Table of Contents

• Introduction

Chapter 1: 📝The Triumph of Technology

• Gee Whiz– The Future!
• Utopia Postponed
• The Addiction to Control
• From Separation to Boredom
• 📝From Affluence to Anxiety

Chapter 2: 📝The Origins of Separation

• The Biological Origins of Self
• Fire and Stone
• 📝Labeling the World
• Mathematics and Measure
• Keeping Time
• Images of Images
• The Marvelous Piraha
• Cultivation and Culture
• The Machine
• Religion and Ritual
• The Playful Universe,

Chapter 3: 📝The Way of the World

• The Scientific Method
• My Personal Age of Reason
• Masters of the Universe
• The Quest for Certainty
• Reducing Reality,
• The Ghost in the Machine,
• The Origin of Life,
• Alone in the Universe,

Chapter 4: 📝Money and Property

• The Realm of Me and Mine
• 📝Alone in a Crowd, 📝Alone in a Crowd
• The Anonymous Power
• 📝Social Capital, 📝Social Capital
• 📝Cultural Capital, 📝Cultural Capital
• 📝Natural Capital
• 📝Spiritual Capital
• Time, Money, and the Good
• The Economics of Other
• 📝Interest and Self-Interest
• The Crisis of Captial

Chapter 5: 📝The World Under Control

• The Total Depravity of Man
• The Winners and the Losers
• Life and Death
• Yes and No
• The Pressure to Break Free
• Molding Minds
• The Great Indoors
• Life Under Contract
• The War on Germs
• The War on Suffering
• Life in a Playpen

Chapter 6: 📝The Crumbling of Certainty

• The End of Objectivity
• Truth Without Certainty
• Order Without Design
• The Nature of Purpose
• The Purpose of Nature
• Life Without a Replicator
• The Community of Life
• The Genetic Plenum

Chapter 7: The 📝Age of Reunion

• The Convergence of Crises
• The Currency of Cooperation, 📝Currency of Cooperation
• The Restorative Economy, 📝Restorative Economy
• 📝Age of Water
• 📝Technologies of Reunion
• 📝Work and Art United
• 📝Back to Play
• The Medicine of Interbeingness
• 📝Spirit of the Gift
• 📝Storyteller Consciousness
• In Love with the World

Chapter 8: 📝Self and Cosmos

• Human Nature Restored
• The Fall
• 📝The Perinatal Matrix
• 📝The Gaian Birthing
• Eulogy and Redemption
• At Play Beside the Tower

Contexts

• 🏷️#ascent-of-humanity (See: 📝The Ascent of Humanity)
• 🏷️#charles-eisenstein (See: 📝Charles Eisenstein)