Charles Eisenstein: The Paradox of Human Progress & The Power of Narratives | EP 382

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 923 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In our near-dystopian society, progress is measured by power. Dominance over nature, animals, and fellow humans has become synonymous with development. But is humanity's desire to ascend necessarily evil? In this episode, the great philosopher Charles Eisenstein joins me for a paradigm-shifting conversation. We immerse into the most daunting social and spiritual crises we face today and discuss why acquiring more power, money, wealth, and control isn't the way out. Also, we go into the power of narratives in influencing culture, how to redefine progress to honor our oneness with nature, the true purpose of wealth, and what it means to live a genuinely good life. Charles Eisenstein is an intellectual, teacher, public speaker, and author of numerous essays and books, including "Sacred Economics," "Climate—A New Story," and "The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible." What we discuss: 00:00 - Introduction to Charles Eisenstein 2:30 - Why global problems aren't a matter of good vs. evil 8:00 - Using narrative as a form of power 13:00 - Sacred Economics, Capitalism, & Collective Miseries 17:30 - On COVID vaccine mandates & lockdowns 24:30 - Apathy & our quest for meaning in COVID times 35:00 - Transcending the Story of Separation 40:00 - What's the true purpose of wealth? 49:20 - Redefining human progress, and the secret to living a good life 53:00 - The ultimate key to advancing humanity Learn more from Charles Eisenstein: Website: https://charleseisenstein.org/ Instagram: @charles_eisenstein Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CharlesEisenstein-org Books: https://charleseisenstein.org/books/ Related links: The revised version of the Align Method book is now available with 22 brand-new exercises! Order here: alignpodcast.com/alignbook alignpodcast.com/alignmethod for a special discount www.organifi.com/align and use ALIGN during checkout to receive 20% magbreakthrough.com/alignpodcast and use ALIGN10 during checkout to save 10%. icebarrel.com/align to get 125$ OFF Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the line podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander and this is a place that we bring together the world's leading experts in all things health and wellness to help you optimize your mind, body and movement. Today's conversation is with one of what I would consider to be one of the most brilliant minds on the planet, Charles Eisenstein.
0:15.8	He is an author, an essayist, and a truly brilliant mind.
0:20.9	His work spans the history of human civilization, economics, spirituality, and the
0:28.1	ecology of movement in this conversation gets kind of touches on a lot of aspects of all of that really he one of his
0:35.2	books that is one of my favorite books is called Sacred Economics and it gets into
0:40.4	just the the system that we are all indoctrinated into not wrong or right just
0:45.3	what it is what is capitalism what is consumerism and how does it inform the way that we think
0:51.4	whether we feel and the way that we operate in our daily lives.
0:54.0	Charles Eisen is great. I think you guys are going to enjoy this conversation. I want to thank y'all
0:58.0	for leaving reviews on Apple Podcast, wherever you listen to this. I want to read one from much of Megan she says
1:03.8	L-O-M-L I do not know actually what that means L-O-M-L is an acronym laughing on my lawn
1:11.6	perhaps the humor the depth the light-heartedness, the insight, the value, the spirit.
1:17.0	I love this podcast.
1:18.0	Aaron is awesome.
1:19.0	Thank you much, Megan, appreciate you very much.
1:20.0	Thank you all so much for reviews.
1:22.0	Thanks for subscribing. Thanks for sharing. Thanks for doing you. Let's get to it with my guy Charles Eisenstein.
1:30.0	For starters, I'm very excited for the opportunity to get to have this conversation with you.
1:36.7	Because I feel like somehow you've tapped into some oracle-like qualities of the human experience where I feel like I enjoy getting to ask
1:47.6	profound questions that I've never really you know it would just kind of make my
1:50.9	my head spin and one of the things that has been a
1:54.8	headscratcher for me that's been relevant in the last recent was kind of this concept
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