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The Importance of Rites of Passage

The Profound Importance of Rites of Passage: Mentoring the Future

Ike - Knowledge Is Everywhere (2014)

The Children’s Fire: Our Culture’s Missing, Ancient, Core Value

Films For Action University: a Map for Navigating the Transition From Empire to Earth Community

What Is The Cost For Those of Us Not Born into Community?

Initiation Into a Living Planet

The Bloom Episode 2: Practicing The New World

The Bloom Episode 3: New Ways of the Sacred

Towards a Regenerative Cosmology: Re-Inhabitation, Re-Enchantment, Re-Indigenisation

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

Ikigai - Finding Your Reason for Being

Documentary Series

Planet Community: A 5-Part Series Exploring Cooperation in Action (2019)

Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement

Digital Wampum: Testimony of the Iroquois | 8-Part Series

Plutocracy: Political Repression In The U.S.A. (2019)

In Our Hands: A Documentary Series about People Regenerating Their Lives & The Earth (2020)

The Power Principle: Corporate Empire and the Rise of the National Security State (2012)

This Is Neoliberalism (2020)

Sustainable Living Series with Rob Greenfield

Our Land: A 7 Part Series about Revolutionizing Our Relationship to Food & Land

Masanobu Fukuoka (Mind, Farm, Life) - Three Part Series with Larry Korn

Counter-Intelligence: Shining a Light on Black Operations (2013)

Peter Joseph: Introducing a Resource Based Economy (Multi-Part Series)

The Battle For New York: A Series on the City's Housing Crisis

How TV Ruined Your Life (2011)

The New Story Revolution

The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names

A New Story of the People | Charles Eisenstein

A New Story for Humanity: Change the Story, Change the World (2016)

Stories That Once Offered My Life Meaning No Longer Satisfy. Have You Felt This Too?

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

Charles Eisenstein: The Two Great Stories That Give Meaning to Our Lives

The Global Brain | Peter Russell (1983)

The New Story: Why Changing the Myth Changes Our world

Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein (2019 Remix)

A Charter for the Social Solidarity Economy

Money & Life (2013)

Occupy Love (2013)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Charles Eisenstein: The Story of Interbeing

United Natures: a United Nations of all Species (2013)

Yearning our Way to A More Beautiful World

Carl Sagan - Who Speaks for Earth?

ENOUGHNESS: Restoring Balance to the Economy in the Most Awesome Way Ever

Joanna Macy: From The Great Unraveling to The Great Turning

The Revolution Is Love! Our Movement is for the 100%

The Bloom Episode 3: New Ways of the Sacred

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community

Prout: Economic Democracy in Practice (2004)

Jacque Fresco - A Story of Change

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible - Charles Eisenstein

10 Principles of Radical Ecological Democracy

The Sacred Balance (2002) (trailer)

Earth Democracy

15 Films Inspiring and Illuminating the 'New Story' Revolution

We Need a New Story for Our Relationship with the Earth, One that Goes Beyond Science and Religion

A New Story for a New Economy

The Charter For Compassion

The Burden of the New Story

Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview (2013)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

In Transition 2.0: A Story of Resilience & Hope in Extraordinary Times (2012)

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)

Paradise or Oblivion (2012)

An Unlearning: My Meeting with Charles Eisenstein (2022)

The Choice Is Ours (2016)

Self-Organisation Beyond Hierarchy

The Story That's Destroying the World

PROUT's Concept of Economic Democracy

Imagine The Most Beautiful Future: What Do You See?

This Is The "Living on Earth 101" Primer Every Human Needs To See. And It's Only 52 Seconds.

Capitalism Is Just a Story - Rise Up and Create a New One

I Am Not Black. You Are Not White: We Are Not the Racial Labels Elites Invented to Divide Us

Dada Krsnasevananda on "The Role of Spirituality in Modern Society"

Love School (2019) (trailer)

Charles Eisenstein on The Challenge of Communicating Beyond the Boundaries of Consensus Reality

Charles Eisenstein - Why We Need Community To Live In the New Story

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future (2018)

Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012)

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

8 Principles for a Regenerative Civilization

Today I Rise: This Beautiful Short Film Is Like a Love Poem For Your Heart and Soul

Communication Skills

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonviolent Communication Basics (2000)

How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently

How to Be a Great Listener

Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places: The Heart and Science of Relationship Success

3 Essential Strategies for Integrating Life Experiences

4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Speaking Up (or Listening)

If You Want to Say Thank You, Don't Say Sorry - And 6 Other Examples of Beautiful Communication

Alan Alda on the Importance of Clear Communication

The Four Mantras of True Presence

What It Means To Communicate

How Faux-Feelings Are Sabotaging Your Communication Efforts

21 Examples of NVC Consciousness

How to Have a Good Conversation | Celeste Headlee

8 Ways to Master the Art of Mindful Communication

5 Steps to Improve Your Child's Communication Skills

Increasing Our Capacity to Feel Is Essential to Living Our Best Life and Connecting with Our Kids. Here's How.

