“Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns.” So reads the synopsis for Emergent Strategy, a book about “radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help” by the Detroit-based social justice facilitator, healer, and doula adrienne maree brown. “Rather than steel ourselves against such change, this book invites us to feel, map, assess, and learn from the swirling patterns around us in order to better understand and influence them as they happen. This is a resolutely materialist ‘spirituality’ based equally on science and science fiction, a visionary incantation to transform that which ultimately transforms us.”