Good News About the World Falling Apart

The Third Turning of Human Consciousness

By: Ananda Forest

Narrated by: Ananda Forest

A fusion of Sapiens and The Power of Now, Good News About the World Falling Apart reveals that the current crises we face on Earth are the birth pangs of a species. Humans have been here before. We were at an inflection point of this magnitude when we first developed fire and language 200 thousand years ago and, again, ten thousand years ago when we discovered how to germinate seeds. Although these Turnings could have led to our extinction, each time we used our superpowers—imagination and intuition—to transform our consciousness and persevere.

The crises we face today announce a Third Turning.

The good news lies in our name, Homo sapiens, from the Latin for "one who knows," the same meaning as the word shaman. In times like these, we have always turned to the shamans among us and it is no different today. Just as such wise ones pioneered fire and language and the germination of seeds, they offer similar guidance today, but this time both the fire and the seed lie within our hearts.

Our work today is to crack open our hearts, to kindle the fire inside, to germinate the Heart Seed within us. Good News takes the listener across time, through humans’ earlier challenges and triumphs in the First and Second Turnings. Forest then shows how the Third Turning is occurring all around us and that the challenges we face today are the call for Homo sapiens to achieve their full potential.

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Reflective and Expansive

In a time when headlines amplify fear and division, Good News About the World Falling Apart offers a perspective that feels both radical and deeply grounding. Rather than denying the fractures in our society, the author invites us to look directly at them — and to see them not as proof of inevitable decline, but as signs of transformation. What struck me most was the way the author weaves history and spirituality together. By looking back at past societal shifts, the book reminds us that upheaval has often preceded meaningful change. It is the breaking down of structures that no longer serve us so that something more life giving can emerge, the heart.
The book shows that we are being called into a deeper level of responsibility and names the necessity of opening our hearts.c