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INTERVIEW WITH STEPHEN JENKINSON

8/19/2018

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PODCAST TWO
BY THE RIVERS OF NEW BABYLON: THE FOUNDATION STONES OF COLONISATION EXCAVATED


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Greetings all --

It's a pleasure to share this interview I conducted with Stephen Jenkinson, a profound mentor of mine for many years now.  Stephen is a teacher, author, storyteller, spiritual activist, farmer and founder of the Orphan Wisdom School, a teaching house and learning house for the skills of deep living and making human culture. It is rooted in knowing history, being claimed by ancestry, working for a time yet to come.

His latest book, Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble, was released in July 2018.

In his landmark provocative style, Stephen Jenkinson makes the case that we must birth a new generation of elders, one poised and willing to be true stewards of the planet and its species. Come of Age does not offer tips on how to be a better senior citizen or how to be kinder to our elders. Rather, with lyrical prose and incisive insight, Stephen Jenkinson explores the great paradox of elderhood in North America: how we are awash in the aged and yet somehow lacking in wisdom; how we relegate senior citizens to the corner of the house while simultaneously heralding them as sage elders simply by virtue of their age. Our own unreconciled relationship with what it means to be an elder has yielded a culture nearly bereft of them. Meanwhile, the planet boils, and the younger generation boils with anger over being left an environment and sociopolitical landscape deeply scarred and broken.

Taking on the sacred cow of the family, Jenkinson argues that elderhood is a function rather than an identity–it is not a position earned simply by the number of years on the planet or the title “parent” or “grandparent.” As with his seminal book Die Wise, Jenkinson interweaves rich personal stories with iconoclastic observations that will leave readers radically rethinking their concept of what it takes to be an elder and the risks of doing otherwise. Part critique, part call to action, Come of Age is a love song inviting all of us to grow up, before it’s too late.

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If you enjoyed the music and want to know what was used, the intro track was Everybody Knows by Leonard Cohen, and the  outro track was Rivers of Babylon by Gondwana.

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Susan Smith
8/21/2018 04:56:58 pm

Thankyou dear Christos for hosting this podcast with Stephen. As i did not make it to the Big Tent this year after graduating from People Calling Called and Come, it helps with the remembering.

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