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1 month ago | 
lessfoolish.substack.com | Peter Limberg |Paul Kingsnorth |Charles Eisenstein |Jasun Horsley
There are some people you should read if you're interested in the spiritual dangers emerging with AI and what some call “The Machine”—a self-perpetuating force, socially framed as technological progress, that has a “direction of travel” toward replacing nature with technology, eliminating tradition, and ushering in a post-human world. The best place to start is ’s excellent series on The Machine, soon to become a book.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
lewrockwell.com | Charles Eisenstein
Three years ago, I published an essay entitled “The True Story of the Sith.” Most people seemed to think it was a ‘spiritual essay, about shadow work and that kind of thing, but it was actually a political piece, almost an allegory. Yesterday, as I was working on an article on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s alliance with Donald Trump, I revisited the Sith piece and realized that its allegorical interpretation is more obvious and more relevant today than ever.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
charleseisenstein.substack.com | Charles Eisenstein
I finally have come up with a business idea that is sure to make me rich. Me, and anyone else who would like to invest their kid’s college savings or their grocery money in my venture. The idea is: a typewriter factory!Now I know what you are thinking. Since practically every document now is electronic, typewriters are obsolete. Most of us hardly ever print documents, let alone typewrite them. So let me explain the origin of this idea.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
lewrockwell.com | Charles Eisenstein
I just watched a horrifying video of eyewitnesses to a massacre. Please keep reading my friends. Please keep reading before you know which “side” committed the massacre. Please keep reading even if the event feeds a narrative that is inconvenient to your opinions. Please keep reading even if you want to shut such horrors out of your awareness. I promise I will take this to a place where something on the other side of horror is visible. I first read about the massacre here.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
filmsforaction.org | Charles Eisenstein
In September 2001, in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks, people gathered by the thousands across the country of Iran in spontaneous demonstrations and candlelight vigils to show support for America in its hour of grief. At one football match in Tehran, sixty thousand football fans held a minute of silence in sympathy for the 9/11 victims. Were these demonstrations a form of protest against the country’s rabidly anti-American leadership? No. The leadership shared the sentiments of the masses.
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Jan 15, 2024 | 
kosmosjournal.org | Dougald Hine |Geneen Marie Haugen |Tam Hunt |Charles Eisenstein
Dear Reader,If, like me, you feel increasingly bewildered by behavior in the world that favors hatred and greed over healing and love, I think you will appreciate this collection. Please enjoy our five most-read articles of the year along with four videos by friends in the Kosmos ecosystem. Together, I feel they capture the tone and central concerns of our time.
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Dec 29, 2023 | 
charleseisenstein.substack.com | Charles Eisenstein
In September 2001, in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks, people gathered by the thousands across the country of Iran in spontaneous demonstrations and candlelight vigils to show support for America in its hour of grief. At one football match in Tehran, sixty thousand football fans held a minute of silence in sympathy for the 9/11 victims. Were these demonstrations a form of protest against the country’s rabidly anti-American leadership? No. The leadership shared the sentiments of the masses.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
childrenshealthdefense.org | Charles Eisenstein
Miss a day, miss a lot. Subscribe to The Defender's Top News of the Day. It's free. Just as no organ of the human body can function if it is cut off from the other organs, so also does the vital organ of earth we call the Amazon depend on surrounding ecosystems. One of these critical relationships is with the Andes mountains. Animals (and over a longer timescale, plants) migrate up and down the slopes of the Andes into the rainforest depending on climatic conditions.
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Nov 20, 2023 | 
filmsforaction.org | Charles Eisenstein
I just heard someone say, “One war crime does not justify another.” My reflex as a peace advocate is to agree with that statement, but something gives me pause. It starts with a grammatical issue but it doesn’t end there. The only beings on earth that perform the act of justifying are human beings. “War crimes” do not perform that act. What the statement intends to say is something like, “One cannot legitimately use one war crime to justify another.” But what is this “legitimate”?
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Nov 20, 2023 | 
lewrockwell.com | Charles Eisenstein
I just heard someone say, “One war crime does not justify another.” My reflex as a peace advocate is to agree with that statement, but something gives me pause. It starts with a grammatical issue but it doesn’t end there. The only beings on earth that perform the act of justifying are human beings. “War crimes” do not perform that act. What the statement intends to say is something like, “One cannot legitimately use one war crime to justify another.” But what is this “legitimate”?
