Will democracy in America prevail, or will it be usurped by a confluence of fascism and evangelical Christianity?

This book traces the history of this unholy alliance and invites those recovering from the influence of fundamentalist religions to excise the toxic influences of religious authoritarianism from politics and personal life. Readers from all backgrounds will be enlightened and inspired by Baker's clear and incisive snapshot of this defining moment in our history. Confronting Cristofascism is a practical guide to assessing the influence of religious trauma in our personal and public histories and committing to recover from it in order to become more whole individuals and pro-active citizens. It is required reading for every awake American.

At the conclusion of the 2021 COP 26 climate summit with its disappointing outcomes, inhabitants of planet Earth are confronted with the reality that by 2050, or sooner, large parts of the Earth could be uninhabitable. We are indisputably living in the Sixth Great Extinction. We know that countless humans are reeling with climate anxiety and experiencing fear, anger, grief, despair, dread, and understandably attempting to cope with the reality of potential human extinction with massive amounts of denial. This book offers an alternative to being consumed with either denial or despair. At its core is the existential issue of climate catastrophe and how to live into it with compassionate, clear-eyed, vibrant, awakened intention. While this perspective is harrowing, even more formidable is the prospect of doing so in a global milieu in which deeply divided nations and individuals are opting to abandon democratic institutions and procedures in favor of authoritarian models of governance. Undaunted offers neither phony fixes nor merciless melancholy in the face of our daunting predicament. It assumes that both the reader and the author will face moments of despair going forward, but it offers skills and practices for living undaunted in the face of humanity's most unprecedented ordeals.

Will democracy in America prevail, or will it be usurped by a confluence of fascism and evangelical Christianity?

This book traces the history of this unholy alliance and invites those recovering from the influence of fundamentalist religions to excise the toxic influences of religious authoritarianism from politics and personal life. Readers from all backgrounds will be enlightened and inspired by Baker's clear and incisive snapshot of this defining moment in our history. Confronting Cristofascism is a practical guide to assessing the influence of religious trauma in our personal and public histories and committing to recover from it in order to become more whole individuals and pro-active citizens. It is required reading for every awake American.

In recent years, the term polycrisis has emerged to describe the tangled relationship between myriad crises on our planet and how they invariably intersect to create a predicament that is not solvable but can only be responded to. This book offers a treasure-trove of practical tools for grounding ourselves emotionally and spiritually amid both the long-term crises and the related challenges that confront us moment to moment as we navigate unprecedented events and their invariable consequences. Apocalypse Anytime is the culmination of fifteen years of the author's writing and research on the demise of industrial civilization and its psychospiritual impact on Earth's living beings. It offers a life-altering challenge for readers who are willing to accept the assignment.

No one understands or writes about our contemporary evolutionary dark night more wisely or more groundedly than Carolyn Baker. Apocalypse Anytime is the clean and fierce distillation of decades spent in the trenches of collapse and its warrior wisdom, presented with her customary vibrant clarity, is indispensable for all those who are beginning to understand that terrible though our times are, they also offer unexpected and amazing opportunities for radical transformation. This book is a must read for all those who want to find joy in despair, courage in paralysis, calm in desperation, purpose in growing bewilderment. Indispensable reading from an indispensable elder. Andrew Harvey, co-author of Radical Regeneration: A Guide to Sacred Activism with Carolyn Baker. -Andrew Harvey

Carolyn Baker, Ph.D., is the author of Sacred Demise, Collapsing Consciously, and Undaunted: Living Fiercely Into Climate Meltdown in An Authoritarian World. She lives and writes in Boulder, Colorado.

The genius of this book is the knowledge that this catastrophe is a necessary precursor to a radical transformation that we are co-creating with the divine. Radical Regeneration is an indispensable guide for what lies ahead.
-Betty J. Kov cs, Ph.D., author of Merchants of Light: The Consciousness That Is Changing the World

This book, Radical Regeneration, is a radiant offering of the possibility of the evolution of human consciousness in the midst of extinction. It's exactly the fierce and sacred medicine we need right now.
-V (formerly known as Eve Ensler), author of The Vagina Monologues and The Apology

Andrew Harvey and Carolyn Baker invite us to rise to these times as a grand initiation, to be renewed in splendor, or to stand idly and be swallowed by Kali, the goddess of time and death.
-Alberto Villoldo PhD, Bestselling author of One Spirit Medicine and Shaman Healer Sage

If ever we needed a guidebook that truly addressed the crises of our times while inspiring us with guidance and wisdom, this is that book.
-Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit and Intimate Conversations with the Divine

What is being made crystal clear is that humanity stands at a monumentally fragile threshold with two stark choices placed before it in a situation of complete uncertainty: Those choices are: 1) To continue to worship a vision of power, totally distanced from sacred reality 2) Or to choose the path of submitting bravely to the alchemy of being transfigured by a global dark night event that shatters all illusions but reveals the greatest imaginable possibility being born out of the greatest imaginable disaster. If humanity chooses the second path, which is what is being celebrated in this book, then it will have trained itself in the new radical unity necessary to weather the even worse crises that most certainly will quickly follow.

