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The Way Out: Facing the Climate Crisis 60 min
The Way Out: Facing the Climate Crisis (2018) ($7)
What can we do, when time is running out? Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh has a revolutionary proposal for facing the Climate Crisis. “The way out is in,” he states. “The way out of climate change is inside each of us.” His invitation is to stop: to stop running and to take a good...
To Live Awake 58 min
To Live Awake (2019) ($5)
We live in challenging times. To live awake, in harmony and truly connected is an art. The basic condition of this art is to come home to yourself and be fully present. But how to do that?
Does Capitalism Mean Freedom? | Zephyr Teachout 6 min
Does Capitalism Mean Freedom? | Zephyr Teachout
According to the standard account, capitalism—whatever your criticisms of it—is synonymous with freedom. Zephyr Teachout explains how we are told other systems necessitate central planning by undemocratic bureaucracies. But what if that’s not true? capitalism puts us at the...
Zephyr Teachout
The Writings of an Earth Lover 10 min
The Writings of an Earth Lover
This video is dedicated to the memory of Vivienne Elanta. She was an Australian environmental activist. With her partner John Croft, she co-founded the Gaia Foundation of Australia, with the objectives of developing projects which are engaging towards personal growth...
The Great Relation
Battlestar Climatica 9 min
Battlestar Climatica
"The consumer society - it's hyperindividualism - and hyperindividualism is a form of disempowerment, and they know it. So you get to express your personal identity, while you are being stripped of collective power. And the elites are not going to go without a fight. Look at...
The Extinction Rebellion
The Key to Happiness in a Distracted World 37 min
The Key to Happiness in a Distracted World
What could ancient Greek philosophers tell us about how to live our lives today?
Matt D'Avella
The Taoist Story of Robber Zhi and Confucius | SHORT FILM 17 min
The Taoist Story of Robber Zhi and Confucius | SHORT FILM
Equal to the Tao Te Ching is the great Taoist text known as the Zhuangzi, attributed the great sage Zhuangzi. One of the chapters in the Zhuangzi text is the story of Robber Zhi and Confucius. This passage tests our spiritual understanding of Taoism and essentially reveals...
Jason Gregory
On Compassion 13 min
On Compassion
Would I have done things differently if I were in your shoes? If I were in the totality of your circumstances? When we look into the eyes of "the other" - without looking away - the labels start to come off. The question "What's it like to be you?" is a powerful starting...
Digital Wampum: Testimony of the Iroquois | 8-Part Series 51 min
Digital Wampum: Testimony of the Iroquois | 8-Part Series
Digital Wampum is a series of 8 short, testimonial films, on the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois.)
Racism Is No Illusion. 'Racecraft' Is.
Racism Is No Illusion. 'Racecraft' Is.
Why race is like Santa Claus—a pervasive myth we love to convince each other of.
Cedrick-Michael Simmons
Just the Way You Are 15 min
Just the Way You Are
"Growing up I had vague memories of Mister Rogers Neighborhood, but watching his program now as an adult and as a filmmaker I was fascinated by the degree of sophistication and discipline Rogers brought to his show.
Travis Lee Ratcliff
Indigenous Thinking for Troubled Times, Tyson Yunkaporta 45 min
Indigenous Thinking for Troubled Times, Tyson Yunkaporta
Can indigenous thinking save the world? Tyson Yunkaporta's new book 'Sand Talk' explores this question and is making a big impact.
Rebel Wisdom
The Power of Love - A Reading by Satish Kumar 9 min
The Power of Love - A Reading by Satish Kumar
Enjoy this heartwarming share from peace and environmental advocate, Satish Kumar.
UPLIFT
The Inner Peace Revolution 21 min
The Inner Peace Revolution
We all want peace, so why isn’t the world more peaceful? Discover the scientific evidence that points to a surprising solution.
Mark Arellano
My Octopus Teacher 3 min
My Octopus Teacher (trailer)
A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.
Identity & Empathy | Ayishat Akanbi 63 min
Identity & Empathy | Ayishat Akanbi
Ayishat Akanbi is a stylist and cultural commentator. Her monologue 'The Problem with Wokeness' went viral a couple of years ago. She argues that modern social justice movements, or 'wokeness', often creates division, and harms those it is intended to help.
