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What is a homecoming? What does it mean to “come home”? It means returning to a place of belonging.  A place of familiarity. For some, “home” means comfort and safety. For others, it is as wild as a forest in the depths of winter. 

Homecoming of the Human Spirit is a culmination of more than a year’s worth of learning on how to fully belong to one’s self. A curated collection of writings on, among others, philosophy, science, nature, literature, mindfulness, ideas, culture, mythology, psychology, art and spirituality, Homecoming is for those who believe in making a commitment to personal transformation, both individually and collectively. Whether you’re an entrepreneur or a creative, in your thirties or in your sixties, spiritual or agnostic, if you are on a journey, this is for you.

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Care of Souls
"We have chosen to describe seven jobs in the Care of Souls. These are far from the only roles, and any one person may inhabit more than one of them. But we name these seven because the need for them is particularly acute—and becoming more so. We’ve reached this conclusion after four years of working amongst innovators in the field, learning from their experience and striving to support their visions. These jobs in their essence are not new. They descend from ancient archetypes, and humanity holds a wealth of wisdom about them. Our task now is to bridge the ancient and the emergent, discovering how to apply this wisdom to new generations. How do we care for souls in the 21st century and beyond?" 
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Optimist | Zoë Keating
"Cellist and composer Zoë Keating is a one-woman orchestra. She uses a cello and a foot-controlled laptop to record layer upon layer of cello, creating intricate, haunting and compelling music. Zoë is known for both her use of technology - which she uses to sample her cello onstage - and for her DIY approach, releasing her music online without the help of a record label."
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The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself | Michael A. Singer
“The only thing you have to know is that opening allows energy in, and closing blocks it out. Now you have to decide whether or not you want this energy. How high do you want to get? How much love do you want to feel? How much enthusiasm do you want to have for the things you do? If enjoying a full life means experiencing high energy, love, and enthusiasm all the time, then don’t ever close.” 
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Selection of the Month
Especially in early spring,
when the sun offers a thin treacle of warmth,
I love to sit outdoors
and eat sense-ravishing apricots.

Born on sun-drenched trees in Morocco,
the apricots have flown the Atlantic
like small comets, and I can taste
broiling North Africa in their flesh.

Somewhere between a peach and a prayer,
they taste of well water
and butterscotch and dried apples
and desert simooms and lust.

Sweet with a twang of spice,
a ripe apricot is small enough to devour
as two hemispheres.
Ambiguity is its hallmark.

How to eat an apricot:
first warm its continuous curve
in cupped hands, holding it
as you might a brandy snifter,

then caress the velvety sheen
with one thumb, and run your fingertips
over its nap, which is shorter
than peach fuzz, closer to chamois.

Tawny gold with a blush on its cheeks,
an apricot is the color of shame and dawn.
One should not expect to drink wine
at mid-winter, Boethius warned.

What could be more thrilling
than ripe apricots out of season,
a gush of taboo sweetness
to offset the savage wistfulness of early spring?

Always eat apricots at twilight,
preferably while sitting in a sunset park,
with valley lights starting to flicker on
and the lake spangled like a shield.

Then, while a trail of bright ink tattoos the sky,
notice how the sun washes the earth
like a woman pouring her gaze
along her lover’s naked body,

each cell receiving the tattoo of her glance.
Wait for that moment
of arousal and revelation,
then sink your teeth into the flesh of an apricot.

-Diane Ackerman, The Consolation of Apricots 
Homecoming of the Human Spirit Downtown Brooklyn Brooklyn, NY 11201 USA
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