All memos tagged #ascent-of-humanity

Endo-fundic is a word-set John Zdanowski and his friends invented in college: an endofundic person sucks the fun out of a gathering, while an exofundic person contributes fun to it. The pair is...

Types of Capital is a framework that recognizes value in many forms beyond money — counting time, knowledge, relationships, creative work, and attention as real, accountable wealth. It treats an...

Storyteller Consciousness is (1) the conscious awareness that the stories we tell create the reality we see, (2) presence in the acknowledgment that we are the authors of our own stories, (3) and...

In stage two of the birth process, confinement, the Eden of the uterus has become a Hell. Just as there is no way out for the fetus, Hell is a place beyond hope of redemption. The basic condition of...

In the first stage of the birth process, uterine bliss, covers the months before the fetus has begun to push up against the limits of the uterus. She lives in a warm, rhythmic, rocking environment...

Reflections "The more control we exercise over the world, the more sensitive to the world we become. Despite the fact that [dogs] regularly eat off the floor and drink out of toilet bowls, [they]...

"Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more ‘respectful’ teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children." ~ Keith Johnstone Play purely for play's...

"Contemporary parties, for example, are almost always based on consumption—of food, drink, drugs, sports, or other forms of entertainment. We recognize them as frivolous. This sort of fun really...

Work and Art United, a chapter in The Ascent of Humanity, describes a restorative economy that will "demolish some of our culture's basic dualisms: work and art, work and leisure, utility and...

when residents of the Rocky Mountains were polled on how much money it would take for them to accept air pollution in their area, they said that no amount of money would be adequate compensation for...

With our childhood friends we felt a closeness that probably wasn’t communicated in words. We did things together and created things together. From an adult’s perspective our creativity was nothing...

A restorative economy is an economy intended to bring about what Charles Eisenstein called the Age of Reunion. One Inc's manifesting of this began with the creation of its Currency of Cooperation and...

The Age of Reunion is a "return to an original psychology of abundance at a higher order of complexity." It is not a technological return to the Stone Age, but rather a spiritual return. [1]...

Nature is an inter-relational network of inter-being, where everything is in dynamic relation with its environment, and continuously communicating and collaborating within an ocean of being....

The spirit of the gift is the understanding that life itself is a gift, and that the way to honor a gift is to pass it on. The phrase comes from The Ascent of Humanity, where Charles Eisenstein folds...

A restorative currency is a currency designed to repair relationships — between people, and between people and the living world — rather than simply price transactions. The concept emerged from The...

The Perinatal Matrix is a model of the psychology of birth, developed by the psychiatrist Stanislav Grof and borrowed by Charles Eisenstein in The Ascent of Humanity to read the present moment in...

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...

The Age of Fire is Charles Eisenstein's name, in The Ascent of Humanity, for the era of civilization defined by separation and domination — the technological face of the Age of Separation. Fire is...

A water mind is the frame of thinking native to the Age of Water — the consciousness of the Age of Reunion, in which the self is felt as continuous with the world rather than divided from it. It is...