Two million years of belonging.
Five hundred years of forgetting.
One journey back.
Consumer culture dismantled the villages that once held us. Without them, each of us has been left to attempt the impossible: shouldering alone what was always meant to be carried by many.
We won't walk a path paved by effort. We'll turn down a gentler path marked by stillness, compassion, and a practical rebuilding of human connection. And it will take us to a way of being together that honors our longing for closeness, to a place I call the village.
What emerges is a book welcoming us on a journey through the fields of psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, and sociology. But there are no pages crowded with footnotes. Instead, this book's journey reaches for the heart, not just informing us, but offering to transform us.
We arrive expecting a village. But we're met by only two parents. When an unsettling quiet settles in the place our people once lived, consumer culture whispers its promise: keep striving, keep achieving, and all will be well.
The turning point comes when sorrow arrives, telling a truth our hearts already know and revealing a gentler way forward. Through Stillness and Compassion, we begin to mend and discover practical tools for wholeness that always lived within us.
We practice Stillness and Compassion in our everyday relationships and invite others into shared circles of care. Together, one small group at a time, we build village-like ways of living shaped by presence and shared humanity.
When you and I enter the world as newborns, our brains, crafted by two million years of evolution, don't know the villages have vanished. They scan for forty pairs of welcoming eyes, for the collective warmth of a clan who will build fires when nights turn cold and hold us tight when days turn hard.
Imagine our surprise when only two pairs of eyes meet ours…
— excerpt from Chapter 1, The Village Solution
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