Rebel Wisdom
Infinite Potential: The Life & Ideas of David Bohm 3 min
Infinite Potential: The Life & Ideas of David Bohm (trailer)
INFINITE POTENTIAL tells the story of the man Einstein called his “spiritual son” and the Dalai Lama his “science guru.” A brilliant physicist and explorer of consciousness, Bohm’s profound insights into the underlying nature of reality and the interconnectedness of the...
Noam Chomsky on the Harper's Letter and Cancel Culture 5 min
Noam Chomsky on the Harper's Letter and Cancel Culture
“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.” ― Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's Philosophy
Revolution Now! with Peter Joseph 120 min
Revolution Now! with Peter Joseph
Part 1: introductions are made, along with a treatment on the origins and nature of systemic racism in the USA.
Sept 1 2020
We Can Do Better Than This
We Can Do Better Than This
My wife, Stella, recently shut down her account on the social-media-platform-that-must-not-be-named. “It feels like I’m walking away from a fight,” she said. “Almost everything I read there is a signal as to what side the poster is on. Or an attempt to promote the idea that...
Charles Eisenstein
Is Universal Basic Income The Future? 12 min
Is Universal Basic Income The Future?
Imagine a future in which every person was afforded the basics of life. How would this change our society? Is UBI the future? – Second Thought
Second Thought
Ten Days of Charles Eisenstein
Ten Days of Charles Eisenstein
A Collection of Tweets That Fell on Deaf Ears
Josh Liveright
Down To Earth 90 min
Down To Earth (2020)
Leaving behind their cosmopolitan life, a couple and their three young children travel the ends of the earth searching for a new perspective on life. In their five-year journey across six continents, they live with some of the oldest indigenous communities on the planet. From...
From Trash To Treasure: Turning Negatives Into Positives 25 min
From Trash To Treasure: Turning Negatives Into Positives (2020)
In Lesotho—a highland country surrounded by South Africa—an artist named Nthabiseng TeReo Mohanela takes discarded materials and transforms them into unique clothing and accessories. Teaching young people the benefits of recycling and re-creation, she calls her project “From...
Transformation Diaries 30 min
Transformation Diaries
Transformation Diaries is a platform for the questions of our times. From love, sexuality and social organization, all the way to our relation to the biosphere and the metaphysical, we explore the underlying sets of beliefs and assumptions at the wellspring of culture —...
Transformation Diaries
Framing Reality: A Plan for the Future 51 min
Framing Reality: A Plan for the Future (2020)
All humans on the planet are living under an illusionary paradigm that can be compared to what was presented in the 'Matrix'. A mental prison that exists within the minds of the collective. This prison exists as the societal paradigm we have chosen to accept. That is all...
Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature
Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature
How do we get from the world of now to the society we long to live in?
Michael Nagler
The Yugas: The Great Time Cycles of the Universe 35 min
The Yugas: The Great Time Cycles of the Universe (2020)
Time. What is it? This is such an odd question to ask. But to never inquire into the nature of time is even more strange. We are all subject to time and its process of birth, life, decay, and death. This linear process makes us believe that the nature of time is just linear...
Theory of Enchantment 101 46 min
Theory of Enchantment 101
The Theory of Enchantment course provides educators with a world-class social-emotional learning program (SEL) that integrates pop culture with developmental psychology. This program helps educators transform the lives of their students and motivates them to maximize their...
Chloe Valdary
Working Assumptions for White Activists on Eliminating Racism: Guidelines for Recruiting Other Whites as Allies
Working Assumptions for White Activists on Eliminating Racism: Guidelines for Recruiting Other Whites as Allies
Assume that all human beings desire warm, close relationships with each other. This is also true of you and of all other white people.    Assume that you are a regular white person (not an exceptional white person) and that all whites are good people, caring, intelligent...
Ricky Sherover-Marcuse
Miki Kashtan: Exiting the Either/Or Trap - Decision Making Beyond Consensus and Command / Control 89 min
Miki Kashtan: Exiting the Either/Or Trap - Decision Making Beyond Consensus and Command / Control
Are long, drawn-out consensus processes the only alternative to a rigid, hierarchical decision making model that reinforces unhealthy power dynamics? Trainer, facilitator and writer Miki Kashtan offers her powerful framework of Convergent Facilitation, which is a model of...
