The More Beautiful World

An old friend I haven’t seen for years has started a video blog where he and a partner are doing a collaborative discussion of The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible, by Charles Eisenstein. 

I watched their Introductory video and read the first four (short) chapters of the book. They invited participants to comment on their personal reactions to the material. Here’s the comment I submitted to the web page:

I’ve been stuck in my blog because I have defined the theme as inquiring into “what is the shift in the global planetary consciousness that will be necessary for the self-healing of the earth?” I had developed a table some years ago of various answers found in books I had been drawn to read.I read the first 4 chapters of “More Beautiful World” yesterday. The shift from the Separation story to the Interbeing or Reunion story is a perfect fit, and in fact an underpinning, for the contrast that has been forming up.

Reading the beginning of the book I realize it is time for me to move from asking WHAT IS the change to looking at WHY the change is so difficult for the Earth Community to make. One dimension that Charles provides a lot of insight into is the pervasiveness of the psychological resistance to the new story (not excluding my own resistance). Global consciousness change is far from a single-factor issue. The tipping point to collective critical mass is something I still hope to see in my lifetime. Dialogs like this are part of the work that make it possible. Thank you for hosting. I look forward to participating.
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It’s been almost a year since my post about starting to read Jung. I’m still slogging through the Red Book and a whole lot of support and background material about him. Based on that and my as usual far-flung reading, this is the only note I’ve made directly related to this blog:
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Possible next blog post: mention of Jung in Dream of the Earth essay, Pope’s Encyclical and Integral Ecology. David Graeber, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Jeremy Rifkin, David Korten, David DeGraw, Meg Wheatley.

I’m swimming in the opinions of others. That’s why I’m glad Scott and Jeremy’s project got me excited enough to break the silence.