Awesome Charles. We absolutely need to reflect on what we all just went through. For those who are interested, here is a video we made based on the text from "The Coronation" essay.
Charles Eisenstein narrates! It plays like he writes; hearing his voice, for some reason, makes me want to weep tears of pent-up pain and longing, the same as when I read his writings. Watching "The Pandemic is a Prism" with Charles and Paul Kingsnorth, and hosted by Ian MacKenzie, gave me another opportunity to gaze into Charles' interior thinking where there is such an abundance of hope and love and wisdom that one cannot emerge unchanged from the experience.
I kept thinking the next thing in this video would be, "You will own nothing, and you will be happy." Isn't this how the Great Reset will be sold to us? "To be a caring individual, you must give up all your freedoms."
When I think about what makes me happy, it is surely not owning things that comes to mind. If I am privileged enough to go on vacation, I do not own the hotel I stay at or any of the places I visit. Yet I am happy. The truth is pleasure does not come from owning things. It comes from the ability to access the things when I need them.
IMO, the Great Reset is nothing more than a scare tool to get the early adopters to be fearful of changing the system. The elites are already in control of this system, they already own most of everything. The last thing they want is some kind of reset. But if they can make those most willing to want change to become fearful of change, then the Great Reset has served its purpose.
I disagree that happiness comes from accessing things. It has always and always will come from within. I also disagree with the Great Reset causing “fear of change.” It’s about power, specifically the power to shift the burden and blame for saving the planet away from those most responsible for the planet’s destruction. By diverting everyone’s gaze away from the corruption of both our leaders and the greed worship built into our system and pretending that consumers actually have power in the world those most greedy dominate, it pretends to save us while it will only enslave us and make real, grassroots change impossible.
If you ask a regular Joe on the street about "The Great Reset", most people will have never heard of it before. It isn't like they are marketing TGR on corporate news outlets. Hollywood isn't making movies about it. The only people who know about TGR are people who are already paying attention to how corrupt all of it is - which I agree with by the way - and I think its purpose is to create confusion within the ranks of those who would most likely be organizing for system change. Again, the elites don't want to change the system they are already in full control of.
The same thing goes for the idea of a social credit system and UBI. They take ideas that would actually help the people and make some of the would-be early adopters afraid of it, and that halts momentum towards real system change. The elites can already turn off your bank account as we saw with the truckers in Canada for not going along with the program. Everything we are fearful of happening through TGR or social credit is already here. No reset necessary.
I actually know quite a few regular Joes who've heard of the Great Reset - primarily right-leaning people - so I disagree there. Millions of people have heard of it via Russell Brand and Joe Rogan. I have no idea how a social credit or universal banking system would, as you seem to think, "help the people." Individual behavior is NOT the problem. Corporate behavior, and elite behavior, are the problems. Ditto for our banking system -- the problem is the corruption, the greed, the visegrip of control so that everything benefits the elites. The majority of people would prefer to eat food not contaminated with chemicals, to drink pure water, to use sustainable energy ... but those choices are made for them, either by being completely unavailable, or being unaffordable due to a system that keeps them struggling to stay alive. Right now, a "regular Joe" can't even buy a house, because the elites are monopolizing the housing market for their benefit and our government is too corrupt to do something about it. The only social credit system that could actually be helpful would be one that applied only to the conscience-less elites who are ruining the earth and everyone else's lives with their greed.
Yeah, I misspoke about a social credit system helping the people. I meant a universal basic income (UBI) not banking system. The main reason I think this corrupt system continues is that most people require money to buy the things they need to survive. People have gotten so specialized with the ways they earn income that they don't know how to grow food and many other things. So we become dependent on a system of service providers.
My overall point is that there is no Great Reset coming. There is only more perpetuation of the same status quo of corruption which I agree with you about completely. A UBI, universal basic income would allow people to meet their needs without being forced to participate in that system by "getting a job" at said corrupt, planet destroying corporation.
Speaking as grandma, or perhaps closer to great grandma, I am ready to be killed, in a manner of speaking. I am enjoying my life very much, would love another decade, but if I do not get it you will not hesr me whine. Covid willing and the creeks don’t rise I will hit 80 next year. Desth does not scare me but I loath suffering. Many of my contemporaries feel the same way. We do NOT wish to be a burden on the young.
