Charles Eisenstein
Speaker and Author
It Is No Measure of Health to be Well-Adjusted to a Profoundly Sick Society
“It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” ~Jiddu Krishnamurti …
Exiting the Matrix
I was always a very unwilling participant in The Matrix, even going back to grade school …
Separation vs Interbeing
Every culture has a mythology that answers the deep questions like “who am I?” or “what’s important in life?”. But …
How Can I Help Heal Our Planet?
I hesitate to go too much into data about how much carbon can be stored through regenerative practices, etc. These …
The Core Themes of Climate: A New Story
The Core theme of Climate: A New Story is a living planet view of Earth, especially in relationship to climate …
Climate: A New Story
With research and insight, Charles Eisenstein details how the quantification of the natural world leads to a lack of integration …
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Living in the Gift
Why does the sun shine? A random result of coalescing gases igniting nuclear fusion? Or is it in order to …
Why We Think Only the Measurable is Real
The notion that “only the measurable is real” is a deep reductionism that says all of the difference in the …
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
In a time of social and ecological crisis, what can we as individuals do to make the world a better …
Orland Bishop (031)
Orland Bishop is in my eyes a treasure on this earth. In this third conversation, we talk about the cosmological …
Initiation into a Living Planet
Most people have passed through some kind of initiation in life. By that, I mean a crisis that defies what …
Why I am Afraid of Global Cooling
In the run-up to the publication of my next book, I’ve been monitoring sources across the spectrum of opinion on …
Climate: A New Story
In a time of social and ecological crisis, what can we as individuals do to make the world a better place? This inspirational and thought-provoking book serves as an empowering antidote to… cynicism, frustration, paralysis, and overwhelm so many of us are feeling.
Separation vs Interbeing
Every culture has a mythology that answers the deep questions like “who am I?” or “what’s important in life?”. But …
Archetypes and Stories Beyond The Hero’s Journey
I don’t think the hero’s journey is a useless archetype. I think it’s a powerful archetype. It’s just like we’ve …
Moving Towards Interbeing
What can we do as individuals to move from the story of separation to the story of interbeing? …
The Case for a Universal Basic Income
Ever since about 1790, economic philosophers have puzzled over a question: “What are we going to do with all the …
How Much Good Can One Person Really Do?
One of the reasons the world is in the state that it is, is because everybody mortgages what is really …
Archetypes and Stories Beyond The Hero’s Journey
I don’t think the hero’s journey is a useless archetype. I think it’s a powerful archetype. It’s just like we’ve …
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How Our Money System Creates Scarcity
Our money system casts us into competition beyond what might be organic or natural to human beings. How exactly does …
Where Does Addiction Come From?
You can understand a lot about our culture through the lens of addiction. Addiction is another area where we attack …
Glimpses of Possibility: The Pain and Power
The story reveals itself like this gigantic angelic being coming through the fog and sometimes the fog clears just enough …
Can One Person Create a Big Change?
We need to find another reason to live in a beautiful way and follow our heart besides “it might create …
The Root of Separation
We seem so far from a world of interbeing, but through crisis and collapse, this can change …
Is Competition Human Nature?
Competition is definitely part of human nature, but our society has added additional competition into the system …
The Gift of Loss
The gifts the universe give often take the form of something that looks really bad going into it. Cancer, divorce, …
Our Salvation Will Come from the Margins
We long for a knowledge that we have lost. We as in the dominant culture. But that knowledge is not …
The Gift of Loss
The gifts the universe give often take the form of something that looks really bad going into it. Cancer, divorce, …
Where Does Addiction Come From?
You can understand a lot about our culture through the lens of addiction. Addiction is another area where we attack …
What’s It Like to Be You?
Charles talks about what asking the question “What’s it like to be you?” can do to help dissolve a polarized …
Exiting the Matrix
I was always a very unwilling participant in The Matrix, even going back to grade school …
How Our Money System Creates Scarcity
Our money system casts us into competition beyond what might be organic or natural to human beings. How exactly does …
Glimpses of Possibility: The Pain and Power
The story reveals itself like this gigantic angelic being coming through the fog and sometimes the fog clears just enough …
How Change Happens in the Story of Separation
In the story of separation, change happens what a force is exerted on a mass. But this is an obsolete …
Is Competition Human Nature?
Competition is definitely part of human nature, but our society has added additional competition into the system …