Book Talk with CPFM & Eco-Justice: Open Reality by Shodo Spring

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Book talk with Author, Shodo Spring

Open Reality: Meeting the Polycrisis Together with All Beings

• Wed. October 29, 2025
•  5:30 PM – 6:30 PM 
• The Rufus Jones Room at Friends Center | 1501 Cherry St. Philadelphia, PA

Co-hosted by Central Philadelphia Friends Meeting (CPFM) and the Eco-Justice Collaborative of PYM. It will be hybrid (link to join below) and refreshments will be offered.

Open Reality speaks to the world behind and beneath our daily collective trauma. It opens practical possibilities for creating a shared, flexible culture that knows the natural world both as family and as a working partner. It invites the reader to a world of possibility. What if industrial civilization isn’t the best that humans can do? What if we weren’t alone in the world, but embedded in a universe of conscious, intentional, powerful beings?

Open Reality: Meeting the Polycrisis Together With All Beings

Only modern humans have imagined ourselves as gods…

And come to the edge of destroying life on earth.

“Shodo Spring has belonged to the natural world for as long as she can remember. She grew up running half-wild in the fields and woods of northeastern Ohio, with early mornings on the shore of Lake Erie and long days outdoors alone in the woods and creeks. Civilized human society was more difficult. She studied physics hoping to understand the universe, then psychotherapy to understand humans, then Buddhism to free herself – all while voraciously reading in history, anthropology, archaeology, political science, philosophy, and spirituality. She joined a series of political movements, finally focused on environment and environmental justice, what would be called deep ecology.”

– From her bio at the Mountains and Waters Alliance Website

Zoom Information

To join by Zoom, CLICK HERE. Or go to https://bit.ly/3ZxkkuF
Meeting ID:  550 104 323  — Password:  cpmm
For the full URL (web address) and dial-in numbers, click here.