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Requiem for the Americas ~ Jon Anderson

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"Everything is coming to a time where prophesy and man's inability to live on Earth in a spiritual way will come to the crossroad of great problems. The Hopi believe that if you're not spiritually connected to the Earth, and understand the spiritual reality of how to live on Earth, it's likely that you will not make it. To me, it's not a negative thing to know that there will be great changes. It's not negative. It's evolution. When you look at it as evolution, it's time. Nothing stays the … Watch video

The Metaphors we Use Deliver us Hope, or they Foreclose Possibility: Rob Hopkins in conversation with Robert Macfarlane

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"Language is a world-making, world-shaping force. It’s a geological force. It’s shaping the Anthropocene because the discourse we use shapes, of course, everything that we encounter in the world and the ways we frame the world to ourselves. "The metaphors we use deliver us hope, or they foreclose possibility. The ways that we represent each to each other, or the human and more-than-human world, are incredibly powerful and determining, in the ways we then go on and behave towards those other … Continue reading

Re-storying the Earth by Sharon Blackie | The Art of Enchantment

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"Max Weber talked about western Modernity as a ‘progressive disenchantment of the world’. Part of that disenchantment is the loss of our belief in the importance of stories. This is important, because it is stories that provide ways to test our hypotheses about the nature of the world, that attach us to place, to the land, to the earth. To each other, and to nonhuman others. The folk tales, the fairy stories, the legends, the myths. These are the stories that hold a real power to transform, the … Continue reading

Consciousness and Cultural Renewal: Charles Eisenstein in conversation with Orland Bishop

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Orland Bishop does peace work and mentoring with gang members and others in Watts, Los Angeles. He is also a mystic and philosopher with deep knowledge of African and Western esoteric traditions. Listen deeply to Orland - his words will alter you on many levels. In this first of two conversations, we talk about the development of consciousness, inner life and social breakdown, initiation, the death process, and more. In Part Two of this conversation, we discuss the reanimation of … Continue reading

Becoming Indigenous by Sharon Blackie

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"Becoming indigenous is a necessary response to a broken human culture and a profoundly damaged planet. It’s when we think of ourselves as not indigenous that everything starts to go wrong. We begin to think that the planet isn’t our problem. We begin to think that we can leave all that to other people – to people who know better; to people who are more connected. But that’s not good enough. We made these problems, and we must address them. Becoming indigenous means taking responsibility for our … Continue reading

Podcast: Systems Thinking, Gift Economies, Debt and the Stories We Tell Ourselves, with Charles Eisenstein

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"Charles Eisenstein has given talks around the world on a variety of topics, and is the author of the books Ascent of Humanity, Sacred Economics, and The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible, among other books. In our episode Charles and I talk about systems thinking, societal collapse, investigating the roots of the stories we tell ourselves, living in the gift economy, and about being trapped beneath debt, among other things." Eric Garza dialogues with Charles Eisenstein in … Continue reading

Phase Shifting Humanity with Daniel Schmachtenberger | Future Thinkers Podcast

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"Today our guest is Daniel Schmachtenberger. Daniel is an evolutionary philosopher and strategist, and social engineer. He is the founder of Critical Path Global, a research and design institute focused on developing an integrated set of technologies and processes for supporting a distributed systems for humanity’s total evolution. "His work follows in steps of Buckminster Fuller, and he focuses on complex systems, evolution of humanity, and global resource allocation planning and strategy. His … Watch video

The Human Dream

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Our current civilization seems disconnected, messy and confused. So I came up with the term "The human dream”, intended to serve as a mental model through which we can transform human perspective, and thereby transform the world. The world today, especially the 2 billion young people currently on Earth (the biggest generation in human history) are already going through a monumental shift in values that extends their circle of compassion to ensure a better future for everyone on the face of the … Watch video

Our New, Happy Life? The Ideology of Development by Charles Eisenstein

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"People in older cultures, connected to community and place, held close in a lineage of ancestors, woven into a web of personal and cultural stories, radiate a kind of solidity and presence that I rarely find in any modern person. When I interact with one of them, I know that whatever the measurable gains of the Ascent of Humanity, we have lost something immeasurably precious. And I know that until we recognize it and turn toward its recovery, that no further progress in lifespan or GDP or … Continue reading

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