66. The Coronation: Fertile Soil for a New Story - Charles Eisenstein

This time of covid and quarantine is a rite of passage for humanity, and phenomenally rapid change is possible. What we believe and what we project into the world matters deeply- especially in times of chaos, when a new story is being written. Let us act wisely in the wake of this culture-shifting pandemic.

IN THE INTERVIEW:

  • Everything happening as a result of coronavirus is an intensification of trends already in place

  • Acknowledging that we don’t know what’s going on, and likely never will, to the extent we’d like to believe we do

  • Making sense of the competing narratives around COVID19

  • Is reality bifurcating? What is the relationship between belief and reality?

  • Conspiracy theories don’t leave enough room for ordinary human folly, and the world is not that controllable

  • However, the tilt of civilization has been skewing ever closer to totalitarian control, and this is heightening that

  • War mentality and going deeper than the constant search for a new enemy to fight

  • Asking, instead, what conditions were in place to create this?

  • The possibility that this shifts the current medical paradigm

  • Do we choose further disconnection, or do we reclaim human togetherness?

  • Propagating a new story- what we radiate out in this potent moment is a suggestion to others about what’s possible for humans 

  • We won’t survive life, so what can this collective lesson in dying teach us?

  • The more we are governed by security, the more anemic our lives become

  • Our actions matter- recovering the primordial knowing of our own power and the connection between self and cosmos

  • Real health comes from community- it is an illusion that we can thrive in isolation

  • Shifting the prepping paradigm from personal hoarding to preparing to help others

  • When humans disrupt the matrix of interbeing, proliferation of novel viruses, disease-bearing ticks, etc, is inevitable

  • Generosity of community is the only reliable insurance policy

IN THE OUTRO:

  • Ecological interbeing, nature connection as antidote, and a pandemic of possibility

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