💗THE MORE BEAUTIFUL WORLD OUR HEARTS KNOW IS POSSIBLE💗

Charles Eisenstein (2021). Sacred Economics: Money, gift and                                                        society in the age of transition                                                              (revised edition).

Eisenstein's first edition of Sacred Economics was published in 2011. This second edition comes out a decade later in 2021. The basic ideas of the book revolve around two worldviews: one of separation, scarcity, and materialism, and the other worldview of reunion, relationship, connection, and living in the gift. The middle parts of the book elaborate ideas about economics, finances, industry, politics, law, and government--i admit not understanding most of these sections and skimming through them. The parts that interest me most are the first few and last few chapters where Eisenstein shares his vision of "the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible."

While i appreciate all of the visionary ideas, and the general plans for how to more forward economically, i did not find enough practical advice for what i can do as an ordinary person in my own daily life for enacting the worldview of reunion in a way that makes my life, and the lives of those i live and work with, more beautiful. 

There is a need for a second book that describes and explains "how to" live in relationship and gift. Concrete, specific, practical things that most of us can do everyday. 

Things like: tailoring our own clothes from thrift shops so they fit our body type rather than buy new clothes made in sweat shops, learning how to fix standard household appliances (like the refrigerator or a lamp) when they break rather than buying brand new ones and adding our old ones to the ever growing land fills, designing, building, remodeling, and landscaping our own home to be more "beautiful" with the help of friends instead of accepting the often drag and ordinary cookie cutter/prefab homes we live in, communication knowledge and skills for living communally or in extended family instead of living alone or as an isolated nuclear family, create local mechanisms for sharing our tools with each other (like lawnmowers, cars, computers, ladders, table saws, musical instruments...) instead of each household owning their own complete set of tools for every possible occasion, forming neighborhood tribes that celebrate being alive weekly or monthly with the lunar calendar instead of not knowing who are neighbors are, human manure composting instead of flushing our manure down the toilet to go to the sewage treatment plant every day, growing and sharing our own food organically (even something simple like a kitchen window herb garden could be a start) instead of buying everything from the supermarket, filtering our water without homemade items instead of purchasing expensive water filters, do more solar cooking on sunny days instead of always using electricity to cook our food, and so forth...there could be hundreds of these kinds of ideas/projects.

Maybe a website is needed entitled "Everyday practical ideas for how to realize the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible." Many of these "do it yourself" ideas/projects are probably already on the web/internet, but need to be curated, tried/tested, and reviewed by many ordinary folks, keeping the best and leaving the rest. 

This is an ongoing lifetime calling for those that feel the urge to REALIZE the beautiful world our hearts know is possible right now. We can start by sharing our best diy idea with one other person and/or trying out one diy idea and sharing the results with one other person.