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The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible (Sacred Activism Book 2)

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But while Harari explains this realization through the insights provided by the life sciences in a quite logical way, Eisenstein goes in the directly opposed direction by questioning science and even scientific consensus. He deems them as deeply flawed because they are rooted in what he calls the Story of Separation. More importantly, it provides a glimpse of a more beautiful world – in the sense of both the outside world and the world we construct through the stories we tell ourselves. On the collective level the same is true. As we awaken to the interconnectedness of all our systems, we see that we cannot change, for example, our energy technologies without changing the economic system that supports them. We learn as well that all of our external institutions reflect our basic perceptions of the world, our invisible ideologies and belief systems. In that sense, we can say that the ecological crisis—like all our crises—is a spiritual crisis. By that I mean it goes all the way to the bottom, encompassing all aspects of our humanity.

I do not offer this book as someone who has completed this transition himself. Far from it. I have no more authority to write this book than any other man or woman. I am not an avatar or a saint, I am not channeling ascended masters or ETs, I have no unusual psychic powers or intellectual genius, I have not passed through any remarkable hardship or ordeal, I have no especially deep spiritual practice or shamanic training. I am an ordinary man. You will, therefore, have to take my words on their own merits. And what, exactly, is at the bottom? What do I mean by a “transition between worlds”? At the bottom of our civilization lies a story, a mythology. I call it the Story of the World or the Story of the People—a matrix of narratives, agreements, and symbolic systems that comprises the answers our culture offers to life’s most basic questions:This book puts this experience of oneness in slightly different terms, like in terms of stories and power structures, and that resonates with me. So, I suppose I could say that I like the book because I already agree with it, which is true, but it's also not the whole story. I don't need validation of the way I see the world, but I do find it encouraging that someone else sees it the same way. I feel encouraged to continue trying each day to live the way I want to be and the way I want the world to be and to trust that by doing so, I'm doing what I can to change things. And finally, Love Anyway. In a world where I may want to close my heart or others are closing their heart… can I Love Anyway? Please don’t think that you “have to write a book about it” for your experiences to have a large effect. The book may come, the peacebuilding project documentary might come, but usually there must first be a latency, a time of doing something for its own sake, a time of inward focus on the goal and not the “meta” goal.” But will we make it? If, as in so many other questions, evidence and reason alone are insufficient to determine a belief, then how will we answer that question—especially when the answer implicates everything else, even our basic stories of self and world. I offered an answer earlier: to choose the story you will stand in. The more beautiful world I inhabit accords with Charles Eisenstein’s vision: a world where we embrace the shadow and give it name so that the healing can begin. Take this book and let it seep into your very being.”

Loving across enemy lines (within our own inner world or with others) is the most courageous and powerful medicine. Life made sense. If you worked hard you could get good grades, get into a good college, go to grad school or follow some other professional path, and you would be happy. With a few unfortunate exceptions, you would be successful if you obeyed the rules of our society: if you followed the latest medical advice, kept informed by reading the New York Times, got a good education, obeyed the law, made prudent investments, and stayed away from Bad Things like drugs. Sure there were problems, but the scientists and experts were working hard to fix them. Soon a new medical advance, a new law, a new educational technique, would propel the onward improvement of life. My childhood perceptions were part of a narrative I call the Story of the People, in which humanity was destined to create a perfect world through science, reason, and technology: to conquer nature, transcend our animal origins, and engineer a rational society.When we experience this paradigm shift and start to see the world from a new perspective it will help us feel that somehow everything is going to be alright. To appreciate, from nuanced and subtle to the more striking beauty that is all around us every day. Paradoxically, the path to achieve the impossible consists of many practical steps, each of them possible.” When one goes through a series of initiations like this into the new story, he or she becomes strong in it. Being strong in it, one can hold that story open for other people. Even if someone cannot, in a moment of crisis or when facing their own initiation, believe in the Story of Interbeing, a strong, initiated person can believe it for them, holding that possibility open until they are ready to step into it. With each initiation we become stronger carriers, and our words and actions become part of that story’s telling. Both authors claim that the subject, the self, is basically an illusion, or just a story we inhabit and tell ourselves and each other; a story we use to make sense of the world and interpret everything that happens. From my vantage point, the basic premises of this story seemed unquestionable. My education, the media, and most of all the normality of the routines around me conspired to say, “Everything is fine.” Today it is increasingly obvious that this was a bubble world built atop massive human suffering and environmental degradation, but at the time one could live within that bubble without need of much self-deception. The story that surrounded us was robust. It easily kept anomalous data points on the margins.

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