Science has a surprising number of elements in common with religion. So, then, is science a religion?

From Charles' presentation at the Science & Nonduality conference. Watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otyt-Moj-5g

I'm not even sure if I do a very good job of listening to my inner guidance. Sometimes I find myself by chance in just the right situation despite my efforts to avoid it.

From the course Unlearning: For Change Agents, offered in the spirit of the gift at CharlesEisenstein.org/unlearning

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One of the technological myths of our time is that industrial agriculture, the regime of fertilizers and herbicides and insecticides, called the green revolution, has enabled us to feed a hungry planet.

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I hesitate to go too much into data about how much carbon can be stored through regenerative practices, etc. These numbers can be helpful to give permission to the inner bean counter that wants to do these things anyway.

From Charles' presentation at New Frontiers in New Zealand. Watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHlnAH-vHzg

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The dominant narrative that I'm hearing today, again and again, is that we have to change or we're not going to survive. We've already overshot the ability of the Earth's ecosystems to support human civilization.

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Humanity is entering an ordeal that will enable us to move to a new and ancient relationship to the planet. New Zealand is taking steps to lead the way.

From Charles' presentation at New Frontiers in New Zealand. Watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHlnAH-vHzg

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I use the phrase the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible because our minds think it's impossible.

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I talked before about the sadness I and my wife Stella felt upon looking at the narrow river estuary and the places where there used to be so much life, and it's not there anymore. And our sadness was not because we made some kind of mental calculation that that location no longer sequesters as much carbon, and therefore our future is going to be a little bit more in peril.

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Charles talks about what asking the question "What's it like to be you?" can do to help dissolve a polarized situation.

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There's recently a proposal by the United Nations to basically slow down the development of geoengineering, which was blocked by the United States and Saudi Arabia becasue actually, petrochemical companies, they support geoengineering. They're fine with climate change accepted.

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