Living in Liberation

Living in Liberation

Author: Cristien Storm

Publisher: Bookbaby

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781483566689

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What happens when a collection of artists, musicians, and activists grapple with the violent assault and murder of one of their friends? What happens when they refuse to give in to fear and focus their anger and pain on ways to imagine self-defense as a revolutionary tool for social justice? For over two decades, Cristien Storm has grappled with these questions as a self-defense instructor, writer, therapist, activist, survivor, partner, friend, and community member. As a co- founder and former Executive Director of Home Alive, an anti-violence organization that offers self-defense and boundary setting classes on a sliding scale formed in response to the brutal rape and murder of singer Mia Zapata, Cristien Storm developed self-defense programs that recognize the link between the concepts of self-defense and social change. Living in Liberation outlines this innovative and radical approach to self-defense that challenges those practicing boundary setting and self-care to see themselves not simply as individuals but also as local, national, and global community members. Living in Liberation argues that responses to violence can and should embody boundary setting, self-care, and self-defense skills that interrupt victim-blaming, fear-based approaches and locate healing within the social context of community. Living in Liberation roots boundary setting and self-care in larger visions of happier and healthier communities, all the while holding on to the complexities of individual safety and social justice. There are many books on boundaries. Most of them have good skills to share. What Living in Liberation offers that is unique is a simple, direct approach to boundaries and boundary setting that reflects the complexity of the world we live in while offering practical tools. This book looks deeply at how oppression (racism, classism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, ableism, ageism) and privilege impact the context and interpersonal environments in which our boundary setting occurs. Living in Liberation looks beyond physical self-defense and individual safety to important issues connected with setting, maintaining, and negotiating personal boundaries within larger social context and makes links and connections between self-care, community care, social justice, healing from individual and collective trauma, and social change. Living in Liberation is a practical reference on how to set boundaries, limits and negotiate interpersonal needs and wants in a variety of contexts and conditions. The book offer readers suggestions on how to set boundaries, create self-care goals, identify and address challenges, and understand the complexity of intuition as part of self-defense. In addition, readers are invited to explore larger social context and form their own connections between self-care, community care, social justice, and social change. Storm also includes exercises culled from years of developing and facilitating anti-violence and boundary setting curricula as well as her experience working with trauma survivors as a mental health therapist. Living in Liberation is an important reference for readers looking for boundary setting skills as well as a practical resource for those who wish to dive deeper into considering self-care and social change. This book is for any one who has ever struggled with boundaries and everyone who wants to not only improve their relationships, but work to make a better world. The book is a great resource for support, discussion or study groups.


Living Liberation in Hindu Thought

Living Liberation in Hindu Thought

Author: Andrew O. Fort

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1996-03-14

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1438403054

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This book is about the state of embodied perfection often called enlightenment, self-realization, liberation, or jivanmukti. It examines the types, degrees, and stages of liberation that are possible, with and without a body.


Living Liberation

Living Liberation

Author: Ray Baskerville

Publisher:

Published: 2005-11

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 9781521165119

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This book presents a clear and understandable explanation of life as a spiritual process. It is in two parts. Part one is an explanation of the means, function and purpose of life as a process of spiritual evolution. It reveals the hidden mechanisms that show exactly how we can understand and live this process as our own healing and liberation. This understanding is derived from the authors many years of both spiritual practice and work as a soul healer. This book will teach a radical new way of viewing and understanding the nature and working of karma. It offers a clear view of how the experiences of your life arise and why, but more importantly how you can creatively engage in your life's process to create freedom and healing.Part two presents the six principles that facilitate life as a Living Liberation. Each principle becomes a component in the Living Liberation(tm) Meditation Practice. The meditation is a means of learning and practicing how to live in alignment with life as a process of liberation and healing, bringing peace and self acceptance. Each meditation comes with a commentary illuminating it's function and a work book to facilitate it's integration through self reflection and observation. Through the process of Living Liberation(tm) situations that were previously a cause of pain become the means of your liberation, healing to the root cause. You will deepen your ability to be present in yourself and to yourself. In this self-acceptance you creatively integrate what you previously experienced as separation, reclaim yourself and open to joy.Living Liberation(tm) bridges the gap between meditation and life, between the internal and external experience. It teaches the means of living the process of liberation. It requires nothing but the willingness to practice it in your life, to bring love and healing to every level of your being. If practiced sincerely and diligently the contents of this book will change your life.


Re-living the Second Chimurenga

Re-living the Second Chimurenga

Author: Fay Chung

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1779220464

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This retrospective offers a first hand account on internal conflicts in ZANU during the 1970s, which resulted in the defeat of its left wing. Chung's narratives include her experiences in two guerrilla camps. She recalls her encounters with the charismatic Josiah Tongogara, a legendary military commander during Zimbabwe's liberation war (known as the ©second chimurenga♯), who died at the threshold to Independence. The personal recollection of a transition to national sovereignty concludes with an incisive analysis of developments after Independence. It ends with Chung's vision for the Zimbabwe of the future. Fay Chung served within the Ministry of Education in post-colonial Zimbabwe for a total of fourteen years, at the end as the Minister of Education and Culture. Her autobiographical account has the childhood experiences in colonial Rhodesia as a point of departure. Like many other Zimbabwean intellectuals she joined the liberation struggle. From the mid-1970s she worked within the ZANU-organised educational sphere.


Living in Arcadia

Living in Arcadia

Author: Julian Jackson

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2009-12-15

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0226389286

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In Paris in 1954, a young man named André Baudry founded Arcadie, an organization for “homophiles” that would become the largest of its kind that has ever existed in France, lasting nearly thirty years. In addition to acting as the only public voice for French gays prior to the explosion of radicalism of 1968, Arcadie—with its club and review—was a social and intellectual hub, attracting support from individuals as diverse as Jean Cocteau and Michel Foucault and offering support and solidarity to thousands of isolated individuals. Yet despite its huge importance, Arcadie has largely disappeared from the historical record. The main cause of this neglect, Julian Jackson explains in Living in Arcadia, is that during the post-Stonewall era of queer activism, Baudry’s organization fell into disfavor, dismissed as conservative, conformist, and closeted. Through extensive archival research and numerous interviews with the reclusive Baudry, Jackson challenges this reductive view, uncovering Arcadie’s pioneering efforts to educate the European public about homosexuality in an era of renewed repression. In the course of relating this absorbing history, Jackson offers a startlingly original account of the history of homosexuality in modern France.


The Afrominimalist's Guide to Living with Less

The Afrominimalist's Guide to Living with Less

Author: Christine Platt

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2022-05-03

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1982168056

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"Forget the aesthetics of mainstream minimalism and discover a life of authenticity and intention with this practical guide to living with less...your way"--


The Awakened Being

The Awakened Being

Author: Marci Lock

Publisher:

Published: 2020-04-21

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781950367177

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Are You Ready to Live in Liberation, Abundance & Bliss Right Now? What is an Awakened Being? A Being who is awake to ALL the joy, bliss, abundance, love and pleasure that is available. Very few are living in a life they absolutely love. Instead, the "norm" is living in a state of settling, and sacrificing in at least one or often many areas of life. We're taught that success requires hard work and compromise when the truth is that success is our birthright and our natural state of being. The Awakened Being is your guide to creating the light, love, liberation, peace, and flow of life as your natural state and result in every area of life. It gives you the framework, action steps, and upgraded understandings along with the exact "how to" tools to take you from where you are at, to an even greater Awakened life of Bliss. The Awakened Being will guide you through the depths of your own transformation by dissolving the illusions and bringing light codes, context and greater understanding that bridges the gap to each step of your path to your own Liberation. This is a map to shift, restructure, and reprogram your consciousness and way of operating that creates the alignment to a life you absolutely love. It leads you on a journey to your wholeness, where there are no longer limitations, parameters, judgments, or stories holding you back from everything you want and who you are meant to be. Upgrading how you operate moment-by-moment consciously instead of unconsciously reacting out of old programs you didn't even know were running. We are the source of our own experience and our reality aligns to what we choose. We can choose love, bliss, pleasure, play and even the luxury available to be fully supported by life. Liberation is available to us all, yet we haven't been given the reference point for it and how to align to it because we are operating out of the limitations we were taught. The teachings of personal development center on mindset and motivation, yet such tools only offer surface-level results and surface self empowerment. It's just the tip of the iceberg for what's really available to all of us when we awaken to all of our abilities and natural state to create our best lives. The Awakened Being quite literally awakens readers to their ultimate life of freedom and how to manifest moment by moment their greatest joy. It is the complete guide on your journey from broken to bliss, sacrifice to serenity and from wherever you are at now to infinite possibilities of creating and receiving a life you absolutely love.


Karl Barth and Liberation Theology

Karl Barth and Liberation Theology

Author: Paul Dafydd Jones

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-12-15

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0567698807

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This volume puts Barth and liberation theologies in critical and constructive conversation. With incisive essays from a range of noted scholars, it forges new connections between Barth's expansive corpus and the multifaceted world of Christian liberation theology. It shows how Barth and liberation theologians can help us to make sense of – and perhaps even to respond to – some of the most pressing issues of our day: race and racism in the United States; changing understandings of sex, gender, and sexuality; the ongoing degradation of the ecosphere; the relationship between faith, theological reflection, and the arts; the challenge of decolonizing Christian thought; and ecclesial and political life in the Global South.


Liberation IS, The End of the Spiritual Path

Liberation IS, The End of the Spiritual Path

Author: Salvadore Poe

Publisher:

Published: 2024-03-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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In this remarkable book, Salvadore Poe guides you step by step to awakening. There are numerous books that talk about spiritual awakening and enlightenment. And while reading any of them, you may be inspired, and you may be impressed with the wisdom of the author, but you don't awaken. You just add more concepts and beliefs to your mind about what enlightenment is, and this keeps you seeking for answers and resolution. Liberation IS, The End of the Spiritual Path is different. It is intended as a final push for those who are ready to be finished seeking. Through inquiries and experiments, you are guided to recognize your free essential being, and what is revealed in that recognition is that you are whole and complete, lacking nothing, exactly as you are now. When this is clearly seen and becomes doubtless, seeking ends naturally, by itself.


Living for the City

Living for the City

Author: Donna Jean Murch

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0807833762

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In this nuanced and groundbreaking history, Donna Murch argues that the Black Panther Party (BPP) started with a study group. Drawing on oral history and untapped archival sources, she explains how a relatively small city with a recent history of African