Bibliograph

Humanity is trying, experiments in living with grief, finding connection, and resisting easy answers, Jason Gots

Type

Label

Humanity is trying, experiments in living with grief, finding connection, and resisting easy answers, Jason Gots

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Humanity is trying

Oclc number

1287033363

Responsibility statement

Jason Gots

Sub title

experiments in living with grief, finding connection, and resisting easy answers

Summary

"Humanity is trying is several books in one. It's a memoir about the love and the loss of a sister and a best friend. It's the story of a series of escape attempts - cowardly, courageous, harmful, and hopeful - experiments in freedom from the stories that limit us. And it's a record of spiritual, intellectual, and emotional growth with the help of friends, psychedelics, art, and spiritual practice"--Flap page 1 of dust jacket

Table Of Contents

Here's how this book was supposed to begin -- Part 1. Yes but -- Explainers -- Blackberrying -- Wrong discipline -- Animal entaglement -- Girl and a boy -- Taking refuge -- Church of the page -- Bells -- Church of the stage -- Part 2. Bicostal -- Curiouser and curiouser -- Church of Harold and Maude -- I'll never fall in love with you -- Road trip, Bethesda to Houma -- Jason has to get a job -- Marriage of convenience -- Trickster breaks the story -- Church of Tom Waits -- Road trip, Bethesda to Santa Fe -- What has happened to Hamlet? -- Goin' out West -- Road trip, NYC to Santa Fe -- Part 3. Body -- Absence of care -- Valley and the summit -- Just show up -- Everything is not okay -- Agnosis -- Forgiveness -- Right livelihood -- Money -- Box of notebooks -- Concert in Central Park -- Acknowledgments

Target audience

adult

Classification