East Point Peace Academy
Thomas Berry: The New Story 41 min
Thomas Berry: The New Story
A video excerpt of Thomas Berry discussing his 1978 monograph entitled "The New Story" at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia in 1984.
zegneg
The Conspiracy Myth
The Conspiracy Myth
The other day I was amused to read a critique of The Coronation in which the author was absolutely certain that I am a closet conspiracy theorist. He was so persuasive that I myself almost believed it.
Charles Eisenstein
Realism and Utopia 6 min
Realism and Utopia
Realism and utopia are often seen as opposite poles. Realism, it is thought, is concerned with what is and utopia is concerned with our wishes about what we would like to be. However, once we fully examine the issue we can see that this way of thinking is mistaken. A properly...
Theory And Practice
The Trap of Being Right | Charles Eisenstein 24 min
The Trap of Being Right | Charles Eisenstein
There is a special area of the Matrix reserved for people who think they have exited the Matrix. The answers to metaphysical questions—and indeed political questions, personal questions—are usually less important than the process that the question launches. Here we explore...
Charles Eisenstein
TAWAI: a Film About Reconnection
TAWAI: a Film About Reconnection
"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.” - Albert Einstein Tawai is a film about reconnection. It connects us to our ancestors and the type of life they may have lived. It connects us with our bodies and senses, inviting us to feel...
Bruce Parry
The Twelve: A Tale of Wisdom & Unity 75 min
The Twelve: A Tale of Wisdom & Unity (2019)
“The Twelve” tells the story of twelve spiritual Elders from around the globe. By interviewing each one of them in their home environments, the film is told exclusively through the voices of these elders, offering an unprecedented insight into their knowledge, traditions and...
Lucy Martens
The Great Giving Up (and The Film that Made It Worse)
The Great Giving Up (and The Film that Made It Worse)
This is the final in a series on Planet of the Humans. The other posts are here:
Ketan Joshi
The Power of Disposable Time
The Power of Disposable Time
In a recent article called “Coronavirus Requires a Collective Response” by professor David Harvey, I was struck by the timeliness of his argument. Harvey quoted Karl Marx a bunch but I’m going to simply paraphrase. Marx claimed that any major project to change the world will...
Josh Liveright
Thich Nhat Hanh on Finding Peace
Thich Nhat Hanh on Finding Peace
The Power of Peace Humankind has become a very dangerous species. We need people who can sit still and be able to smile, who can walk peacefully. We need people like that in order to save us. Recently I was sitting with a group of children, and a boy named Tim was...
Thich Nhat Hanh
Prayer for the Earth: An Indigenous Response to These Times 13 min
Prayer for the Earth: An Indigenous Response to These Times
As the world rushes toward the brink of biospheric collapse, many people are now looking to traditional Indigenous wisdom for guidance on how to live sustainably.
The Changing Earth
Siberian Shaman's Life Advice If You're Doubting Yourself 10 min
Siberian Shaman's Life Advice If You're Doubting Yourself
A Siberian Shaman gives us insight into life on the deepest frozen lake in the world. - George Thompson
George Thompson
Aluna: A Journey to Save the World 89 min
Aluna: A Journey to Save the World (2012)
Aluna means "conscience." Enter the last theocratic chiefdom in America, hidden for centuries on a mountain in Colombia. The Kogi have made this amazing documentary to help us understand how to avoid the destruction of the world that they are trying to protect, and of ourselves.
Freedom and the Market
Freedom and the Market
When freedoms clash, some must take priority over others. In the economy, the mechanism that determines which freedoms are prioritised is the property rights system. Property rights bestow the freedom to control and profit from what is owned. They determine who has...
Raoul Martinez
What If You Thought of It as the Jews Consider the Sabbath— The Most Sacred of Times?
What If You Thought of It as the Jews Consider the Sabbath— The Most Sacred of Times?
What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath— the most sacred of times? Cease from travel. Cease from buying and selling. Give up, just for now, on trying to make the world different than it is. Sing. Pray. Touch only those to whom you commit your life. Center...
Lynn Ungar
Fear and Social Control 10 min
Fear and Social Control
In this video we examine how fear can be used as a tool to manipulate others, and how those in positions of power, past and present, have effectively used fear to control certain aspects of society. =================================================== Support us on Patreon...
