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Swaady Martin: Fugitivity to Interconnection (E61) from 2022-02-14T19:14:34
Swaady Martin is the daughter of a militant Black Panther who fled to
Africa. She grew up in the Ivory Coast and ended up pursuing an elite
education and corporate career, yet remains at he...
CJ Hopkins: The New Totalitarianism (E60) from 2021-11-01T23:39:51
Playwright, satirist, and political commentator CJ Hopkins, creator of the website Consent Factory, joins me for a conversation on totalitarianism, safety, and the ideology of control. We go a litt...
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Nathan Riley: Birth and Death (E59) from 2021-09-30T20:00:27
Nathan Riley is a medical doctor trained in OB/GYN and palliative care. In this episode, birth and death, we talk about the role of medicine in society, what
is has been and could be, its beaut...
Daniel Raphael: The Wizard's Path (E58) from 2021-08-07T04:40:06
People call Daniel Raphael a "wizard," for reasons that may become apparent in this interview. He weaves an inspiring life story with his work with the body, subtle energies, and spiritual teaching...
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Anna Breytenbach: Interspecies Communication (E57) from 2021-07-01T00:37:45
Anna Breytenbach is one of the world's best known interspecies communicators, subject of the film The Animal Communicator ( https://youtu.be/gvwHHMEDdT0). In this conversation we touch on a couple ...
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Devorah Brous: Burnout and Renewal (E56) from 2021-04-24T02:07:21
Here I speak with a woman who, in her younger days, put 110% of her time and life energy into a cause, in this case, Palestinian rights (Devorah is Jewish). Her story will resonate with many curren...
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Yolanda Charles: Trusting Life (E55) from 2021-03-16T22:00:03
British bass guitarist Yolanda Charles carries some powerful stories
about trust, luck, mentorship, motherhood, and music. She shares some of them in our far-reaching conversation on these and ...
Fritizi Horstman: Step Inside the Circle (E52) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Welcome to this moving conversation with prison activist and filmmaker Fritzi Horstman, in which we discuss her powerful short film Step Inside the Circle. Please watch it first. We talk about pris...
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Galina Angarova: Cultural Survival (E53) from 2020-12-18T01:15:26
Galina Angaraova is an indigenous rights activists and the Executive
Director of the nonprofit Cultural Survival. Her stories from her native indigenous village in Siberia illuminate vividly an...
Fritzi Horstman: Step Inside the Circle (E52) from 2020-12-09T04:46:45
Welcome to this moving conversation with prison activist and filmmaker Fritzi Horstman, in which we discuss her powerful short film Step Inside the Circle. Please watch it first. We talk about pris...
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Mellody Hayes: Roots of Healing (E51) from 2020-09-22T00:20:45
This was a delightful conversation. We hadn't intended to talk about race, but I'm glad we did, because Mellody shared some unique, unorthodox insights worthy of considering in our troubled times. ...
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Dr. Edith Ubuntu Chan: A Trillion Points of Light (E50) from 2020-08-29T04:41:30
Dr. Edith Ubuntu Chan has an unusual background -- studied mathematics at Harvard, became a Doctor of Oriental Medicine... Actually, nothing I could say about her can do justice to the stories she ...
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Dr. Zach Bush: Life is a Community (E49) from 2020-07-28T02:14:26
Here I talk with Zach Bush, MD, a doctor with a background in endocrinology who "went holistic" and turned toward gut/brain health, the microbiome, and soil science. Our conversation covered a lot ...
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Alnoor Ladha: Oppression, Interconnection, Healing (E48) from 2020-07-07T20:47:09
This rich dialog treats the evolution of activism beyond us-versus-them thinking, with special reference to current events around race, the indigenous, and the Amazon rainforest. Alnoor Ladha’s wor...
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Vivian Dittmar: Befriending Fear (E47) from 2020-04-27T22:19:41
Vivian Dittmar is a teacher, speaker, and writer, author of the book The Power of Feelings. In this conversation we talk about the collective global field of uncertainty, the dynamics of birth and ...
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Farmer Rishi: The Gift Circle of Life (E46) from 2020-04-04T20:12:16
Rishi Kumar(https://farmerrishi.com), a former software engineer, is a gardening evangelist who uses gardening for personal, social, and ecological healing. We talk a lot about regeneration: how it...
