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Envisioning The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible

"I use the phrase the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible because our minds think it's impossible." - Charles Eisenstein

From the course Unlearning: For Change Agents, offered in the spirit of the gift at CharlesEisenstein.org/unlearning 

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Deep Ecology (2025) ($5)
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What the Economy of the Future Looks Like
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The Great Simplification (2022)
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Alter Nativas: Building Possible Futures (2023)
In The Eye Of The Storm: The Political Odyssey Of Yanis Varoufakis (2024) ($20)
The Interrelated Structure of Reality (trailer)
AI Riots vs "Moore's Law for Everything" by Sam Altman
Masculinity
Patron Documentaries
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Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)
Redefining Prosperity (2018)
Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2015)
Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)
Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public (2001)
Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020)
Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)
The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States (2016)
Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)
GIFT: The Imagination Creates the Future (2018)
The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)
Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property (2007)
Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012)
Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015)
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)
The Great Disconnect (2020)
Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019)
We Are Many (2020)
Spiritually Incorrect (2020)
Walled Off: Banksy, Palestine and the Struggle for Freedom (2024)
School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands (2018)
Affluenza (1997)
The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)
Blood and Oil (2008)
The Wisdom To Survive (2014)
Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017)
The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017)
Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)
Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)
Accidental Anarchist (2017)
Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004)
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)
Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012)
Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010)
The Village of Lovers: a Blueprint for Creating Cultures of Peace (2025)
To The Ends of the Earth (2016)
The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (1997)
Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)
Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019)
Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)
The Nature of Cities (2010)
Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)
Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015)
A Quest For Meaning (2017)
Paradise with Side Effects (2004)
A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016)
Advertising & The End of The World (1997)
The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism (2013)
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