Charles Eisenstein Podcast

It used to be that the really bright ones went to Harvard. Now, the really bright ones drop out. Filmed by Jonathan Hiller: HillerVisual.com #CharlesEisenstein #Education #DeSchool #Unschooling #Parenting #Philosophy #Authors

You can understand a lot about our culture through the lens of addiction. Addiction is another area where we attack the symptom and ignore the cause. Filmed by Jonathan Hiller: HillerVisual.com #CharlesEisenstein #MentalHealth #Addiction #Recovery #Society #Philosophy #Authors

I could say that my mission is to serve the advent of the story of interbeing, but I feel like any words I put onto it reduce it.I have to say: I can't say what my mission is, but I've become better able to recognize what's aligned with my purpose for being here. Filmed by Jonathan Hiller: HillerVisual.com #CharlesEisenstein #Success #Activism #Purpose #Philosophy #Authors

Competition is definitely part of human nature, but our society has added additional competition into the system Filmed by Jonathan Hiller: HillerVisual.com #CharlesEisenstein #Interbeing #Competition #HumanNature #Inspiration #Philosophy #Authors

Ever since about 1790, economic philosophers have puzzled over a question: "What are we going to do with all the surplus labor when machines do all the work?" Filmed by Jonathan Hiller: HillerVisual.com #CharlesEisenstein #UBI #UniversalBasicIncome #AndrewYang #Economy #Economics #Philosophy #Authors

On a basic level, I'm kind of fond of cryptocurrency as a concept, simply because it's disrupted the story of money. Filmed by Jonathan Hiller: HillerVisual.com #CharlesEisenstein #Crypto #Cryptocurrency #Blockchain #DistributedLedger #Philosophy #Authors

One of the reasons the world is in the state that it is, is because everybody mortgages what is really pulling at their heart to do something abstract. For the thing that they think they have to do for the numbers to work out. Filmed by Jonathan Hiller: HillerVisual.com #CharlesEisenstein #Activism #Ecology #Change #Society #Philosophy #Authors

The story reveals itself like this gigantic angelic being coming through the fog and sometimes the fog clears just enough to see one facet of it's wing, and it's so beautiful that if you saw the whole thing, you would have to turn away. Because it's painful to see what could be, something that beautiful, and to know that the world is so far from that.But once you've seen a possible future, you know it's real, and you know it can happen. All you need to know is "what's the next...

I was always a very unwilling participant in The Matrix, even going back to grade school. Filmed by Jonathan Hiller: HillerVisual.com #CharlesEisenstein #TheMatrix #Society #Rebel #Revolution #Philosophy #Authors

"It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society."~Jiddu Krishnamurti Filmed by Jonathan Hiller: HillerVisual.com #CharlesEisenstein #MentalHealth #Krishnamurti #Healthcare #Society #Philosophy #Authors

The gifts the universe give often take the form of something that looks really bad going into it. Cancer, divorce, a collapse. A collapse of both outward circumstances, but also your identity. And that emptiness is where something new can come in. Filmed by Jonathan Hiller: HillerVisual.com #CharlesEisenstein #MentalHealth #Loss #Grief #Philosophy #Authors

There could be a lot of things going into that. Not wanting to bring kids into the world right now, ideologies about population overshoot, influence of the cultural devaluation of raising a family. I think in this area the reasons people give themselves are not the real reasons. https://www.CharlesEisenstein.org #CharlesEisenstein #Climate #Love #Inspiration #Interbeing #Authors #Philosophy #Politics #Polarization

What kind of world do you want to live in? Interview by Pachamama.org In support of SacredHeadwaters.org #CharlesEisenstein #ClimateChange #Interbeing #Authors #Philosophy #Gaia #Nature #Pachamama #SacredHeadwaters #PachamamaAlliance

Real freedom would be in choosing what she wants to do outside of being compelled to. https://www.CharlesEisenstein.org #CharlesEisenstein #Climate #Love #Inspiration #Interbeing #Authors #Philosophy #Politics #Polarization

There are a lot of organizations out there trying to make the world a better place, but The Pachamama Alliance is different. Interview by Pachamama.org In support of SacredHeadwaters.org #CharlesEisenstein #ClimateChange #Interbeing #Authors #Philosophy #Gaia #Nature #Pachamama #SacredHeadwaters #PachamamaAlliance

Now things are changing, where what had been celebrated and encouraged is now getting repressed, and now there's nowhere left for men to go. https://www.CharlesEisenstein.org #CharlesEisenstein #Climate #Love #Inspiration #Interbeing #Authors #Philosophy #Politics #Polarization

The way I address polarization and dehumanization in my work is to present the "other side" in the most generous terms that I can. Interview by Pachamama.org In support of SacredHeadwaters.org #CharlesEisenstein #ClimateChange #Interbeing #Authors #Philosophy #Gaia #Nature #Pachamama #SacredHeadwaters #PachamamaAlliance

I had this one essay I never wrote about a way of inhabiting the masculine yin in confronting the feminine yang. https://www.CharlesEisenstein.org #CharlesEisenstein #Climate #Love #Inspiration #Interbeing #Authors #Philosophy #Politics #Polarization

[Recorded in 2018] We once again have narrowly avoided war in the middle east. The policy establishment really wanted a war, but have not been able to do it. That's because more and more of us are carrying peace in our hearts and in our daily relationships. Interview by Pachamama.org In support of SacredHeadwaters.org #CharlesEisenstein #ClimateChange #Interbeing #Authors #Philosophy #Gaia #Nature #Pachamama #SacredHeadwaters #PachamamaAlliance

You could totally use consent that way if that's your intent. When I was a kid the term 'retarded' was the politically acceptable term. https://www.CharlesEisenstein.org #CharlesEisenstein #Climate #Love #Inspiration #Interbeing #Authors #Philosophy #Politics #Polarization