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Sayer Ji: Beyond the Coronavirus (E45) from 2020-03-11T19:34:45
Sayer Ji is a prominent holistic health researcher and the founder of one of the largest alternative health websites, greenmedinfo.com. We talk first and foremost about the coronavirus and the mult...
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Luz Gonçalves Brito: Spirituality is the Search for Connection (E44) from 2020-02-19T21:19:04
Luz Gonçalves Brito is a Brazilian anthropologist who brings academics and spirituality together in an exquisite way. Our conversation was like a meditation, touching on the inseparability of the s...
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Julie Esterly: Mystery of Life, Death, and Earth (E43) from 2019-12-18T20:27:54
Julie Esterly is active in the death care movement, part of the reclamation of death as a culturally recognized part of life. We speak of our culture's death rituals, the necessity of realizing dea...
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Gigi Coyle: What is Mine to Do? - Part 2 (E42) from 2019-11-05T18:13:09
Part Two of my conversation with Gigi Coyle explores the process of transforming pain and turmoil that is intensely reflecting back to us from the world (natural disasters, forest fires, potlics, e...
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Gigi Coyle: What is Mine to Do? - Part 1 (E42) from 2019-11-05T18:09:47
What is mine to do? This is the mantra of Gigi Coyle, a revered veteran of social, political, and spiritual movements going back to the 1970s. Gigi was instrumental in the founding of the Ojai Foun...
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Zack Geist: Dispelling the Mystery of Debt (E41) from 2019-10-16T00:12:51
This conversation with Zack Geist addresses the phenomenon of debt, both from a theoretical standpoint and in very practical terms (at least for US listeners). Zack operates a business that liberat...
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Robin McKenna: GIFT(E40) from 2019-10-07T18:12:56
In this conversation, filmmaker Robin McKenna and I discuss her new film, GIFT, which is inspired by Lewis Hyde's classic book, The Gift. I consider Hyde to be an elder of an intellectual/spiritual...
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Kelly Brogan: Get Real, Get Well, Get Free (E39) from 2019-09-17T22:59:27
I describe Kelly Brogan as a “renegade psychiatrist” – someone who abandoned a prestigious career “in the system” to become a critic of pharmaceutical psychiatry and an advocate for holistic therap...
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Cynthia Jurs: On Synchronicity and Sacrifice (E38) from 2019-08-16T11:25:35
This conversation with my good friend Cynthia Jurs was originally recorded for my online course, Living in the Gift. It was a meditative, engaging experience with synchronicities that showed up to ...
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Lynne Twist: A Conversation About Living in the Gift (E37) from 2019-07-18T22:23:15
Lynne Twist is the author of The Soul of Money and co-founder of the Pachamama Alliance. This conversation weaves together various themes explored in my online course, Living in the Gift: https://c...
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Helena Norberg-Hodge: Local is the Future (E36) from 2019-06-14T15:37:28
Helena Norberg-Hodge is a revered elder in the movement seeking alternatives to the present course of economic globalism and cultural homogenization. Her film on Ladakh, Ancient Futures, was a majo...
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Brian Swimme: The Cosmos Watching Itself (E35) from 2019-04-03T14:40:47
Brian Swimme is a mathematical cosmologist and philosopher. We went really deep in this conversation: the limits of human knowledge, cosmic evolution, science as a road to the sacred, and other spe...
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Daniel Schmachtenberger: Self-terminating Civilization (E34) from 2019-03-21T12:57:04
Daniel Schmactenberger is a brilliant and innovative social philosopher and founding member of the Consilience Project. Here he outlines some of the foundations of his worldview as we discuss expon...
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Brock Dolman: Eco-spiritual Connections(E33) from 2019-01-22T16:31
Brock Dolman is the founder of Occidental Arts & Ecology in Northern
California, one of the first permaculture education centers in North
America. In this conversation Brock displays a ti...
Philip Munyasia: Social & Ecological Healing (E32) from 2018-10-30T22:05:59
Philip Munyasia is the founder of Otepic, a permaculture/ ecovillage project in Kenya that brings youth from the slums to the land for social and ecological healing. You will Philip's courage, visi...
