Charles Eisenstein: The Gift (1 of 5)

Charles Eisenstein on the bigger human picture behind the current economic turmoil, at the OffPicnic gettogether September 24 2009 in Amsterdam. See ascentofhumanity.com and offpicnic.net for more.

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Education

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• economy
• philosophy

[lawrencturner]

The current world monetary system does not fulfill human needs.

We have been warned throughout history by the prophets that if we consider the means to facilitate trade in goods and services as the most important thing in our lives we will lose the capacity for cooperation which originally built civilization.

"No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money." - Jesus

[zerlic]

Sounds like Topher Grace from That 70's Show

[slickmick777]

@ToYouWhoHaveEars1

how ironic you were gifted this link. contemplate that for 5 mins.

[BILLJASONOMARA]

agreed

[ToYouWhoHaveEars1]

This video was forwarded to me by a friend. My gift to you is to advise against investing 50 minutes of your beautiful life in watching this video. (I made it only half way into the second video) Charles' message is too dilute to be worth drinking. Bromides and platitudes, errors of omission and commission galore! The words "boring, lukewarm, tedious" come to mind. Pseudo-wisdom a la Derek Janzen. Five minutes of contemplation>50minutes of Eisenstein.

[flotron9]

lawrenc--good point. Who is this Eisenstein guy? He seems deep.

[givebirthathome]

In the Islamic community, there's a saying of the Prophet something like, "the only things you can keep are the one's you give." Sound paradoxical, but if you think about it, we can't keep anything. All we can really keep is who we are and what we did. If we haven't reached the insight and healing we need to remember gratitude, and to

be able to love, the fear of not having enough reaches such a pitch we don't even give to ourselves...