The Great Waves of Change: Navigating the Difficult Times Ahead - Softcover

THE WAVE IS CRASHING: WILL WE SINK OR SWIM? This book is, in effect, a crash course for swimming in turbulent waters. We can survive the confluence of economic crisis, climate change, energy scarcity, overpopulation, and all the rest--but not without profoundly changing the ways we think, relate to one another, and treat our environment. The Great Waves of Change tells us how. -- RICHARD HEINBERG, Author of The Party's Over and Senior Fellow, Post Carbon Institute

SUMMERS HAS WRITTEN AN ENGAGING, SPIRITUAL CHALLENGE for all people who seek to resolve broad-ranging conflicts, engage life according to a true moral compass, and seek innovative ways to reconcile the individual with the sacred Earth, of which we are all a part. -- MICHAEL TOBIAS, Author of A Vision of Nature: Traces of the Original World

Marshall Summers work (in The Great Waves of Change) provides an outline of the coming changes and prepares the reader for living in a radically different world. --GEORGE NOORY, National Talk Show Host, Coast To Coast AM

Humanity has crossed a critical threshold where we will have to adapt to a whole new set of circumstances. This will require a united effort between nations and peoples to bring new levels of skill, technology and cooperation to meet the requirements of living in a world in decline.

At the core of this is the courage and the ability within people to see what is coming, to know what to do and to act wisely in the face of immense uncertainty and upheaval. Nature has given us this courage and this set of abilities, but they have become latent and forgotten within the human family. More than anything else, it is these abilities that will determine how and even if humanity will prepare for the Great Waves of change and the kind of world we will all have to face as a result.

In facing the Great Waves of change, preparation is the key. The preparation is not merely fortifying one's outer life. It really begins with what one sees and is aware of within oneself. It rests upon the strength of the individual to be perceptive, resourceful and wise in responding to changing and unpredictable circumstances.

If people can recognize the reality and the power of Great Waves to impact their lives, this will begin a long process of re-evaluation regarding how they live, where they live, their use of resources and the strength or weakness of their relationships in helping them to prepare. This re-evaluation will determine the direction and the meaning of their lives.

In facing change and uncertainty, particularly if it has not been anticipated, people do not rely upon logic and reason as much as upon assumptions, habits and the influence of people around them. This is why the inner preparation is so important. Without this, people will wait to the last moment to react when their options will be few, if any. When many people react in this way, it is chaos.

We each have a greater intelligence within us that is not afraid of the future or of the challenge of changing our lives. This native intelligence has the power to move us or restrain us when necessary and to enable us to find the people and the opportunities which hold the greatest promise for our lives. Here the Great Waves of change, though dangerous and largely unforeseen, hold the ultimate opportunity for those who prepare to reclaim this deeper intelligence, to secure their lives and to make a real contribution to a world in need.