“This book is profound, concise, realistic and very readable. It gets to the root of our thinking, culture and actions and how to live in a truly more enlightened way—taking appropriate care of ourselves, our communities and, in particular, our wonderful Earth. It includes a profound understanding of our long term history and place in the universe. An essential read for absolutely everyone.” Anson Allen, October 2024.

"You crystallise so much, and develop thoughts a lot of us have, but you prod and poke in such a way that you do far more than preach to the converted. We all have something to learn from what you have written." David Whiting, October 2024.

Mike Dodd is an internationally respected potter. This, his second book, is a no frills account of the lead up to and description of a short but powerful shift in consciousness he experienced in his thirtieth year and the profound effect it had on his subsequent thinking.

Over a staggeringly long arc of time Life’s wonderful evolutionary expression eventually came up with a conscious self-reflective animal, us. But, as yet, our relatively young consciousness is seriously unaligned not only with its own largely unrealised potential but also with the beauty and preciousness of our planet’s integrated living systems.

This book may well be of interest to those who consider that the human race needs to grow up and find a better, more mature way to be and to act.

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