The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible (Sacred Activism): 2

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The things we think we want are often substitutes for what we really want, and the pleasures we seek are less than the joy that they distract us from. He presents data in dozens of categories showing that the world is far better off in terms of declining violence, longer lifespans, better standard of living, access to health care, declining child death and death of mothers during birth, etc. In a sense, the technology is not the substance itself, it is the set of practices that includes it. I hope this book begins a serious, worldwide conversation on how we can reinvent our attitude to money. You mention in The More Beautiful World… how a lot of people have seemed for some time to somewhat perversely be looking forward to normal life and society breaking down, in whatever manner comes along, like an alcoholic needs to truly bottom out before seeking help, or like the necessary flames before the rebirth of the phoenix from the ashes.

By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. I still question whether this would be the best use of my time; however, I’ll play along with your game. I could not accept the way the dominant narrative of my culture handled these things: as fragmentary problems to be solved, as unfortunate facts of life to be regretted, or as unmentionable taboo subjects to be simply ignored. The chapter “cynicism” of this book is all you need to read: after a chapter of standard new-age handwaving, Charles Eisenstein tries to address cynicism, and he does so in a way summarizes the modern conspiracy mindset.And maybe it’s still kind of precious, you know, and maybe even needs to be thanked and grieved as you let go of it, because I mean, all of our bad habits and you know, psychological pathologies and, you know, all of these control patterns and so forth, these were developed for a good reason. Well, no matter how far we develop our ability to control the world, paradise remains on the horizon, as far away as ever. And, and it, and it brought you to and this is the sort of central focus of the book, these two stories, the story of separation and the story of inter being. It almost got in the way of my hearing this book since a machine voice is completely opposite to Charles Eisenstein's message. Part of recovering from the spell of money (which is itself an abstraction of value) is to re-value the material, the soil, the flesh, the living, and the human.

In many cases, because of licensing requirements, building codes, and so forth, it is actually illegal to do things we once did for each other.

People’s good opinion of me, if that is what serves change, or maybe if you’re conflict averse, like, that’s another thing I have, like, you know, I’m conflict averse. For example, the chairman of a large corporation, a politician, a general, somebody who can make lots of people do things. Combating is one of these habits, these reaction templates that our society, and many of us individually, or are trapped in the quote that you read another way to put it is that when our habituated, our habitual reaction patterns are themselves, part of the problem, it is a necessary step to stop doing so that, so that we can do habituate from those reaction patterns and do something that isn’t contributing to the problem.

We learn as well that all of our external institutions reflect our basic perceptions of the world, our invisible ideologies and belief systems. Can you offer some rules of thumb on how to make this key kind of discernment about the role of new technologies in our lives? To enter it, one must leave behind the seeming shelter of a control-based life, protected by walls of cynicism, judgment, and blame. One influence I can say that Chinese has had on my later work is that it helped me work more comfortably with paradox. This inspirational and thought-provoking book serves as an empowering antidote to the cynicism, frustration, paralysis, and overwhelm so many of us are feeling, replacing it with a grounding reminder of what’s true: we are all connected, and our small, personal choices bear unsuspected transformational power.You know, and what’s like, I often think about what, what is going to be my impact on the world, the biggest impact is it going to be because of my books, where is it going to be? On some level, these elites long for the same thing we all do, subject to their own particular blinders. And I’m going to take down my walls and do my best to create a world in which we’re all at home, but other people aren’t going to do that. And, and I love there’s a number of things I want to go into around this one is I love how you own the challenge of adopting the narrative of interviewing, like how you admit to not being there yet. I’m talking about this feeling of readiness that grows as we give attention and have validated from the outside who we really are.

And, you know, especially as the child of a survivor of the Holocaust, like that taps into lots of fears that I have. A key precept of the modern world and its scientific view is that, in principle, everything that is real can be quantified, measured and counted. They are quite close at hand for ordinary people, because really what I am doing is to give voice to a new mythology that is rising in the collective consciousness.

Perhaps these feature of the Chinese language primed me to explore non-reductionistic thinking and the relationship between story and reality in my later work. When I first read this book, I felt as if Eisenstein had written the book that had been floating around in my head for the last several years. Eisenstein repeats this a few times more - about how some theory like water memory gets a lot of criticism so there must be something to it. Maybe because of a special moment I had with one of my sons that gets that he takes in, and it changes who he’s going to be as a father and three generations down the road.