# #ascent-of-humanity > 53 public memos tagged #ascent-of-humanity on MythOS. ## Links - [Tag Page](https://mythos.one/tag/ascent-of-humanity) - [MCP Server](https://mythos.one/api/mcp) ## Memos - [The Ascent of Humanity](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/579f5f): 'The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self' by Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the... - [Storyteller Consciousness](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/4224d9): 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... - [taking advantage](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/d770d6): The standard control-based response would be, “How can we take advantage of this knowledge to exert more powerful, more precise control over reality?” In the Age of Reunion, the response will be to... - [Omnipresent Anxiety and Insecurity](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/a3f13b): If you buy food from the supermarket deli, the people behind the kitchen doors, whom you never meet, are dispensable. If they quit, even if they die, someone else can be hired to fill their role. The... - [Types of Capital](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/afbe34): Types of Capital are the various forms of value recognized and exchanged within One Inc, encompassing financial, natural, intellectual, social, cultural, and spiritual contributions. Each type of... - [Financial Capital](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/dd6b04): Financial capital is a form of value typically represented by money, which serves as a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and a store of value in economic systems. Financial capital allows... - [Spiritual Capital](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/a9bd69): Spiritual capital refers to the aggregate of intangible human qualities such as imagination, creativity, attention span, playfulness, spontaneity, and the capacity for learning. The concept is used... - [Cultural Capital](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/a73d1a): Cultural capital is the term for the cumulative products of human intellectual and creative activity, such as language, art, stories, music, and ideas. Cultural capital has traditionally been... - [Social Capital](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/8ac8bd): Social capital encompasses the web of human relationships that provide sustenance, security, and enrichment across physical and intangible dimensions. Social capital includes essential... - [Intellectual Capital](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/b648d5): Intellectual capital refers to the collective knowledge, insights, skills, and experiences possessed by individuals and groups within an organization or society. As a form of intangible asset,... - [Natural Capital](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/e615ee): Natural capital refers to nature itself; the earth's minerals, land, soil, oceans, freshwater, and genomes; everything, that is, that was not created by human beings—including human beings. The... - [From Affluence to Anxiety](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/3e6066): Consider our economic paradigm. Whereas in primitive societies cooperation was the rule, in our society it is competition. More for you means less for me. I’ve got to stake out my territory and... - [Age of Reunion](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/203d45): 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]... - [Gaian Birthing](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/d707ea): The Gaian Birthing, a subchapter of The Ascent of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein, depicts the rebirth of the world we know—transition from what he calls the Age of Separation into the Age of Reunion.... - [Self and Cosmos](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/2f7de1): 'Self and Cosmos' is Chapter VIII of The Ascent of Humanity. Human Nature Restored The Fall The Perinatal Matrix The Gaian Birthing Eulogy and Redemption At Play Beside the Tower Contexts... - [The World Under Control](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/9e1965): 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... - [The Way of the World](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/990d75): 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... - [Money and Property](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/c75f6f): 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,... - [The Ascent of Humanity // Table of Contents](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/d90432): 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... - [Age of Water](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/8e2741): Water carries metaphorical connotations very different from those of fire. Water denies linearity: cycling endlessly, it is also the agent of nature’s cycles, nourishing both growth and decay.... - [intimacy](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/aae851): Reflections "Real intimacy comes not from telling about yourself—your childhood, your relationships, your health problems, etc.—but from joint creativity, which brings out your true qualities,... - [Labeling the World](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/a22a9e): Labeling the world is the process by which humans use language—particularly nouns—to categorize and define the vast diversity of experiences, objects, and phenomena encountered in reality. This... - [separate self](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/7ea98c): The "discrete and separate self" is a label created and explored by Charles Eisenstein in The Ascent of Humanity. In the book, Eisenstein frames the separate self, our ego, as an illusion while the... - [co-creativity](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/b80a15): Contemporary social gatherings are largely based on 📝consumption—of food, drink, drugs, sports, or other entertainment. Joint consumption only passes the time painlessly by covering up a lack, and... - [play](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/04501f): Play is time spent without purpose. [1] If entertainment is the consumption of fun, play is its production. [2] To be playful is not to be trivial or frivolous, or to act as if