Metaphysics and Mystery with Charles Eisenstein
Questions are often more potent than their answers. This course will evoke new questions arising from deep within you that will set in motion a process of clarity and connection. New habits of thought and ways of seeing will crystallize within you. This course bridges the gap between the esoteric and the commonsense.
Each of the seven units of the course includes several short-format video transmissions from Charles Eisenstein, accompanied by meditations and other practices designed to deepen and stabilize the information.
This course utilizes paradox as a tool for mental expansion. A paradox reveals hidden inconsistencies. Follow them, hold them, and they unlock new understanding of the deep questions behind them: Who am I? What is real? Why am I here? Why is the world? These are among the questions that are more potent than their answers.
Charles Eisenstein is a teacher, public speaker, and author who examines the unspoken narratives that direct our society and our lives. His work covers a wide range of topics, including the history of human civilization, consciousness, economics, spirituality, interdependence, ecology, and how myth and story influence culture. He is the author of The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible, Sacred Economics, and The Ascent of Humanity.
For more info visit:
https://charleseisenstein.org/about/
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Metaphysics and Mystery - 1.0 Retrospective Introduction
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To create this course, I sat down with Lauren Buckley for an extended discussion of metaphysics. The segment you’re about to watch was filmed just after that first 5-hour recording session. It gives some context for this course, what it is ...
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Metaphysics and Mystery - Intention Setting
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Metaphysics and Mystery - Session 1.1 Why Am I Here
Review of This Session’s Invitation
Here we are playing with an answer to the sponsoring question of this dialog, Why am I here? And the answer is “To serve life” or “To contribute to the universe becoming more alive.” But don’t take my word for it! The invitation here is to examine yourself for ... -
Metaphysics and Mystery - Session 1.2 Why Am I Here - Follow Up
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Metaphysics and Mystery - Session 1.3 Invitation - Looking For Evidence
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Metaphysics and Mystery - Session 1.4 Invitation - The Next Step Toward Life
Review of This Session’s Invitation
Here we are playing with an answer to the sponsoring question of this dialog, Why am I here? And the answer is “To serve life” or “To contribute to the universe becoming more alive.” But don’t take my word for it! The invitation here is to examine yourself for ... -
Metaphysics and Mystery - Session 2.1 Knowledge, Choice, and Uncertainty
The themes of this session are knowledge and choice, the inner and the outer, science and spirituality, and the multiple paths of development. The quest for metaphysical understanding is rarely the product of mere intellectual curiosity. Usually it comes from other, more practical questions. One ...
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Metaphysics and Mystery - Session 2.2 Invitation - Do You Know That You Know
Here you are invited to explore the idea: “A state of belief is a state of being.” First I ask you to revisit something that you believed in the past, something you were so sure about that you would have said, “I know this. It is a fact” – and, which you no longer believe. Who were you in knowing...
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Metaphysics and Mystery - Session 3.1 The Living Universe
This session, more dialogic than the first two, has four parts: the main material in two parts, an invitation/assignment, and an afterthought. Part 1 starts with my journey beyond my “birth religion” of reductionist materialism and ends with a vivid demonstration of how organization, beauty, and ...
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Metaphysics and Mystery - Session 3.2 The Borders of Reality
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Metaphysics and Mystery - Session 3.3 Invitation - Reality is Alive
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Metaphysics and Mystery - Session 3.4 For Those Who Feel Left Out
Review of This Session’s Invitation
The invitation here is to bring into your awareness an event that seems like evidence that the universe is alive and intelligent, or that reality is bigger and more mysterious than our culture holds. It could by an experience of marvelous synchronicity, or myst... -
Metaphysics and Mystery - Session 4.0 Ask Me Anything
On this webinar, Charles gathered live with course participants to share stories and respond to a variety of questions. In preparation, Charles and his team reviewed many stories submitted by the audience. Several were selected for the webinar, and others were collected for you to read. The sessi...
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Metaphysics and Mystery - Session 5.1 What (And Where) is Consciousness
This session starts with a request to define some key terms such as “metaphysics” and “spirituality.” I am reluctant – partly because, as I say, the intellectual strategy of starting with definitions and reasoning up from there is bears a mortal flaw: the eventual conclusions are smuggled into th...
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Metaphysics and Mystery - Session 5.2 Invitation - Being a Rock
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Metaphysics and Mystery - Session 5.3 Follow Up - Where is Consciousness
Session 5.3: Follow-up – Where is Consciousness?
In this extra video I explore the idea, associated with Bernardo Kastrup, that we are whirlpools in the stream of universal consciousness; that the brain, rather than producing consciousness, tunes into it like a radio. A “whirlpool” doesn’t quite ... -
Metaphysics and Mystery - Session 6.1 Entering a Different Reality
This session might be called “applied metaphysics,” because it is probably the most practical of the entire course. Here I offer my thoughts on the process of transitioning into another reality. It isn’t just about some kind of technique. Because reality is a relationship, for it to change, you h...
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Metaphysics and Mystery - Session 6.2 An Intimate Moment
Taking it back to the person, here are some reflections I offered after someone on our team received from alarming news about his father, which brought us into a reality prior to story. A real, human moment. Such moments are more important than any philosophy in undoing the foundation pieces of a...
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Metaphysics and Mystery - Session 7.0 Ask Me Anything Else
During this webinar, Charles responded to comments and questions real-time with the audience. He discussed some of the course themes and experiences with the material, and brought the metaphysics and mystery journey to a close.