When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness. Such is the life of the slaveโone whose actions are compelled by threat to survival. Perhaps the deepest indication of our slavery is the monetization of time.
Charles EisensteinWhen we must pay the true price for the depletion of natureโs gifts, materials will become more precious to us, and economic logic will reinforce, and not contradict, our heartโs desire to treat the world with reverence and, when we receive natureโs gifts, to use them well.
Charles EisensteinTraditional spirituality often made pleasure, joy, good feelings. the things to overcome. It said you couldn't just indulge in your desires; that would be selfish. Anyone who has been in a spiritual community recognizes the dangers of this kind of joyless spirituality, where everything is somber and heavy and serious. We recognize that as kind of a trap, a false path.
Charles EisensteinI'll start with where we are right now. The map that I'll use is this birthing process, this kind of profound transition that we're going through, where the old narratives, the old story, the old mythology is wearing thin, beginning to fall apart. And as it does so, people hold on to it even more tightly. They haven't let go and won't let go until it becomes simply impossible to hold on to it anymore. And we're nearing that time, but not yet. Right now you can still pretend everything's normal, even though it's greatly hollowed out.
Charles Eisenstein