Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein - A Short Film

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1. we shall manifest a abundance based economy!
2. My heart beats with yours.
3. upvote for minimal income
4. It appears that the writer of the narrative had some exposure to the native North American culture, as outside the Mississippian slave-takers, most tribal cultures perceived that trading goods was essentially mutual gift-giving, and established a bond of relationship (not in its present sense of mere interaction, but of actual familial relationship).
   This is the natural bonding in our brains, and the source of gratitude, which is not divorced from the emotion we name as love.
   
   Shocked by the deadly urban images in this film, I come fromm a far more inclusive rural environment. The film and its focus on dissociated admiration or environment is a rpduct of the extreme gulf between morden humans (and of any previous human society in any habitat saturated enough to cause anonymity and failure to recognizes something basic to our and all other animals' nature:
   The universe individuates.
   
   Some species or individual is sacred because it is itself, vulnerable and mortal. All our emotional responses stem from this individuation.
   We cannot profess to "love" nature" or imaginary spirits or gods, but only that individual or group of varying individuals making up the community we perceive through our senses.
   Community is a word defined in ecology as ALL living organisms in qn ecosystem. I mean the word always in this sense, as exclusion to only humans is not substantially different that the false economic exteriorization alluded to in the film.
   
   A few weeks ago, I transplanted two Sitka Spruces trying to reclaim their rightful forest, which is cut out constantly by humans to create domestic gardens or entombing through cementing over , to facilitate artificial aesthetics somehow become aberrant from nature.
   While doing so, I was rushed by the elder woman "owning" the property, and took the straightest seedling too quickly without enough of its root-covering soil, which science only recently found to NECESSARILY contain commensal or symbiotic fungi.
   I replanted these wild natives, and now find one to have died, the healthy straight one I had hoped would penetrate the canopy of introduced alien hardwood species here in a yard which still holds some redwoods and another important successional species or two, only two blocks distant from the wild forest ravaged by 160 years of logging. I still know the resident bear, and from time to time follow traces of her offspring, dispossessed by the constant termite-like "development" of increasing human populations.
   I know her as an individual, and since she first vocalized her distress, she began also to recognize me, slipping silently away for at least four generations of her offspring's lives, teaching them that the best practice with humans was avoidance. I constantly worry that her offspring will be killed, as I both found traces of their death, and heard the bragging of urban types who have moved here, about gunning down two at a time.
   
   This comment was stimulated by the domestic indoor ferns behind the narrator, which parallel the ferns I have brushed by the thousands in the untracked (by humans) wild riparian and cloud-rainforests extending for most of the length of the US and Canadian Pacific coasts.
   I had to chime in, as I understand well that one cannot truly love and treasure a forest without loving a single tree, or bears without sharing their huckleberries, the land without greeting the familiar deer who you know by their individual antlers of the year or slight coloring variations.
   THIS is where industrial and even agriculturalist societies have become dissociated from their own lives and the life around them.
   
   You still, like the isolated child in the film, CAN restore relationship within your mind, merely by spending a little time recognizing that that insect, that blade of grass, that raven, is an individual, just like yourself. You cannot fully experience until you do, you cannot treasure and love any other completely unless you recognize that they are ultimately individual, bound to others by relationship of cells and trading of carbon and oxygen.
   Spirit and breath in all languages I have found, have entirely to do with that trade, that oxygen for CO2 and its reverse, that melting of one following its life, into others. This is also the basis for familiarity, feeling a part of the land, water coming and going through oneself as it does through all others, becoming someone else, just as it became you for a while.
   
   This is never seen in urban environments, this intimacy, this source of all love, religious ideas, prayers.
   Our neurons are perhaps the most persistent of our cells, retaining our senses and sense of self. Identity, persistence throughout a lifespan normal to the species, and change, are the visible motivations of life. Symbolic representations must never be so complex that they hide the basic functioning of our constant communications through senses, neurons, cells, all reporting that we are exchanging the components of our life with others - in that way they are recognizably ourselves, if only for a breath; this also means that we are part of them, in their inviolate individuality, as precious as our own.
5. how can you measure when "too much" is too much?
6. Amen. Thank you Charles...That was truly a gift. My turn now...
7. Wow Sacred Economics, super interesting. This short film speaks to my soul!! I truly believe that this current generation is more awake than ever so hopefully we can turn this nightmare back around
8. A gift economy would advance our civilization at lightning speeds. Incentives will be placed on the objectives that benefit the greater good. The positive ripple effects of this are MONUMENTAL. It will surely happen in our lifetime.That's if we don't blow the planet up before it happens.
9. WOW! I am thankful to Facebook memories, that brought me back here.. Profound.. and one of the hardest things for us to do.. given, as he says, we've been encultured into separation. We can say 'we are all one' but acting as if..WOW! That's a journey for us all.. tiny step by tiny step
10. Thank you Charles for your insights and deeply thought provoking questioning into a powerful topic "money". I am aligned for the greater part with what you say, and feel that humanity must evolve past a defunct scarcity based traditional monetary system. I am doing all I can to teach people how to re-orient their relationship with money in a more conscious and life affirmative way.
11. Hola no pueden traducir el video al Español, por favor
12. Great short film. Karl Marx said it all already, I guess you read Das Kapital ?
13. Am I asking now WHY this video is not viral? WHY???
14. I swear I need to watch this about once a month just to re-center myself.
15. FUCK YEA!!!!!
16. The loving, grace filled perspective is a balm to my soul. Thank you.
17. la traduction en français comporte un ENORME contresens.. quand il dit "we did not earned" our life,the air etc, il ne veut pas dire "nous n'avons pas mérité" mais nous n'avons pas travaillé pour obtenir notre vie, l'air que nous respirons etc, nous l'avons eue gratuitement, c'est un don, et bien sûr il n'est pas question de 'mérite" comme si nous en étions indignes.. merci de corriger les sous titres à la minute 5:24 et suivantes.. sinon je partage totalement ces idées que j'ai également reçues d'un être d'un autre plan de conscience en pleine lumière.
18. Thanks for gifting us Charles, with your insights. Reinspired each time I watch this.
19. Damn, this was good.
20. Let´s go dream!!! some day, we will wake up in our Dreams! Namasté