[Oe List ...] Fwd: In Memoriam: Joanna Macy

Sun Jul 20 11:18:41 PDT 2025

I ran into her through David Korten's work. A couple of his articles were
influential in our work in India after the IERD. Her work places us within
nature, as a part of it rather than above it, and a few of us have
experimented with her powerful exercises for large and small groups. I
never met her in person though her work has touched me deeply.

Ronnie

On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM James Wiegel via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
wrote:

> Another strong beacon calling for love of the earth …. How many of you
> have heard her?
> Jim Wiegel
>
> “…the long work
> of turning their lives
> into a celebration
> is not easy. Come and let us talk“.
>
> The Sunflowers. Mary Oliver
>
> Begin forwarded message:
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> *From:* Center for Ecozoic Studies <
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> *Date:* July 20, 2025 at 8:46:45 AM MDT
> *To:* jfwiegel at yahoo.com
> *Subject:* *In Memoriam: Joanna Macy*
> *Reply-To:* ecozoic.studies at gmail.com
>
> 
> *In Memoriam: Joanna Macy *
>
> We join with others around the world in mourning the death of Joanna Macy
> on July 19. And we join also in celebrating her life and all that she
> brought to so many of us.
>
> Here is a picture of Joanna when she came to Chapel Hill, September 16-17,
> 2010, to speak and lead workshops on “The Great Turning” and “The Work that
> Reconnects."
>
>
>
> Eco-philosopher, Joanna Macy PhD Berkeley, California, was a scholar of
> Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. A respected voice in
> the movements for peace, justice, and ecology, she interwove her
> scholarship with six decades of activism. Her wide-ranging work addressed
> psychological and spiritual issues of the nuclear age, the cultivation of
> ecological awareness, and the fruitful resonance between Buddhist thought
> and contemporary science.
>
> The many dimensions of this work will be remembered in her books *Despair
> and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age* (New Society Publishers, 1983); *Dharma
> and Development* (Kumarian Press, 1985); *Mutual Causality in Buddhism
> and General Systems Theory* (SUNY Press, 1991); Joanna's memoir entitled*
> Widening Circles *(New Society Publishers, 2000*); Rilke's Book of Hours:
> Love Poems to God * (co-translated and edited with Anita Barrows,
> Riverhead, 1996, 2005); *Thinking Like a Mountain* (with John Seed, Pat
> Fleming, and Arne Naess, New Society Publishers 1988; New Society/ New
> Catalyst, 2007); *A Year With Rilke: Daily Readings from the Best of
> Rainer Maria Rilke * (with Anita Barrows, Harper One, 2009); *Pass It On:
> Five Stories That Can Change the World* (with Norbert Gahbler, Parallax
> Press, 2010); *Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work that
> Reconnects * (with Molly Young Brown, New Society Publishers, 2014); *In
> Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Dunino Elegies
> and Sonnets to Orpheus* (co-translated and edited with Anita Barrows,
> Echo Point Books & Media, 2005, 2016);  *A Wild Love for the World:
> Joanna Macy and the Work of Our Time *(Shambala Publications, 2020); *World
> as Lover, World as Self: Thirtieth Anniversary Edition * (Parallax Press,
> 2021); and *Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in with Unexpected
> Resilience & Creative Power *(with Chris Johnstone, New World Library,
> 2022).
>
> Here are additional ways to connect with Joanna Macy's legacy:
>
>    - Joanna’s website
>    <https://ecozoicstudies.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e941e14db69a493772ddcb5ac&id=22b5f8dd26&e=1e6df495ee>
>    - The Work that Reconnects website
>    <https://ecozoicstudies.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e941e14db69a493772ddcb5ac&id=124adf2e9c&e=1e6df495ee>
>    - About Joanna, including a list of books she’s authored and
>    co-authored
>    <https://ecozoicstudies.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e941e14db69a493772ddcb5ac&id=9e724af493&e=1e6df495ee>
>    - We Are the Great Turning Podcast featuring Joanna Macy
>    <https://ecozoicstudies.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e941e14db69a493772ddcb5ac&id=9013becd44&e=1e6df495ee> (produced
>    by Jess Serrante via Sounds True in 2024)
>    - Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower
>    <https://ecozoicstudies.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e941e14db69a493772ddcb5ac&id=408364f637&e=1e6df495ee>,
>    by Rainer Maria Rilke – translated and read by Joanna Macy (On Being)
>    - A Wild Love for the World
>    <https://ecozoicstudies.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e941e14db69a493772ddcb5ac&id=6a5be04582&e=1e6df495ee> (On
>    Being)
>    - The Great Turning film with Joanna Macy
>    <https://ecozoicstudies.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e941e14db69a493772ddcb5ac&id=a9951d122c&e=1e6df495ee>
>    - Joanna Macy on the Shambhala Warrior Prophecy
>    <https://ecozoicstudies.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e941e14db69a493772ddcb5ac&id=599cc3d4c5&e=1e6df495ee> (produced
>    by Chris Landry in 2016)
>    - Treasuring Your Emotional Connection to the World with Joanna Macy
>    <https://ecozoicstudies.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e941e14db69a493772ddcb5ac&id=c1213f72f6&e=1e6df495ee> (produced
>    by Vicki Robin via Resilience in 2022)
>    - Climate Crisis as a Spiritual Path
>    <https://ecozoicstudies.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e941e14db69a493772ddcb5ac&id=fbc9f46ec2&e=1e6df495ee> (produced
>    by Old Dog Documentaries)
>
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