Living With Meaning

Stephen Jenkinson: Living With Meaning

On this site we discuss the large predicaments the world faces. A question that often arises, especially at our annual seminars is: Given these challenges, how should I be? What outlook and behaviors will better help me meet what's coming?

This week's podcast gets quite existential. Chris sits down with Stephen Jenkinson, an author and thinker who a number of Peak Prosperity readers have requested come on the show. Jenkinson's specialization is grief and dying -- through his decades of work in these fields, he has developed a series of observations on what it means to live, and thereby die, with meaning.

A heads up: the path of this conversation is somewhat metaphysical and may not be everyone's cup of tea. But the topics addressed are important; ones our society needs to start having some honest discussion about. Things like how to face our mistakes, errors and shortcomings openly -- as with addiction, only with acknowledgement and acceptance of our condition can we then move on to self-betterment.

Jenkinson observes how, culturally, we are so averse to unpleasantness that we suppress the very conditions that are necessary for positive transformation.

The Lifeboat Hour - 09/01/2015

Guy and Mike interview Stephen Jenkinson

This show we have a climate update, our Doomer of the Week and our guest Stephen Jenkinson. Jenkinson is a teacher, author, storyteller, spiritual activist, farmer and founder of the Orphan Wisdom School, a teaching house and learning house for the skills of deep living and making human culture. It is rooted in knowing history, being claimed by ancestry, working for a time ​yet to come.​ He is the author of a Die Wise, A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul.

Stephen Jenkinson on grief

Carolyn Baker interviews Stephen Jenkinson

Stephen Jenkinson and Carolyn discuss grief, his new book Dying Wise, and the deeper meaning of the word "catastrophe."

Extinction Radio - episode 18

Don't miss the 2^nd instalment of the interview with Stephen Jenkinson.

Mike Ferrigan will be back hosting the show next week.

Stephen Jenkinson on Extinction Radio - Part 2

Here is last week's interview

On Living and Dying

A few times in recent years I have heard messages that have immediately resonated and provided a message that I have needed at that time.

Significant examples of this would be discovering both Michael C Ruppert and Guy McPherson. In both cases I have been fully ready to hear what they have been saying (or even waiting maybe) and this has allowed me to take my understanding to a new level.

I think that this interview with Stephen Jenkinson ( with whom I have hitherto been unfamiliar), has provided a similar function as I struggle both with serious illness and an understanding of the life and death of life on this planet.

It has given me much to contemplate and I shall, with no doubt, be exploring this further.

I feel confident that this will resonate with many.

Many thanks to Myrn and Mike for the interview which I extracted from today's Extinction Radio

Stephen Jenkinson discusses extinction, death and dying

http://orphanwisdom.com

OTHER MATERIAL

On Grief and Climate Change

An audio excerpt 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 explores the question “Is it too late to avoid catastrophe?”

The Making of Humans

The relentless pursuit of self reliance and self improvement is rooted in our lost connection to common stories, homeland and ancestors that bind and unite us. 

The times now demand that we recognize the world’s suffering in our own. 

Short film, shot & directed by Ian Mackenzie.

Stephen Jenkinson - The Meaning of Death