Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein – A Short Film
Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth.
Wisdom 2.0 and the Protection of the Spiritual Commons
In presentations, interviews, panel discussions, and breakout sessions,
the role of spirituality in business and society was explored from every
angle — almost. One question that hung heavily in the ether above the
privileged participants was this: Is Wisdom 2.0 really an upgrade?
The Wild Fire of Idle No More
Originating from the healing dances of the Plains Indians, the Round Dance is a dance of joy and happiness, kinship and harmony. Indigenous people are gathering in cities, towns, malls, plazas, roads and railways across the planet to dance, sing and stand up for human rights and decency.
Weird Worlds and Alternate Realities: A Burning Man Reflection
Burning questions filled my mind and appeared on my Facebook page after my return from Black Rock City. I had a hard time making sense of the default world and understanding why I should participate in it. Inasmuch as I was able to maintain a consistent thought, it was this: What, exactly, is the point of it all?
A Child of God in Misery: On the Origins of Spiritual Retardation
Consumerism robs us of our ability to define our own
experience. There is a malevolent force afoot in this
world, an historical movement to transform humanity's wild-begotten beauty into
a panopticon so ubiquitous that the very concept of escape becomes an archaic
curiosity.
Toward a Spiritual Economics
Many people think that capitalism and market economics grew
out of materialist philosophy that classical physics has given us. But this is
myopic thinking of people who have missed the evolution of consciousness in the
affairs of the manifest world.
Vampire Squid Economics: A Case Study in Full-Blown Wetiko Disease
A psycho-spiritual disease of the soul that I call malignant egophrenia and indigenous
people call wetiko is
undermining the evolutionary development of our species. The global
financial system is the revelation of wetiko disease.
Re-Visioning Capitalism
RS invites you to to hear Howard Bloom and Daniel Pinchbeck debate the perils and opportunities the current state of the capitalist system may provide for the American way of life.
The Iron Law of Fantasy Finance
My economics professors drilled it in: as workers produce more goods and services per hour, their wages must rise. The proof was in the post-World War II data. As output went up, real wages rose, year after year. And then, suddenly, everything changed. The economy was still growing, and the money value of those goods and services had to go somewhere. Clearly workers didn't take that money home. So who did?
I Am God
The history of religion in the US from Puritanism to the present mirrors the evolution of capitalism. What we think of as "spirituality" today is not a departure from the narcissistic culture of consumption, but its truest expression.