nothing of consequence... - [attune](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/6001f3): In the Age of Reunion, instead of taking advantage, the response will be to become more attuned to the ocean of being in which we are embedded; being in harmony with the Self. From that attunement... - [Collective Transformation](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/fc2eda): On the mythological level, Stage Three: Struggle corresponds to religious archetypes of Armageddon, the final battle between Good and Evil, or Ragnarok, the battle between the gods and the giants in... - [The Origins of Separation](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/1b5c05): 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... - [Stage Two: Confinement](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/e54024): 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... - [Stage One: Bliss](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/1e64ff): 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... - [I Think, Therefore I Am](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/d96163): ”I think, therefore I am.” Am-ness lies in thought alone. or less, The logic of dekhart says that the self is not the thoughts, but that which is aware of the thoughts. Tags ascent-of-humanity (See:... - [control](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/4c417f): 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]... - [The Perinatal Matrix](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/c23530): In the same way we are born physically as individuals, so also are we being born collectively by our Mother Earth, and spiritually into a new concept of who we are. The Perinatal Matrix, a label... - [Tower of Babel](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/3dd728): The Tower of Babel is biblicalstory and Origin Myth meant to explain why the world's peoples speak different languages. [[1]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towerof_Babel) According to the story, a... - [The Crumbling of Certainty](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/bc4725): 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... - [Technologies of Reunion](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/475b90): http://ascentofhumanity.com/text/chapter-7-05/ Tags ascent-of-humanity (See: The Ascent of Humanity) - [Interest and Self-Interest](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/94b8d3): http://ascentofhumanity.com/text/chapter-4-10/ Tags ascent-of-humanity (See: The Ascent of Humanity) - [Fire Mind](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/45c4f7): A fire mind is a frame of mind from the Age of Fire; a belief that there is a discrete and separate self. "Foregoing self, the Universe grows 'I'." ~ Edwin Arnold "It’s not that we shouldn’t be... - [Back to Play](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/ecd530): "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... - [Currency of Cooperation](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/3254b1): "Prosperity is relating, not acquiring." ~ Tom Brown, Jr. A currency of cooperation is a type of money system that encourages sharing, conservation, and community; not competition, consumption, and... - [Restorative Economy](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/4d6b8b): A restorative economy is an economy intended to bring about the Age of Reunion. One Inc Cooperative's manifesting of this began with the creation of our Currency of Cooperation and was further... - [Water Mind](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/7c4064): A water mind is a frame of thinking from the Age of Water; a time when the dominant technologies are based not on fire but on earth, water, light, sound, and the human body. [1] Reflections "If our... - [Stage Four: Emergence](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/72789b): In stage four of birth, the baby is born into a new and unimagined world, where he becomes an anatomically distinct individual. In any kind of birth process, the entity being born cannot imagine what... - [Alone in a Crowd](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/96d020): Alone in a Crowd is a section in 'Chapter IV: Money and Property' of The Ascent of Humanity. It was my introduction to co-creativity and inspired the reformatting of Symposium. It's available, here.... - [Age of Fire](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/ddac26): The Age of Fire is a time in human history defined by separation and domination. "The unsustainability of our present system derives at bottom from its linearity, its assumption of an infinite... - [Spirit of the Gift](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/9c4bba): The coming fusion of science and religion, so deeply related to the sacred purpose of the human species, can also be understood in terms of the spirit of the gift. If science is to seek the... - [consumption](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/f699c3): "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](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/489554): 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... - [no amount of money](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/dbaaa7): 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... - [Demurrage-Based Money System](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/0e51e3): "A gift must be passed on or it will stagnate and eventually become a curse." ~ Lewis Hyde In a demurrage-based money system, currency—called "free money" by Silvio Gesell—bears a form of negative... - [Local Exchange Trading System](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/683061): A local exchange trading system, or LETS, is a locally initiated, democratically organized, community enterprise that provides a community information service and records transactions of members... - [Age of Separation](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/cd579b): The Age of Separation Tags ascent-of-humanity (See: The Ascent of Humanity) Notes 'Notes on the Dynamics of Human Civilization: The Growth Revolution, Part I' seems to be speaking from a similar... - [co-consumption](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/bbceaa): 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...