Academy of Ideas
Why Public Schools And The Mainstream Media Dumb Us Down 11 min
Why Public Schools And The Mainstream Media Dumb Us Down
In this video we examine how public schools and the mainstream media have contributed to the growth of a passive citizenry, thus paving the way for the rise of tyranny. We then look at the role anti-authoritarians play in a free and flourishing society.
Academy of Ideas
Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage 780 min
Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980)
Astronomer Carl Sagan's landmark 13-part science series takes you on an awe-inspiring cosmic journey to the edge of the Universe and back aboard the spaceship of the imagination.
David Oyster
'Progress Comes From Changing How Humans Think' — a Conversation With 'Soldier of Peace' Paul K. Chappell
'Progress Comes From Changing How Humans Think' — a Conversation With 'Soldier of Peace' Paul K. Chappell
"What makes nonviolence so different from violence, is the way that nonviolence seeks to address and confront root causes of problems: violence addresses the symptoms and nonviolence goes at root cause of the problem."
Paul K. Chappell
Matriarchies Are Not Just a Reversal of Patriarchies: A Structural Analysis
Matriarchies Are Not Just a Reversal of Patriarchies: A Structural Analysis
Matriarchies are not just a reversal of patriarchies, with women ruling over men – as the usual misinterpretation would have it. Matriarchies are mother-centered societies. They are based on maternal values: care-taking, nurturing, mothering. This holds for everybody: for...
Dr. Heide Goettner-Abendroth
We’ve Got a Better World in Mind - 8 Principles for a Beautiful Future
We’ve Got a Better World in Mind - 8 Principles for a Beautiful Future
How to get from here to there in the next 10 years
Christine Hanna and Berit Anderson
The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names
The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names
"It’s all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we are in between stories. The Old Story—the account of how the world came to be and how we fit into it—sustained us for a long time. It shaped our emotional attitudes, provided us with life purpose, energized...
Tim Hjersted
Radical Dharma – Interview with angel Kyodo williams (Podcast) 39 min
Radical Dharma – Interview with angel Kyodo williams (Podcast)
In this in-depth interview, Reverend angel Kyodo williams reflects on our widespread crisis of story, the failure of institutional religions to offer a new way forward, and her philosophy of Radical Dharma—a path to individual and collective liberation. A Sensei in the...
Emergence Magazine
The Goal of Life is Not to Survive It | Charles Eisenstein 7 min
The Goal of Life is Not to Survive It | Charles Eisenstein
With climate change and biodiversity loss worsening every day, we're all asking ourselves: will humanity survive?
Sustainable Human
“Economics Is Not Just About Money; It's About Our Holistic Well-Being as a Planet”
“Economics Is Not Just About Money; It's About Our Holistic Well-Being as a Planet”
Nonty Charity Sabic is cofounder of the international Rise Ubuntu Network, based on “ubuntu”, an indigenous South African philosophy that aims to teach and collectively remember the connection shared between humans and nature. Based in Barcelona, Sabic is involved in...
MarÍa Sanz DomÍnguez and Timothy McKeon
Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World 76 min
Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)
INHABITANTS follows five Native American communities as they restore their traditional land management practices in the face of a changing climate. For millennia Native Americans successfully stewarded and shaped their landscapes, but centuries of colonization have disrupted...
Costa Boutsikaris
Language Keepers: The Struggle for Indigenous Language Survival in California 105 min
Language Keepers: The Struggle for Indigenous Language Survival in California (2019)
California once had more linguistic variety than all of Europe. “Language Keepers” is a 6-part series following four Indigenous communities in California who are working to revitalize their languages.
Conversing with Nature: The Linguistic Roots of Environmental Consciousness
Conversing with Nature: The Linguistic Roots of Environmental Consciousness
A CEMETERY SEEMED AN ODD PLACE to contemplate the boundaries of being. Sandwiched between the campus and the interstate, this old burial ground is our cherished slice of nearby nature where the long dead are silent companions to college students wandering the hilly paths...
