Thread by @AlisonBlunt

1. Another quote from a Q&A session with Charles Eisenstein, 6.12.20, excellent questions and answers but more importantly, top quality communication. There was a question to Charles about whether he's found a 'tribe' or sense of belonging where his family now lives. His answer..

2. 'We’ve been here a couple of years now & we’ve starting to develop you know, some community, of people like, this is...what’s been amazing with ‘covid’ is that, like people i would have thought are highly aligned with my values and way of life turned out not to be, ah, ..'

3. ..'and, people that i would not have suspected of sharing some of my values when it actually comes to putting them into action turn out to be much more compatible that i would have known, so this has been a bit of a recalibration...so yeah you know, ...'

4. ..'we’re starting to develop like a small pod, of people who, um, shall we say, are willing to, think independently and are less hypnotised by the dominant stories and willing to live in a less fearful way, but i i..wouldn’t call it tribe at this point, ..'

5. ..'it’s like pulling together some scattered pieces, maybe in 20 years it’ll be a tribe, maybe in my kids’ generation it’ll turn into tribe …gotta long way to go.'
[Q about the present time...]
All signs, right now, that i’m looking at, are pointing towards a, um, toward..'

6. ..'a future of totalitarian corporatism and a surveillance state and a bio…bio medical security state with with intensifying control over every aspect of life and over information …that’s what it looks like, however, there are ….variables that that prognostication ...'

7. ..'does not take into account and the variables start with ourselves. Like, every time you predict the future, you’re leaving something out, you’re leaving out the effect of our choices right now..and these choices could be a lot of more powerful than ...'

8. ..'the rational mind can understand, especially when our choices align us with creative powers beyond our understanding.'

Pls consider listening the whole way through, I think it's well worth it.

9. Charles continues, 'Stella and just I watched a documentary a couple of nights ago called The Phenomenon, it’s about UFOs, you know, and like, this entire theory that’s been derided as the province of cranks, crackpots and conspiracy theorists since you know, the 1940’s...'

10. ...'now, like the government is like, ‘Actually, that was all true, actually, we have been sighting UFOs, it wasn’t swamp gas, it wasn’t weather balloons,' etc etc, and, i’m waiting for them to say, 'Sorry for gas lighting you, sorry for destroying people’s careers,...'

11. ..'sorry for ridiculing people who had authentic experiences' …i haven’t heard that apology yet…but this is just one example of a much bigger reality that is, that is pounding at the door right now, and if we do not let that in, we’re gonna be in despair. Without...'

12. ..'some larger understanding of reality and possibility then, yeah, there’s no rational reason to think that we’re not going to enter a dark age that will never end. Like, I don’t see any any reason why it would end, i mean, these trends have not abated toward domination,..'

13. ..'control, surveillance, etc. like, what vain fantasy would have them end of their own accord? For them to end, we have to become different. You have to choose differently. And the basis of that choice is an expanded palate of information. Of paints. That we use to,..'

14. ..'to ah, paint the world, that we use to design, to create the world, so, yeah, i’ll leave it at that.'
[Q about how we can move forward in a different way]
Charles, 'Oh, you know, it comes down to, i mean, that’s why i wrote that article on QAnon, you know, it comes ..'

15. ..'down to compassion. It comes down to piercing the barriers that are keeping everybody separate. Keeping society divided into 2 opposing tug-of-war teams you know, where each side struggles mightily to move that marker in the centre of the rope a little bit toward..'

16. ..'their side and the other side is pulling harder to move it toward their side, and what really needs to happen is that everybody has to let go of the rope or you know, i mean, once everybody let’s go of the rope it’s gonna be easy to move that marker. What we need is,..'

17. ..'is unity right now. Not that there are not valid disagreements, but most of our opposition is based on us versus them thinking that is an ideology, it’s based on projection, onto the other, it’s based on dehumanising other people and it ultimately comes, um, well i ..’

18. ..'won’t say it comes from, but it’s caused by and it causes self-rejection …um… anyway, i have some of that in the essay, and I don’t want go fully into the right now but …'
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