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"This is a revolutionary and interactive book—in the sense that it inspires the reader to think out of the ordinary. Eisenstein will be noted in antiquity as one of the seminal and pioneering storytellers of this new world."—Publishers Weekly Starred Review“It is rare to find, in such digestible portions, so rich a feast for mind and heart." —Joanna Macy, author of Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy “When I read Charles Eisenstein I felt as if I had just put on an extraordinarily clear, lucid, morally honest set of glasses. I see my outer and inner worlds in penetrating detail. He isn't just describing a possible world. He is helping us find our way to it.” —Vicki Robin, author of Your Money or Your Life “Charles Eisenstein is a cultural investigative journalist, questioning the perpetually unexamined assumptions of both conventional and counter-cultural thinking. He is a cultural storyteller, a visionary who gives us a glimpse of what the new Story of the People may look like, how we might get there, and how close we are to it.”—Mark Boyle, author of The Moneyless Manifesto “God damn this is good! This version of the big story by Charles Eisenstein is one of the best I have ever heard. Charles, you are speaking for millions of us and we so know what you are saying to be true. We will absolutely tell the whole fucking world about it.”—Brad Blanton, author of Radical Honesty “The more beautiful world I inhabit accords with Charles Eisenstein's vision: a world where we embrace the shadow and give it name so that the healing can begin. Take this book and let it seep into your very being.”—Polly Higgins, author of Eradicating Ecocide, barrister and earth lawyer “This book will change your world. It is beautiful because Charles Eisenstein has the courage to be vulnerable and it is in acknowledging our vulnerability that we will realize our greater humanity.”—Revd Peter Owen-Jones, presenter of Around the World in 80 Faiths, author, and priest"One does not 'read' this book, but rather interacts with it. And take heed, it will open your heart and mind, arouse ire and derision, and change the way you think about your life. Beautifully written, heart-warming, and thought-provoking, Eisenstein will undoubtedly be noted in history as a pivotal storyteller."—New Conciousness Review On Sacred Economics "This brilliant and beautifully written book is a must-read for all those who believe our economic system is terminally sick and in need of radical, sacred rehaul. I hope this book begins a serious, worldwide conversation on how we can reinvent our attitude to money." —Andrew Harvey, author of The Hope: A Guide to Sacred ActivismOn The Ascent of Humanity "Brilliant and original, with great depth of insight and understanding. The Ascent of Humanity easily ranks with the works of such giants of our age as David Bohm, Julian Jaynes, Jean Gebser, Alfred North Whitehead...." —Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of The Crack in the Cosmic Egg“A powerful pick for any who would combine spiritual perspectives with social change. This book thwarts cynicism and offers keys to connecting personal choices to powerful change. … An uplifting, inspirational, spiritual and social examination recommended for a wide range of readers looking for positive encouragement.” —Midwest Book Review
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About the Author
Charles Eisenstein is a speaker and writer focusing on themes of civilization, consciousness, money, and human cultural evolution. His viral short films and essays online have established him as a genre-defying social philosopher and countercultural intellectual. 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. The author of Sacred Economics and, Ascent of Humanity, he currently lives in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.
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Product details
Series: Sacred Activism (Book 2)
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books; Later Printing Used edition (November 5, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781583947241
ISBN-13: 978-1583947241
ASIN: 1583947248
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6.1 x 0.8 x 9.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
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No words I could write will do justice to this work of heart by Charles Eisenstein. It is, without question, the most important book I've read in my 6 decades of life ( I have read hundreds) although surely each has been "the next step" in my coming to this one. I will be giving this book to every close relationship I have, not just those whose experience has been easy, and certainly not knowing if it will be "the next step" for him/her. No matter. This book has put all the missing pieces together for this formerly dismayed, yet somehow-still-hopeful, seeker of solutions for (what I have previously viewed as) a world gasping for breath. My fiancé is now reading it and is having his mind blown, too. As two seriously committed activists for a healthy, peaceful planet, and human beings trying to dance to the tune of "cosmic unity", we have often felt like two cripples on an arduous journey, finding it difficult to walk, much less leap for joy. We now understand that with a frequency that frankly made us ache to acknowledge, we've unknowingly viewed the complexity of family, business, community and world problems (and those we blamed) through what Charles calls the Story (and thus the perspective) of Separation. Wholey changed by absorbing his message, I must say that reading it feels more like "remembering" something I've always deeply known, like a forgotten name on the tip of one's tongue, that when retrieved, elicits an exhuberant inner "Yes!" We are beginning to walk on wobbling legs the New Story of Interbeing Charles eloquently unfolds, and while not naive to our challenges, are thrilled at the possibilities for us all. My greatest "thank you" to Charles Eisenstein will be to truly integrate this Story of Reunion into my life and let the ripple effect begin. By the way, I've never written a review for a book before and do not receive any compensation from its sale, but do except to enjoy a global increase of love that will surely follow its exposure.
