Blessed Are the Weird

A Manifesto for Creatives

De: Jacob Nordby

Narrado por: Jacob Nordby

The world wants its soul back....

This audiobook is for highly sensitive people who have felt out of place in the modern world. It provides a narrative that describes how they fit into a lineage of creatives throughout history, and how their gifts are needed during this precise era of "new renaissance" on Earth.

In this book, author Jacob Nordby offers a bold new definition of success in the modern era. "The only success now is living and creating a work-of-art life: unique, rich with meaning, naked of anything we don't care about, and ruthless about carving out something absolutely real from a world that has gorged itself on fakeness and become critically ill from it. The only failure now is pulling back from that quest because of fear." Expanding upon his short original "Blessed Are the Weird" piece that became a viral phenomenon, he traces the roots of soulful artistry and creation to ancient times and back again to reveal the insistent, eternal quest of our true natures that demands something real - as if our very existence depends upon it.

This book is a call to creatives (and those who want to be) with the clear message that it has never been more critical to heed the call of soul than it is during this exciting, dangerous new renaissance epoch on Planet Earth. Heartfelt and sometimes humorous, it lights a signal fire for all who feel out of place in the modern world and invites them to claim their heritage as members in an ancient lineage - those tenders of soul and beauty who have always kept the flame alive for humanity.

This is a book for everyone who wants to lead a deep, true, and passionate life and leave the world better for having passed this way.

Blessed Are the Weird. Your time has come to define the new normal.

©2016 Manifesto Publishing House, Inc. (P)2018 Tantor

Blessed are we the weird!

Wow, it is like Jacob Nordby has reached into my soul and expressed for me many of the questions, ideas, and tribulations that I deal with on a regular basis. He has done so with such elegance and grace that it made this experience a life changing one that I will revisit time and time again. I feel less alone in this world and confident in the path I have been taking. I have always believed in myself and never let things get in my way, but have always been challenged by it as well. Now having this book in my arsenal I bare a new sword and shield. Thank you Jacob Nordby, your weird friend Leonard Mangano

Now...face to face with step two....

Nordby narrated his own work, so it was read well, and therefore; as the artist meant it to sound. Which I really like over some readings of someone else's blood, guts and soul being read with a mis-match of inflections. He had me from the lingering "born with a hole in my heart". Though mine stayed an extra 25 years before it closed up. From there he definitely describes a personality that fit me so well, I could finish his sentences before he did. It was pretty uncanny, and even a little emotional to hear another voyager's voice, their understanding, but more so; their insistence on not being defeated.
I would even like to know what one who does not fit this would think? Are we weirdos just as arrogant, in another way, and seemingly normal "status quo" folks suffer, too, only in silence?
Then there is the trouble with "step two" which few "self exploring" books even mean to answer; especially for women who love their families, who have commitments to family that just can't be handled with weekend visits. But so it is, our personal escape routes are more complicated.
Blessed Are The Weird, was communication with another person, in another tribe, that has the same lonely job as you, and reminds you just how important your job is, and why. And it is nice to know you don't have this job because your broken, but it serves, in many tribes and families down through the ages, as more than a court jester.

Thank you Jacob!!

I am so inspired and encourage after listening to this amazing book. Thank you so much Jacob for writing it! Namaste!!!

enjoyed this

Finished the whole thing. Enjoyed it. Worth the buy.

Thanks for putting yourself on the page, Jacob. Your work indeed has spirit.

Gift of Being Weird

I loved this book. Jacob empowered me to embrace my weirdness as a gift that needs to be shared.