Fugue: Climate, Collapse and Contemplation:

We are facing a global catastrophe. Climate change is shaking all our economic, political, social and ecological systems to the core. Some even argue we are drifting at increasing speed toward an extinction level event.

It’s going to get worse.

This is ‘the Collapse’ – not a bang, but a whimper of accumulating of crises.

How do we hold it together as things fall apart? How do we find a stable centre amid disintegration?

This book is not about climate change or the effects. They have gone beyond the deniable. The reality of the Collapse and its causes are real, present and indisputable. The question now is, how to find a way through them?

This book is about the cause of the causes ……the spiritual collapse that has underpinned our disconnection from each other, life and the Source of life itself. We take a deep dive into how we deal with fear and loss, the ‘addictions’ of modernity and the cracks that are appearing into what it is to be human. In these pages we question accepted notions of life and death, and examine what alternative views there might be. We will explore what that form of spirituality known as contemplation or mysticism has to offer amid the disintegration.

The Deep Adaptation movement informs these ideas. It has shown us where we have gone awry. Spirituality is central to that adaptation if we are to re-establish right relationship with each other and all of life. Without it there will be no adaptation. These pages describe the problems and offer solutions to integrate the spiritual, personal and collective, into the wider aspects of adaptation to strengthen and encourage us in what lies ahead.