The relentless flood of bad news challenges our ability to make sense of the world. For those of us who are sensitive to the dissolution of consensus reality, collapse forces us to look inward.

How do we know what we should do? How do we give expression to our yearning for love and community? Where shall we find the courage to go on?

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At Collapse Club, we offer two 'Emotional Resilience' meetings each week where we share our experience of collapse. If you feel alone with your knowledge of collapse and need people to talk to, please visit our website and sign up for our newsletter. https://www.collapseclub.com

In this freewheeling episode, Matthew Painton and David Baum start with the dictionary definition of "transcendence" (to climb to another level), discuss different kinds of transcendence (sacred and mundane), examine the relationship of transcendence to collapse (integrative or bypass), and end up describing how Collapse Club meetings help to transcend despair (relationship and metabolization).

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At Collapse Club, we offer two 'Emotional Resilience' meetings each week where we share our experience of collapse. If you feel alone with your knowledge of collapse and need people to talk to, please visit our website and sign up for our newsletter. https://www.collapseclub.com

Collapse is accelerating, both in the realm of climate and in politics. The weather is becoming unreliable, and the governments are turning fascist.

David Baum and Matthew Painton, Conveners at Collapse Club, talk about how our "inner work" can still be useful to help us access our wisdom, humanity, and calm, even in the face of increasing threat.

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At Collapse Club, we offer two 'Emotional Resilience' meetings each week where we share our experience of collapse. If you feel alone with your knowledge of collapse and need people to talk to, please visit our website and sign up for our newsletter. https://www.collapseclub.com