[P2P-F] "Across the Threshold" - Charles Eisenstein

Mon Apr 18 22:13:36 CEST 2011

thanks Dante,  I appreciate Charles work, such as the Ascent of Humanity a
lot, and am happy his new book will be out soon,

if you search is name on both our blog and wiki, you'll find we covered him
on several occasions,

Michel

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson <
dante.monson at gmail.com> wrote:

> below, link to Charles Eisenstein article ( thanks to Matt ! )
>
> http://www.realitysandwich.com/across_threshold_0
>
> and excerpt further below.
>
> also see "Sacred Economics" :
> http://www.countercurrents.org/eisenstein250410.htm
>
> which in my opinion can complement Michel Bauwens "The Next Buddha Will be
> a Collective" :
>
> http://p2pfoundation.net/Next_Buddha_Will_Be_A_Collective
>
>
> http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-next-buddha-will-be-a-collective-part-two/2007/05/17
>
> http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Spirituality
>
> ----
>
>
> excerpt of http://www.realitysandwich.com/across_threshold_0
>
> *"The first thing it does is to prevent us from whole-heartedly
> participating in the old normal. We can do our best to participate in the
> program, we can go through the motions, but deep down we know that it isn't
> the real thing. The effort to direct life energy at goals unworthy of our
> knowledge is exhausting. Eventually, our reservoirs of health and luck
> depleted, we enter a state of crisis. Whether it is health, relationship,
> money, or work-related, the crisis is a birthing from the old normal. We
> cannot go back, yet neither do we know how to go forward. This is a special
> state, the threshold between worlds. Many of us are there right now,
> individually; the collective human body is approaching it as well."*
> *
> *
>
> ----
>
> A simple complex view I ( Dante ) wish to share, regarding movement of
> position of experience of awareness
>
> note : can be non-linear awareness ( various vectors side by side ), based
> on context, and also mirrors between prototypes, systems, and ego systems.
>
> based on a vector I ll send in a next email :
>
> transition from addiction - mirrors, fear, "need to control" , to awareness
> of non-suffering from attachment and contemplation ( and empathy ) , and
> from contemplation, maintaining choice of presence into every moment, into
> intention, choice of intention ( control as contribution to what "can"
> through the choice of wanting to use the self according to intention ),
> choice of pilgrimage, , finding others with whom to share intention,
> manifesting presence of intention into protoypes ( including structural ),
> and emergence of intention via mutually supporting prototypes into systems
> open to intentional awareness ( reversing flow of experience of awareness of
> addicted systems, healing Qi , opening to service and energy from larger
> "matrioshka" while still being able to see and choose to use contained
> matrioshka dimensions.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Matthew Slater <matslats at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:31 AM
> Subject: more charles eisenstein
> To: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson at gmail.com>
>
>
> Please read this.
> He's not talking about money here, but expanding on Tikh Nat hanh when he
> said 'the next buddha is the sangha'
> So it's about embracing community as the most modern form of spirituality.
> Thought you might like it
> Matthew
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Charles Eisenstein <charles at panenthea.com>
> Date: 17 April 2011 13:24
> Subject: new essay
> To:
>
>
>  Hello everyone,
>
> First, I have an article on Reality Sandwich, "Across the Threshold", about
> the difficulty in staying in the more beautiful world we are shown through
> special experiences. And why the age of teh guru has ended, and other
> things. http://www.realitysandwich.com/across_threshold_0
>
> Second, I want to tell everyone that* Sacred Economics* is finally
> finished, after more than two years of work. It will be published by North
> Atlantic Books under the Evolver imprint on July 12. It will also be on line
> -- the plan is to serialize it on Reality Sandwich.
>
> Finally, I'll mention a few upcoming speaking events that are on my
> website. State College, PA April 23. Hartford, CT May 13. Harrisburg, May
> 26. Philly June 4. Madrid, Spain, June 16.
>
> Charles
>
>
>

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