Wishing much health and happiness to you! My parents, now in their mid-70’s feel the same way. They want their freedom to live life as they intend, since they had to endure many of their younger years in an oppressive political regime.
Everyone needs to be connected inwardly where individual answers, guidance and caring, outer and inner, comes from Life itself. In aboriginal life, all lived vibrantly as individuals even when old for they all had a direct connection to Life. The Ancient Wisdom was carried by the old, and is there yet for those who remember it’s last life honorings before the great power grab happened, as cultures forgot connection. The Old knowing is the New Ancient, re-embraced. I would not turn over your most authentic memories and life practices of your, and cultural, essential being, and no societal health, political, or other approach should “think” a practice of sacrificing some for the good of all. Each IS, and is connected to the All, which is the knowing that will bring forth that which will be for the good of all, if listened to within. We are all to be the Divine Stewards of the wellbeing for all. Death will bring rebirthing in an eternal connection to, and as Life itself, so Life and Death are both in Its hands.
Interesting! I would like to get a copy - but surprised to find it on Amazon, is that not a conflict of values, Charles?! I am noticing that far from subsiding, the passions on either side are continuing. Heartbreakingly, I see a tsunami of detrimental effect on our teenagers who I think l have suffered the most.
Having watched the world of adults descend into utter madness with ‘leaders’ behaving like complete idiots and the rest of us bounce between fear, fantasy and fury on both sides, they are left exhausted, jaded and lonely. Connections normally formed through rites of passage as our bodies go through the most mind blowing changes have been denied this generation and they may possibly never fully recover what has been lost at a time-sensitive junction. Yes, generations of teens have suffered through wars and economic depressions, all manner of terrible threats but this one has just been so false. So fabricated.
Looking through my newly cleared lens, I see that all wars and economic crises have been fabricated but none of them led to such wholescale division within same border communities. Unless you were Jewish in WWII Germany of course. But I am no scholar and get lost in word arguments, so I won’t go on further.
I’m just left sad and still angry. That’s as long as I dwell in the world of that narrative. So I think we all need to choose how we want to live and just get on with doing that. There are amazing communities springing up everywhere and people opting out of all the institutions currently on offer. We are just doing it. Change of mind, change of heart and change of habit. World of governments, msm and all that boring Shit? Yaaaaawwwwn. Rear view mirror.
I'm thrilled that you are doing this. I was deeply impacted by this series and felt so grateful when I found it. Reading your take felt like an anchor to something stable and true in tempestuous seas, and I went back to it again and again.
I was planning to ask the same question! I will say that I thought my eyes were already opened to corruption ... and then realized that, no, there was soooo much more. Which has been hard to stomach, but makes me view every uncorrupted person like they are a beautiful flower of purity.
I had a dearly held belief that once the truth was made known, the scales would drop off people's eyes. That didn't happen, so I had to let go of it.
I also had a belief that our government officials were more trustworthy than my neighbors, as they were experts and were working in government to "help people." I was sooo incredibly wrong about that. My neighbor -- in fact, any random person at the grocery store -- is infinitely more trustworthy.
Thank you, Charles. While most of us haven’t been witness to your process and experiences over the last two years we have certainly benefited from the results. Even in the most challenging moments you have showed us how to contemplate different view points and land in an even, self-responsible, and fair-minded state of being.
I want to live in the world you live in where we have can have differing view points and recognize that is not just okay but imperative to our collective wellbeing.
What you do takes courage, though I imagine that it doesn’t seem like courage but just plain necessity to you.
Great to see this and I look forward to reading it. I'm coming around to the view that the vast majority of the harm attributed to the virus was in fact caused by policies and medical practices that were then blamed, as a vast whirlpool of blame, on Covid, from aging patients in nursing homes who die at high rates even in normal times (six months average survival time once transferred to a nursing home) to asymptomatic testing that led to huge amounts of false positives, to overuse of ventilators and remdesivir before the vaccines, and then the vaccines and their predictable side effects causing most of the harm since they came out.
I remember your Coronation being one of the two defining essays of the time--the other being Arundhati Roy's The Pandemic is a Portal. You wrote a brilliant article and it was instrumental in my ability to see potential meaning at a time when everything seemed like it was spinning out of control. Thank you for that, and for putting all your thoughts together into a book (love Chelsea Green!) Your predictions are still in motion and I'm certain that none of your ideas will prove dated.
I'd love to know these "influencers who are beginning to question old narratives". Anyone know what big influencers are questioning or changing their minds?
I guess I only seem to follow sense-making influencers who've questioned everything since long before 2020.
Thank you Charles, I read your 2020 & 2021 essays avidly; for me they brought a golden light of insights, wise reflections & gave glimmers of deep understandings of things I’d felt uneasy about for years. It was a soothing balm of sanity & clarity in a beautifully rendered form & gave me so much strength & hope. Thank you.
I’m a retired grandmother currently living in Goa, staying away from England while this madness continues - India’s unique environment feels very nurturing & safe as the mayhem continues (contrary to the ridiculously made-up stories of covid deaths & disasters).
I shall do what I can to share your amazingly insightful, empowering work within my small sphere of influence. A millions thanks for all you bring to the world.
Wonderful Charles. I think your book and essays will still be especially relevant come fall when flu season arrives and disease fear mongering will probably ramp up again.
Fascinating. The 2020's began the great invitation to learn to embody that ancient but ever new word "Sabbath", which was inaugurated near the beginning of time...and is still waiting for us to enter into. I resonate with the heart of your words to learn what we can be, what we can do different from being, and why that makes all the difference in the world. On the first day of Spring in 2020, I was reading Abraham Joshua Heschel's classic work "The Sabbath" when my eyes fell upon the word "coronation." In context it read: “To celebrate the Sabbath is to celebrate the coronation of a day in the spiritual wonderland of time, the air of which we inhale when we “call it a delight.” I'll leave this here as it would be an honor to promote your book and see where the conversation goes in a podcast. The coronation of a new possibility is upon us. - Preston Hall Director of Unconditional Human www.unconditionalhuman.org
Awesome Charles. We absolutely need to reflect on what we all just went through. For those who are interested, here is a video we made based on the text from "The Coronation" essay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiUp3DdS-WQ
Charles Eisenstein narrates! It plays like he writes; hearing his voice, for some reason, makes me want to weep tears of pent-up pain and longing, the same as when I read his writings. Watching "The Pandemic is a Prism" with Charles and Paul Kingsnorth, and hosted by Ian MacKenzie, gave me another opportunity to gaze into Charles' interior thinking where there is such an abundance of hope and love and wisdom that one cannot emerge unchanged from the experience.
I kept thinking the next thing in this video would be, "You will own nothing, and you will be happy." Isn't this how the Great Reset will be sold to us? "To be a caring individual, you must give up all your freedoms."
When I think about what makes me happy, it is surely not owning things that comes to mind. If I am privileged enough to go on vacation, I do not own the hotel I stay at or any of the places I visit. Yet I am happy. The truth is pleasure does not come from owning things. It comes from the ability to access the things when I need them.
IMO, the Great Reset is nothing more than a scare tool to get the early adopters to be fearful of changing the system. The elites are already in control of this system, they already own most of everything. The last thing they want is some kind of reset. But if they can make those most willing to want change to become fearful of change, then the Great Reset has served its purpose.
I disagree that happiness comes from accessing things. It has always and always will come from within. I also disagree with the Great Reset causing “fear of change.” It’s about power, specifically the power to shift the burden and blame for saving the planet away from those most responsible for the planet’s destruction. By diverting everyone’s gaze away from the corruption of both our leaders and the greed worship built into our system and pretending that consumers actually have power in the world those most greedy dominate, it pretends to save us while it will only enslave us and make real, grassroots change impossible.
If you ask a regular Joe on the street about "The Great Reset", most people will have never heard of it before. It isn't like they are marketing TGR on corporate news outlets. Hollywood isn't making movies about it. The only people who know about TGR are people who are already paying attention to how corrupt all of it is - which I agree with by the way - and I think its purpose is to create confusion within the ranks of those who would most likely be organizing for system change. Again, the elites don't want to change the system they are already in full control of.
The same thing goes for the idea of a social credit system and UBI. They take ideas that would actually help the people and make some of the would-be early adopters afraid of it, and that halts momentum towards real system change. The elites can already turn off your bank account as we saw with the truckers in Canada for not going along with the program. Everything we are fearful of happening through TGR or social credit is already here. No reset necessary.
