This Primer eBook is an introduction to my book Change Within, Change the World. Through the variety of my learnings, this simple truth has emerged: If you want to change what's outside you, you have to start by changing what's inside you.
We live in chaotic times and face a tipping point as social structures disintegrate and governments no longer seem able to shield us from both man-made and natural disasters (i.e corruption, climate change, epidemics). Indeed, over the past century, many of our greatest thinkers (i.e. Albert Einstein, Rubert Sheldrake, Ken Wilber and Malcolm Gladwell) presaged painful and tectonic shifts in the fabric of our society.
But help is here: Change Within, Change the World shows us how we each possess the keys to individual and global change - to build a unique and exhilarating future for ourselves and the world.
"This is a rare and very wise book by a rare and wise woman." - Jean Houston, Ph. D., is the bestselling author of many books, including The Possible Human, The Search for the Beloved, and A Passion for the Possible. An internationally renowned scholar, philosopher, and teacher.
"Change Within is immediate relief from these dangerous times. Changes you changes everything. Jane Battenberg shows you how." - Richard Owen Geer, PhD, co author of Open Circle: Story Arts and the Reinvention of Community.
In Change Within, Change the World, Jane Battenberg explains how we are living through a global sea change of chaos, and gives us reassurance and stability by providing us with the tools to build a brighter, more vibrant future.
As you apply the principles in this content rich book, you will learn how to:
- Reframe negative thoughts into positive action
- Solve problems by tapping into higher levels of consciousness
- Use time to transform old patterns and habits into life affirming attitudes
- Survey eternal cycles of Life to gain the knowledge to know when and how to act
"I am not surprised that Jane Battegberg is so prescient and evocative, because she is expert in the most intimate of all lenses, the human eye. With Jane as Batternberg as your guide, the work you will do together will be stimulating, depth sourcing, soul changing, and always, celebratory." - Jean Houston, PhD, author, scholar, philosopher, researcher in Human Capacities
"An exciting, once-in-a-lifetime journey to authentic change. You will enjoy the ride! This is a book that will help us change the world. It is both wide and deep, far-ranging and far-seeing, like its amazing author, Dr. Jane Battenberg. Jane is a fearless traveler who guides her readers into adventures through history and into the future." - Peggy Rubin, author of To Be and How to Be: Transforming Your Life through the Power of Sacred Theatre.
"I find Jane's book very important in its clear "big picture" view of our world and the urgency or our challenge to act and think outside our habitual Darwinian story to experience ourselves in interdependent, cooperative community with others rather than as separate." - Elisabet Sahtouris, evolution biologist, futurist, author of Earthdance: Living Systems in Evolution.
"Jane Battenberg clearly and thoughtfully presents the state of our physical and emotional world within the context of its history, provides the necessary tools for individuals to discover their own source of strength to change their inward and therefore, approach." - N. Bellamy Jones, author, teacher and GenX mother.
