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Charles Eisenstein

Charles is a writer and speaker who says of himself: My main interest now is in exploring the boundaries of what is “possible” according to our received beliefs, received habits, received technologies, and received ways of knowing. For humanity to take that Next Step, we are going to have to violate what is politically practical, socially practical, and even technologically practical. The same holds on the personal and relational level. I have caught glimpses of the impossible in all these realms and I am excited about what lies ahead.

Great Green Wall

On the Great Green Wall, And Being Useful

By Charles Eisenstein, Charles Eisenstein blog

Give that phrase free rein and see what it inspires: “A mosaic of local projects animated by a shared idea.” That may be a motto for the kind of healing that earth and society need today. Not a single solution that scales up, but an ecosystem of related solutions, each unique to its place.

  • February 16, 2022
Amazon rainforest

The Cure of the Earth

By Charles Eisenstein, Common Dreams

Appeals to self-interest will not, of themselves, stem the Amazon’s hemorrhage. We must also invoke our love of life and the purpose of service that it points to.

  • July 21, 2020
Coronation

The Coronation

By Charles Eisenstein, Charles Eisenstein blog

For years, normality has been stretched nearly to its breaking point, a rope pulled tighter and tighter, waiting for a nip of the black swan’s beak to snap it in two. Now that the rope has snapped, do we tie its ends back together, or shall we undo its dangling braids still further, to see what we might weave from them?

  • April 20, 2020
Society

Of Hate, Grief, and a New Story

By Charles Eisenstein, Charles Eisenstein blog

We are entering a space between stories. After various retrograde versions of a new story rise and fall and we enter a period of true unknowing, an authentic next story will emerge.

  • March 30, 2017
Society

Brushes with the Mainstream

By Charles Eisenstein, Charles Eisenstein blog

But if we really want to change these things and not just feel righteous about being on the right side, then we have to address the ground from which they spring. To do that, we have to let go of war thinking with its accompanying dehumanization, and enter the question that defines compassion: What is it like to be you?

  • March 23, 2017

Fear of a Living Planet

By Charles Eisenstein, Kosmos Journal

Does the concept of a living planet uplift and inspire you, or is it a disturbing example of woo-woo nonsense that distracts us from practical, science-based policies?

  • October 14, 2016

Of Horseshoe Crabs and Empathy

By Charles Eisenstein, Charles Eisenstein blog

I feel quite sure that whatever the scientific explanation for the die-off of the horseshoe crabs and eels, the real reason is the senseless killing Stella described.

  • August 23, 2016
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