I actually know quite a few regular Joes who've heard of the Great Reset - primarily right-leaning people - so I disagree there. Millions of people have heard of it via Russell Brand and Joe Rogan. I have no idea how a social credit or universal banking system would, as you seem to think, "help the people." Individual behavior is NOT the problem. Corporate behavior, and elite behavior, are the problems. Ditto for our banking system -- the problem is the corruption, the greed, the visegrip of control so that everything benefits the elites. The majority of people would prefer to eat food not contaminated with chemicals, to drink pure water, to use sustainable energy ... but those choices are made for them, either by being completely unavailable, or being unaffordable due to a system that keeps them struggling to stay alive. Right now, a "regular Joe" can't even buy a house, because the elites are monopolizing the housing market for their benefit and our government is too corrupt to do something about it. The only social credit system that could actually be helpful would be one that applied only to the conscience-less elites who are ruining the earth and everyone else's lives with their greed.
Yeah, I misspoke about a social credit system helping the people. I meant a universal basic income (UBI) not banking system. The main reason I think this corrupt system continues is that most people require money to buy the things they need to survive. People have gotten so specialized with the ways they earn income that they don't know how to grow food and many other things. So we become dependent on a system of service providers.
My overall point is that there is no Great Reset coming. There is only more perpetuation of the same status quo of corruption which I agree with you about completely. A UBI, universal basic income would allow people to meet their needs without being forced to participate in that system by "getting a job" at said corrupt, planet destroying corporation.
What an interesting twist on it! This has bothered me the most of all the GR speak. Of course they don’t want change!
It could work if everyone owned nothing!
Yeah otherwise you are killing grandma
Speaking as grandma, or perhaps closer to great grandma, I am ready to be killed, in a manner of speaking. I am enjoying my life very much, would love another decade, but if I do not get it you will not hesr me whine. Covid willing and the creeks don’t rise I will hit 80 next year. Desth does not scare me but I loath suffering. Many of my contemporaries feel the same way. We do NOT wish to be a burden on the young.
Wishing much health and happiness to you! My parents, now in their mid-70’s feel the same way. They want their freedom to live life as they intend, since they had to endure many of their younger years in an oppressive political regime.
Everyone needs to be connected inwardly where individual answers, guidance and caring, outer and inner, comes from Life itself. In aboriginal life, all lived vibrantly as individuals even when old for they all had a direct connection to Life. The Ancient Wisdom was carried by the old, and is there yet for those who remember it’s last life honorings before the great power grab happened, as cultures forgot connection. The Old knowing is the New Ancient, re-embraced. I would not turn over your most authentic memories and life practices of your, and cultural, essential being, and no societal health, political, or other approach should “think” a practice of sacrificing some for the good of all. Each IS, and is connected to the All, which is the knowing that will bring forth that which will be for the good of all, if listened to within. We are all to be the Divine Stewards of the wellbeing for all. Death will bring rebirthing in an eternal connection to, and as Life itself, so Life and Death are both in Its hands.
Nice video, thank you! 💜
New respect for Chelsea Green for stepping up after North Atlantic's spineless and pathetic cancellation attempt. Truth wins.
Interesting! I would like to get a copy - but surprised to find it on Amazon, is that not a conflict of values, Charles?! I am noticing that far from subsiding, the passions on either side are continuing. Heartbreakingly, I see a tsunami of detrimental effect on our teenagers who I think l have suffered the most.
Having watched the world of adults descend into utter madness with ‘leaders’ behaving like complete idiots and the rest of us bounce between fear, fantasy and fury on both sides, they are left exhausted, jaded and lonely. Connections normally formed through rites of passage as our bodies go through the most mind blowing changes have been denied this generation and they may possibly never fully recover what has been lost at a time-sensitive junction. Yes, generations of teens have suffered through wars and economic depressions, all manner of terrible threats but this one has just been so false. So fabricated.
Looking through my newly cleared lens, I see that all wars and economic crises have been fabricated but none of them led to such wholescale division within same border communities. Unless you were Jewish in WWII Germany of course. But I am no scholar and get lost in word arguments, so I won’t go on further.
I’m just left sad and still angry. That’s as long as I dwell in the world of that narrative. So I think we all need to choose how we want to live and just get on with doing that. There are amazing communities springing up everywhere and people opting out of all the institutions currently on offer. We are just doing it. Change of mind, change of heart and change of habit. World of governments, msm and all that boring Shit? Yaaaaawwwwn. Rear view mirror.
