The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible - Charles Eisenstein [Official]

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"There is a vast territory between what we're trying to leave behind, and where we want to go - and we don't have any maps for that territory." - Charles Eisenstein

Filmed in the fading light on the shores of Northern Scotland, this short film captures Charles Eisenstein in a moment of grief and reflection. The familiar story of the past is crumbling, while the new story has yet to arrive. In a time of social and ecological crisis, what can we as individuals do in this space between?

An African proverb states "sometimes you must get lost in order to find your way." Eisenstein invites us to embrace a radically different understanding of cause and effect, sounding a clarion call to surrender our old worldview of separation, so that we can finally create the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.

Learn more about the book and Charles further work at http://charleseisenstein.net/project/the-more-beautiful-world-our-hearts-know-is-possible/

Credits:

Director/Editor: Ian MacKenzie
(http://ianmack.com)

Producer: Chris Agnos
(bit.ly/1bmB8KK)

Sound Design - Jeremy Therrien
http://www.jeremytherrien.com

Transcription - Matthew Watrous
http://www.gifttranscripts.com/

Music Credits:

Linger
Let Me Go, Set Me Free - Oniero https://soundcloud.com/oneiro-music

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Into the Streets (People’s Climate March + Flood Wall Street) https://vimeo.com/107789364

Vancouver People's Climate March https://vimeo.com/106974162

Dolphin's Die in Record Numbers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKZ9DD3_NoA

Marine's Capture Taliban Fighters After Firefight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQxuOR-71tQ

Paris Attacks - 3 Days of Terror https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnyZ_RIhjzY

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The More Beautiful World
Our Hearts Know Is Possible

A Meditation

I was just feeling some grief
before you came and found me.

Looking out at the water there.

Birds diving for fish.

You know, seals out there.

And...

I just felt like

such sadness that

there are few of them
than they're used to be.

And some there may be none.

You know. And I thought

how important is it to me

that there's a future with
birds and fish and seals.

It's

It's not

that I'm worried
about my future.

It's not that I'm worried about
"Will I survive in a planet...

where the biosphere is dead?"

It's because

It's just... It...

It hurts what's happening.

As soon as I am in contact with beauty

the second thing that comes

usually

is pain.

And I think it's almost a conditioned
response from having had that

beauty crushed.

When I was younger

the world that surrounded
was still very much

the familiar old story
that told me how to live a life.

You study hard to get good grades,
get a good job, you make wise investments.

And to repudiate that
was very audacious.

We live in a very very brutal system.

Not only brutal toward those
that we can easily see as victims.

But equally brutal toward
the perpetrators.

Otherwise how would they
become the perpetrators.

What has to happen to a human being

for them to do the things
that people do to each other.

A lot of people look at the state
of the planet with despair.

Because the truth has been out there

for decades now about what
we're doing to the biosphere

and what's going to happen
if we keep doing it.

And it looks like the surveillance state
and the military-industrial complex

and the concentration of media
and all that stuff is just

stronger than ever.

I think what's happening is
that underneath the surface

the ideological core of our
civilization is hollowing out.

The elites no longer believe
their own ideology.

They're just going through the motions.

Everyone participates
but nobody believes.

In order to find your way

you must get lost.

There's a vast territory

between what we're trying to leave behind
and where we want to go.

And we don't have any maps
for that territory.

People are always talking about
how do we create a movement.

How do we turn our organization.

How we transition from an
organization to a movement.

This is not something
that one can do.

A movement is not something
that one creates.

A movement creates us.

What we know how to create

is based on a knowledge of creation.

A knowledge or an understanding of cause
and effect that's part of the old story.

We can't limit ourselves to the
understandings that we have already.

We have to step into the unknown.

Which really means stepping into service.
Stepping into the gift, stepping into...

the thing that can happen that's outside of ourselves
that we don't know how to make happen.

Because we have to believe in a more
beautiful world in order to serve it.

Or, let's say, to the extent that
we believe in it we can serve it.