All memos tagged #ascent-of-humanity

'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 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...

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...

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 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 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 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 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 encompasses the web of human relationships that provide sustenance, security, and enrichment across physical and intangible dimensions. Social capital includes essential...

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 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...

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...

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]...

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' 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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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....