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Towards a Regenerative Cosmology: Re-Inhabitation, Re-Enchantment, Re-Indigenisation
Towards a Regenerative Cosmology: Re-Inhabitation, Re-Enchantment, Re-Indigenisation
The ‘design’ brief to redesign the human impact on Earth from predominantly exploitative and destructive to by and large regenerative and health-generating invites us to ask fundamental questions that define the story we tell about the world and our role in it. Innovating...
Daniel Christian Wahl
Karuk: Language of a River 5 min
Karuk: Language of a River
Walking along the Klamath River in Northern California, Phil Albers reflects on the Karuk language and the ancestral land of the Karuk people that surrounds it. This film premiered in the fifth issue of Emergence Magazine on "Language" as part of the six-part multimedia story...
Emergence Magazine
The Church Forests of Ethiopia: A Mystical Geography 8 min
The Church Forests of Ethiopia: A Mystical Geography
Nearly all of Ethiopia’s original trees have disappeared, but small pockets of old-growth forest still surround Ethiopia’s churches, living arks of biodiversity amongst the brown grazing fields. In this film and essay, Jeremy Seifert and Fred Bahnson travel to Ethiopia to...
The Invisible Ideology Trashing Our Planet
The Invisible Ideology Trashing Our Planet
If you get into debt buying your child branded trainers, if you fear redundancy, if you suffer anxiety about the future of the planet and you blame yourself for all of these things then you are showing symptoms of drowning in the “insidious” and “sinister” ideology...
Brendan Montague
All I Ask Is That You See My Humanity, Which Means Seeing the Humanity in All People
All I Ask Is That You See My Humanity, Which Means Seeing the Humanity in All People
With this foundation, I think we can have healthy disagreements.
Tim Hjersted
The New Year: Molding a New Reality
The New Year: Molding a New Reality
If you can dream it, you can do it,” is a famous quote attributed to Walt Disney or one of his staff.
John Perkins
Effortless Action: The Art of Spontaneity 48 min
Effortless Action: The Art of Spontaneity (2020)
Effortless Action is the sequel to my documentary The Art of Effortless Living. This documentary explores the spontaneous nature of the Taoist wisdom of wu-wei as explained by the great sages Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu.
You Are Not Your Body | Janine Shepherd 20 min
You Are Not Your Body | Janine Shepherd
We often define ourselves by things that are "outside" us: relationships, work, family — even our own bodies. But what would it mean to have your life dramatically altered and your body irrevocably damaged? Who would you be then? This talk explores the impact of loss on the...
TEDx Talks
The Transformative Power of Trustbuilding: Towards a Culture of Shared Responsibility
The Transformative Power of Trustbuilding: Towards a Culture of Shared Responsibility
"The challenge of building trust across divides is universal and inescapable. Can we move from a culture of blame and avoidance to an acceptance of shared responsibility for a new future?" - Initiatives of Change International
Rob Corcoran
When You Only Pursue Pleasure, You End Up Pursuing Pain | Alan Watts 12 min
When You Only Pursue Pleasure, You End Up Pursuing Pain | Alan Watts
The goal of After Skool has always been to take the most empowering ideas and enhance them with art. Creating videos like this is my purpose on earth. When you find your purpose, nothing will stop you, because...the purpose is bigger than you.
After Skool
Your Mind is an Excellent Servant, but a Terrible Master | David Foster Wallace 24 min
Your Mind is an Excellent Servant, but a Terrible Master | David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American writer and university professor in the disciplines of English and creative writing.
After Skool
"Positive Vibes Only" Is Toxic: the Danger of New Age Spiritualism
"Positive Vibes Only" Is Toxic: the Danger of New Age Spiritualism
“Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them.” ~ Brené Brown
Justice Bartlett
Anti-Fascist Activism & the Value of Nonviolence
Anti-Fascist Activism & the Value of Nonviolence
This collection of articles from the Films For Action library looks at the tensions, disagreements and varying strategies within the anti-fascist movement from a variety of authors.
Films For Action
3 Principles to End the Polarization of Society and Create a Healthy Culture 1 min
3 Principles to End the Polarization of Society and Create a Healthy Culture
The Theory of Enchantment by Chloé Valdary is a framework that seeks to end polarization in our society by teaching communities how to be in relationship with one another.
Chloe Valdary
Return Political Conversation to Principles, Not Identities
Return Political Conversation to Principles, Not Identities
Focusing on identities in our political conversations is divisive and restrictive. How can we shift the conversation back to principles?
