What Future Are We Preparing For? — Sanity Project 2026 May Live Call Q&A
Charles Eisenstein answers questions on what future we are preparing for, from a Sanity Project live call.
The recognition that no self, body or living thing exists in isolation, and that healing, for a person or a planet, begins by remembering our belonging to the whole.
Where many paths turn inward toward the self, the Path of Interconnectedness turns toward relationship: the understanding that a human being does not exist as a separate individual but arises in and through connection with other people, other living things, and the earth itself. Its teachers come from very different starting points. Some come from biology and medicine, some from philosophy and economics, some from Indigenous lineages that never forgot this way of seeing. What they share is a single recognition: that the story of separation, of the isolated self in a world of objects, is both mistaken and costly, and that renewal comes not from fixing the world as something outside us, but from restoring our felt belonging to the living whole.
Compare background, approach and format before choosing a teacher to follow.

American author and public speaker known for books such as Sacred Economics and The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible, exploring how modern civilization's crises stem from a story of separation from nature and each other.
View profile →Austrian teacher working on collective and intergenerational trauma, combining contemplative practice with research collaborations in trauma science.
View profile →Nigerian-born writer, psychologist and postactivist thinker known for his work on slowness, fugitivity and the more-than-human world.
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Indian-British peace and ecology activist and former Jain monk, known for his 8,000-mile peace walk to the capitals of the nuclear powers and for founding Schumacher College.
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Diné (Navajo) ceremonial leader and voice for Indigenous wisdom in ecological and spiritual gatherings worldwide, known by her spiritual name Woman Stands Shining.
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Citizen of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation and founder of Akantu Intelligence, who hosted First Voices Radio from 1992 until its final broadcast in 2025 and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016.
View profile →Retreats, dialogues and online gatherings connected to this path.
South Africa · Festival / global gathering
Elztal, Germany · Silent meditation retreat
Elztal, Germany · Silent meditation retreat
Talks and conversations from teachers within this path.
Charles Eisenstein answers questions on what future we are preparing for, from a Sanity Project live call.
Charles Eisenstein offers a longer talk on staying sane amid accelerating change in the years ahead.
Charles Eisenstein explores what it takes for truth to be genuinely spoken and heard between two people.
Charles Eisenstein reflects on why evidence alone can no longer be the ground we stand on.