• Consciousness was born to emerge through your body
• The universe is giving you perfect growth
• Apply consciousness to your immediate experience
• Stay with your actual feelings without resistance
• Trust your feminine response
• Orient to consciousness or suffer
• 1st stage: Feel your problems
• 2nd stage: Communicating your problems
• 3rd stage: Orienting to consciousness and responding
• The obstacle is the way
• Love this moment
• Relax with whatever is happening
• Experience everything fully

The post Your Problems Create Your Gifts appeared first on Deida.live .

Your Problems Create Your Gifts

TEXT: https://truthout.org/articles/as-the-climate-collapses-we-ask-how-then-shall-we-live/
This series by Dahr Jamail and Barbara Cecil is the best of the best re being in heartful action in the face of radical acceptance of overshoot and impending collapse on multiple fronts. I consider these essays to be the heart and soul of, what I'm calling, "The Human Redemption Project" -- i.e., how we can participate in the "redemption" of our species within the body of Life, whether we have 5 years, 500 years, or 5 million years left before we go extinct and pass the baton onto another of God's beloved species.

Jamail, Cecil (1) As The Climate Collapses, We Ask - How Then Shall We Live?

TEXT: https://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf ALSO SEE: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2019-03-17/deep-adaptation-post-sustainability-and-the-possibility-of-societal-collapse/ AS WELL AS: http://www.scientistswarning.org/deep-adaptation-a-map-for-navigating-climate-tragedy/
My recording of Jem Bendell's "must read" or "must listen to" paper, DEEP ADAPTATION: A MAP FOR NAVIGATING CLIMATE TRAGEDY.

Deep Adaptation, Jem Bendell (Dowd narration) - A Map For Navigating Climate Tragedy

TEXT: http://www.approachingthelimits.com/LadderOfAwareness.html
Here I have narrated my favorite posts from Paul Chefurka's site Approaching the Limits. (The first few I mispronounced his last name. :-)

Paul Chefurka - Climbing The Ladder Of Awareness

(photo of Prentis Hemphill)
Staci K. Haines, the founder of “Generative Somatics,” has integrated her extensive experience in both transforming individual and social trauma and in grassroots movements into uniquely powerful work that has proven to be incredibly helpful to a wide range of social justice activists, many of whom have been deeply hurt by oppression or violence. In this panel, leaders from a range of cutting-edge groups, including Prentis Hemphill of Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD), and Raquel Lavina from the National Domestic Workers Alliance, share how they have been able to successfully integrate embodied transformation into their social change work.

Somatics, Trauma, Healing And Social Change

MAHB - Megan Seibert - Planet Of The Humans Review - Shining A Light On The Energy Black Box

TEXT: https://jembendell.com/2020/07/27/debating-the-pros-and-cons-of-deep-adaptation-start-here-with-a-new-edition-of-original-paper/

Jem Bendell - Debating The Pros And Cons Of Deep Adaptation? Start Here - 7:27:20

TEXT: http://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf

Jem Bendell - Deep Adaptation 2020 - A Map For Navigating Climate Tragedy

TEXT:https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-07-30/our-power-comes-from-acting-without-escape-from-our-pain/

Bradbrook And Bendell - Our Power Comes From Acting Without Escape From Our Pain

AUTHORS: Pablo Servigne, Raphaël Stevens, Gauthier Chapelle, Daniel Rodary / TEXT: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/deep-adaptation-opens-necessary-conversation-about-breakdown-civilisation/

Deep Adaptation Opens Up A Necessary Conversation About The Breakdown Of Civilisation

Durant - Lessons-of-History

Afterburn chapters 1-12

Richard Heinberg - Afterburn - A

TEXT: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/criticise-deep-adaptation-start-here/

Jem Bendell - To Criticise Deep Adaptation, Start Here

Please support the author and publisher by buying a paperback copy. You'll want to mark it up, I promise!

JMG - The Retro Future (B) 6 - 8

JMG - The Retro Future (A) 1 - 5

A modular piece that I couldn't unpatch for about five days because I liked it too much.

Storm over Hisingen, Summer 2020

TEXT: https://rupertread-80924.medium.com/an-open-letter-to-michael-mann-730205964d48

Rupert Read - AN OPEN LETTER TO MICHAEL MANN

Michael Dowd died October 2023. This soundcloud list is a substantial part of his legacy. Here he shares, via his voice, the major books, blogs, and other texts that instructed his own worldview shift into recognizing the multiple causes of the civilizational collapse underway and wisdom for moving into a postdoom perspective of clarity, calm, and compassionate love-in-action. As a Postdoom pastor, Michael aimed to support others in deeply adapting to abrupt climate change and societal and ecological breakdowns. Websites: https://www.postdoom.com and http://thegreatstory.org