Christine Louis-Dit-Sully
An Intro to the Story of Separation 13 min
An Intro to the Story of Separation
"What we take for the reality outside of ourselves can be understood as a story we're telling ourselves about who we are and how the world works." - Charles Eisenstein
Charles Eisenstein
Wealth in the Age of We – Charles Eisenstein 39 min
Wealth in the Age of We – Charles Eisenstein
What is wealth—not just spiritual wealth but material wealth—as we move past the world-story of domination, competition, and control? How can we practice it now?
Konda Mason
The Core of the Indigenous Worldview 11 min
The Core of the Indigenous Worldview
"If we want to be motivated by love, we have to ask 'where does that love come from?'" - Charles Eisenstein
Charles Eisenstein
The Rise Of Jordan Peterson 90 min
The Rise Of Jordan Peterson ($5)
A rare, intimate glimpse into the life and mind of Jordan Peterson, the academic and best-selling author who captured the world's attention with his criticisms of political correctness and his life-changing philosophy on discovering personal meaning. Christened as the most...
Why I Left the Far-Right | Joram van Klaveren 7 min
Why I Left the Far-Right | Joram van Klaveren
From extreme nationalism and far-right politics to compassion and empathy, watch the incredible transformation story of Joram van Klaveren, a former Dutch parliamentarian. Joram van Klaveren is now the president of the Anthony Janszoon Association. The English translation of...
Joram van Klaveren
The Miracle of Kindness | Chris Hedges 8 min
The Miracle of Kindness | Chris Hedges
Evil, even in the darkest moments, is impotent before the miracle of human kindness. This miracle defies prejudices and hatreds. It crosses cultures and religions. It lies at the core of faith. Take a brief journey through the eyes of American, Pulitzer Prize-winning...
Chris Hedges
Treeline: A Story Written in Rings 41 min
Treeline: A Story Written in Rings (2018)
Throughout history, as entire civilizations have withered and mankind has continued to move at a breathless pace, the trees have remained. For some, these trees harbor the secrets to longevity. For others, they provide clear evidence of our journey across lifetimes and the...
Spiritually Incorrect 88 min
Spiritually Incorrect (2020)
Told through the life of Alan Clements, Spiritually Incorrect shatters numerous light-washed sacred cows of the spiritual movement and explores sustainability from an inner perspective - showing how we can escape the trap of spiritual narcissism and heal from trauma with...
Peter Charles Downey
Whiteness Is Blackness, and Blackness Is Whiteness
Whiteness Is Blackness, and Blackness Is Whiteness
Believing otherwise corrodes us, corrodes freedom, and corrodes the world we live in
Chloé Valdary
The Teachings of Grass | Robin Kimmerer / Mishkos Kenomagwen 22 min
The Teachings of Grass | Robin Kimmerer / Mishkos Kenomagwen
Indigenous peoples worldwide honor plants, not only as our sustainers, but as our oldest teachers who share teachings of generosity, creativity, sustainability and joy. By their living examples, plants spur our imaginations of how we might live. By braiding indigenous...
Robin Kimmerer / Mishkos Kenomagwen
Running Back and Forth with a Fire Hose 7 min
Running Back and Forth with a Fire Hose
The opioid addictions, the school shootings, the dronings, the prison industrial complex, the rising number of homeless, the one-crisis-after-another and for a while you might run with your fire hose, trying to put out one fire after another. But at some point you burn out...
Charles Eisenstein
Why I Refuse to Avoid White People
Why I Refuse to Avoid White People
In the days since the white supremacists marched into Charlottesville, Va., my Twitter feed has lit up with advice from black pundits, activists and even friends: “It’s time to stop talking about racism with white people.” “Whiteness is always protected, even at its...
Chloé Valdary
The Art of Effortless Living: A Taoist Documentary 89 min
The Art of Effortless Living: A Taoist Documentary (2019)
The Art of Effortless Living is a documentary based on the traditional philosophy and essential teaching of Taoism.
TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest 100 min
TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)
Tawai is a word the nomadic hunter-gatherers of Borneo use to describe the connection they feel to their forest home. In this dreamy, philosophical and sociological look at life, Bruce Parry (of the BBC's Tribe, Amazon & Arctic) embarks on an immersive odyssey to explore the...
