Charles Eisenstein is a writer, speaker, and the author of several books including The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible.
Topics discussed in this episode …
- Whether psychedelics have the capacity to heal us, awaken us, and bring us to our truth
- Knowing our “YES” and “NO” as core to our embodiment and presence
- Questioning the mentality that distinguishes between the recreational and sacramental use of psychedelics
- Profound experiences both Michaela and Charles have had with the psychedelic, iboga
- How psychedelics have informed Charles’ parenting
- Family patterning and how it comes up in coded forms that we unconsciously pass on to our children
- How psychedelics can help us see and transform our inherited programming
- The impatience with superficiality Charles feels based on the awareness of other dimensions psychedelics have given him
- How the personal dramas of both children and adults are part of the becoming of the soul
- How we have been living a story of separation that inhabits each person in a unique way
- The earth as conscious and alive
- The split in the psychedelic community around the dominant narratives in relation to the coronavirus
- If our prayers for peace are to be powerful, they have to be consistent with our actions
- If we really want peace, we need to become a champion of peace and hold each other sacred
- Being inoculated from the despair triggered by the news by living in closer connection with nature
- What it means to take “refuge in incompetence”
- How psychedelics are just beginning to make inroads into our culture and are an intervention we need
- The love and camaraderie we can feel with fellow explorers on this path
Charles Eisenstein’s Links
- Website: https://charleseisenstein.org
- Book: The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible
- Short Film: And the Music Played the Band