<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span><div id="yiv1743025060"><div class="yui_3_7_2_20_1366211088787_80" style="font-size: 14pt;"><div class="yui_3_7_2_20_1366211088787_81">Friends,</div><div class="yui_3_7_2_20_1366211088787_82" style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div class="yui_3_7_2_20_1366211088787_83" style="background-color: transparent;">I'd like to share<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14pt;"> a book recommendation-- Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein. </span></div><div class="yui_3_7_2_20_1366211088787_87" style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div class="yui_3_7_2_20_1366211088787_88" style="background-color: transparent;">I consider this book among the top ten books anyone should read (aside from any books one relies on for a spiritual practice-- if one can make that
distinction!). </div><div class="yui_3_7_2_20_1366211088787_89" style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div class="yui_3_7_2_20_1366211088787_90" style="background-color: transparent;">I think it can support all of us to think more deeply and carefully about abundance, money, wealth, and such.</div><div class="yiv1743025060yui_3_7_2_30_1365003605283_103 yui_3_7_2_20_1366211088787_91" style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div class="yiv1743025060yui_3_7_2_30_1365003605283_103 yui_3_7_2_20_1366211088787_92" style="background-color: transparent;">Eisenstein, to me, understands and shares much like Harrison Owen and others the power of Story and he offers a New Story of the emerging economic system. Interestingly, one of Eisenstein's next books will be on Story...</div><div class="yui_3_7_2_20_1366211088787_93" style="background-color: transparent;"><br class="yiv1743025060Apple-interchange-newline">My book club (we call it an
"eating club with a reading problem"), usually a pretty ornery group, are finding ourselves really stimulated by this book.<br></div><div class="yui_3_7_2_20_1366211088787_94" style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div class="yui_3_7_2_20_1366211088787_95" style="background-color: transparent;">You can buy the book, but in the spirit of the kind of book it is, it is<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://sacred-economics.com/read-online/"> available freely online</a>. There are numerous lectures on Youtube, summarizing many of the ideas in the book. And it has been translated into a few languages. This <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEZkQv25uEs">teaser video on the book</a> might also be of interest. And if you're not much of a reader, there are numerous talks by the author available online.</div><div class="yui_3_7_2_20_1366211088787_96" style="background-color:
transparent;"><br></div><div class="yui_3_7_2_20_1366211088787_97" style="background-color: transparent;">If you do pick it up or have read it, I'd love to hear what the book stimulates in you.</div><div class="yui_3_7_2_20_1366211088787_98" style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div class="yui_3_7_2_20_1366211088787_98" style="background-color: transparent;">And what book(s) have you been inspired by recently?</div><div class="yui_3_7_2_20_1366211088787_99" style="background-color: transparent;">much warmth,</div><div class="yui_3_7_2_20_1366211088787_100" style="background-color: transparent;">raffi</div><div class="yui_3_7_2_20_1366211088787_101"></div></div></div></span></div><div></div><div> </div> </div></body></html>