I'm thrilled that you are doing this. I was deeply impacted by this series and felt so grateful when I found it. Reading your take felt like an anchor to something stable and true in tempestuous seas, and I went back to it again and again.
I look forward to reading, and I’m curious: What dearly held belief about Covid have you let go of?
I was planning to ask the same question! I will say that I thought my eyes were already opened to corruption ... and then realized that, no, there was soooo much more. Which has been hard to stomach, but makes me view every uncorrupted person like they are a beautiful flower of purity.
I had a dearly held belief that once the truth was made known, the scales would drop off people's eyes. That didn't happen, so I had to let go of it.
I also had a belief that our government officials were more trustworthy than my neighbors, as they were experts and were working in government to "help people." I was sooo incredibly wrong about that. My neighbor -- in fact, any random person at the grocery store -- is infinitely more trustworthy.
On Amazon??? Well I think I rather wait until my local bookstore gets it or order it for me.
That caught my eye as well..
Thank you, Charles. While most of us haven’t been witness to your process and experiences over the last two years we have certainly benefited from the results. Even in the most challenging moments you have showed us how to contemplate different view points and land in an even, self-responsible, and fair-minded state of being.
I want to live in the world you live in where we have can have differing view points and recognize that is not just okay but imperative to our collective wellbeing.
What you do takes courage, though I imagine that it doesn’t seem like courage but just plain necessity to you.
Great to see this and I look forward to reading it. I'm coming around to the view that the vast majority of the harm attributed to the virus was in fact caused by policies and medical practices that were then blamed, as a vast whirlpool of blame, on Covid, from aging patients in nursing homes who die at high rates even in normal times (six months average survival time once transferred to a nursing home) to asymptomatic testing that led to huge amounts of false positives, to overuse of ventilators and remdesivir before the vaccines, and then the vaccines and their predictable side effects causing most of the harm since they came out.
I remember your Coronation being one of the two defining essays of the time--the other being Arundhati Roy's The Pandemic is a Portal. You wrote a brilliant article and it was instrumental in my ability to see potential meaning at a time when everything seemed like it was spinning out of control. Thank you for that, and for putting all your thoughts together into a book (love Chelsea Green!) Your predictions are still in motion and I'm certain that none of your ideas will prove dated.
Very interesting and prescient on the PRS cycle of Problem, Response, Solution to a problem that never was.
I'd love to know these "influencers who are beginning to question old narratives". Anyone know what big influencers are questioning or changing their minds?
I guess I only seem to follow sense-making influencers who've questioned everything since long before 2020.
I would also like to know who’s changing their minds…..
Thank you Charles, I read your 2020 & 2021 essays avidly; for me they brought a golden light of insights, wise reflections & gave glimmers of deep understandings of things I’d felt uneasy about for years. It was a soothing balm of sanity & clarity in a beautifully rendered form & gave me so much strength & hope. Thank you.
I’m a retired grandmother currently living in Goa, staying away from England while this madness continues - India’s unique environment feels very nurturing & safe as the mayhem continues (contrary to the ridiculously made-up stories of covid deaths & disasters).
I shall do what I can to share your amazingly insightful, empowering work within my small sphere of influence. A millions thanks for all you bring to the world.
Warm wishes,
Jane Sleven
Wonderful Charles. I think your book and essays will still be especially relevant come fall when flu season arrives and disease fear mongering will probably ramp up again.
Great. Looking forward to the Indian edition and local shipping
Fascinating. The 2020's began the great invitation to learn to embody that ancient but ever new word "Sabbath", which was inaugurated near the beginning of time...and is still waiting for us to enter into. I resonate with the heart of your words to learn what we can be, what we can do different from being, and why that makes all the difference in the world. On the first day of Spring in 2020, I was reading Abraham Joshua Heschel's classic work "The Sabbath" when my eyes fell upon the word "coronation." In context it read: “To celebrate the Sabbath is to celebrate the coronation of a day in the spiritual wonderland of time, the air of which we inhale when we “call it a delight.” I'll leave this here as it would be an honor to promote your book and see where the conversation goes in a podcast. The coronation of a new possibility is upon us. - Preston Hall Director of Unconditional Human www.unconditionalhuman.org
Definitely contact Ubiquity Universe; Humanity Rising!
Will you be doing an audible version of this?
I'd loved to see this option as well