We Need a New Story

Title: The Coronation

Author: Charles Eisenstain

URL: https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/the-coronation/

Type: Essay

Why It’s Important: The author posits that the onset of the global pandemic has created an opportunity for our global culture to leave behind the destructive “story of separation” and replace it with a new “story of interbeing”.

Date Published: March 2020

Submitted By: Jonathan May

Excerpt: “There is an alternative to the paradise of perfect control that our civilization has so long pursued, and that recedes as fast as our progress, like a mirage on the horizon. Yes, we can proceed as before down the path toward greater insulation, isolation, domination, and separation. We can normalize heightened levels of separation and control, believe that they are necessary to keep us safe, and accept a world in which we are afraid to be near each other. Or we can take advantage of this pause, this break in normal, to turn onto a path of reunion, of holism, of the restoring of lost connections, of the repair of community and the rejoining of the web of life.“