EPISODE 206
Charles Eisenstein: Waking Up to Reality
Are you discovering what you learned in old school, traditional schools hasn’t served you in life for a long time?
Embrace the importance of your core values over what society tells you and learn why it’s so very hard to do that with author and counter-cultural philosopher Charles Eisenstein in this deep Living 4D conversation.
Find out more Charles and his work at his website where you can listen to his A New and Ancient Story Podcast. Find him on social media via Substack, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
SHOW NOTES
- “A lot of what I do today is a rebellion against my education.” (3:21)
- Do core values really guide your life? (9:48)
- Who do you trust? (14:05)
- Death avoidance or death postponement? (27:02)
- A very ancient pattern. (38:52)
- The mythological transition in Charles’ work. (55:36)
- The paradise of control. (1:04:17)
- WAIT = Why Am I Talking. (1:15:17)
- Our distorted filtering system. (1:23:42)
- “The ego resists real spiritual practices.” (1:34:11)
- Ecocide. (1:46:05)
- “Reality is relationship.” (1:58:06)
- Why it’s so hard to be a chief. (2:02:06)
- An archetype of the true coach. (2:16:30)
- “The future I fear most is one where humanity persists despite having destroyed the planet.” (2:30:28)
- “We are living in a miracle.” (2:43:48)
RESOURCES & FURTHER READING
- The Coronation: Essays From The COVID Moment and Climate: A New Story by Charles Eisenstein
- The work of René Girard, Gigi Coyle and Walter Russell
- Charles’ essays The Coronation, The Rehearsal is Over and Mob Morality and the Unvaxxed
- Ubuntu: I am because you are.
- Paul’s Living 4D conversations with James Carse, Laird Hamilton and Jonathan Bluestein
- Charles’ recent appearance on the Kyle Kingsbury Podcast
- Dr. Nathan Riley’s Holistic OBGYN Podcast
- The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
- Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility and The Religious Case Against Belief by James Carse
- King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore
- The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe by Jeremy Lent
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