At the conclusion of the 2021 COP 26 climate summit with its disappointing outcomes, inhabitants of planet Earth are confronted with the reality that by 2050, or sooner, large parts of the Earth could be uninhabitable. We are indisputably living in the Sixth Great Extinction. We know that countless humans are reeling with climate anxiety and experiencing fear, anger, grief, despair, dread, and understandably attempting to cope with the reality of potential human extinction with massive amounts of denial. This book offers an alternative to being consumed with either denial or despair. At its core is the existential issue of climate catastrophe and how to live into it with compassionate, clear-eyed, vibrant, awakened intention. While this perspective is harrowing, even more formidable is the prospect of doing so in a global milieu in which deeply divided nations and individuals are opting to abandon democratic institutions and procedures in favor of authoritarian models of governance. Undaunted offers neither phony fixes nor merciless melancholy in the face of our daunting predicament. It assumes that both the reader and the author will face moments of despair going forward, but it offers skills and practices for living undaunted in the face of humanity's most unprecedented ordeals.

The collapse of industrial civilization, well underway since at least 2007, presents humankind with unprecedented and daunting challenges in the area of energy, environment, and economics. Just as the Transition Handbook of 2008, provided specific strategies for addressing these changes logistically, Navigating The Coming Chaos, provides a toolkit of emotional and spiritual preparation for an uncertain future. It offers us an opportunity to step across an evolutionary threshold in order to become a new kind of human being living in conscious self-awareness of our intimate connection with all life in the universe.

Deepening the work begun in Sacred Demise, Carolyn Baker has assembled - and life tested - a rich compendium of tools for the inner warrior preparing to meet civilization's collapse with inner strength, purpose, and presence. In times like these that try our souls, embarking on the deep self-reflection invited by this book will be as essential as any practical preparations for the Long Emergency.
Janaia Donaldson, Co-Producer and Host of Peak Moment TV

Navigating the Coming Chaos is Carolyn Baker's latest, and most important work. As we face up to the reality of collapse, the difference between those former citizens who cope and those who don't may well be a simple case of who has taken heed of the lessons contained within these priceless pages.
Keith Farnish, author of TIME'S UP: AN UNCIVILIZED SOLUTION TO A GLOBAL CRISIS and manager of The Earth Blog

Use this book like you would a longtime friend who is willing to listen to you thoroughly but will still ask you the tough questions. It is an invaluable tool for people who are committed to creating a fulfilling life no matter what the future brings.
Andre Angelantoni, Founder of Post Peak Living

Rubbish Raccoon: On Behaviors is a little book about big ideas. Rubbish leads the way to explore complex topics in a fun, easy and non-judgmental way. Using engaging illustrations and powerful vocabulary to inspire discussions between adults and children around the topic of Behaviors, Rubbish Raccoon leaves readers room to discover their own thoughts and ideas in conversational play. Parents don't need to avoid these difficult conversations because they don't have the right words. Rubbish Raccoon leads the way

The author's introduction to Collapsing Consciously articulates our current predicament of economic collapse, environmental degradation, and global conflict and expresses the confusion, anxiety, grief, anger, and despair we all experience when we take a hard look at the present-day global crisis and the likely future of the planet. But rather than showing us ways to prevent the collapse, Baker argues that the demise of our consumerist, corporate culture is inevitable, and that it is crucial to prepare emotionally and spiritually for the certain changes to come.

Part 1 is a collection of seventeen essays which argue that while the collapse of industrial society cannot be prevented, its meaning extends far beyond tragedy and loss. These essays ask the reader to delve inward and discover the limitless treasures of the soul, as well as the gratification and exhilaration to be discovered in joining with community in preparing for the future.

In part 2, Baker offers fifty-two weekly meditations comprised of spiritual wisdom, inspiration, paradox, comfort, humor, irony, and a persistent challenge to create and savor beauty in the world, regardless of how bleak the future may appear.

