A New and Ancient Story: The Podcast

A New and Ancient Story: The Podcast episodes:

• 05.17.2023

  Why we care: Charles Eisenstein in conversation with RFK, Jr.

  Description: Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. shares stories of his childhood, his family, the origins of his environmental activism, and the spiritual beliefs that keep him sane. The campaign website is https://www.kennedy24.com/.

  
• 02.14.2022

  Swaady Martin: Fugitivity to Interconnection (E61)

  Swaady Martin is the daughter of a militant Black Panther who fled to Africa. She grew up in the Ivory Coast and ended up pursuing an elite education and corporate career, yet remains at heart and in spirit a revolutionary. We covered many...

  
• 11.01.2021

  CJ Hopkins: The New Totalitarianism (E60)

  Playwright, satirist, and political commentator CJ Hopkins, creator of the website Consent Factory, joins me for a conversation on totalitarianism, safety, and the ideology of control. We go a little beyond his political writings on these topics to talk about...

  
• 09.30.2021

  Nathan Riley: Birth and Death (E59)

  Nathan Riley is a medical doctor trained in OB/GYN and palliative care. In this episode, birth and death, we talk about the role of medicine in society, what is has been and could be, its beauty and limitations, working in the system...

  
• 08.07.2021

  Daniel Raphael: The Wizard's Path (E58)

  People call Daniel Raphael a "wizard," for reasons that may become apparent in this interview. He weaves an inspiring life story with his work with the body, subtle energies, and spiritual teachings. We touch on topics of perception and reality,...

  
• 07.01.2021

  Anna Breytenbach: Interspecies Communication (E57)

  Anna Breytenbach is one of the world's best known interspecies communicators, subject of the film The Animal Communicator ( https://youtu.be/gvwHHMEDdT0). In this conversation we touch on a couple of her stories before zooming out larger themes such as: the living...

  
• 04.24.2021

  Devorah Brous: Burnout and Renewal (E56)

  Here I speak with a woman who, in her younger days, put 110% of her time and life energy into a cause, in this case, Palestinian rights (Devorah is Jewish). Her story will resonate with many current and former activists,...

  
• 03.16.2021

  Yolanda Charles: Trusting Life (E55)

  British bass guitarist Yolanda Charles carries some powerful stories about trust, luck, mentorship, motherhood, and music. She shares some of them in our far-reaching conversation on these and other topics. Why does luck sometimes happen in life? Are some people born...

  
• 12.18.2020

  Galina Angarova: Cultural Survival (E53)

  Galina Angaraova is an indigenous rights activists and the Executive Director of the nonprofit Cultural Survival. Her stories from her native indigenous village in Siberia illuminate vividly and poignantly the topics we visit, such as gift culture in indigenous societies, the tragedy...

  
• 12.09.2020

  Fritzi Horstman: Step Inside the Circle (E52)

  Welcome to this moving conversation with prison activist and filmmaker Fritzi Horstman, in which we discuss her powerful short film Step Inside the Circle. Please watch it first. We talk about prisons, trauma, healing, and the bankruptcy of the punishment...

  
• 09.22.2020

  Mellody Hayes: Roots of Healing (E51)

  This was a delightful conversation. We hadn't intended to talk about race, but I'm glad we did, because Mellody shared some unique, unorthodox insights worthy of considering in our troubled times. The conversation ranged into the territory of psychedelic therapy,...

  
• 08.29.2020

  Dr. Edith Ubuntu Chan: A Trillion Points of Light (E50)

  Dr. Edith Ubuntu Chan has an unusual background -- studied mathematics at Harvard, became a Doctor of Oriental Medicine... Actually, nothing I could say about her can do justice to the stories she carries: about the soul's journey, the nature...

  
• 07.28.2020

  Dr. Zach Bush: Life is a Community (E49)

  Here I talk with Zach Bush, MD, a doctor with a background in endocrinology who "went holistic" and turned toward gut/brain health, the microbiome, and soil science. Our conversation covered a lot of ground: evolution, the importance of biological diversity...

  
• 07.07.2020

  Alnoor Ladha: Oppression, Interconnection, Healing (E48)

  This rich dialog treats the evolution of activism beyond us-versus-them thinking, with special reference to current events around race, the indigenous, and the Amazon rainforest. Alnoor Ladha’s work focuses on the intersection of political organizing, systems thinking and narrative work. He...

  
• 04.27.2020

  Vivian Dittmar: Befriending Fear (E47)

  Vivian Dittmar is a teacher, speaker, and writer, author of the book The Power of Feelings. In this conversation we talk about the collective global field of uncertainty, the dynamics of birth and death, and the opportunity that Covid offers...

  
• 04.04.2020

  Farmer Rishi: The Gift Circle of Life (E46)

  Rishi Kumar(https://farmerrishi.com), a former software engineer, is a gardening evangelist who uses gardening for personal, social, and ecological healing. We talk a lot about regeneration: how it is not just a set of techniques, but an orientation, a way of...

