Anne Baring – Awakening to a New Story: The Evolutionary Imperative of Our Time
How can we renew our sacred connection to the Earth?
Join us for a spiritual and evolutionary odyssey with one of the Earth’s wisest elders speaking out passionately on her behalf and bringing us the possibility of a renewed sacred connection with the Earth and the ‘Soul of the Cosmos’.
This richly illustrated talk will assess how what Anne calls the ‘Four Paths to Union with the Divine Ground’ (ie Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism and Christianity) have assisted or impeded the recognition of the sacredness of the Earth and our role on this planet. We will look at the shadow aspect of these Paths, including their “Up and Out” cosmology and show how some have conditioned us to regard nature as inferior to spirit, and to consider ourselves to be ‘above’ nature and separate from the life of the planet. They do not address the fundamental questions: what is the purpose of the material universe and the value and meaning of our lives as part of it? The New Story tells us that we have an inspiring purpose and an agenda to accomplish: to carry out the will of the Cosmos for this planet; to safeguard its life; to cherish every aspect of its divinity.
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Anne BaringAuthorAnne Baring PhD (hons), was born in 1931 and is an historian and a Jungian Analyst. She is the author and co-author of 9 books, among them The Myth of the Goddess, The Mystic Vision, The Divine Feminine and The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul (2020). In July 2023 she published Messages from a Transcendent Dimension, the channelled messages received by her mother from 1943 to 1968. Her new book (May 2025) is called Divine Wisdom and The Holy Spirit: The Forgotten Feminine Face of God. The ground of all her work is a deep interest in the spiritual, mythological, shamanic, and artistic traditions of different cultures. Her two websites are devoted to a new vision of reality and the choice that lies before us as a species: www.annebaring.com and www.anne-baring.com
