Humanity Is Trying Experiments in Living with Grief, Finding Connection, and Resisting Easy Answers
English | 2022 | ASIN: B09K8V2ZM2 | Duration: 08:53:43 | MP3@64 kbps | 245.33 MB
English | 2022 | ASIN: B09K8V2ZM2 | Duration: 08:53:43 | MP3@64 kbps | 245.33 MB
“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.