  
• 03.11.2020

  Sayer Ji: Beyond the Coronavirus (E45)

  Sayer Ji is a prominent holistic health researcher and the founder of one of the largest alternative health websites, greenmedinfo.com. We talk first and foremost about the coronavirus and the multiple fear narratives surrounding it, then venture into some other...

  
• 02.19.2020

  Luz Gonçalves Brito: Spirituality is the Search for Connection (E44)

  Luz Gonçalves Brito is a Brazilian anthropologist who brings academics and spirituality together in an exquisite way. Our conversation was like a meditation, touching on the inseparability of the spiritual from the ecological and political. For example: ecology, like spirituality,...

  
• 12.18.2019

  Julie Esterly: Mystery of Life, Death, and Earth (E43)

  Julie Esterly is active in the death care movement, part of the reclamation of death as a culturally recognized part of life. We speak of our culture's death rituals, the necessity of realizing death in order to fully realize life,...

  
• 12.18.2019

  Julie Esterly: Mystery of Life, Death, and Earth (E43)

  Julie Esterly is active in the death care movement, part of the reclamation of death as a culturally recognized part of life. We speak of our culture's death rituals, the necessity of realizing death in order to fully realize life,...

  
• 11.05.2019

  Gigi Coyle: What is Mine to Do? - Part 2 (E42)

  Part Two of my conversation with Gigi Coyle explores the process of transforming pain and turmoil that is intensely reflecting back to us from the world (natural disasters, forest fires, potlics, etc..). How do we find the gifts hidden in...

  
• 11.05.2019

  Gigi Coyle: What is Mine to Do? - Part 1 (E42)

  What is mine to do? This is the mantra of Gigi Coyle, a revered veteran of social, political, and spiritual movements going back to the 1970s. Gigi was instrumental in the founding of the Ojai Foundation, Youth Passageways, Beyond Boundaries,...

  
• 10.16.2019

  Zack Geist: Dispelling the Mystery of Debt (E41)

  This conversation with Zack Geist addresses the phenomenon of debt, both from a theoretical standpoint and in very practical terms (at least for US listeners). Zack operates a business that liberates people from student loans and other debt. We discuss...

  
• 10.07.2019

  Robin McKenna: GIFT(E40)

  In this conversation, filmmaker Robin McKenna and I discuss her new film, GIFT, which is inspired by Lewis Hyde's classic book, The Gift. I consider Hyde to be an elder of an intellectual/spiritual lineage that has also informed a lot...

  
• 09.17.2019

  Kelly Brogan: Get Real, Get Well, Get Free (E39)

  I describe Kelly Brogan as a “renegade psychiatrist” – someone who abandoned a prestigious career “in the system” to become a critic of pharmaceutical psychiatry and an advocate for holistic therapy. She is also a dear friend and ally whom...

  
• 08.16.2019

  Cynthia Jurs: On Synchronicity and Sacrifice (E38)

  This conversation with my good friend Cynthia Jurs was originally recorded for my online course, Living in the Gift. It was a meditative, engaging experience with synchronicities that showed up to support the flow of our stories and connection with...

  
• 07.18.2019

  Lynne Twist: A Conversation About Living in the Gift (E37)

  Lynne Twist is the author of The Soul of Money and co-founder of the Pachamama Alliance. This conversation weaves together various themes explored in my online course, Living in the Gift: https://charleseisenstein.org/gift

  
• 06.14.2019

  Helena Norberg-Hodge: Local is the Future (E36)

  Helena Norberg-Hodge is a revered elder in the movement seeking alternatives to the present course of economic globalism and cultural homogenization. Her film on Ladakh, Ancient Futures, was a major influence on my work. Here we talk about what is...

  
• 04.03.2019

  Brian Swimme: The Cosmos Watching Itself (E35)

  Brian Swimme is a mathematical cosmologist and philosopher. We went really deep in this conversation: the limits of human knowledge, cosmic evolution, science as a road to the sacred, and other speculations. I loved this fun, humorous, and mind-stretching conversation,...

  
• 03.21.2019

  Daniel Schmachtenberger: Self-terminating Civilization (E34)

  Daniel Schmactenberger is a brilliant and innovative social philosopher and founding member of the Consilience Project. Here he outlines some of the foundations of his worldview as we discuss exponential tech, self-terminating social and technological processes, the future of humanity,...

  
• 01.22.2019

  Brock Dolman: Eco-spiritual Connections(E33)

  Brock Dolman is the founder of Occidental Arts & Ecology in Northern California, one of the first permaculture education centers in North America. In this conversation Brock displays a tiny fraction of his savant-level knowledge of ecology, water, soil, trees,...

