Vitality, Love and Intimacy in your Nineties: An Interview with Joanna Macy by Polly Young-Eisendrath
It was a blessing and privilege to have Joanna come to Rowe to teach for three decades, including a program on Rilke in 2015. Polly has been with us several times and is a frequent contributor to the Center Post.
In this extraordinary conversation, they talk about her translations of and commentary on the poetry and letters of Rainer Maria Rilke. Rilke’s ideas and insights about living fully as the means of creating God and world have guided Joanna in her personal life through the decades since her mid-twenties. While she herself was engaged in political and social activism, and Buddhist practice, her approach to everything was guided by Rilke’s unique perceptions of reality. Together Polly and Joanna laugh about and discover new perspectives on their own lives.
POLLY YOUNG-EISENDRATH
Polly Young-Eisendrath is a psychologist, writer, speaker and Jungian analyst who has published 18 books (translated into 20 languages) including The Self-Esteem Trap: Raising Confident and Compassionate Kids in an Age of Self-Importance, The Cambridge Companion to Jung, and The Present Heart: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Discovery. Her most recent book Love Between Equals answers the question “What IS love, anyway?” She maintains a clinical practice in Central Vermont and hosts the podcast “Enemies: From War to Wisdom” that provides a fresh look at human hostilities and what to do about them. She is a life-long Buddhist practitioner and a Mindfulness teacher.
PAID RECORDED PROGRAM
Making Deeper Contact with Life: A Self-Directed Retreat for the Curious and the Confused
Making Deeper Contact with Life will challenge you to explore life’s major themes of life/death, joy/pain, and darkness/light and awaken to a new consciousness.
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Beyond the Fringe: Extraordinary Conversations with Scientists and Sages
Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D. and Charles Eisenstein interview leading thinkers in various fields to explore the edges of what they know about human experience.
