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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
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
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...
5 min
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...
8 min
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
With this foundation, I think we can have healthy disagreements.
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 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.
48 min
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...
20 min
"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
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.
12 min
David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American writer and university professor in the disciplines of English and creative writing.
24 min
“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
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.
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.
1 min
Focusing on identities in our political conversations is divisive and restrictive. How can we shift the conversation back to principles?
Christine Louis-Dit-Sully
"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
13 min
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?
39 min
"If we want to be motivated by love, we have to ask 'where does that love come from?'" - Charles Eisenstein
11 min
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...
90 min
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...
7 min
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...
8 min
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...
41 min
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...
88 min
Believing otherwise corrodes us, corrodes freedom, and corrodes the world we live in
Chloé Valdary
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...
22 min
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...
7 min
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 is a documentary based on the traditional philosophy and essential teaching of Taoism.
89 min
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...
100 min
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...
20 min
This documentary, which was produced and directed by Alfred Birkegaard and Katja Gry Birkegaard Carlsen, 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...
56 min
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.
20 min
'Today, despite all the grim climate news, I actually feel more optimistic than ever.'
Peter Kalmus
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 pul
Ian Mackenzie
Exploring the intimate relationship between self, story, and reality. Join the course at http://www.CharlesEisenstein.org/metaphysics
3 min
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
Spiritual activist Stephen Jenkinson and musician Gregory Hoskins craft a love letter to endings on the nights of grief and mystery tour.
25 min
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.
26 min
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
“Going around New Zealand making a film … like that's not gonna get you anywhere, that's irrational, impractical, unrealistic…”
71 min
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.
14 min
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...
8 min
McMindfulness is the new capitalist spirituality.
Ronald Purser
A video remix featuring the wisdom of Alan Watts. I hope this video is able to inspire you more than once to be the person you were always meant to become in this life! 💓 - Gabriel Ng
8 min
Briahna Joy Gray is a leading Millennial writer on identity politics, racial justice and economic power. She is a contributing editor at Current Affairs and has been featured in New York Magazine, Rolling Stone and The Guardian. She is the co-host of SWOTI (Someone's Wrong on...
56 min
Mike Nayna: In an attempt to expose academic fields corrupted by postmodern ideology, Helen Pluckrose, Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay spent a year submitting intentionally broken papers to academic journals. Their secret project was cut short when an investigative...
21 min
Leading spiritual teacher warns that if people cannot save themselves from their own suffering, how can they be expected to worry about the plight of Mother Earth
Jo Confino
How can we create a worldwide, permanent shift to regenerative culture in every sphere of life?
Ruth Gordon
According to the theory of Privilege, everybody is born into different circumstances, and those circumstances make certain outcomes in life more likely relative to those born into different circumstances. Circumstances that render a higher likelihood of a fulfilling life are...
22 min
In the Oak-dotted countryside of Southern Portugal lies the Tamera Healing Biotope, one of Earth’s most radical social experiments in human futurism. Tamera began in the “free love” utopian movements of the 1960s’ and 70’s, building upon the insight that the liberation of...
4 min
If you have had a spiritual practice or have experience with personal growth workshops, you have no doubt heard many times that letting go of attachment increases happiness and well-being. The principle is simple, but exactly what does it mean to let go of attachment, and...
Miki Kashtan
A left wing and a right wing belong to the same bird. The moment we see that we are all related, we start to see solutions.
Satish Kumar
What do the Australian’s columnist Nick Cater, video game hate group #Gamergate, Norwegian mass shooter
Jason Wilson
Within some parts of the activist movement the concept of White Privilege is quite popular. Let us take a decolonial look at the concept.
Sandew Hira
Our way of being -- the intentions, attitudes, and quality of the energy that we bring to an interaction -- is more important than the particular words we choose to speak. The heart of Nonviolent Communication is not about speaking using a particular recipe. Rather it is...
Bob Wentworth
My meeting with Charles Eisenstein.
20 min
Peter Joseph addresses the opening arguments put forward by Jordan B. Peterson, from Peterson's debate with Slavoj Zizek called "Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism" - April 19th 2019 (Sorry for the typos. Mostly min. 46-48)
54 min
Maslow's Hierarchy, (or Pyramid), of Needs is one of the central ideas in modern economics and sociology. The work of a once little-known American psychologist, it has grown into an indispensable guide to understanding the modern world. This film explains who Maslow was, what...
7 min
"Avatar: The Last Airbender" is a masterpiece of animation. It's an incredible story with amazing characters and worthwhile themes that might just be more relevant today than ever before. As more and more people around the world seem to support the idea that group identities...
17 min