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Creating a New Republic of the Heart
Book Release Talk and Experiential Exercises
By Resident TERRY PATTEN ■ March 8, 2018
Our global crisis—environmental, economic, political, and cultural—has reached a tipping point that challenges us, collectively and personally, to grow and change—to awaken the heroic goodness that resides in one’s heart.
Marin Valley resident Terry Patten has a coherent response in his new book, A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries, which he has been incubating for two decades.
In it he helps show that people can recognize an untapped reservoir of latent inner and outer nobility 
that they contain, and challenges all—no matter what happens in the years ahead—to allow ourselves to come, truly and deeply, face to face with ourselves and with one another.
The book illustrates how inner and outer transformation are entirely interdependent, and that the future of our very life-support system is utterly dependent on the quality, intelligence, tenderness, and courage that each of us can cultivate in ourselves and with each other. The book lays out the difficult, necessary, creative, and ultimately rewarding work each must engage in to meaningfully address our most “wicked” problems.
Author, teacher, and (r)evolutionary, Terry will speak about his new book, which envisions specifics of what we can do and how we can be in order to create a heart-based republic. He will also lead brief experiential exercises that will give a taste of “mutual” (as contrasted to solo) spiritual practice. ■
Terry Patten has woven together strands from evolutionary neuroscience, deep ecology, integral theory, and spiritual wisdom to offer a practical path forward out of humanity’s current morass. Written with great gusto and clarity, this book shows us how to integrate personal and political practice, transforming both our lives and our world.
Rick Hanson, Ph.D., author, Buddha’s Brain, Hardwiring Happiness
Profound. What we have here is possibly the finest example of the making of the possible human and with this, the development of a possible world.
Jean Houston, Ph.D., Chancellor, Meridian University, author, A Passion for the Possible
Superb, exciting, sane, and enlightening—a social activism that is also personal, emotional, spiritual, ecological, relational, and that stems from, and points toward, the very leading edge of evolution itself.
Ken Wilber, author, The Integral Vision, The Religion of the Future
A stunning marriage of wild heart and cool mind. This is a major work of pioneering originality accomplished with great intellectual grace and profound sacred passion.
Andrew Harvey, author, The Hope—A Guide to Sacred Activism