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Orland Bishop - Part 3 (E31) from 2018-10-10T03:01:58
Orland Bishop is in my eyes a treasure on this earth. In this conversation we talk about the cosmological and geological dimensions of the current evolution of culture and consciousness, along with...
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Judith Schwartz: Ecological Healing with Water (E30) from 2018-08-17T00:08:28
Judith Schwartz is the author of several books, most recently "Water in Plain Sight." She is a leading advocate of what is coming to be known as "rain for climate" -- a shift in emphasis toward wat...
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Laura Delano: Sanity in an Insane World (E28) from 2018-07-11T00:00
This conversation explores the contentious subject of the mental health system, through the story of patient advocate Laura Delano. Her journey into being institutionalized and recovering sovereign...
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Orland Bishop - Part 2 (E27) from 2018-05-20T19:55:22
Part 2 of Charles' conversation with Orland Bishop.
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Orland Bishop Part 1 (E26) from 2018-05-18T02:43:34
Charles Eisenstein in conversation with Orland Bishop
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Journey to the Inner Throne (E25) from 2018-03-27T23:35:50
Eivind Skjellum is the creator of Reclaim your Inner Throne, a training program for men. In this conversation we talk about masculine and feminine archetypes, leadership, elderhood, and stories of ...
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Land Healing through Young Farmers (E24) from 2018-03-20T15:30:46
Severine von Tscharner Fleming is a kind of farming savant and a super-dynamic agent of the revolution in agriculture reuniting us with soil, water, and life. She is the founder of the Agrarian Tru...
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Gigi Coyle (E23) from 2018-02-28T22:25:27
This conversation with the amazing Gigi Coyle was recorded with a small live audience on a houseboat, where Gigi was recovering from knee surgery. Gigi is a source of valuable wisdom for activists ...
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Joanna Harcourt-Smith (E22) from 2017-08-23T22:22:41
In this episode, Charles talks with author, podcaster, and life-long seeker Joanna Harcourt-Smith.
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Helena Norberg-Hodge (E21) from 2017-04-17T18:45:38
This is a conversation with the political thinker and activist Helena Norberg-Hodge. She had a huge radicalizing influence on my political thinking through her film Ancient Futures. By "radical" I ...
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An Evening with Satish Kumar (E20)- A New and Ancient Story from 2017-04-06T02:55:02
Satish Kumar is, in the truest sense of the word, an elder in the peace and ecology movement. To me personally, he is one of those deep allies who confirms that the most radical ideas I work with a...
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A Conversation with Martin Shaw (E19) from 2017-03-01T21:11:27
Martin Shaw is a mythologist and storyteller from the area of Devon, England. He and I share a deep appreciation for the way myth and story shape the world. Martin starts our conversation with a st...
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Orland Bishop: Word, Gift, and Money (E18) - A New and Ancient Story from 2017-02-07T22:44:02
This podcast is a public conversation between me and Orland Bishop, recorded in Santos, Brazil. Even though the audio quality isn't perfect, I want to release this recording anyway in hopes of tran...
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Kelly Brogan: Restoring Blunted Consciousness (E17)- A New and Ancient Story from 2016-12-13T23:05:21
Kelly Brogan is a psychiatrist who made a radical break with pharma-centered orthodoxy to pursue holistic approaches to mental health, with extraordinary results. We recorded a conversation that st...
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In Conversation with Rupert Sheldrake (E16)- A New and Ancient Story from 2016-11-10T22:17:11
This podcast is a recording of a second conversation between me and Rupert Sheldrake, one of my favorite renegade scientists and the number one target of the defenders of scientific orthodoxy. He h...
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The Fertile Ground of Bewilderment (E15) - St. James Church, London - A New and Ancient Story from 2016-10-07T19:18:29
The Fertile Ground of Bewilderment was the title of a speech I gave at St. James Church in London. I'm sharing it with you all because it was such a high-energy event and I ventured into territory ...
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Marietta Schürholz: Reinventing Ritual: (E14)A New and Ancient Story from 2016-06-23T02:45:11
This interview with the filmmaker Marietta Schürholz is on ritual -- a topic about which I've thought a lot and written very little. We tend to think rituals are vestiges of an earlier, more supers...