Thich Nhat Hanh: No Enemies

The Purpose of Nonviolent Communication

Speak Up: How to Respond to Everyday Bigotry

Everyone Growing Up In Our Culture Was Taught This Game, But It's Not Making Anyone Happy

Rebel Wisdom

Feminine Wisdom | Schuyler Brown & Samantha Sweetwater

Identity & Empathy | Ayishat Akanbi

Music, Culture & Race | Greg Thomas

The Religious Wars of the Pandemic Endgame | Rebel Wisdom

Indigenous Thinking for Troubled Times, Tyson Yunkaporta

Addicted to Ideology? | Gabor Maté

Moving On From #Metoo | Louise Mazanti PhD

Rogan, CNN, Ivermectin & Heterodox Thinking | Zubin Damania

Is the Psychedelic Renaissance Doomed? | Jamie Wheal

Rebel Wisdom: Where Gillette Went Wrong

An Epidemic of Control: Charles Eisenstein

"A Glitch in the Matrix" - Jordan Peterson, the Intellectual Dark Web & the Mainstream Media (2018)

Glitch in the Matrix II, The Origin of the Intellectual Dark Web (2019)

Take Back Your Attention From The Social Media Algorithms

Is It Time to Change Course on Covid? | William Eden

Unlearning Race? | Thomas Chatterton Williams

If We Don't Fix Sensemaking, We Won't Survive | Daniel Schmachtenberger

Success, Culture & Race | Coleman Hughes

Masculinity

The New Macho: One Vision Of What Mature Masculinity Looks Like In The 21st Century

'Strong Men?' Masculinity in the Modern World

5 Habits of Highly Compassionate Men

Why Men's Work? Surely We’re Over Dividing Things by Gender in the 21st Century?

'Masculinity is Essential to Society'

Maniphesto: A Manifest for a New Perspective on Gender

What Is Toxic Masculinity?

The Mask You Live In: An Exploration Of American Masculinity (2015)

Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity (1999) (trailer)

Reconciliation at the Intersection of the Sacred Masculine/Feminine and Activism

How I Unlearned Dangerous Lessons about Masculinity | Eldra Jackson

Tenderness, Vulnerability, and Mourning in Response to the Legacy of Patriarchy

Why Patriarchy Is Not About Men

Our Culture's Unhealthy Ideas Surrounding Masculinity Is Killing Men: On The Roots of Men and Trauma

The Complicity of Geek Masculinity on the Big Bang Theory

Is Toxic Masculinity a Mask for Anxiety?

The Adorkable Misogyny of The Big Bang Theory

Misogyny and the Healing of the Masculine

The Wisdom Within: Sacred Masculine and Sacred Feminine

Masculinity, Yet Again, Is Fragile

Healing the Divine Masculine

Hope is a Verb

Despair Is Not a Strategy: 15 Principles of Hope

It's Hopeless, What a Relief! (A Letter for the Hopeless)

Be an Island Crystal of Hope In These Times of Profound Global Turbulence

Hope vs. Fear - Motivation for Change - Anjali Appadurai

Jane Goodall - Sowing the Seeds of Hope

Resilience: The Biology Of Stress And The Science Of Hope (trailer)

Strategies of Hope: How Americans Can Fight Hate Under Trump

Give Up Hope: It's The Best Chance We Have to Save Everything We Love

Rojava’s Democratic, Feminist Revolution a Source of Hope among Horror

90 Inspiring, Visionary Films That Will Change How You See the World in Profound Ways

The Bodhisattva’s Approach to Activism: A Little Courageous Wisdom to Face a World Gone Mad

Can Beauty Save Our Planet? | Chris Jordan

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

Trending Articles

Comic: If Bart Simpson and Chris Griffin Went to Couples Therapy

Panic Volkushka

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

Bucky Fuller & his World Game: Intro to Saving Planets

Brainsturbator

10 Quotes From an Oglala Lakota Chief That Will Make You Question Everything About Our Society

Wisdom Pills

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

Positive Thinking in a Dark Age: A 12-Step Guide to Gracefully Responding to a Collapsing Dominant Culture

Jim Tull

The Next American Revolution Has Begun And This Is What It Looks Like

Dan West

Against ‘Sustainability’ and Other Plastic Words

Andrew Nikiforuk

How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’