Making Sanctuary: Is There a Solution for Climate Change?: Bayo Akomolafe 20 min
Making Sanctuary: Is There a Solution for Climate Change?: Bayo Akomolafe
In this talk connecting Yoruba indigenous philosophies, historical accounts of transatlantic slave crossings, new materialist/feminist insights, Bohr’s scientific theory of quantum indeterminacy, Deleuze’s musings about ‘assemblages’ and ‘rhizomes’, and contemporary concerns...
Science and Nonduality
Collaboration: on the Edge of a New Paradigm? 56 min
Collaboration: on the Edge of a New Paradigm? (2015)
This documentary explores how the Internet is changing the way in which we do science and create knowledge. It takes the viewer on a journey from Danish biology papers all the way to Google’s headquarters.
Alfred Birkegaard
Have Humans Fucked It All Up? - A Deep Ecology Perspective with John Seed 20 min
Have Humans Fucked It All Up? - A Deep Ecology Perspective with John Seed
Humanity is a part of nature and playing our perfect role just like the bees, flowers, sharks and trees. Intelligence with feeling and compassion for our predicament.
Wombat City Studios
How to Live With the Climate Crisis Without Becoming a Nihilist
How to Live With the Climate Crisis Without Becoming a Nihilist
'Today, despite all the grim climate news, I actually feel more optimistic than ever.'
Peter Kalmus
Home Is Wherever I’m With You — and Other Modern Calamities
Home Is Wherever I’m With You — and Other Modern Calamities
Prologue: this essay is written in support of my new documentary Love School.  “Oh, home, let me come home Home is whenever I’m with you.” ~Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes As I pull
Ian Mackenzie
The Meaning of Life - Deep Therapy for Existential Crisis and Despair (Non-Dogmatic) 3 min
The Meaning of Life - Deep Therapy for Existential Crisis and Despair (Non-Dogmatic)
Exploring the intimate relationship between self, story, and reality. Join the course at http://www.CharlesEisenstein.org/metaphysics
Charles Eisenstein
Tom Paine, Christianity, and Modern Psychiatry
Tom Paine, Christianity, and Modern Psychiatry
Beyond Common Sense, most Americans know little about Thomas Paine (1737-1809). Few know that at the end of Paine’s life, he had become a pariah in U.S. society, and for many years after his death, he was either ignored or excoriated—the price he paid for The Age of...
Bruce E. Levine
Lost Nation Road 25 min
Lost Nation Road
Spiritual activist Stephen Jenkinson and musician Gregory Hoskins craft a love letter to endings on the nights of grief and mystery tour.
TELUS STORYHIVE
Ego Not Bad 26 min
Ego Not Bad
A short film by the creators of A Quest for Meaning, inspired by Arnaud Desjardins, which plunges us into the themes of spirituality and self-knowledge.
European Paganism and Christianization
European Paganism and Christianization
In contemporary conversations about decolonization, this is a point which is often overlooked – Europeans are indigenous too. Before the spread of Christianity, Europe was home to a profusion of  religious beliefs, most of which are pejoratively referred to as paganism. The...
Jordan Engel
Charles Eisenstein Full-length Interview from Living the Change 71 min
Charles Eisenstein Full-length Interview from Living the Change
“Going around New Zealand making a film … like that's not gonna get you anywhere, that's irrational, impractical, unrealistic…”
Happen Films
Maori Elder Rose Pere Speaks and Sings for the 2015 Parliament Indigenous Plenary 14 min
Maori Elder Rose Pere Speaks and Sings for the 2015 Parliament Indigenous Plenary
Dr. Rangimarie Turuki Rose Pere, a Traditional Maori Elder, Leader Creation, and a Tohuna, addresses the Spotlight on Indigenous Peoples plenary at the 2015 Parliament of the World's Religions in Salt Lake City, Utah on October 19th.
Parliament of the World's Religions
Existentialism & The Internet - Why We’re Getting More Anxious 8 min
Existentialism & The Internet - Why We’re Getting More Anxious
It is not as if the internet and age of information is bad, but it's not as if it's good. In this video, Pursuit of Wonder explores why, during an era where there is more information than ever about how to live and be happy, we are more confused and less happy than ever, in...
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