Spiritual capital is the wealth of intangible human capacities — imagination, creativity, attention, presence, and playfulness — that generate meaning and aliveness yet resist being priced.
The term was given weight by 📝Charles Eisenstein in 📝The Ascent of Humanity, who calls these inner qualities "productive assets, generators of wealth" and argues that the ascent of civilization has steadily converted them into 📝Financial Capital — eroding the very humanity they constitute. Spiritual capital names what is lost when attention becomes a harvested resource and creativity becomes content.
Within 📝One Inc's 📝Types of Capital framework, spiritual capital was defined narrowly and practically: the attention, presence, and other ineffable energies a member brought to the community. It was the hardest of the six capitals to quantify — recorded in 📝One Ledger as a story at the time of contribution, its value assigned only later, once hindsight revealed what that presence had made possible.
To name spiritual capital at all is to make a claim: that attention and presence are forms of wealth rather than free inputs, and that an economy blind to them will quietly spend them down.