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Commons

The Ubiquitous Matrix of Lies

Charles Eisenstein

Our civilization is facing a crisis of language when our words no longer mean anything. What are we to do when our primary creative tool in the modern world has become impotent? (more)

6-24-09

Commons

A Gathering of the Tribe

Charles Eisenstein

As the multiple crises of money, health, energy, ecology, and more converge upon us, the world is going to collapse for millions of people. We must stand ready to welcome them into the tribe. We must stand ready to welcome them back home. (more)

5-18-09

Psyche

The Sojourn of Science

Charles Eisenstein

Science has brought us to a place where we can walk in living awe of the ongoing miracle that is the world. Perhaps the true purpose of science is to apprehend new realms of the awesome. (more)

4-16-09

Commons

Money and the Turning of the Age

Charles Eisenstein

It is time to enter into a new story, and a new kind of money that embodies it. We are in the midst of a transition parallel to an adolescent's transition into adulthood, when physical growth ceases, and vital resources turn inward to foster growth in other realms. (more)

3-12-09

Commons

Money and the Crisis of Civilization

Charles Eisenstein

In the face of the impending crisis, people ask what they can do to protect themselves. "Buy gold?" "Stockpile canned goods?" I would like to suggest a different kind of question: "What is the most beautiful thing I can do?" This is an updated version of the popular article we first published on October 3, 2008. (more)

2-23-09

Psyche

Wood, Metal, and the Story of the World

Charles Eisenstein

Everywhere I go, I meet people who express an irrational desire to grow some of their own food, to build their own houses, to get their hands back in the dirt. Now it is time to fall in love with the world. (more)

1-23-09

Life

Reuniting the Self: Autoimmunity, Obesity, and the Ecology of Health (Part 2)

Charles Eisenstein

The point of utter destitution is also the point of turning. We are beginning to experience the softening and expansion of the separate self. As multiple crises reach their fulfillment, could we be entering an Age of Love? (more)

1-5-09

Life

Reuniting the Self: Autoimmunity, Obesity, and the Ecology of Health

Charles Eisenstein

The twin epidemics of obesity and autoimmunity are symptoms of a deep infirmity in our civilization. Each condition shows us something about our society, and offers clues to how we might heal these conditions that have proven so intractable to modern medicine. (more)

12-1-08

Psyche

All Hallows Eve

Charles Eisenstein

Halloween has roots in the ancient Celtic holiday of Samhuinn, a time of no-time, when order and structure were abolished, when chaos could reign. (more)

10-27-08

Life

The Age of Water

Charles Eisenstein

For tens of thousands of years, fire has defined our civilization. But the Age of Fire is rapidly drawing to a close. With the dawning of the Age of Water, we recognize the unique, enspirited nature of each drop of water and indeed every substance in the universe. (more)

9-26-08

Life

Pain: A Call for Attention

Charles Eisenstein

Why does it seem that we modern adult human beings repeatedly do things that cause ourselves pain? Because we are such strangers to ourselves that we aren't aware of what hurts. Part 3 of the series "Miracle of Self-Creation." (more)

9-3-08

Psyche

The Miracle of Self-Creation, Part 2

Charles Eisenstein

We think we know what feels good, but we do not, because we rarely pay full attention to even to pleasurable feelings. The first step in self-creation is to become truly dedicated to our own pleasure. (more)

8-6-08

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