George Lakey

Why Not Voting Is Such an Ineffective Form of Protest

Thomas G. Clark

How to Win: Lessons From the Zad

Greg Frey

The Top 100 Documentaries Inspiring the Shift to a Sustainable Paradigm (2012 Edition)

Films For Action

Dumbing Us Down: The 7 Hidden Lessons of Compulsory Education

Meryn Callander

The History and Philosophy of Aikido

Aikido Association of America

Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter

Caitlin Moran

Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism”

Russell Means

Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex

Steve Bearman

The 12 Most Common Fallacious Gun Arguments - Refuted by a Responsible Gun Owner

Michael E Sparks

Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 41 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending

Films For Action

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

Your Life Can Be Different: 11 Things I'd Like to Tell My Younger Self

Charles Eisenstein

Bosom Buddies: A Photo History of Male Affection

Brett & Kate Mckay

John Lennon's "Imagine," Made Into a Comic Strip

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

Bull$h!t Jobs | David Graeber

Why Don't We Quit Those Bullshit Jobs? (2019)

On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs

David Graeber on the Extreme 'Center'

David Graeber: We Need a Revolution in the Way We Think about "Work"

Revolution In Reverse: Debt, Work and the New Colonialism (2014)

5 Types of Bullshit Jobs and the Role of Work in our Society

Instead of Meaningfully Contributing to Society, Many People Are Stuck In Bullshit Jobs They Hate | Joe Rogan

David Graeber: Why Deregulation Is Actually Expanding Bureaucracy

David Graeber, the Anti-Leader of Occupy Wall Street

Environmental Films

Treeline: A Story Written in Rings (2018)

Klamath (2016)

Ecological Learning Through Direct Experience (2015)

India's Healing Forests: Come Home, Be Healed (2019)

How Wolves Change Rivers | George Monbiot

Public Trust: Fight for America’s Public Lands (2020)

Regreening the Planet (2014)

Stories Of Wolves: The Lobo Returns (2013) (trailer)

How Whales Change Climate | George Monbiot

Fantastic Fungi (2019)

Ripple Effect (2014)

Why Earth Destruction Is a Crime (2015)

HOME (2009)

Earth Days (2009)

Regreening the Desert with John D. Liu (2012)

Vanishing of the Bees (2009) (trailer)

The Dark Side of Tulum (2019)

Symphony of the Soil (2012)

Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives: The Environmental Footprint of War (2008)

The Soil Solution To Climate Change (2013)

Films For Action

Does Films For Action Have Bias? - a Statement About Neutrality and Our Values

Films For Action University: a Map for Navigating the Transition From Empire to Earth Community

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

50 Paradigm-Shifting Documentaries for a Wise Earth

100 Short Films to Expand Your Consciousness

Films For Action's Vision for the Future

123 Subversive Documentaries That Challenge the Status Quo

The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names

90 Inspiring, Visionary Films That Will Change How You See the World in Profound Ways

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

Can You See It?

Can You See It ? | Extinction Rebellion France

Without Saying a Word This 6 Minute Clip From Samsara Will Make You Speechless

The Great Pause: Normal *Was* The Crisis

The Astronauts Who Saw This Were Never the Same Again

After I Watched This, I Put My Phone Down for the Rest of the Day

This Is What Every Young Girl Can Expect to be Bombarded with for a Lifetime, Condensed Into 1 Min

A Letter from the Virus: #LISTEN

Capitalism Is Just a Story - Rise Up and Create a New One

Gabor Maté: Why Our Culture Makes So Many Of Us Unhappy

Alan Watts: What is Wrong With Our Culture

The One Simple Truth about Our Existence That Everyone Needs to Know

The Lie We Live

The High Price of Materialism

This Is The World As It Is

It's The Greatest Drama of All Time and You Just Might Be Missing It

We Are Built To Be Kind

The Most Mind-Altering Photograph of All Time

The History Our Culture Doesn't Teach

The War at Home: The Untold History of Class War in the United States (2021)

Schooling the World (2010)

Oliver Stone: The Untold History Of The United States (2012)

The Power Principle: Corporate Empire and the Rise of the National Security State (2012)

Plutocracy: Political Repression In The U.S.A. (2019)

Counter-Intelligence: Shining a Light on Black Operations (2013)

This Is Neoliberalism (2020)

Human Resources: Social Engineering In The 20th Century (2010)

The Canary Effect: Kill the Indian, Save the Man (2006)

Fall and Winter (2013)

What I've Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy (2000)

Monumental Myths (2009)

Utopia (2013)

Where the Term "Redneck" Came From

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