RECEPTION"The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible" serves as a handbook to the midwives of a new age, a spiritual guide to the permaculture/new economics nomads, a wake up call for those in Silicon Valley and the Financial District who have found success in our current world, and an inspiration to burnt out hippies to give this love thing one more try.We find ourselves at a transition between ages, moving from the Age of Separation to the Age of Interbeing. Humanity is in a stage of adolescence. But our entrance into young adulthood is by no means guaranteed, although change is inevitable. I find the title to be misleading, as the book isn't about the Age of Interbeing, but rather, how to get there. This is likely the more useful topic.Some would say we've been here before. G. I. Gurdjieff talks about a time before the sand storms of the Caucuses 7,000 years ago when human civilization was at least as developed as it is today. The Shivapuri Baba said we're coming to the close of a 6,000-year period; and as humanity is much older than that, his statement infers there have been cycles of development before this one. Ancient Origins would have us believe that the distant past of our race has been anything but primitive.Regardless of whether you pay those sources any attention, something does set this stretch of human history apart from anything in recent millennia: the ecological limits with which we've already begun to collide. Deep Green Resistance can get you a good sense of the circumstances. Certain communities have periodically reached these limits before on a regional scale, but this time it's global.Are we going to make it this time? Why didn't we make it last time? Charles might liken the first question to the way that Bill McKibben talks of global warming. Speaking at Slow Money in 2011, I remember Bill reminding us that it's our obligation to have hope when pondering the possibility of coming to right relationship with the biome of the planet earth. Behaving as say, Goldman Sachs, has, putting the economy before the planet, has no possibility but failure. So why not look on the bright side?Late in the book Charles gets into his view of miracle. A miracle is an impossible event. And what defines possible? Our worldview, our paradigm. One aspect of this transition between ages involves a fundamental shift in perspective. In the Age of Interbeing, there are no islands in the universe. Every being has a relationship with every other being. Questions of scale take on a very different meaning. From the perspective of Separation, the smallest acts can have impossibly large impacts. Think fractals, think microcosms, think holism.During this transition, we have a foot in each world. The rules that govern possibility take on a shifty nature. We walk between two divergent realities, sometimes unsure which one houses us at any given moment. One useful model can be that of roles; we each have two faces, one for the old world and one for the new. Our role in Separation might be an accountant, when our role in Interbeing might be artist or gardner. It takes courage and strength to show our new faces to the old world, and in some circumstances, the old world can crush these faces.That's where community comes in. Belief is a social force. Enlightenment, if you please, is a communal activity. J. G. Bennett was very much of this perspective. And it makes sense: in Separation the frame of reference focalizes around the individual; in interbeing, the focal point is community.And yet the path that Charles describes in the book, the challenges that we each face during this transition, are primarily internal. Where as Charles' middle two books focus more on cosmology, this book is a return to a spiritual approach, similar to that of his first book. The experience of reading it reminds me of "The Power of Now." Both are personal, humble, and practical accounts of how we can each work on ourselves.Moving from the grand story of humanity Charles draws in his lengthy earlier works, this book is short, approachable, and focused on the self. I find this progression natural and fitting. If we seek to change the world, we must change ourselves.I'm left with a number of concepts to ponder. One such topic is that of authenticity. In Interbeing, we do things because they matter. We don't take one action in anticipation of it leading to something we desire; every act is a monad. For example, in Interbeing, we don't get a degree to get a job. We could get a degree, but only due to it's inherent value. In other words, value is completely illiquid. In contrast, in Separation, value has been commodified and liquidated through money. To those in Separation, money is the essence of value. In Interbeing, we need a fundamentally different understanding of money. This is an expansive concept to try to wrap one's mind around. Maybe that's one of the reason Charles used the word hearts in the title as opposed to mind; with something this different, understanding grows out of an intuitive feeling, rather than a mental model.EXCERPTS, NOTES, AND ADDITIONAL RESOURCESTABLE OF