Stories by Charles Eisenstein

Charles Eisenstein is an essayist and author of the books Sacred Economics and The Ascent of Humanity. He is a contributor to Shareable, where this article first appeared. subscribe to Charles Eisenstein's feed

Living With the Contradictions: A Human Potential Visionary Talks About Our Infinite Potential and How We Also Block Progress

Posted on: Nov 13, 2012, Source: Reality Sandwich

Joseph Chilton Pearce, one of the elders of the human potential movement, lives with the contradiction that everything is possible, yet nature's plan has gone awry.

Re-Thinking Money: Is Real Wealth Currency? Debt? Or Community?

Posted on: Mar 14, 2012, Source: Shareable

Our capital-based economy isn't working. David Graeber's <i>Debt: The First 5,000 Years</i> explains why, and points to what real wealth might look like.

Can Gift Exchange Fix the Problems of Capitalism and Rebuild our Lost Community?

Posted on: Jan 1, 2012, Source: Shareable

The reclamation of the gift-based commonwealth not only hastens the collapse of a growth-dependent money system, it also mitigates its severity.

Occupy Wall Street: No Demand is Big Enough

Posted on: Oct 30, 2011, Source: Reality Sandwich

Occupy Wall Street should not be content with half-measures, even as it encourages and applauds the tiny hundredth-measures that might come first.