Empathy: Key to Effective Action

Are you strong enough to turn Blame into Curiosity? If so, watch your Curiosity turn to Creativeness! Empathy: Key to Effective Action from Charles Eisenstein on Vimeo.

Charles on The Tavis Smiley Show

An Absolute Gem. Thanks per usual Chuck!

Empathy invites alternatives to fighting, creating an external enemy for Everything. Empathy opens that Creative Space that makes other answers & responses available.

The Fertile Ground of Bewilderment

Whenever we experience a "problem" our culture insists we look externally for a culprit/antagonist to launch an attack on. Noticing symptoms of being sick...War against viruses, take this pill. Weeds in the garden....Go to war w/ them by dumping pesticides. Kids aren't doing hat we want them to be doing...War on Teachers etc.
Charles talks about the current "War w/Capitalism" and the pressure to maximize return....This system is "Built on the mythology of separation that holds us as separate individuals in a world of other, as these bubbles of psychology bouncing around, locked in a prison of flesh, separate from each other, separate from other beings in nature, separate from the world...interacting with it, but existentially separate."

"We need to be comfortable Not Knowing."

This larger cultural story of separation is creating these rituals of fear. What do we do about this poisoned cultural narrative?
~~~Intellectual force may not be the most effective
~~~Giving people an experience that contradicts the world of fear could be a Better^ Brilliant* solution

Chuck weighing in on election and offering solutions

"Can we please stop creating conditions for war? Can we please stop demonizing those who disagree with us? Can we stop the cheap and degrading psychoanalyzing of our opponents? These tactics might seem to succeed in the short term – one side or another will win – but in the end we have only strengthened the climate of hate and the mentality of war." ~Charles Eisenstein

Charles Eisenstein Perfectly Sums Up What America Needs to Do to Move Forward After The Election

More Chuck Inspiration

"Everyone participates but nobody believes. In order to find your way, you must get lost."
"We have to believe in a more beautiful world in order to serve it."

The Story of Interbeing: Excerpt from Uplift 2014

"Any action creates ripples through a matrix of causality that we cannot maybe see."

"We are not separate selves. Any human being that we judge as unenlightened is a mirror of something unenlightened in ourselves, and we will not be fully enlightened until that person is."

UnlearnAndRewild - CharlesEisenstein

Fabulous interview where finally, for the first time I have heard someone echo my sentiment of the human waste practice..the toilet! Also makes a great point about Giving/Receiving @ the end.

Charles Eisenstein: Outdated Stories & the Game Everyone Plays While Not Believing in it.

Charles on Money & Separation