Collapsing Consciously is a refreshing take on the perilous present and the grim prospects for our future. Instead of quoting discouraging statistics about our predicament, Baker offers a deeper perspective that makes sense of a world that most of the time appears psychotic or even surreal. Through inspiration and perennial wisdom she has created a manual for making meaning and generating joy, especially in situations that feel hopelessly devoid of both.

An ebook containing additional meditations is also available: Collapsing Consciously Meditations: Further Reflections for Turbulent Times, ISBN 978-1-58394-758-6.

Carolyn Baker is tireless in her quest to understand and speak about the collapse of civilization. Her message is simple: our journey through collapse will be as much a spiritual one as a physical one, a journey back from profound disconnection to the sacred. And so our emotional, psychological and spiritual preparations will be as important as the gardens we plant, the healing skills we acquire, and the actions we take in defense of the community of life. A book of tools and exercises to help with that preparation, then, is a welcome and much-needed addition to the literature of collapse.--Tim Bennett and Sally Erickson, Writer and Producer of the documentary What A Way To Go: Life At the End of Empire

Carolyn speaks with a confidence that never flinches from entering into the hardest truths of our times, or from the most difficult truths about the culture we are immersed in, so that we might emerge from the chrysalis of global crisis with open hearts and a renewed way of living on Earth together.--Juan Santos, Fourth World Blogspot

Drawing upon her deep experience as a life coach, Baker writes of the specific need to understand our key relationships in a society in collapse, and how to navigate through differing levels of acceptance of collapse, trauma, and grief. Key relationships include those with our partners, children, friends, neighbors, as well as relationships with our work, our bodies, our natural resources, food and eating, animals, future generations, Eros, and indeed, the powers of the universe.

Baker's writing is engaging, inspiring, and often beautiful in its depth and candor. She introduces a variety of spiritual practices facilitate our developing a relationship with the deeper Self. With these practices and giving and receiving support from others who are walking a similar path, we begin to live more frequently from the deeper Self, or at least are able to access it more quickly when we find ourselves becoming embroiled in the ego.

Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Living, Loving, and Preparing With A Reluctant Partner
- Chapter 2: Children And Collapse
- Chapter 3: Friends, Neighbors, and The Community
- Chapter 4: Work and The Creative Soul
- Chapter 5: Our Relationship With Resources
- Chapter 6: Loving The Body As The World Falls Apart
- Chapter 7: Our Relationship With Food: Mindful Eating As A Spiritual Practice
- Chapter 8: Loving The Time Of Your Life
- Chapter 9: What An Animal You Are!
- Chapter 10: Darkness Matters
- Chapter 11: Ensconsed In Eros, Bathed In Beauty
- Chapter 12: Our Relationship With The Powers of The Universe
- Chapter 13: Near-Term Extinction And Waking Up To Death
- Chapter 14: Empire, I Wish I Knew How To Quit You
- Chapter 15: Grief And Love In A Culture Of Congestive Heart Failure
- Chapter 16: Our Relationship With Future Generations

Dark Gold: The Human Shadow and the Global Crisis endeavors to educate, challenge, and most importantly, inspire the reader to engage with the personal and collective shadow as a necessary first step in both individual and planetary healing. It emphasizes and elaborates on the abundant emotional and spiritual treasures that invariably issue from shadow exploration and transformation. Dark Gold challenges us to become courageous enough to be accountable and compassionate enough to love ourselves and the Earth community fiercely, even when we feel it will make no difference.

Yet it was the divine love and power of the Lord that fi nally pulled Carolyn from her devastating existence. In My Issues Touch the Heart of God, Carolyn shares her incredible true story of faith and hope. She explores her troubled teenage years when she began taking drugs, and reveals the struggles of early adulthood including pregnancy, jail, and continued drug and alcohol abuse.

But in the midst of her deepest sorrow while languishing in prison, Carolyn cried out to God-and He heard her. From that moment on, she became His child and He helped her to overcome her biggest obstacles. God not only saved her life, but her soul, as well.

Deeply moving and life-altering, My Issues Touch the Heart of God shows you the amazing transformative power of God's love and grace. Be inspired by Carolyn's story and commit yourself to His arms!

Rubbish Raccoon: On Values is a little book about big ideas. Rubbish leads the way to explore complex topics in a fun, easy and non-judgmental way. Using engaging illustrations and powerful vocabulary to inspire discussions between adults and children around the topic of Values, Rubbish Raccoon leaves readers room to discover their own thoughts and ideas in conversational play. Parents don't need to avoid these difficult conversations because they don't have the right words. Rubbish Raccoon leads the way