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Rex Brangwyn: Building Erotic Intelligence (E10) - A New and Ancient Story from 2016-04-30T03:40:15
This conversation I recorded with Rex Brangwyn was originally part of my online program "Masculinity: A New Story." The outpouring of gratitude, insight, and stories it provoked from participants ...
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Eivind Skjellum: Journey through the Archetypes (E13) - A New and Ancient Story from 2016-04-05T02:04:58
This conversation with the Norwegian men's coach and teacher Eivind Skjellum is a deep and at times raw introduction to an extraordinary transformational map Eivind has created (or, more accurately...
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Carol Bowman: Three Stories (E12) - A New and Ancient Story from 2016-03-01T00:00
What would you think if your 4-year-old displayed thorough knowledge of WWII aircraft, without having ever been exposed to them? Carol Bowman is a prominent past life researcher who focuses on the ...
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Lyla June Johnston (E11) - A New and Ancient Story from 2016-01-27T18:51:25
What are the perils of working "in the system" as opposed to trying to change it from the outside? In this multidimensional conversation, Lyla and I expand and perhaps transcend that question. We w...
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Cynthia's Kiva Part 2 (E09) - A New and Ancient Story from 2015-12-10T00:00
This podcast was recorded in late November 2015 at Cynthia Jurs' "kiva" in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Originally meant to be a recorded discussion between Charles and David Abram (philosopher/author of ...
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Cynthia's Kiva Part 1 (E09) - A New and Ancient Story from 2015-12-06T00:00
This podcast was recorded in late November 2015 at Cynthia Jurs' "kiva" in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Originally meant to be a recorded discussion between Charles and David Abram (philosopher/author of ...
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Seppi's Place (E08) - A New and Ancient Story from 2015-11-30T00:00
Here is a conversation with a group gathered for Charles' birthday at "Seppi's Place," which is kind of a new story waystation for people, especially young people, to develop in ways that society's...
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The Crisis of Science (E07) - A New and Ancient Story from 2015-11-11T00:00
Rupert Sheldrake is one of the most thoughtful, lucid people I have ever met. In this conversation we talk about the foundations of science, both as an institution and as a path to knowledge. Like ...
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Healing with Nature (E06) - A New And Ancient Story from 2015-10-29T00:00
Charles speaks with Brown Koroskenyi and Pamela Lyness of the Avatar Centre, an experimental community in the Amazon dedicated to recovering knowledge of how to live harmoniously with the land. Of ...
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A Story of Gratitude (E05) - A New And Ancient Story from 2015-10-18T00:00
Charles speaks with life coaching legend Julio Olalla about the power of gratitude, and more generally, the role of story and perception in forming the ground from which actions arise. Julio shares...
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Deep Wealth and Transformation (E03) - A New and Ancient Story from 2015-09-22T00:00
A conversation with Chris Martenson, creator of the Crash Course, who like I have has moved beyond (way beyond) economics to explore systems change and narrative change. We talk about real wealth a...
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Synchronicty and the Impossible (E02) - A New and Ancient Story from 2015-09-09T00:00
A conversation between Charles and Amy Lansky, a computer scientist and NASA researcher who was propelled down the road less traveled through her son's autism and its subsequent "impossible" cure. ...
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Changing the Story with Kindness (E01) - A New and Ancient Story from 2015-09-06T18:18:29
This is a podcast featuring a discussion between Charles Eisenstein and Nipun Mehta, the founder of Service Space, on kindness and generosity, non-monetary wealth, and how even small, simple acts o...
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Of Grief and Reverence (E04) - A New and Ancient Story from 2015-08-04T00:00
Charles talks with Francis Weller about grief as a gateway to joy, to reverence, and to community, and the power of public grief to bring healing on a personal, community, and political level.
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Reconnecting to the Strength We Have: Maria Scordialos (E00) A New and Ancient Story from 2015-07-03T22:25:38
This is a conversation with Maria Scordialos, an activist in Greece. We talk about the referendum, the solidarity economy, the role of fear in politics, the economics and politics of debt, and the ...
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