Videos by Charles Eisenstein
The Illusion of Progress | Charles Eisenstein 8 min
8 min · What if the very definition of progress we've been chasing is leading us astray?
When Only Love Remains 45 min
45 min · A conversation with Michal Halev, whose only son was murdered by Hamas on October 7. She tells the story of how she came to call for an end to vengeance.
How to Truly Forgive 2 min
2 min · True forgiveness is a fundamental aspect of a sane world. 👉 Part 2: Listen to the full episode
The Force That Drives Our Civilization | Charles Eisenstein 8 min
8 min · Charles Eisenstein explains how the time has come for us to re-examine the stories that we believe about ourselves in relationship with all life. When we are able to do this well, we...
To Be At Home In The World | Charles Eisenstein 15 min
15 min · A meditative, absorbing, intricately-edited short film about the crisis of belonging, the high price of progress, and the return journey home, as told by author/philosopher Charles...
A Gathering of the Tribe | POWERFUL Short Film by Charles Eisenstein 10 min
10 min · "This story made me cry the first time I read it in Charles Eisenstein’s book, “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible” and every time I have watched it since. Because to...
Covid-19 Exposes Our True Power | Charles Eisenstein 8 min
8 min · Last year, five million children worldwide died of hunger, yet no government has declared a state of emergency or asked that we radically alter our way of life to save them. Nor do we...
The Trap of Being Right | Charles Eisenstein 24 min
24 min · 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...
The Need for Humor in Activism | Charles Eisenstein 8 min
8 min · "I haven't talked a lot about tools for depolarization or peace-making, but I'd like to talk about the technology of humor."
How Do You Escape an Echo Chamber? | Charles Eisenstein 5 min
5 min · Especially for young people who have grown up in the echo chamber world of social media, how do you deprogram from that and open yourself up to truth?
Why People Take Things Out of Context | Charles Eisenstein 5 min
5 min · It's a tactic of war. You take something out of context, you blow it up to be totally outrageous, you provoke outrage and indignation, and you use it as a weapon. Why?  - Charles Eisenstein
What is Political Bypass? | Charles Eisenstein 8 min
8 min · Everybody knows what spiritual bypass is, but let's talk about political bypass. - Charles Eisenstein
Why Can't We Talk About Certain Topics Anymore? 13 min
13 min · Everybody's noticing how social and political conversations become more and more polarized, to the point you can hardly call it a conversation anymore. - Charles Eisenstein
Trust Your Heart. Everything You Do Matters. 7 min
7 min · "This is a poignant situation. A woman is feeling pretty beat down in a pretty dark place who loves art, but shuts down when the question "what's the point?" inevitably creeps into her...
Navigating Echo Chambers 10 min
10 min · The beliefs and stories that we hold are not the result of an independent choice by the neo-liberal separate self choosing from the marketplace of ideas. Belief is a collective function...
Connecting to "Them" 9 min
9 min · "If I were talking to a 65-year-old man from Tennessee who watches Fox News, I would not articulate the story of interbeing. I would speak from an understanding of the story of...
The Living Planet View 17 min
17 min · "The overarching theme of Climate: A New Story, the book that I wrote, is really the living planet view of the world." - Charles Eisenstein
An Intro to the Story of Separation 13 min
13 min · "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
Envisioning The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible 8 min
8 min · "I use the phrase the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible because our minds think it's impossible." - Charles Eisenstein
How Much Good Can One Person Really Do? 21 min
21 min · 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...
The Core of the Indigenous Worldview 11 min
11 min · "If we want to be motivated by love, we have to ask 'where does that love come from?'" - Charles Eisenstein
Overpopulation: Do We Really Need to Control Population Growth? 9 min
9 min · "Every once in a while someone comes to me and says, "Charles you've ignored the elephant in the room. It's population growth. And unless we control our population, then nothing else is...
Signs that Humanity is Returning to Loving a Living Earth 8 min
8 min · I see a lot of encouraging signs that civilization is returning to an understanding of a living Earth. - Charles Eisenstein
The Importance of What Neither Side is Saying 5 min
5 min · I have a new motto that's helped me clear the fog in the political realm. In any polarized debate, the important thing is in what neither side is saying, and what both sides...
Running Back and Forth with a Fire Hose 7 min
7 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...
Will We Have to "Make-Do with Less" to Sustain Life? 8 min
8 min · When we talk about sustainability, there's an implication there, that is present in the question "what is it that we want to sustain?" Read "Climate: A New Story" for free at...
Zack Geist: Dispelling the Mystery of Debt 59 min
59 min · This conversation with Zack Geist addresses the phenomenon of debt, both from a theoretical standpoint and in very practical terms (at least for US listeners). Zack operates a business...
Amazon Rainforest Fires - Avoid This Trap | Charles Eisenstein 13 min
13 min · The grief is so strong. What do I do with that energy? I've noticed kind of a trap, a diversion, that says "take that energy and hate somebody with it. Blame somebody with it."
The Meaning of Life - Deep Therapy for Existential Crisis and Despair (Non-Dogmatic) 3 min
3 min · Exploring the intimate relationship between self, story, and reality. Join the course at http://www.CharlesEisenstein.org/metaphysics
Charles Eisenstein: Unlearning For Change Agents - Full First Session 28 min
28 min · Hi everyone, I’m pleased to announce a new online short course I’ve created called Unlearning: For Change Agents.
Climate Change: What's The Whole Truth? - Russell Brand & Charles Eisenstein 8 min
8 min · A clip from the Under The Skin podcast with Charles Eisenstein - discussing what might be wrong with the current climate change narrative and why we should be wary of why the powerful...
What Is It Like To Be You? - Charles Eisenstein 6 min
6 min · Both sides in any war believe that their side is the just side. The mentality of war says that only when our enemies are defeated can we have peace. Humanity has been fighting an endless...
The Loss of the Immeasureable 9 min
9 min · Our society has definitely become masters at increasing the amount of things we can measure - more and more money, more and more floor space per capita, more and more GDP, and less and...
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