Charles Eisenstein's The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible presents a brave and challenging new paradigm for living that combines a rarified spiritual vision with a pragmatic eye and scientific outlook.
Eisenstein confronts many of the prevailing myths and attitudes about life at the beginning of the 21st century, mainly focusing on the mess we've made of the environment. He calls our old methods of coping with issues a model of "separation" and says it will lead only to increased societal breakdown and personal angst. In their place, he offers "interbeing"--a world view he feels is a more accurate reflection of our own true nature.
Eisenstein's radical theory, supported by modern physics and classical Buddhist and Vedic cosmology, is that we are all at our core connected; our smallest gestures, daily activities and even our attitudes have great consequences. Eisenstein skillfully highlights the burn-out our best and brightest problem-solvers suffer when they are drawn into the maw of social engagement, and observes how contemporary snark and cool indifference limits spiritual growth and inhibits the potential for change.
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible is an uplifting vision of one possible future for mankind, if we can just slow down long enough to see the connections and embrace them. --Donald Powell, freelance writer