To attune is to bring oneself into resonance with something larger — and in 📝Charles Eisenstein's 📝The Ascent of Humanity, it names the basic stance of the 📝Age of Reunion.
The civilization of separation meets new knowledge with a single reflex: how can we take advantage of this to control reality more precisely? Attunement asks the opposite. Rather than extending mastery over the world, it seeks to become more sensitive to the ocean of being in which we are already embedded — in harmony with the larger Self rather than set against it.
Eisenstein suggests that from genuine attunement arises a kind of knowledge the controlling mind would call intuitive, even supernatural, along with undreamed-of ways of communicating — with other people, with plants and animals, even with the body's own cells. Where control hardens the boundary of the self, attunement softens it. It is less a technique than a willingness: to listen before acting, and to treat the world as a partner rather than an object.