Two interviews to meet the “Intelligent Optimist” Charles Eisenstein , an american teacher, speaker, and writer.

He is the author of the books "Sacred Economics" and "The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible,"… Much of Charles Eisenstein’s work deals his thesis that global culture is immersed in a destructive story of separation - and part of his mission is to present an alternative path of interbeing.

🎙Here is A PODCAST (June of 2020) he made in the context of his Esalen’s workshop, about one if his last essay, the Coronation, which deals with America’s societal and governmental response to the coronavirus. ( Read the essay here )

🎙Below, A VIDEO INTERVIEW where Charles Eisenstein answers 12 questions about our present social crisis , offering possible solutions of a new world bursting with beauty and creativity.

The questions and their time codes:

1:06 - What are the 'old story' and 'new story' that you describe in your writing?
14:37 - Where does the sense that a better world is possible come from?
19:16 - What guides us in the space between stories to creating the new story?
21:11 - How did the world get to where it is now?
28:20 - Do you think advancements in technology can solve the problems we're facing?
33:50 - Do you see the current money system as a symptom of separation?
37:50 - What could an alternative system look like? Would the current system need to collapse to make way for the new?
43:24 - Can individual action create big change?
48:14 - What is the wound of separation and how do we see it expressed in society?
54:32 - What do you advise people to do in times of not knowing what to do?
1:01:33 - Can doing nothing take you to a place of knowing what to do? 1
1:06:39 - When you imagine the new story, what does it look like?