If someone like Charles were to ever come close to being the president, we would already be living in a spiritually awakened Utopia. I think the change has to come from the ground up and pave the path for such enlightened compassionate philosophers like Charles to in fact come forward as guides for a new humanity.
Amazing that this video is from 2 years ago, and for over a year now, due to a pandemic, most of society has been directed further from the flow Charles is describing here
There is a deep emptiness in the human soul right now that is causing most of the dis-ease that we witness; we believe it's the feeling of needing to be in nature, but not being able to fully be.
I used to think that us nature lovers would have to re-direct/guide/lead the rest of humanity back into Nature... now, i think the turning is happening organically inside everyone. PS: As a dolphin whisperer, it was fun to be mentioned in the video!
Something that's occurred to me recently and been on my mind is a notion of "mature animism". The idea that really connecting to the consciousness of the living world around us shows it not to be the caricature of how our culture views animism-as anthropocentric and egocentric as we ourselves have pigeonholed consciousness, but as both a legitimate other to converse with and a deep part of ourselves. What our culture seems to need is an understanding of humanity that doesn't just define what it is to be human in respect to what differentiates us from the rest of life on Earth and an understanding of the self that strips away all but the individual ego; because the closer we look at those bounded categories, the less appears in them until we've defined ourselves as nothing at all.
Yes, definition is a cultural artifact of the Gutenberg Galaxy and you have done a put-on of the audio-tactile bias imposed by the most potently trophic part of the animistic environment imposing itself on your sensibilities: electricity.
I could watch Charles Eisenstein all day. Hey Brendan, I feel like sending this to Tim and Mike Mease. Maybe when he gets that GERC Panel Discussion edited and uploaded to our channel called Allying with Non-Human Intelligences.
You speak the truth. I believe the problem lies mostly with religions, especially monotheistic religion. Monotheistic religion has set us apart from nature. Pagan or first nation beliefs included humans as part of the planet/nature conundrum. At best these people saw themselves as custodians of the planet rather than having dominion over it. Cheers:)
Bug splatter on the windshield of your car. Maybe we are only looking thru the bias of the windshield. Maybe instead we should be looking at being encased in steel and plastic, speeding down an asphalt road on rubber wheels, powered by gasoline or electricity. Not only killing insects but any creature , man or beast, that gets in the way of our dominant ecocidal four wheeled profit machine that we literally obsess over.
Isn’t looking toward the margins like thinking that the salvation of the body will come from the skin rather than the core. Eg organs or stem cells. Also, I think the assumption that science and materialism is a core of society is a flaw. Materialistic science is a fringe that popped up and the spirituality that has emerged in the fringe of materialism is even more detached from reality than materialism.
Which spirituality are you refering to here? Cause what i gather from new and also ancient kinds of spiritualism it is that it is an animistic understanding. The realisation that matter has consciousness and that the dualism has just been an illusion, an missunderstanding. Why is it more detached from reality than materialism?
Kurt Hardesty Animism is not talking to animals. The word is the core of Shamanism, working and living with all of nature as we too are a part of nature.
While I agree with you regarding modern spirituality (pretty much everthing revolving around "consciousness" as a sort of divine entity), I would object that "marginalized" can be understood in a psychodynamic sense here, which means that what is pushed to the outside is equal to what lies hidden on the inside, so the skin and the core are pretty much the same thing.
I don't buy into the ETs or higher dimensional stuff, but see them as archetypes that reflect the collective unconscious of those that lack a true ego but follow authority. Example: the idea of something bigger than you that thinks like you... Anthromorphizing reality, instead of seeing what is.... That earth and the habitat is a very complex system that has a "mind of it's own" 🤪
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What wisdom and true intelligence, thank you so much Charles Eisenstein, you are a voice worth listening to, that soothes and gives hope
Charles is such a deep thinker. He articulates his thoughts in such a clear, comprehensive way. Can we nominate him to be our next president?
Politics won't save us.
If someone like Charles were to ever come close to being the president, we would already be living in a spiritually awakened Utopia. I think the change has to come from the ground up and pave the path for such enlightened compassionate philosophers like Charles to in fact come forward as guides for a new humanity.
I really don't think he's the sort of person who probably would want that sort of ego-aggrandizing sort of job, though.
Amazing that this video is from 2 years ago, and for over a year now, due to a pandemic, most of society has been directed further from the flow Charles is describing here
Perhaps we are merely undergoing a collective Dark Night of The Soul, before moving on to an even greater light.
It's darkest before the eye of the storm
There is a deep emptiness in the human soul right now that is causing most of the dis-ease that we witness; we believe it's the feeling of needing to be in nature, but not being able to fully be.
I used to think that us nature lovers would have to re-direct/guide/lead the rest of humanity back into Nature... now, i think the turning is happening organically inside everyone. PS: As a dolphin whisperer, it was fun to be mentioned in the video!
I come back to this video to ground myself, thanks Charles!
Something that's occurred to me recently and been on my mind is a notion of "mature animism". The idea that really connecting to the consciousness of the living world around us shows it not to be the caricature of how our culture views animism-as anthropocentric and egocentric as we ourselves have pigeonholed consciousness, but as both a legitimate other to converse with and a deep part of ourselves. What our culture seems to need is an understanding of humanity that doesn't just define what it is to be human in respect to what differentiates us from the rest of life on Earth and an understanding of the self that strips away all but the individual ego; because the closer we look at those bounded categories, the less appears in them until we've defined ourselves as nothing at all.
Yes, definition is a cultural artifact of the Gutenberg Galaxy and you have done a put-on of the audio-tactile bias imposed by the most potently trophic part of the animistic environment imposing itself on your sensibilities: electricity.
I could watch Charles Eisenstein all day. Hey Brendan, I feel like sending this to Tim and Mike Mease. Maybe when he gets that GERC Panel Discussion edited and uploaded to our channel called Allying with Non-Human Intelligences.
Thank you.
Fantastic 🌻
Love the title as well as content. Alive!
You speak the truth.
I believe the problem lies mostly with religions, especially monotheistic religion. Monotheistic religion has set us apart from nature.
Pagan or first nation beliefs included humans as part of the planet/nature conundrum. At best these people saw themselves as custodians of the planet rather than having dominion over it.
Cheers:)
Hi, Are you familiar which Stephan Harding's work at Schumacher College in the UK? He wrote a book Animate Earth
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Bug splatter on the windshield of your car. Maybe we are only looking thru the bias of the windshield. Maybe instead we should be looking at being encased in steel and plastic, speeding down an asphalt road on rubber wheels, powered by gasoline or electricity. Not only killing insects but any creature , man or beast, that gets in the way of our dominant ecocidal four wheeled profit machine that we literally obsess over.
Presidential Leadership coming from prison is becoming more likely
Isn’t looking toward the margins like thinking that the salvation of the body will come from the skin rather than the core. Eg organs or stem cells. Also, I think the assumption that science and materialism is a core of society is a flaw. Materialistic science is a fringe that popped up and the spirituality that has emerged in the fringe of materialism is even more detached from reality than materialism.
Which spirituality are you refering to here? Cause what i gather from new and also ancient kinds of spiritualism it is that it is an animistic understanding. The realisation that matter has consciousness and that the dualism has just been an illusion, an missunderstanding. Why is it more detached from reality than materialism?
Kurt Hardesty Animism is not talking to animals. The word is the core of Shamanism, working and living with all of nature as we too are a part of nature.
While I agree with you regarding modern spirituality (pretty much everthing revolving around "consciousness" as a sort of divine entity), I would object that "marginalized" can be understood in a psychodynamic sense here, which means that what is pushed to the outside is equal to what lies hidden on the inside, so the skin and the core are pretty much the same thing.
I don't buy into the ETs or higher dimensional stuff, but see them as archetypes that reflect the collective unconscious of those that lack a true ego but follow authority. Example: the idea of something bigger than you that thinks like you... Anthromorphizing reality, instead of seeing what is.... That earth and the habitat is a very complex system that has a "mind of it's own" 🤪
Is he on shrooms?