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"A truly beautiful, wise, raw, subtle book." --Robert MacFarlane, author of Underland
My sister and I are driving south toward Graceland in her beat-up red Saturn, both in need of refuge, both running from different things. Her bumper sticker reads "Humanity Is Trying." It's a triple entendre, she explains: Humanity is exhausting. Humanity is struggle. Humanity is doing the best it knows how.
Humanity Is Trying is several books in one. It's a memoir about the love and the loss of a sister and a best friend. It's the story of a series of escape attempts--cowardly, courageous, harmful, and hopeful--experiments in freedom from the stories that limit us. And it's a record of spiritual, intellectual, and emotional growth with the help of friends, psychedelics, art, and spiritual practice.
From Jason Gots, creator of the podcasts Think Again and Clever Creature, comes a philosophical love letter to the slow, messy work of building a life and living with your dreams in the face of reality.
Author: Jason Gots
Publisher: Hanover Square Press
Published: 03/01/2022
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9781335652942
ISBN10: 1335652949
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Body, Mind & Spirit | Inspiration & Personal Growth
- Philosophy | General
My sister and I are driving south toward Graceland in her beat-up red Saturn, both in need of refuge, both running from different things. Her bumper sticker reads "Humanity Is Trying." It's a triple entendre, she explains: Humanity is exhausting. Humanity is struggle. Humanity is doing the best it knows how.
Humanity Is Trying is several books in one. It's a memoir about the love and the loss of a sister and a best friend. It's the story of a series of escape attempts--cowardly, courageous, harmful, and hopeful--experiments in freedom from the stories that limit us. And it's a record of spiritual, intellectual, and emotional growth with the help of friends, psychedelics, art, and spiritual practice.
From Jason Gots, creator of the podcasts Think Again and Clever Creature, comes a philosophical love letter to the slow, messy work of building a life and living with your dreams in the face of reality.
Author: Jason Gots
Publisher: Hanover Square Press
Published: 03/01/2022
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9781335652942
ISBN10: 1335652949
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Body, Mind & Spirit | Inspiration & Personal Growth
- Philosophy | General
