Charles Eisenstein - TO BE AT HOME IN THE WORLD
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2022
- A short film about the crisis of belonging, the high price of progress, and the return journey home, as told by author/philosopher Charles Eisenstein.
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This project was a labor of love, and I'm immensely grateful to Charles for sharing his time and his beautiful words.
If this film resonated with you, please take a moment to share it with others in your life, especially those outside the algorithmically-walled circles where these kinds of messages already echo. I trust that in this way, the quiet promise of home may reach the ears that need to hear it most.
If you'd like to hear more, the full interview with Charles is here: • Charles Eisenstein on ...
Honestly, I don´t know how much longer I can take this "old world" of destruction and competition, the "us vs them". I carry the "more beautiful world" in my heart for as long as I can remember. I´m so longing to finally belong - but until then, it just hurts.
Exactly
"I promise". That simple assurance brings me to tears every time I watch this.
Thanks to you both.
Many pray for miracles from above, all while they’ve already been planted inside. We need only to look across, not up.
the quality of your editing/production is as magnificent as Charles ability to tell these beautiful stories
simply incredible to see what you guys co-created!
This was beautiful, Charles. You did discribe the process beautifully. Our world, and each of us in it, is slowly changing for the better. There is still a long way ahead. But the direction is good. I feel it. I see it. I live it. It's happening. I'm very grateful for your wonderful and tireless work ❤❤❤
Together we are powerful.
Beautiful and inspiring message, thank You from the 💜,🪷🌈🌟
It touched me so deeply into tears. Love the message and shared it on my Facebook! Thank you all so much - those worked together to make this beautiful and profound film for the world! People need to watch this.
This is so beautiful. I will cherish my longing for this more beautiful world of belonging. ❤️
When One doesn’t know, one doesn’t know, but once One is aware, it connects with every letter of his Words & it allows for Feeling as he speaks, along with a Masterpiece of Video & Sound Editing that “Goose Bumps” in a Spectacular fashion that allows those brief moments, where it’s quite evident and believe in the Perfect World Our Hearts Know!
Fantastic.
Congrats to both!
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That was great. Very great. Thank you Charles. Gift Universe Indeed:)!!!
Thank you Charles and Matthew!!! Today I was so in need of a good preaching of home and hope. A frame to place our struggle. A little too bad that I do not have a church or mentor to go to here where I live to hear this message but for now I am heartened again.
Beautiful beautiful beautiful. Thanks for creating this and sending these ripples through our world.
The tune you play is beyond the words and touches my heart so deeply like a familiarity of something previously know and forgotten...opening up that natural tune and walking towards it acknowledges its very existence. Thanks Charles for reminding me. 🙏Jilly 🌏✨
Absolutely incredible. Well done. Such a powerful story.
Thank you dear brother for your loving message of hope. We will get to the other side together as one family of consciousness, we will see the breathtaking truth and beauty that underlies all of life. I am faithful and optimistic for this wonderful future🙏❤
This is the best video I have ever seen in my life.
always inspiring in the true meaning of the word, bless your soul
That was so beautiful, it brought me to tears. Thank you 🙏
A wise and wonderful piece - most grateful for the reminder of the bigger picture and “to trust myself.”
Wise words, beautiful and powerful film. Thank you both for sharing your gifts with us. The world needs more of this!🙏🏻🐛🦋🌏
Love this! Amazing. My vision is expanded...
This is a iconic testimony of our times shaped in magnificent video. Thanks for spreading the message! Congratulation for the terrific work!
Incredible production- most beautiful.❤
Thank you both so much for shipping this into the world! So grateful for the many reminders within this short film.
Charles you are a breath of fresh air & a light to a confused & endangered world.
Keep creating something beautiful.
Beannachtai agus Sláinte
BRILLIANT!!!!!😊
Wow! I just woke up from a dream where “don’t play it safe” and “break the mold” , were the main themes which go perfectly with this beautiful video! Thanks!!!❤
Well done video. "Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted." Gratitude changes our minds from fear of and anger toward others in our lives from a dwelling in the past of guilt to living in the moment. Mourning is the step out of the blaming of others to the realization that we are responsible for what is lost, not others. Only then can we do anything about it. So forgiveness/ metanoia is tied in with gratitude. What we do about it, out of the gratitude for our God-given gifts is the love we share and experience the joy within those gifts that have always been but which we excluded from our lives. The guilt we see in others is a mirror of our own and punishment of others and self-sacrifice are thought to be the correction for guilt until we realize forgiveness is.
