Breaking Out of Prison: a guide to consciousness, compassion, and freedom

By: Bernice Mennis

Breaking Out of Prison explores the complex and fundamental questions ofof how break out of internal and external prisons which confine both ourselves and others n spaces much too small for our mind, heart, and spirit. It explores how writing, even a simple Composition class with a maximum security prison, can be a path for consciousness, compassion, and freedom. It is not, however, only those imprisoned with concrete and steel, but also about those who have placed them there and concept, habitual thinking, and entrapped mindsets cast people "beyond the pale" with the illusion another's imprisonment makes us safe, another's "evil" makes us "good."At the center of the book are papers written by students in a composition class in prison, but Breaking Out of Prison also trace the author's journey toward understanding and freedom. It includes a wide range of poetry ad creative nonfiction as well as selections from works in history, psychology, politics, and spirituality. It is a weave of experience and theory, of poetry and literature, of pedagogy (a practical guide on how to teach writing) and practice, of Buddhist thought (bare attention and mindfulness), psychology (shadow and projection), and politics (the prison industrial complex in the U.S.). Breaking Out of Prison explores paths toward deeper awareness within ourselves and in the world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0996971904
• ISBN13: 9780996971904
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Booksmyth Press
• Length: 371 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 6.0"