CONTENTSSeparationBreakdownInterbeingCynicismInsanityForceScienceClimateDespairHopeMorphogenesisNaiveteRealitySpiritOrthodoxyNewnessUrgencyScarcityDoingNondoingAttentionStrugglePainPleasureJudgementHateRighteousnessPsychopathyEvilStoryDisruptionMiracleTruthConsciousnessDestinyInitiationMYTHOLOGYWho am I?Why do things happen?What is the purpose of life?What is human nature?What is sacred?Who are we as a people?Where did we come from and where are we going?INTERBEINGThat my being partakes of your being and that of all beings. This goes beyond interdependency - our very existence is relational.That, therefore, what we do to another, we do to ourselves.That each of us has a unique and necessary gift to give the world.That the purpose of life is to express our gifts.That every act is significant and has an effect on the cosmos.That we are fundamentally unseperate from each other, from all beings, and from the universe.That every person we encounter and every experience we have mirrors something in ourselves.That humanity is meint to join fully the tribute of all life on Earth, offering our uniquely human gifts toward the well-being and development of the whole.That purpose, consciousness, and intelligence are innate properties of matter and the universe.SEEDS OF THE TRANSITIONWisdom lineagesSacred storiesIndigenous tribesMIRACLEWhen one is aligned with the purpose of service, acts that seem exceptionally courageous to others are a matter of course.When one experiences the world as abundant, then acts of generosity are natural, since there is no doubt about continued supply.When one sees other people as reflection of oneself, forgiveness becomes second nature, as one realizes "But for the grace of God, so go I."When one appreciates the order, beauty, mystery, and connectedness of the universe, a deep joy and cheerfulness arises that nothing can shake.When one sees time as abundant and life as infinite, on develops superhuman patience.When one lets go of the limitations of reductionism, objectivity, and determinism, technologies become possible that the science of separation cannot countenance.When one lets go of the story of the discrete and separate self, amazing intuitive and perceptual capabilities emerge from lifelong latency.HEALINGIt will come from the people and places that were excluded from full participation in the old Story of the People, and that thus preserved some pieces of the knowledge of how to live as interbeings.It will come from the ideas and technologies that were marginalized because they contradicted dominant paradigms. These include technologies of agriculture, healing, energy, mind, ecological restoration, and toxic waste remediation.It will also draw from marginalized or near-forgotten social and political technologies: consensus-based decision making, nonhierarchical organization, direct democracy, restorative justice, and nonviolent communication, to name a few.It will engage the kinds of skills that our present system suppresses or fails to encourage. People who have languished outside our dominant economic institutions, working for very little doing what they love, will find their skills and experience highly valued as pioneers of a new story.It will liberate the marginalized parts of people who have been suppressing their true gifts and passions in order to make a living or be normal. To some extent, this category probably includes every member of modern society. We can feel the stirring of these suppressed gifts any time we their, “I wasn’t put here on Earth to be doing this.â€It will embody and validate marginalized parts of life, the things we neglect in the rush and press of modernity: qualities of spontaneity, patience, slowness, sensuality, and play. Beware of any revolution that doesn’t embody these qualities: it may be no revolution at all.A Gathering of the TribeMy tweets on the book - #AgeOfReunion
I have enjoyed previous short quotes from Eisenstein that were taken out of context. This is the first time I have read one of his books. At first, I had difficulty adapting to the dry, abstract style. Eisenstein writes with a great deal of logic and includes some anecdotal evidence, as if he were proving a theorem in a debate, which he does very well. I found myself in agreement with every one of his points. In fact, I have suggested this book to many of my friends. As one of the "old hippies" from the '60's that he discusses toward the end of the book, I too have struggled, and still struggle, with despair. I was mostly encouraged by his pointing out that the younger generation is more apt to grasp the significance of the New Story. My hope for this book was that it would end with more prescriptive advice than "be the change you wish to see in the world" (Gandhi), so I was a bit let down. I tend to think in practical, engineering strategies for social change. There are available specific methods for working with our shadow side, to bring forth our light, and although Eisenstein names a few of them, I think it would have been helpful to be more detailed in pointing out their commonalities as well as their differences. I would like to have read more about the details of his personal story, of how he himself experienced and struggled with his own transformation.
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