I'm a bit stuck with this, I struggle seeing how communities function best when they're based on need - I perceive that need is something that will be supported in functional community, something that would bring joy - the joy of gift giving and receiving, but for me it feels like the glue underneath all that is love. The love of being around people for who they are deep down, whether they meet our needs or not. Does anyone have any views they could share on this? I realise in ages past if people didn't contribute they were cast out of the group, but I feel as part of moving to a more beautiful world, our love starts to tend towards unconditionality (like a mother's love for her child). To me loving unconditionally doesn't mean being in fantasy or having no boundaries, just that underneath all action is love and devotion (e.g. having self-compassion as basis for boundaries), and not a sense of indebtedness (to self or other).
I love your take on the slight affirment from “indebtedness” to love. That lands really well with me… thank you for articulating that here
Thanks for the thoughtful comment. Here’s my perspective: I agree that love is the best glue. And like actual glue, it sticks best when applied to a small area. The larger the community, the harder it is to keep that bond of love strong enough to withstand the stresses inherent to a scarcity-based market economy. Perhaps creating more interdependence and “debts of gratitude” might help to extend that radius of love?
Beautifully and thoughtfully articulated, thank you for this. I would land with a sense of pure indebtedness as not being mutually exclusive with pure love and devotion.
I see where he is coming from. Growing up my mom would knock at the neighbors for a cup of sugar because she ran out. kids were left with the neighbors so parents could run errands. We don’t need anybody anymore. We have a solution for everything with the click of a button. It leads to a world neighbors just say hi and hide. Maybe the vulnerability of letting others help us and asking for help is the magic that creates community. These small one on one gatherings with the goal of give and receive (or meet a need) becomes the excuse we need to talk and create the bond. Otherwise, if there aren’t needs (his way of saying debt). Then we gather in the name of love but with the tendency of gathering with people we have things in common. Where all we do is to share stories and hug. But is that enough? I wonder. Independence leads to isolation. Maybe. Maybe we got to a point we need to hear we are loved. Explicitly. I start to need more validation. I need to hear you love me to make up for the fact that it isn’t clear that I am needed or that I make a difference in your life. But if my bonds were rooted in community, my inner self would know exactly what part I play. And words of validation would be a “plus” but not a necessity.
@@jonnyfranz I like that last point you made. There is so much inherent purpose and self-esteem tied to one’s place within community. Even if our true nature is love, these bodies are tribal.
Thank you, Charles. Your perspectives are always so refreshing and give me a lot of strength to keep going in what sometimes feels hopeless. I've changed my life drastically thanks to you existing in the world. I know many who have done, too. I hope that gives you a little bit more strength as well.
Beautiful. Thank you Matthew and Charles.
I have been living in Chiang Mai, Thailand for 4 years now. My husband and I fled the US after a heart breaking experience of being invited to live near his family, only to discover that his family were in such loss of soul and true connection that we were dangerous outcasts. Also the financial disaster of trying to make a living in S California.
"Living in a gift Universe." Exquisite.
From the heart, well done. As you say, “it’s already happening. The key is...just to notice it.”
Oh boy. Thank so so much for this! I really connected to the aesthetics - all of it. I've been following Charles for a number of years, and this has to be my favorite video featuring him. Gratitude indeed.
Thank you Matthew Freidell and Charles Eisenstein!
Thank you!
Wow! 😍🙏
thank you
Coming from other sources and circumstances (retired professor living in Japan for 40 years now) ... I have reached the same conclusions as Charles. But a lot of people would be surprised to know that there is a lot of overlap of insights reached by Ted Kackzinski, otherwise known as the 'Unabomber'.
Wonderful, thank you.
I appreciate you and feel deeply like-minded. As a fami constellations facilitator I get the belonging bit and it's price. Thank you for all you give 💞
You touched my soul.
Bravo - thank you Charles - thanks for the reminder of hope
Beautifully done!
Thank you for creating this brother. This is pristine.
This is so beautiful. My heart is melting to all possibilities. Thank you.
Absolutely wonderful. And needed. Thank you! 🙏
Of all your work so far, I love this the best. A jewel in the crown.🐬🐬🐬
Thank you
Amazing. Thanks for putting this content into this beautiful film.
Hey Charles, love your work! This was a beautiful a message to remind us to open up to all that is possible beyond the barrage of influences that bombard us every day. Regaining deep loving connection to our friends, family, partners and people in our lives as well as connection to nature is something to be truly grateful for. Thanks for helping to awaken and progress us all in a different way!
Very beautiful, very moving.
Worth watching to reflect
Matthew! Very well done, this has the inspiring, next level impactfulness that I think both you and Charles aim for. Not a simple thing to create/transmit. It shall be viewed multiple times and shared, Thank you
It’s been fun to follow you since Harrisburg and here in State College…knowing your brother at market..hearing from you by email on occasion when I get inspired to move toward that world all the while “longing” for that beautiful world, knowing it’s true. Carving a piece out in Clearfield County and spanning continents-in Brazil with my grandson. Thank you for always reinvigorating your work with the fresh information that comes. It helps with this tremendous job we have of integration. Thank you Charles❤
Beautiful spirit. I love your substack & updates.
Uplifting, in the spoken word and the visual images, thank you both so much. I find it really comforting when Charles allows that there aren't always words and a lot of this is feelings, and that resonates greatly - someone putting words around the feelings so that they become real. I feel like I know what I know, however ethereal it may be, it's in me.
I like that you mentioned that part; there aren't always words. I personally struggle with this; many people around me only believe science and written words, not feelings, they are to be cast away.
For me, not having words for a thought, or feeling is part of my reality.
This is it!
Dear Matthew, a friend forwarded this beautiful video. Thank you so much for sharing this.
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The swelling of gratitude in the comments thus far is the most divine truism. So grateful for this deeply resonant film, looking forward to the conversations that will be born of it. A more beautiful world is, indeed, possible. Thank you 🙏🏼🤍
Thanks Evelyn! 🙏
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Human life in the womb also is formed by this intelligence Charles. Human blood runs through us at just 4 weeks old.
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Absolutely beautiful on all levels! Brilliant video editing to support the brilliant narrative. I'm assuming you used stock footage, do you mind if I ask where you got it from? Thanks so much!
Thanks! Yeah, it's a mix of free stuff from pexels and unsplash, and licensed clips from raw.film, shutterstock, and a few other sites.
@@MatthewFreidell nice! You did a fantastic job with the editing 🙂
Hi! To make this video accessible to non-native speakers of English, would it be possible to integrate subtitles (not automatically generated) for many more languages? I would love to share this amazingly produced and inspiring video with many people. Personally, I want to share this video with (non-privileged) people in Germany and could really use German subtitles under this vid, or a dubbed version. Please make it possible if you can. Thank you.
Hi Sonja. I went ahead and activated a few alternate language subtitles, including German. These are not auto-generated from the audio, but rather auto-translated from the original English subtitle text (which I've made sure is correct). I know this isn't ideal, and the translation often won't be correct, but short of having a native speaker manually translate everything, it's the best I can do at the moment.
It's so simple. We are all children of God, and therefore we are all connected and part of one family. God created us for relationship, and created us for love, because "God is Love." (1 John 4:8) And we humans are so messed up, and so undeserving of that Love! But God loves us anyway. Without Love, we are nothing. "How priceless your faithful love is, God!" (Psalm 36:7)
is there a transcript?
Click on the three dots to the right of the "like" and "share" buttons and select "open transcript". From there you can toggle on/off the subtitles and copy it into a text file to clean it up as needed.
You know me well tho i dont know you.
brilliant
but music is too dominating
Yes, there are a few moments where the balance is a bit off.
For pity's sake cut the endless and unnecessary visuals and endless irritating sound scape. It's distracting to the point where I could barely listen. Ironically this is precisely what he's talking about among other things, the distraction and fragmentation of the mind being split in different directions which is amply represented by these sounds and visuals. I don't know why people don't get this, but so much stuff these days has got to have a background soundtrack and absolutely destroys sometimes what the person with wisdom is trying to say
Felt the same way, just way too much input for my senses, could barely follow Charles.
The connection between his hypothesis of what society is, and what it actually is, is weak at best.
He begins, as all those who wish to sell a cure for a disease do by proclaiming that all of you have the disease. I do not see where he provides the data to support his conclusions about society, save the graphics of disassociated individuals. Those images do not present as evidence to support his dystopian view of society.
Some of the premise/conclusion style that he embeds in his treatise on society sound plausible, but only in the abstract. Lacking is the work necessary to explain how the two are connected.
I don't need you, and you don't need me. A compelling argument, but only in the way it provokes people. Again, there is no evidence, or data provided to substantiate the claim that society works in that way. A few images of kids holding each other is a poor, and pathetic substitute for evidence.
The universe is a place where the forces, and laws of nature are indifferent to human happiness, and human suffering. That is not a revelation. Yet he declares his discovery of that as not the reality that it is, but rather as his learning of a tool of the nebulous, unnamed oppressor who applies it as a means to control the masses. Again, without providing any evidence.
Be aware, be very aware, of those who use imagery, and prose to warn of a society in collapse while failing to provide any evidence to support their dystopian conclusions.
Far too long.