  
• 10.30.2018

  Philip Munyasia: Social & Ecological Healing (E32)

  Philip Munyasia is the founder of Otepic, a permaculture/ ecovillage project in Kenya that brings youth from the slums to the land for social and ecological healing. You will Philip's courage, vision, and insight as they shine through in this...

  
• 10.10.2018

  Orland Bishop - Part 3 (E31)

  Orland Bishop is in my eyes a treasure on this earth. In this conversation we talk about the cosmological and geological dimensions of the current evolution of culture and consciousness, along with other topics. Please do avail yourself of the...

  
• 08.17.2018

  Judith Schwartz: Ecological Healing with Water (E30)

  Judith Schwartz is the author of several books, most recently "Water in Plain Sight." She is a leading advocate of what is coming to be known as "rain for climate" -- a shift in emphasis toward water as the most...

  
• 07.11.2018

  Laura Delano: Sanity in an Insane World (E28)

  This conversation explores the contentious subject of the mental health system, through the story of patient advocate Laura Delano. Her journey into being institutionalized and recovering sovereignty over her mind and body has larger significance in our society. Her organization,...

  
• 05.20.2018

  Orland Bishop - Part 2 (E27)

  Part 2 of Charles' conversation with Orland Bishop.

  
• 05.18.2018

  Orland Bishop Part 1 (E26)

  Charles Eisenstein in conversation with Orland Bishop

  
• 03.27.2018

  Journey to the Inner Throne (E25)

  Eivind Skjellum is the creator of Reclaim your Inner Throne, a training program for men. In this conversation we talk about masculine and feminine archetypes, leadership, elderhood, and stories of transformation in this time when the old story of what...

  
• 03.20.2018

  Land Healing through Young Farmers (E24)

  Severine von Tscharner Fleming is a kind of farming savant and a super-dynamic agent of the revolution in agriculture reuniting us with soil, water, and life. She is the founder of the Agrarian Trust, which connects young farmers with land...

  
• 02.28.2018

  Gigi Coyle (E23)

  This conversation with the amazing Gigi Coyle was recorded with a small live audience on a houseboat, where Gigi was recovering from knee surgery. Gigi is a source of valuable wisdom for activists and change agents today; a veteran of...

  
• 08.23.2017

  Joanna Harcourt-Smith (E22)

  In this episode, Charles talks with author, podcaster, and life-long seeker Joanna Harcourt-Smith.

  
• 04.17.2017

  Helena Norberg-Hodge (E21)

  This is a conversation with the political thinker and activist Helena Norberg-Hodge. She had a huge radicalizing influence on my political thinking through her film Ancient Futures. By "radical" I don't mean the usual leftist politics. Helena is a tireless...

  
• 04.06.2017

  An Evening with Satish Kumar (E20)- A New and Ancient Story

  Satish Kumar is, in the truest sense of the word, an elder in the peace and ecology movement. To me personally, he is one of those deep allies who confirms that the most radical ideas I work with are not...

  
• 03.01.2017

  A Conversation with Martin Shaw (E19)

  Martin Shaw is a mythologist and storyteller from the area of Devon, England. He and I share a deep appreciation for the way myth and story shape the world. Martin starts our conversation with a story about Fox Woman Dreaming...

  
• 02.07.2017

  Orland Bishop: Word, Gift, and Money (E18) - A New and Ancient Story

  This podcast is a public conversation between me and Orland Bishop, recorded in Santos, Brazil. Even though the audio quality isn't perfect, I want to release this recording anyway in hopes of transmitting to you some of what Orland has...

  
• 12.13.2016

  Kelly Brogan: Restoring Blunted Consciousness (E17)- A New and Ancient Story

  Kelly Brogan is a psychiatrist who made a radical break with pharma-centered orthodoxy to pursue holistic approaches to mental health, with extraordinary results. We recorded a conversation that started with psychiatric drugs and visited many perennial topics: working inside versus...

  
• 11.10.2016

  In Conversation with Rupert Sheldrake (E16)- A New and Ancient Story

  This podcast is a recording of a second conversation between me and Rupert Sheldrake, one of my favorite renegade scientists and the number one target of the defenders of scientific orthodoxy. He hardly needs any introduction, but I'll say he...

  
• 10.07.2016

  St.JamesTalk

  St.JamesTalk by Charles Eisenstein

  
• 10.07.2016

  The Fertile Ground of Bewilderment (E15) - St. James Church, London - A New and Ancient Story

  The Fertile Ground of Bewilderment was the title of a speech I gave at St. James Church in London. I'm sharing it with you all because it was such a high-energy event and I ventured into territory I haven't brought...

  
• 06.23.2016

  Marietta Schürholz: Reinventing Ritual: (E14)A New and Ancient Story

  This interview with the filmmaker Marietta Schürholz is on ritual -- a topic about which I've thought a lot and written very little. We tend to think rituals are vestiges of an earlier, more superstitious time, or perhaps elements of...