The Pandemic Is A Prism with PAUL KINGSNORTH & CHARLES EISENSTEIN [FULL ...

Full session

 Paul Kingsnorth is one of my favorite modern writers. He is also a poet, essayist, bee-keeper, recovering environmentalist, and an atheist turned Christian. Kingsnorth had written The Vaccine Moment during the pandemic. I highly recommend reading it and watching the video; both touch on some of what is in his essay. As for Charles Eisenstein, a writer, I am getting to him through the video and some of the material on his website. I am excited to learn more about him; he, too, has written several books, one being The Beautiful World Our Hearts Know, which is being called a beacon of hope in the face of our current social and ecological world crises. 

Note-Allow yourself the time to take in the beautiful music before the discussion; it's only a few minutes.

“I stopped walking. I stood still in the middle of the track and I surveyed the landscape around me and I understood that the eyes which did this had lived a million times before. The way I scanned this horizon was the way the horizon had been scanned by my ancestors fifty thousand years ago as they walked the savannahs with spears between their toes. They had made me. I had learned it from them. Everything my body did the way I curled my fingers and bent my elbows the way I turned my head when I heard a sound. I had learned it from them and they had learned it from the apes before them and the apes had learned it from the fish and all of us had come through this together. Everything led up to me and everything I was would lead beyond me there was this great chain and I was a link in it. The past and the future they were nothing they came together and parted again and everything was rising and falling and swirling around everything else.” 
 ― Paul Kingsnorth