Sacred Economics: Money, Gifts, and Society in the Age of Transition with Charles Eisenstein

Join us Thursday, June 26th, at 2PM-Central for an Awakening Zone presentation of The Sandie Sedgbeer Show: Conversation at the Cutting Edge when Sandie's guests will be Charles Eisenstein and Alison Chester Lambert.

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Alison Chester Lambert

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Sacred Economics: Money, Gifts, and Society in the Age of Transition with Charles Eisenstein

Charles Eisenstein

It is often said that, “money is the root of all evil.” According to speaker and author, Charles Eisenstein, Money was never meant to be what it has become today.  In his book, Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition, Eisenstein traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme, but in the wake of their collapse, Eisenstein says, we may find great opportunity to transition to a more connected, ecological, and sustainable way of being.

In this episode, Sandie and Charles Eisenstein discuss:

*The history and corruption of “money”

*How our money system will have to change—and is already changing—to embody this transition.

*The New Economics—negative-interest currencies, local currencies, resource-based economics, gift economies, and the restoration of the commons

*How those concerned with “right livelihood” can live according to their ideals in a world seemingly ruled by money

*What you can do to help create a new vision for a new future and make the world a better place

CHARLES EISENSTEIN is a speaker and writer focusing on themes of civilization, consciousness, money, and human cultural evolution. His viral short films and essays online have established him as a genre-defying social philosopher and countercultural intellectual. Eisenstein graduated from Yale University in 1989 with a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy and spent the next ten years as a Chinese–English translator. A resident of Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, Charles Eisenstein’s books include Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition; The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible (Sacred Activism); The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self; and The Yoga of Eating: Transcending Diets and Dogma to Nourish the Natural Self

http://www.charleseisenstein.net/

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