A New Story of the People: Charles Eisenstein at TEDxWhitechapel
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- "Our hearts know that a more beautiful world is possible; but our minds do not know how it's possible". In this intelligent and inspiring talk, writer and visionary Charles Eisenstein explores how we can make the transition from the old story of separation, competition and self-interest to a new Story of the People.
Charles Eisenstein is a teacher, speaker, and writer focusing on themes of civilization, consciousness, money, and human cultural evolution.
His books (The Ascent of Humanity and Sacred Economics) as well as his other essays and blog posts on web magazines have generated a vast online following; he speaks frequently at conferences and other events, and gives numerous interviews on radio and podcasts. Writing in Ode magazine's "25 Intelligent Optimists" issue, David Korten (author of When Corporations Rule the World) called Eisenstein "one of the up-and-coming great minds of our time."
Eisenstein graduated from Yale University in 1989 with a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy, and spent the next ten years as a Chinese-English translator. He currently lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania with his wife and three sons.
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I have just read Charles's book The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible. This is the kind of book I describe as an earthquake book. My perceptions of society have changes for ever and I have instilled the concept of interbeing into my psyche. Thank you Charles.
The most profoundly deep and impactful book I've ever read. I'm going through it again to peel back more layers. It's my top recommended book for those willing to do the work. Thank you Charles, for your insights 🙏🏼
"Miracles are something that are impossible from an old understanding of reality, and possible from a new one." WOOOOAAAH!!
Wow. What clarity of thought, and vision - and eloquence. We have such beautiful enlightened beings walking amongst us as we travel this Spiritual Awakening period. Really uplifting.
This talk is what my heart has been waiting for.
Thanks Charles! So beautiful, inspiring & magical! It is the only thing that brings sense to this life: being in service to the more beautiful world that our hearts know is possible...
This was nothing less than beautiful, Mr. E.
Impossible is my favorite. Every time I pass water I take a moment to send intense love into and wherever it may flow. One Love. Thank you
he is doing a great job at articulating and putting words on something that we know deeply is true , if we are willing to descend from our mind to our senses. lose your mind and come to your senses!
Powerful words! I will live in that place of "a more beautiful world that my heart KNOWS is possible!" Thank you Charles!
dear Charles! you inspire me deeply. yet i don't know where my travel will lead. I would like to spread your message to my family and friends and colleagues and people in Vienna. like becoming an ambassador of interbeing in Austria. this idea came to me yesterday. however, I never spoke in public about my believes. i am scared to talk in front of an audience. but i will find a way to spread your message - which i know so deeply is true!
i would love to make all people i know read your book which i read in german at the moment. I am love and i can contribute in acts of love! you give me hope :) a beautiful world as my heart knows of is possible!
with love and gratitude for your work
Silvia
Thank you Charles for speaking with such open hearted accessibility, enabling us to feel the vulnerability, and simultaneous strength, of your present moment exploration into the Truth. It feels as though you are really walking your talk, trusting the Life energy moving through you. Thank you
Amazing. Bless this man and all the beautiful beings on this planet!
Again and again I am send to deeper refletions! thanks Charles
Excellent talk. Through Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake, Graham Hancock and many others you have appeared on my "radar". As a student of philosophy myself I've learned that the ontological roots of our materialism, the seperation paradigm that grounded our sciences can be traced to Cartesian Dualism and the cogito. An awareness of an alternative ontology is gaining unstoppable momentum in these exciting times. We are in the birth canal and we can see the light. Thanks for uploading this!
That was beautiful, thanks Charles, I really hope the audience connected with this
Ears and life experience make it impossible 'not' to connect with this 😊💜
Synchronicity -- the opportunity will arise; this often happens just when things seem to have fallen apart.
Beautiful talk! Thanks!
Imagine what the world would be like if everyone treated the person in front of them with unconditional love.
+insimplebeing No Doubt! It isn't even a mystery or new thinking. We were told a couple thousand years ago to "love others like we love ourselves." Challenging to live out though
Eric Musser Challenging, indeed, yet, at some point, there is no other choice.
+insimplebeing That would be a great world. Unconditional love is a rarity if not extinct in this world. Love is now usually based on exchange, what you do for me vs what I do for you. Love has be to earned by achieving. Do you have money, how much stuff do you have, are you good looking, do you have a high status career? You "earn" a person's love by meeting a criteria. Consumerism feeds on this concept of love. That why advertising always tells us to buy more so that we will be perceived as "good enough" by the people in our society. Consumerism creates images of an ideal person and we enslave ourselves in trying to become that image.
ironmantis25
Love has nothing to do with exchange. It is the ground of being. We are hardwired to love. We have to be taught to hate and disparage.
+insimplebeing What do you mean by ground of being? I'm not sure if we are hardwired to love, but I know for sure that we are hardwired to be selfish. The top priority of human being is to look out for their own rational self-interest. If two persons rational self-interest compliments each other that becomes the foundation of a friendship.
This reminds me of the book "Ishmael" with it's story of "Mother Culture" and difference between the takers and the leavers. Sacred Economics is on my to-read list now.
Yes. "Story of 'B" as well. All good reads.
thank you so much for the Gift of this speech 🙏🏼💞
3'50" miracle is part of new reality ! 💕🙏🏻👣💖 Thank you and Ruoert Sheldrake and thé person who took care of his mother in law !
Enlightening really, to hear someone speak so well about life.
Beautiful! What an inspirational talk! Thanks, Charles. You really shine here.
The BEST! You inspired me Charles, and gave me hope. Thank you!
A pleasure, a joy, inspiring and enlightening.
I loved the bit where he talks about the people like richard pearl, bush, rotschilds, etc. ...and says they have a gift to give ...and goes on to say that if we change the narrative, or substructure of our perceptions and interrupt it, by thinking and acting differently, we can make their things change. I believe this totally is true ...but omg, it's quite difficult to do! :)
this made me wheap as my heart deeply felt that possible world we're moving towards, thank you charles...always a pleasure to listen to :)
Great talk, he gets it... the new humanity. Are you ready?
"People in primitive societies" - yet the learnings of what is being called forth today is what the so-called primitive societies have lived and taught for ages. But the dominant western view has minimised it but now that these systems and paradigms are falling apart, the emergent new story is listening from and BEing of my heart, not from separation - that is what I have KNOWN as an African over the years! I am UBUNTU - I am because you are; and because you are, I am - and I am UTU - the BEingness that informs my UBUNTU.
How beautiful
that should be translated into more languages. please enable the community translation so that we can be in a spirit of service soon.
Thank you for your talk, Charles!
Thank you for this inspiring talk. It encourages me.
Enjoyed this talk. Moving. Irreducible interdeterminacy.
I love your work, your understandings and philosophy, such a pleasure to extend mine greatly through what you do. Big fan! Keep it up :)
This is great!
I used the 7:40 video as the basis for my sermon on Sunday.
Not a dry eye in the place! (including mine)
"Best lesson I've heard for many years"... and other, like comments.
Great stuff, Charles. That we approach the limits of human economic growth is not a theory, it has mathematical form and substance. As we approach those limits our cultural systems are breaking down, and your talk astutely connects these facts with the feelings of incompleteness and frustration we all share.
Recognition of the inevitability of systemic collapse is thus somewhat cathartic...it validates those feelings, gives them a name, and let's us know we're not crazy and not alone.
love!
Inspiring. Thank you.
Thank you, my friend!
brilliant! loved it!
Thank you.
Our hearts know.
Fantastic!
and then from 20:00.... being in service is the key
"As the old story falls apart, people will be more open to change," he says. Yes....and also way more fearful and more violently attached to their story, I'm afraid.
+George Inotowok Amen to that :p
Awesome!
We are going through a transition of what is real!
Prachtig, inspirerend verhaal!
We are evolving...Zeitgeist Movement, TVP, Collapse Net, Sacred Economics, PAN, and much more..we are growing..
Amen!!!
It was in developing Descartes philosophy that materialism took route. Once we had dualism philosophers tried to resolve the problem of solipsism that Cartesian dualism entailed. Materialism arose as one of these attempts to counter Dualism. But it is routed in the assumptions of the primary and secondary ontologies. I recommend Martin Heidegger's "Being and Time" or Stephen Mulhall's "Heidegger and Being and Time". The deconstruction of the history of ontology is facsinating stuff.
It's inevitable that people will understand that we only need emphaty to manage our world.
You know and I follow you.
and he's barefoot to boot!
If anyone managed to get Rupert Sheldrakes talk, 'The science delusion' at TEDx Whitechapel before it was censored could they please repost it here, thanks.
If one really listens to Charles talk , you feel the hurt of what is happening.
He is saying what the Hindu Dharma has always known, we are all a part of the Universe, we are the Universe.
'Tat Tvam Asi' Thou Art That
Wow, 6 years ago...now everything has totally crumbled...which explains the draconian measures now appearing. The first thing that happened with divoc91 was the separation.
heeeeeeeell yea love dis world an all yuo people
Watch the many different docu´s on the subject : Water. Then you will not be lost hehheh!!! C E is brilliant
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I believe he meant economic materialism, not the philosophical theory of materialism which I agree has nothing to do with dualism.
Just at the edge of your courage, but not past it.
Mind if I ask for a clarification... How can the "ontological roots of our materialism" be dualism? I can certainly see how Descartes' dualism and the cogito support a "separation paradigm", dividing the universe into mind vs. matter, observer vs. observed, etc., but isn't that the OPPOSITE of materialism? If I'm missing something here, please correct me.
How is that the opposite of materialism?
from 15:40 - 16:25. Yup.
The Reunion is opening ....
Ala Eckhart Tolle. Same principal. One 'Source' of all being
16:41 - 17:10
Banned? Why?
choice
Eisenstein's idea that "everything is interdependent, intelligent and purposeful" is in contradiction with, as he says, "everything just happens randomly". So either everything is co-dependent or random, you cannot have both. Even most of the so called "spiritual teachers" reject the idea of randomness which has no real creative power (= refers only to propabilistic equations which indeed have very little to do with "meaningful and purposeful universe". Actually it's hard to imagine more meaningless Universe then Universe bulit upon random phenomenons only).
He says random because it's one of many possibilities according to the choices taken by an individual or a collective. He'll confuse people if he talks of parallel realities (possibilities) so he calls them random cause in fact they're random, if not the future wouldn't be a menu of choices. It's interdependent because we live inside a collective, where actions affect others. Now I invite you to validate whatever you can as a comment, instead of invalidating (ego-based action).
terence mckenna, alan watts
This basically means that there is no separation between me and the world I live in. They are interdependant. Or, in other words without environment I am nothing. Materialist science depends upon the distinction between observer and observed. If no such distinction exists then the whole edifice of science is fundamentally flawed. Physics itself now recognises this as quantum mechanics is demonstrating. The act of observation fixes the positions of sub atomic particles etc.
It's actually possible to argue that the reductionist, determinist "story" supports this guy's conclusions BETTER. Viewing humans as concourses of atoms, interchangeable with each other and with the rest of the universe, brilliantly deconstructs the "separation" of "self and other". And it's determinism which says that if you traded places with someone else, atom for atom, experience for experience, you would BE them, having their beliefs/desires/behavior.
Descarte made extension in space and motion into primary qualities. The human mind is subjective and qualities like colour, emotions, thoughts are scondary. Thoughts being internal secondary representations of an outside primary world. Since inside is subjective and secondary, and outside is objective and primary, the objective becomes the "real", inside is merely representation of outside. Only the outside "objective" reality is real thus materialism. If you want to know more study philosphy.
Rupert's talk /watch?v=JKHUaNAxsTg
Graham's talk /watch?v=Y0c5nIvJH7w
Ubuntu :-)
Heidegger's resolution was to re-examine the ontological routes of Cartesian ontology. He discovered that concepts that descarte was using were borrwed from medieval ontology which were themselves originated in greek ontology. The concepts of essence and existence and causality in greek ontology gave us the idea that essence precedes existence. Existentialism reverses this notion for human being. But for Heidegger Human Being and the being of the world are equiprimordial.
We must includ animal as well, not harming them, eating or wearing them, it will be no peace if we continue torturing the most defendless an inocents beens.
Only 115,000 views...
LOL NO LIGHTS ON THE TRESS
Mainstream science has become has become a god that must not be questioned...
So much words without roots , go back to the Ground people - Tamizh will teach U in a simple way the path of LIFE!
R those weed plants behind him?
He's not wearing shoes.
Rubber soles insulate electric flow blocking the pathway to neutralize electric tension inside your body. What does that mean? You're more relaxed barefooted.
Nice story, but you lost me on "water memory"...
Robert Schaffar-Taurok read Emoto
cool talk, great ideas, i agree with most of them. i just have one wish: can we save our selves and the planet without water memory, morphic fields, alternative histories and such? im sure we will be better off without them. thanks.
Those things are without your wanting them or not. Better to work with them?
@@AR-mu4zq well, I am sure we can do without such stuff just fine :)
what is he talking about? belive in miracles cause they are impossble, cause we have already tryed the possible? U are all the same and fight the coperations with love`? And you dont know how to get here from there, but that larger thing does. lol? U cant really passivly change the world with love. Even how worlderful it sounds. He says alot of good stuff but at the same time there is no goal with this ted talk, its just pure philosophy. Iam all in for another world, and has been for long, I just dont share and see how this would work. Inlighten me if u want
It's science, friend. We are energy; from our bodies to our minds, including the words we speak and the thoughts we think. Our vibrations are influenced by experience. Starting from birth, there are factors beyond our human control that shape up our reality, such as race, gender, environment, date and time of birth, place of birth, name, parents and relatives, cultural and religious backgrounds, abilities or disabilities, social status, etc. These are given from the get-go. We also may not pick our first words, nannies, schools, toys and clothes because our highly influential environment makes these decisions for us, possessors of a mind that incessantly feeds on stimuli, seeks rationalization, and stores information in order to survive a biological existence. With this set of uncontrollable circumstances -the wheel just started turning one day- we "build up" our lives, from one moment to the next, with each present moment serving as the sum of all previous moments (i.e. if you move a hand from left to right, it has to start from the left, then continue on a moment to moment basis until it reaches the right. Notice the hand may also be of a certain color, bear a certain scar, and/or bear a ring that has been there from an identifiable point in life.)
Let's say a student presents her experiment at a fifth grade symposium. Such work is selected based on a unique set of experiences that started even before the student was born. The obvious circumstances may include classes she may have taken, genes, nurturing, environment, etc. The less obvious may include attributing the selection to each word the student has ever heard and spoken, each thought that has crossed her mind, each surface she has ever touched, etc. As a baby, after emitting the very first sound there came a second one, then a third, then the ability to vocalize and attribute value to her surroundings. This "ability" cannot be separated from her environment, which is once again dictated by a myriad of uncontrollable factors. The phrase: "My daddy is never home for dinner" or "I like butterflies" are responses to the environment. The information is processed, as it arises from seemingly "thin air", stored, and streamlined, forming patterns of behavior that result in habits. There is a deep connection between her choices and her experience. The past could not be separated from the present.
We can think about how long it takes for a response to generate and it'll rattle the rational mind. As the student presents her work, we realize these words are emanating with little to no thought. There is some memorization, but there is a highly unique flow to this particular student, putting words together in a way only she can, being the only person in the room who has had her experience. Then questions come and she answers them with little to no hesitation. These words are her "sum" of all previous experiences; each one is carefully selected and picked as the most suitable response, as the best representation of the self. This representation, which is energy, arises from her unique pool of experience, dictated by all previous moments before her mouth began to move.
Everything that ever happened to the student, her parents, her parent's parents, and so on have lead her to that moment. Every word, every thought, every movement is calculated by her experience pool. There is nothing else she could say, think, or do. She adds up. A pattern continues to form, which may efficiently limit reality to this equation. Beyond conditioning, this is beautiful math at work; the more one sticks around the broader one's unique experience pool becomes.
Right now I'm typing away, "trying" my best to write clearly, hitting delete every here and there, to communicate in a way that best represents my thoughts, which in turn represent me. I can say that it's based on my intake of reality -something personal and sensical to me, as it is my sum. How I feel, my diction, belief in the topic, ability to clarify and share, etc. (again, my sum) affects the writing, and how I write either convinces or doesn't. But say it does. Wouldn't your reality begin to shift, too? Now your sum includes new perspective, and it's all energy. What wasn't a feasible solution in your head suddenly becomes possible.
Consider the possibility that each being is a sort of victim to their circumstances -limited only by the set of possibilities they are handed, and possible only through the set of limitations they are handed.
The ability to focus expands its target. One focuses on running, one shall improve as a runner. One focuses on money, one may become wealthy. One on magic, a magician; art, an artist; car, a mechanic, and so on and so forth. All of these individuals are bound to alter reality in some shape or form. Love is a complex concept, as most of us are taught a conditional version of it. If the "sum" calls for the sort of journey where love is internalized, then its practice should also yield tangible results, such as altruism, peace, happiness, freedom, etc. Positive thoughts yield positivity.
"Fight with love" refers to placing your focus on the correct issue. If one worries about something, "worrying" is rationalized as a reaction to a problem, but that is only at the mind level. Worrying places the focus on a lower frequency, which does not care about the reason why one worries. It expands. If two people are worrying together, coming around them may yield a similar experience because we are receptive to these frequencies, being made of the same material.
Going back to the fifth grade student for a moment, we may observe her presentation does not go as well if she is in a bad mood. Her parent may pick up on this and also react in a negative manner, such as nervous, embarrassed, or with pity. The room changes; those paying attention are likely to "notice" the lower frequencies, and begin feeling discomfort as well. The judge may be lenient based on this energy, or empathetic if vibrating at higher frequencies. Similarly, if the student is happy and feeling confident it would likely reflect on her surroundings. Support and well-wishing may arise. The judge may experience compassion when rating her work. These social experiments are found in every day life.
If worrying is a common practice, then the "sum" reflects it, arranging one's reality to include these different levels of vibrating energy. Consider that each apparent issue is created by the self and to stimulate the self in some shape or form, but the choice to tame the mind to avoid reaction is also available. For instance, out of these words, which one catches your attention? Rat, fat, gimp, dirty, bald, dramatic, arrogant, lazy, lady, soldier, elephant, red, blue, black, Sonoma. Each individual may experience a different reaction to them, including no reaction. Some might be offensive or disliked, but not because the word itself is offensive -as it is just vibrations with no intent- but because one's sense of self identifies a direct connection with its associated meaning. It takes two events to craft reality: the arising of phenomena (sum) and a reaction. If the arising is observed from a still mind, focus finds little to no involvement. If the arising stirs a reaction, then reality soon follows. As Charles Einstein mentions, we lack the ability to see the "why" of any event at the onset of reaction, as reaction is an event in itself which is either explored or transmuted.
well I think I know what u are going here, And thanks for taking your time telling me. I didnt really get this from this ted talk at all. I do agree in alot of about what you are saying, I just dont look at in a "spiritual way" if u can call it that. I know energy ccan effect us, I got my own expericen of it And I still a bit confused when it comes to love and fear. There is alot more going on when it comes to emotens, energy, influence, invorment, personality and life in general. Well I'm not here to argue if hes wrong or not, as long as we are moving to a change I'm happy, and I wont get forced in to something. Ever heard of Resource Based Economy. Alot of the problems we have today can be solved with changing to this. And no its not just to flip a coin and its all over, its super hard to make this change. And its not a utopia and its goal is not to be one eather. Its also based on science. And I'm a huge advocate to science. I think we can atleast agree, never that we did dis agree, we just go diffrent looks on the same subject. Anyways, if we dont change the world is facked. sry for my english its getting late over here :)
It looks as though we are moving in the right direction. Let's keep becoming the change we'd like to see. Where are you located?
I don't get that from Charles. I think he's talking about connectivity. If I burn fuel in New York City, the people in the Phillippines die from effects of climate change. If I turn my face from brutality in my city, I feed the ideology of racism which we see so horribly materializing in #FERGUSON. The fear borne of disconnection, of separation as Charles calls it says "I'm living in my gated community and screw the next guy." Making such choices feeds a larger MYTHOLOGY that says things like I am a CONSUMER as opposed to a part of the ecology of this planet. What YOU do, everyday, makes a difference. Buy a gun, support the mythology of might makes right.
I find Charle's advice exceptionally practical. Maybe I can't FORCE the world to give up racism, but I can live a life based on love, which is about connection right?, that has endless, possible ripple effects. As Charles says in this vid, "Every act that comes from the understanding of interconnection, of inter being is a spiritual act, a political act."
***** Hi Jimmy. Thanks for your honesty.
All I can tell you is this. When the motivation behind my actions is straight-up anger, frustration, hatred, whatever, I don't get good results. My decisions are hasty. I'm thinking of revenge instead of justice. I tend to go too far.
When I'm motivated by compassion, love, and the insight they bring, I can take similar action but it takes on a very different flavor.
I've been to protests where we stood in the street and stopped traffic, I've been involved in hunger strikes and gone door-to door explaining what the act of giving Constitutional rights to Corporations is doing. I was even arrested. But when I was calm and resolute about what I was doing, and when it wasn't about destruction but about healing and rebuilding it came out a whole lot better.
You're right about Charles, he's a philosopher, an analyst, a writer, but he takes action too. I've met him, heard him speak and he walks the talk personally. He's given his life to his beliefs and I don't know many people who have the guts to do that, unless it's about greed and self-centeredness, and we can see where that gets us.
Ultimately, I have to constantly ask myself if I want to live in another world that is built on violence, anger, pain, selfishness? I'm already there.
You're obviously smart so you know that nobody has YOUR answers. That's a personal and very challenging journey that only you can undertake. But I can tell you this, if you keep an open mind, and question things like you are doing here, you're already on the path.
Hope that helps.
Maria
I don't like that story about police officer who is bitting the protestor. It is kind of weird and sound unauthentic (fake) from beginning to the end. Or maybe he liked to be bitten and act submissive? I like Charles E otherwise, I am one of his followers.
Of all of his sincerity and you take one line and think it's fake? That's about you then.