The Great Remembering
Powerful Ancient Practices That Modern Life Lost—and the New Science Bringing Them Back
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Summary
In The Great Remembering, June Cohen, co-creator of TED Talks and Masters of Scale, travels across cultures, continents, and centuries to uncover a striking truth: for thousands of years, humans developed “wisdom systems”—embodied practices designed to heal the mind, strengthen communities, and restore meaning in times of upheaval. And today, cutting-edge science is beginning to prove they worked.
From epic physical challenges and communal festivals to sauna and cold plunge, psychedelic medicine, and shared rituals of grief, these ancient practices weren’t superstition—they were sophisticated systems built on deep observation of the human body, brain, and social bonds. Modern neuroscience, psychology, and physiology are now corroborating their benefits: reducing depression and anxiety, improving resilience and immune function, strengthening social connection, and restoring a sense of purpose.
Blending immersive storytelling, reporting from the frontiers of science, and interviews with leading researchers, healers, and practitioners, The Great Remembering reframes wellness, mental health, and community not as individual optimization problems—but as collective, embodied experiences we were never meant to lose.
The Great Remembering is a bold, hopeful invitation to rethink how we live now—by reclaiming what humanity once knew.
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Critic reviews
“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, Brainpickings, 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)
“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)
"I’ve never seen the science explained better for a lay audience.” (Charles Raison, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
“??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)
“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, Brainpickings, Marginalian)
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