The Great Remembering

With compassionate curiosity about what makes us human, June takes us on an archeological tour of the ancient yearning pulsating beneath all of our evolving technologies and changing moral fashions – to make sense of our mortality and rejoice in our aliveness, to salve our suffering and give shape to our joy. What a revelation, what an invitation, to discover that people who had no notion of gravity, genetics, or democracy answered the questions we live with more wisely than we do – a beckoning to rethink how we make of our fragile embodiment a cathedral of meaning.

Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian

June Cohen’s essential book hooks you from the very first sentence and takes you on a journey of rediscovery that will fill you with joy and rouse you with determination to implement the wisdom she animates with effortless grace. The Great Remembering is an urgent and important book that you won’t soon forget.

Bruce Feiler, seven-time best-selling author of Walking The Bible, Life is in the Transitions and A Time to Gather

An electrifying, dizzying, wondrous celebration of humanity, then and now. I finished it feeling connected, inspired, hopeful.

Keith Ferrazzi, best-selling author of Never Eat Alone

June Cohen is such a friendly, open-hearted, deeply informed guide to recovering the wisdom that can make us whole and alive once more. She knows all the science, she writes with a professional's clarity and precision and, most of all, she can make us feel joyful and in love again as we go about the beautiful business of living.

Chip Conley, Founder, Modern Elder Academy; Founder, Joie de Vivre Hospitality Group

I’ve never seen the science explained better for a lay audience.

Charles Raison, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison