A truly beautiful, wise, raw, subtle book.
--Robert MacFarlane, author of Underland My sister and I are driving south toward Graceland in her beat-up red Saturn, both in need of refuge, both running from different things.
Her bumper sticker reads Humanity Is Trying.
It's a triple entendre, she explains: Humanity is exhausting.
Humanity is struggle.
Humanity is doing the best it knows how.
Humanity Is Trying is several books in one.
It's a memoir about the love and the loss of a sister and a best friend.
It's the story of a series of escape attempts--cowardly, courageous, harmful, and hopeful--experiments in freedom from the stories that limit us.
And it's a record of spiritual, intellectual, and emotional growth with the help of friends, psychedelics, art, and spiritual practice.
From Jason Gots, creator of the podcasts Think Again and Clever Creature , comes a philosophical love letter to the slow, messy work of building a life and living with your dreams in the face of reality.
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