What Is It Like To Be You? | Charles Eisenstein

[@CrackingTheNutshell]

Thank you so much Chris and Dawn for putting this together. And thank you Charles for always being such a wonderful source of inspiration. Currently reading the More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible, which I recommend to anybody who feels touched by this video and wants to know more. One of the most inspiring books I have read in a long time!

[@jamielconlon7035]

It really is and the world rejoices with these precious gifts humanity has waited so long for this. All this inspiration, love and care creates a sense of wonder and hope for our beautiful future waiting beyond that rainbow in our smiles. We are here for this to happen, to learn and grow. It is time........

[@nadinelafrance5499]

Thank you for your gift I so do treasure it. I do see a world with all the people at peace filled with unconditional love. Then every one eats and is sheltered in their homes. I see a world without borders because we are one people and we all live in the same home called Earth.

[@ckanoria]

You guys are contributing to making this world a better place... Keep up the good work 🤗

[@alohaoliwa]

Made me cry thank you. Beautiful and inspiring! And USEFUL

[@simoneb7900]

Beautiful, moving, touching, and so true....

[@Daniel-pr4uk]

Indeed. very touching, and goes right to the heart of it.

[@Daniel-pr4uk]

"It's almost like we don't know how to be in the absence of an enemy, in the absence of something to blame"

[@dsTinyCat780]

BEAUTIFUL!

[@brianlinville439]

A wise philosopher once said , left ? right? 2 sides of the same coin, 2 wings of the same bird. At some point we gotta quit hating ourselves and become Love.

[@zackandrew5066]

Wonderful video

[@scott3816]

war is good for business it will never end unfortunately in this world

[@waynelewis425]

Ultimately, to break the cycle we must recognize the indo-European cultural biases and cosmology that have been evolving since the rise of agriculture...the narrative of separation from nature ( the original enemy) , nature as a machine that can be analyzed by by vivisection, the selfish gene...etc. This cosmology leads to a mentality of domination and control that must always have a simple enemy to be overcome. These cultural biases (sense making heuristics) have been evolving and becoming ever more complex since the rise of chemotaxis in bacteria, and are part of our highly evolved self regulatory apparatus ( see the work of Katherine Piel Kauffman) and as such, are notoriously difficult to reason our way past. But see past our unconscious biases we must nevertheless if we are to extract ourselves from the fast train to extinction we are currently passengers on.

[@ujean56]

So make hate the enemy?

[@simoneb7900]

Whose music is it?

[@SustainableHuman]

Thank you. I forgot to initially include the music in the credits. It is: "Everybody's Got Problems That Aren't Mine" ~ Chris Zabriskie (chriszabriskie.com/thoughtless/)

[@brianlinville439]

You make some great points. THe only way to get people out of harmful ideologies? it aint war. Its educating them past it, and you are doing just that sir! Namaste.

[@nickiemcnichols5397]

I watch democracy now often, and I don't see it as left wingish at all. The show tells just the facts about events all over that other news programs ignore or have forgotten. The hosts don't express opinion.

[@vaughnmontgomery6655]

i felt the same for a long time, but zooming out & tuning into other perspectives i've come to feel that the coverage is very much left leaning. not that that is good or bad, but just is. they are certainly closer to an unbiased source than most.

[@erik-janvanoosten1450]

how are the huff and CNN left-wing? I consider them centrist at best. From Democracy Now onwards I think we can speak of left media outlets.

[@SustainableHuman]

I would say that Democracy Now is more to the radical side of left, but left in the US has shifted far to the right as we have become immersed in the story of neoliberalism.

[@ileanakatzenelson9753]

We need more people with the willingness to engage in a dialogue that is open and shows empathy for the other. We haven't been talking like this in a while...

[@PatrickHogan]

Miserable. Oh, sorry, there's a video attached to the question, I'll watch.

[@jamescolpas]

There is no such thing as evil. Only unconsciousness when will you become conscious we will see how beautiful we truly are

[@packardsonic]

Thanks

[@tneighbors]

Hi I'm creating an art video with a very similar message and I'm wondering if I can use the street violence footage at 1:20 in this video in my video. Who was it that shot this footage? I'm of course happy to credit the source. Thanks for any help with this!

[@lathapauline1063]

the powerful have been time and again dominated over the weak and helpless. pathetic indeed

[@proudhavenot]

Beautiful. There are so many different versions of war that this covers

[@FruitFanatic33]

☮

[@klara7353]

The idea of acceptance instead of blaming is in theory a good one but he didn't say much about applying it in real life.

[@Daniel-pr4uk]

The application of it is asking (whoever you consider to be an enemy or a bad person, or even just a stranger or a friend or family)- what is it like to be you? To really look through their eyes, to really walk in their shoes, to really see all they have been through in life that has lead to this action/word. But to ask it not just as a nice idea, as a mental strategy, but to really slow down, feel the sensations in the body, be aware of the breath, connect with our truth and go deeper, into the heart, and look from there, ask this question from there. I think there is no better way to open up, to love and to realize our shared humanity.

[@gmonorail]

tolerate not the intolerant