A New and Ancient Story: The Podcast Charles Eisenstein

Vivian Dittmar is a teacher, speaker, and writer, author of the book The Power of Feelings. In this conversation we talk about the collective global field of uncertainty, the dynamics of birth and death, and the opportunity that Covid offers to befriend fear and follow its evolutionary power.

Here is a guided meditation she offers on accessing the power of fear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eqOXGUgBWY

She also shares with the audience a chapter on the power of fear from her book:
https://viviandittmar.net/wp-content/uploads/The-Power-of-Fear.pdf

Vivian's book, The Power of Feelings is here:
https://viviandittmar.net/en/books/the-power-of-feelings/

Her upcoming book, The Inner GPS is here:
https://viviandittmar.net/en/books/your-inner-gps/

Rishi Kumar(https://farmerrishi.com), a former software engineer, is a gardening evangelist who uses gardening for personal, social, and ecological healing. We talk a lot about regeneration: how it is not just a set of techniques, but an orientation, a way of seeing, and a way of relating to the earth. We humans don't have to be outsiders to nature; we too are an organ of Gaia and can join the gift circle of life. I hope our conversation gives whomever listens a little extra encouragement to begin or to deepen their gardening, and to look at the nonprofit Rishi works with, Kiss the Ground (https://kisstheground.com).

Sayer Ji is a prominent holistic health researcher and the founder of one of the largest alternative health websites, greenmedinfo.com. We talk first and foremost about the coronavirus and the multiple fear narratives surrounding it, then venture into some other controversial topics: body ecology and the "virome," vaccines, internet censorship, science and its limitations, biological transmutation of elements, water bubble cavitation, and my favorite topic of late, ideological polarization and peace.

Link to his new book, Regenerate: Unlocking Your Body's Radical Resilience through the New Biology: 
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/599585/regenerate-by-sayer-ji/ 
Other resource site: https://regenerateproject.com/

Luz Gonçalves Brito is a Brazilian anthropologist who brings academics and spirituality together in an exquisite way. Our conversation was like a meditation, touching on the inseparability of the spiritual from the ecological and political. For example: ecology, like spirituality, is ultimately a search for connection. Luz's research is not only scholarly -- you may feel chills as I did upon hearing her sing the song given to her by a river.

Julie Esterly is active in the death care movement, part of the reclamation of death as a culturally recognized part of life. We speak of our culture's death rituals, the necessity of realizing death in order to fully realize life, and the connection between the denial of death and the denial of life, which takes specific form in collective ecocide. Is this a depressing topic? No. See if you come a little more alive through this conversation.

More about Julie Esterly at esterly.com and her work at naturaldeathcareinitiative.org

Julie Esterly is active in the death care movement, part of the reclamation of death as a culturally recognized part of life. We speak of our culture's death rituals, the necessity of realizing death in order to fully realize life, and the connection between the denial of death and the denial of life, which takes specific form in collective ecocide. Is this a depressing topic? No. See if you come a little more alive through this conversation.

More about Julie Esterly at esterly.com and her work at naturaldeathcareinitiative.org