She was married to the late Francis Underhill Macy, the activist and Russian scholar who founded the Center for Safe Energy. Her work addresses psychological and spiritual issues, Buddhist thought, and contemporary science. She has created a theoretical framework for personal and social change, and a workshop methodology for its application. She is an international spokesperson for anti-nuclear causes, peace, justice, and environmentalism, most renowned for her book Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World and the Great Turning initiative, which deals with the transformation from, as she terms it, an industrial growth society to what she considers to be a more sustainable civilization. She studied there with Huston Smith, the influential author of The World's Religions (previously entitled The Religions of Man). Macy graduated from Wellesley College in 1950 and received her Ph.D in Religious Studies in 1978 from Syracuse University, Syracuse.
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