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Life

The Miracle of Self-Creation

Charles Eisenstein

To improve ourselves, we pledge to have more self-control. But the effort at self-control is a program of reward and punishment, incentive and threat. Experience tells us that it does not work. And the reason it does not work is that human beings are not meant to be slaves.  (more)

7-17-08

Life

Invisible Paths

Charles Eisenstein

There are seven stages of discovery, walking the path from the old world to the new. It is a journey fraught with peril and hardship and breathtaking realizations, a journey irreducibly unique for each of us. I think you will recognize some of the major landmarks in your own journey. (more)

6-17-08

Life

Mutiny of the Soul

Charles Eisenstein

Depression, anxiety, and fatigue are an essential part of a process of metamorphosis that is unfolding on the planet today, and highly significant for the light they shed on the transition from an old world to a new. (more)

5-21-08

Commons

Money: A New Beginning (Part 2)

Charles Eisenstein

The human identity is undergoing a profound metamorphosis. Part of this shift will be a new system of money consonant with the new human being. (more)

4-18-08

Commons

Money: A New Beginning

Charles Eisenstein

Money has turned abundance into scarcity. Not money per se, only the kind of money we use today, the kind of money that is evaporating as we speak, money with a very special characteristic that ensures its eventual demise. (more)

4-1-08

Psyche

The Original Religion

Charles Eisenstein

Imagine a time – whether prehistorical or transhistorical – when human beings lived moment-to-moment in the presence of the sacred. (more)

3-12-08

Psyche

Truth and Magic in the Third Dimension

Charles Eisenstein

Once I would have been hungry for proof; show me incontrovertible evidence that the paranormal even exists, I would demand. Today I am no longer hungry for certainty. Instead of picking out every logical flaw, I strive to hear whatever truth lurks within.(more)

2-15-08

Psyche

Waiting for the Big One

Charles Eisenstein

Why is there such a longing for "the Big One" – the earth-shattering, unmistakable shift? Doomsday predictions resonate deeply within the human psyche. (more)

1-17-08

Psyche

A State of Belief is a State of Being

Charles Eisenstein

The distance between the Skeptical mindset and the believing mindset can represent a choice between suspicion and trust, cynicism or sincerity. (more)

12-19-07

Life

The Testicular Age

Charles Eisenstein

We are moving toward an age in which the masculine Yin and the feminine Yang will be in ascendancy. (more)

11-26-07

Psyche

The Ascent of Humanity

Charles Eisenstein

Culture and technology: can the gift be separated from the curse? (more)

11-2-07