The Age of Water is 📝Charles Eisenstein's name, in 📝The Ascent of Humanity, for the era that follows the 📝Age of Fire — a civilization whose dominant technologies and ways of thinking are based not on combustion and control but on earth, water, light, sound, and the human body.
Water is chosen deliberately, for its qualities are the opposite of fire's. Water denies linearity: it cycles endlessly, the agent of nature's own loops of growth and decay. It resists separation — the "universal solvent," it tends away from purity and partakes of its environment. And it is the nemesis of control: finding the smallest crack, nothing can hold it; as waves, it wears down any bulwark. Where fire burns clean and purifies, water makes a mess — and life happens in the mess.
As the elemental signature of the 📝Age of Reunion, water names a mode of being that is cyclical, regenerative, and porous — and the 📝Water Mind is the consciousness that goes with it.