A New And Ancient Story: The Podcast

Charles Eisenstein

Healing Meditation From Deepak Chopra

This meditation involves the conscious ability to let go of any wandering thoughts. A focus on the inhalation and exhalation of the breath as well as visualization of thoughts are used in order to quiet the mind. 

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Clear Mind Meditation

David Whyte:  The Poetry of Self-Compassion

This is a conversation with Maria Scordialos, an activist in Greece. We talk about the referendum, the solidarity economy, the role of fear in politics, the economics and politics of debt, and the revolutionary potential of authenticity in leaders. This is our first recorded podcast, and the sound quality is poor. Please excuse our learning curve.

Reconnecting to the Strength We Have: Maria Scordialos (E00) A New and Ancient Story

Yoga Nidra is an age-old technique of lucid-sleeping which reduces stress and allows the body to heal.  Yoga Nidra means yogic sleep, however it is not sleep as we generally understand - it is to Awaken. The term Yoga Nidra is often used to describe the relaxation at the end of a yoga practice, Savasana. Yoga Nidra activates the senses and nervous system to affect much of the brain.  During the experience, different levels of the mind are explored: consciousness, subconsciousness, and super-consciousness.  During Yoga Nidra, you are guided towards a fully conscious state free of the habitual reactions to thoughts and emotions. The deep state of relaxation enables an introspective look at the patterns of the mind and the emotional bodies.

Yoga Nidra (short version)

This is a podcast featuring a discussion between Charles Eisenstein and Nipun Mehta, the founder of Service Space, on kindness and generosity, non-monetary wealth, and how even small, simple acts of kindness alter the fabric of our world to have potentially enormous social and political consequences.

Changing the Story with Kindness (E01) - A New and Ancient Story

A conversation between Charles and Amy Lansky, a computer scientist and NASA researcher who was propelled down the road less traveled through her son's autism and its subsequent "impossible" cure. We talk about radicalization, skepticism, and gateways to synchronicity.

Synchronicty and the Impossible (E02) - A New and Ancient Story

A conversation with Chris Martenson, creator of the Crash Course, who like I have has moved beyond (way beyond) economics to explore systems change and narrative change. We talk about real wealth and fake wealth, community, technology, healing, and the impossible. A deep dive!

Deep Wealth and Transformation (E03) - A New and Ancient Story

Charles talks with Francis Weller about grief as a gateway to joy, to reverence, and to community, and the power of public grief to bring healing on a personal, community, and political level.

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Of Grief and Reverence (E04) - A New and Ancient Story

Rupert Sheldrake is one of the most thoughtful, lucid people I have ever met. In this conversation we talk about the foundations of science, both as an institution and as a path to knowledge. Like all the institutions of modernity, science faces a crisis that is increasingly recognized within science itself. Part of it is the "replicability crisis," but as Rupert and I discuss, that is but a gateway into deeper epistemological and metaphysical problems. 

Rupert Sheldrake, a biologist and author, is best known for his hypothesis of morphic fields and morphic resonance, which leads to a vision of a living, developing universe with its own inherent memory. Find out more on his website: http://www.sheldrake.org/

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The Crisis of Science (E07) - 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 indigenous cultures that we need to learn from. We think we live in a society bereft of meaningful rituals. But in fact, we are immersed in rituals that are invisible to us. Medicine, law, and even technology can be understood as a highly elaborated system of ritual, whose legitimacy and efficacy are based on an underlying mythology that tells us what is real and how the world works. As we transition into a new mythology, our old rituals become unsatisfying, and impotent to address the crises of our time.

This podcast episode originated as an interview for Marietta's film, Reinventing Rituals. You can watch the trailer at www.reinventing-rituals.de. The depth of understanding embodied in her questions, and her wide open heart and vulnerable listening to my responses, makes me think this will be an extraordinary film. If you resonate with our conversation, you might consider donating to her crowdfunding campaign too.

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

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 information carried by Orland's words and -- even more -- by his voice.