Videos by Charles Eisenstein
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What if the very definition of progress we've been chasing is leading us astray?
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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.
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True forgiveness is a fundamental aspect of a sane world. 👉 Part 2: Listen to the full episode
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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...
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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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...
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"I haven't talked a lot about tools for depolarization or peace-making, but I'd like to talk about the technology of humor."
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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?
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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
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Everybody knows what spiritual bypass is, but let's talk about political bypass. - Charles Eisenstein
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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
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"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...
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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...
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"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...
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"The overarching theme of Climate: A New Story, the book that I wrote, is really the living planet view of the world." - Charles Eisenstein
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"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
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"I use the phrase the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible because our minds think it's impossible." - Charles Eisenstein
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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...
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"If we want to be motivated by love, we have to ask 'where does that love come from?'" - Charles Eisenstein
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"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...
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I see a lot of encouraging signs that civilization is returning to an understanding of a living Earth. - Charles Eisenstein
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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."
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Exploring the intimate relationship between self, story, and reality. Join the course at http://www.CharlesEisenstein.org/metaphysics
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Hi everyone, I’m pleased to announce a new online short course I’ve created called Unlearning: For Change Agents.
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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...
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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...
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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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