All memos tagged #ascent-of-humanity

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 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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

”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:...

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]...

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...

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...

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...

http://ascentofhumanity.com/text/chapter-7-05/ Tags ascent-of-humanity (See: The Ascent of Humanity)

http://ascentofhumanity.com/text/chapter-4-10/ Tags ascent-of-humanity (See: The Ascent of Humanity)

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...

"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...

"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...