Charles Eisenstein is a countercultural philosopher, essayist, speaker, and the author of several books, including Sacred Economics and The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible. He graduated from Yale University with a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy before spending the next decade in Taiwan, where he worked as a Chinese-English translator. He has four children, all boys, and currently lives with his wife in Rhode Island.
"Charles Eisenstein is one of those courageous dissidents who also
holds the faith that people can return to love after a hiatus
of hate. As we go deeper into this new era of permacrisis,
Charles’s writings will become ever more pertinent."
—Professor Jem Bendell, professor of sustainability
leadership; founder, Institute for Leadership and Sustainability
(IFLAS), University of Cumbria (UK); founder and former
coordinator, Deep Adaptation Forum
"Charles Eisenstein has taken on the hardest task in the
world—writing an intelligent, compassionate, and uncompromising
book on the Covid-19 pandemic, without falling into either partisan
hysteria or a shameless defense of power. This is a necessary and
brave read." —Paul Kingsnorth, novelist; founder, Dark Mountain
Project
“There are moments in our history in which the art of the written
word captures the extraordinary beauty of the human condition as it
hangs suspended in tenuous polarity at a tipping point of
evolution. The Coronation is one of these moments. In between these
words that are as prophetic as they are poetic is the space of our
collective metamorphosis. Tread lightly and dive deep here to find
your own sovereign beauty.” —Zach Bush, MD
“If there’s one thing this dangerous collection of essays
about the coronavirus pandemic shows, it is that the virus that
irrupted into the stolid course of our everyday lives back in 2019
is something more than a pathogen: It is an indictment of the
village by the masqueraded fool outside its fences; it is a
composting of the colonial altars dedicated to the worship of the
one true God of knowing, science; it is a crystallization of the
racialized economies of suffering and quotidian violence behind the
spectacular; it is an exposé on the theatricality of contemporary
politics and the care it promises good citizens. It is thought
itself. We’ve been visited by this wild ferocious goddess, and few
can do as well as Charles does in tracing out an ethnography of her
passing. Whether or not we agree with the maps Charles composes, we
will need this struggle, this
wrestling-together-with-our-exposed-selves, if we hope to thrive as
an entourage species.” —Bayo Akomolafe, PhD, author of These Wilds
Beyond Our Fences
“Charles Eisenstein is one of the most original writers working
today, and his essays on the social and spiritual impact of the
pandemic event are among his best work. The Coronation is essential
reading for anyone concerned about the damage that has been done to
our societies and how we might recover and collectively go forward
from here.” —C. J. Hopkins, award-winning playwright, novelist, and
political satirist
"Charles Eisenstein is one of the few voices worldwide who have the
capacity to be critical and gentle at the same time. His work is
brilliant, crystal clear at the logical level, evocative and
eloquent at the stylistic level. Charles went down the road of
rationality to the very end, and at the end of it, he entered a
world of mystical and spiritual knowledge and beauty. Charles’s
discourse contains the seeds of a new way of living together and of
a true solution for the series of crises our culture is going
through at this very moment." —Mattias Desmet, author of The
Psychology of Totalitarianism
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