“At some point we will simply have to stop. Just stop, without any idea what to do. … When your old story is over or is about to end, don’t you feel like you tend to give up? … What once made sense no longer makes sense. You start to withdraw from this world. … Doing nothing is not some universal instruction; it is specific to the time,…
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Charles Eisenstein: Forests and the Climate Crisis or Revolution is Love
“The reason our current system of material production is killing the world is that it has come to view it as dead. So what is there to love then?” Charles Eisenstein Charles Eisenstein’s thought-provoking new book Climate A New Story (North Atlantic Books, Berkley 2018), which ecophilosopher David Abram has described as indispensable, comes with a fundamental corrective to the current climate change scenario. The author warns…
Charles Eisenstein: Schools of Unification Technology
In this essay, American writer, philosopher, and cultural activist Charles Eisenstein (1960) develops a vision of transformative education beyond the traditional school system. He reflects on the possible deeper message of various intentional communities, ecovillages, soil institutes, and retreat centers as a new network of education, united by a common purpose to spread a new story of coexistence into the life of our civilization; he calls this nascent educational system “schools of unification technologies.”…
Charles Eisenstein: The Spirit of the Gift or What is our unique gift to the world?
Charles Eisenstein (born 1967) is an American writer and teacher, and one of the most inspiring visionaries of the transition to a sustainable civilization; he describes himself as a non-growth activist. He graduated from Yale University in 1989 (mathematics and philosophy) and then went to Taiwan to study Chinese; he worked there as a translator for ten years and studied Eastern spiritual traditions for twenty years. He currently lives with his family in the town of Camphill near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania…