The World as a Living System
Maria Garcia
This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.
What if the world isn’t broken but alive, intelligent, and trying to heal?
The World as a Living System is a mind-shifting exploration of what it means to live in a time of global breakdown. Drawing on complex system theory, philosophy, psychology, and lived human experience, this book offers a radically different lens. Our world is not a linear machine heading toward collapse. It is a self-organizing system seeking harmony through change.
From the rigidity of modern society to the fragmentation of the human psyche, from ecological destruction to economic confusion, this book reveals how all levels of our experience are interconnected and how all are caught in loops that can be transformed. It argues that most of what we call “normal” is actually a deep systemic dysfunction, and that even our most celebrated paths to healing, like the hero’s journey, are signs of how far we have strayed from wholeness.
You’ll journey through themes such as:
Instead of offering one more ideology or fix-it plan, The World as a Living System invites you into a new way of seeing. A way that does not fight chaos but honors it. A way that does not seek control but coherence. A way that reveals your life, your real life, as part of a vast and sacred unfolding.
If you’ve ever sensed that something deeper is possible, not just for you but for the world, you are not alone. This book is your companion in remembering what has always been true.
Duration - 10h 13m.
Author - Maria Garcia.
Narrator - Digital Voice Jane E.
Published Date - Thursday, 02 January 2025.
Copyright - © 2025 Maria Garcia ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. What if the world isn’t broken but alive, intelligent, and trying to heal? The World as a Living System is a mind-shifting exploration of what it means to live in a time of global breakdown. Drawing on complex system theory, philosophy, psychology, and lived human experience, this book offers a radically different lens. Our world is not a linear machine heading toward collapse. It is a self-organizing system seeking harmony through change. From the rigidity of modern society to the fragmentation of the human psyche, from ecological destruction to economic confusion, this book reveals how all levels of our experience are interconnected and how all are caught in loops that can be transformed. It argues that most of what we call “normal” is actually a deep systemic dysfunction, and that even our most celebrated paths to healing, like the hero’s journey, are signs of how far we have strayed from wholeness. You’ll journey through themes such as: Instead of offering one more ideology or fix-it plan, The World as a Living System invites you into a new way of seeing. A way that does not fight chaos but honors it. A way that does not seek control but coherence. A way that reveals your life, your real life, as part of a vast and sacred unfolding. If you’ve ever sensed that something deeper is possible, not just for you but for the world, you are not alone. This book is your companion in remembering what has always been true. Duration - 10h 13m. Author - Maria Garcia. Narrator - Digital Voice Jane E. Published Date - Thursday, 02 January 2025. Copyright - © 2025 Maria Garcia ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:12
Prologue
Duration:00:10:45
Part I - Foundations of Living Systems
Duration:00:00:26
Chapter 1: The Architecture of Complexity
Duration:00:24:46
Chapter 2: Chaos: Too Much Freedom, No Coherence
Duration:00:11:31
Chapter 3: Rigidity: Too Much Order, No Movement
Duration:00:10:45
Chapter 4: Harmony: The Middle Way of Living Systems
Duration:00:11:37
Chapter 5: The Movement Between States
Duration:00:11:53
Chapter 6: Breaking the Pattern: How Systems Leave Unhealthy Attractor States
Duration:00:09:43
Chapter 7: How a System Evolves Out of a Healthy Attractor State
Duration:00:08:12
Chapter 8: The River of Eternal Flow
Duration:00:10:12
Chapter 9: Beyond Progress: The Truth of Eternal Change
Duration:00:09:03
Chapter 10: Control Is the Illusion
Duration:00:09:59
Chapter 11: Time Is a Pattern, Not a Line
Duration:00:09:31
Chapter 12: The Role of the Observer
Duration:00:08:58
Part II - The Psyche as a Living System
Duration:00:00:22
Chapter 13: Your Psyche as a Complex System
Duration:00:13:01
Chapter 14: The Misunderstood Path to Adulthood
Duration:00:08:32
Chapter 15: How a Broken Culture Turned Wholeness into a Quest
Duration:00:33:13
Chapter 16: The Intelligence of Discomfort
Duration:00:05:08
Chapter 17: When the Psyche Falls into Chaos
Duration:00:09:38
Chapter 18: Supporting the Reemergence of a Complex Psyche
Duration:00:06:36
Chapter 19: The Body as Portal
Duration:00:05:10
Chapter 20: Supporting the Body Through Integration
Duration:00:05:08
Chapter 21: Healing Is Slow
Duration:00:04:57
Chapter 22: The Psyche in Harmony
Duration:00:06:24
Chapter 23: Maintaining a Psyche in Harmony
Duration:00:05:41
Chapter 24: The Temptation to Become God
Duration:00:06:05
Chapter 25: The Role of Psychedelics in System Reorganization
Duration:00:06:45
Chapter 26: Healing the Roots: Trauma, Memory, and the Restoration of Flow
Duration:00:08:31
Chapter 27: Wholeness Is Not Perfection: Living with Incompleteness
Duration:00:08:09
Part III - The Collective System: Society
Duration:00:00:27
Chapter 28: The Collective Psyche: How Societies Become Systems
Duration:00:13:36
Chapter 29: How Systems Shape and Are Shaped by Each Other
Duration:00:12:33
Chapter 30: Roles in the Living Human System
Duration:00:07:02
Chapter 31: How Society and Psyche Lock Each Other in Place
Duration:00:37:45
Chapter 32: A New Root for Society: Replacing Fear with Trust
Duration:00:09:32
Chapter 33: The System of Money
Duration:00:09:16
Chapter 34: Designing Systems for Complexity
Duration:00:09:28
Chapter 35: Work Without a Boss: Rethinking Human Effort
Duration:00:08:38
Chapter 36: Designing for Regeneration: Foundations, Stewardship, and the Post-Growth Economy
Duration:00:08:37
Chapter 37: Education for Complexity: Learning Beyond the System
Duration:00:08:32
Chapter 38: How Systems Become Disconnected
Duration:00:08:42
Part IV - Earth as a Living System
Duration:00:00:22
Chapter 39: Earth as a Living System: Ecology Beyond Control
Duration:00:13:55
Chapter 40: Psyche, Society, and the Planetary System
Duration:00:24:31
Chapter 41: Restoring Our Relationship with Earth
Duration:00:23:19
Part V - The Cosmos and the Infinite System
Duration:00:00:24
Chapter 42: Complexity at a Cosmic Scale
Duration:00:11:28
Chapter 43: The Resilience of the Whole
Duration:00:16:28
Chapter 44: The Universe Beyond Beginning and End
Duration:00:26:31
Chapter 45: From Maps to Movement
Duration:00:08:53
Chapter 46: A Systemic Understanding of Truth
Duration:00:09:07
Chapter 47: Beyond Systems: The Intelligence of Life Itself
Duration:00:09:00
Chapter 48: Restoring Meaning in a Mechanized World
Duration:00:10:42
Part VI - The Living Intelligence Beneath All Systems
Duration:00:00:24
Chapter 49: Play, Humor, and Improvisation: The Hidden Intelligence of Life
Duration:00:09:41
Chapter 50: Why Emptiness Matters in Complex Systems
Duration:00:09:13
Chapter 51: Transitions, Thresholds, and the Unknown
Duration:00:08:18
Chapter 52: The Choice Before Us
Duration:00:05:34
Chapter 53: A Field Begins to Form
Duration:00:05:04
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:16
Retail Sample
Duration:00:04:58