All memos tagged #ascent-of-humanity

A fire mind is a frame of mind native to the Age of Fire — the consciousness of separation, built on the belief in a discrete and separate self. The term belongs to a pairing in Charles Eisenstein's...

The Gaian Birthing is Charles Eisenstein's central image, in The Ascent of Humanity, for the transition humanity is living through: not a collapse to survive but a birth to move through — the passage...

Labeling the world is the process by which human language — particularly nouns — sorts the boundless variety of reality into a finite set of categories. In The Ascent of Humanity, Charles Eisenstein...

To attune is to bring oneself into resonance with something larger — and in Charles Eisenstein's The Ascent of Humanity, it names the basic stance of the Age of Reunion. The civilization of...

Play is time spent without purpose — and, paradoxically, time of the greatest consequence. If entertainment is the consumption of fun, play is its production: not trivial or frivolous, but a way of...

Co-creativity is the act of making something together — and, in Charles Eisenstein's account, the activity through which people actually come to know one another. Most adult social life, Eisenstein...

The separate self is the sense of oneself as an individual fundamentally divided from other people, from nature, and from the divine — the "discrete and separate self" that Charles Eisenstein places...

The Age of Separation is Charles Eisenstein's name, in The Ascent of Humanity, for the long era of human history organized around the separate self — the sense of the individual as fundamentally...

"I think, therefore I am" — René Descartes' cogito — is, in The Ascent of Humanity, a founding statement of the separate self. By locating the certainty of existence in private thought, Descartes...

Interest and self-interest is a section of Money and Property, the fourth chapter of The Ascent of Humanity, in which Charles Eisenstein links two ideas usually kept apart: the interest charged on...

Technologies of reunion are the tools and practices of Charles Eisenstein's Age of Reunion — technologies organized around attunement and participation rather than domination and control. In The...

A demurrage-based money system is one in which currency steadily loses value if it is held — bearing a form of negative interest, a kind of user fee on money itself. The mechanism reverses a deep...

A currency of cooperation is a money system that rewards sharing, conservation, and community rather than competition, consumption, and accumulation. The term comes from The Ascent of Humanity, where...

The chapter-by-chapter index of The Ascent of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein — a companion to the book's pillar memo, routing to a dedicated memo for each of its eight chapters. Chapters Chapter 1 —...

Self and Cosmos is the eighth and final chapter of The Ascent of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein. Having traced separation and its unraveling, the book closes by reimagining the self and placing the...

The Crumbling of Certainty is the sixth chapter of The Ascent of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein. It marks the book's turning point — the place where science, pressed to its frontiers, begins to...

The World Under Control is the fifth chapter of The Ascent of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein. It follows the logic of control as it extends from external nature into human nature itself. Beginning...

Money and Property is the fourth chapter of The Ascent of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein, and the source of the capital vocabulary used throughout this library. It argues that the regime of money and...

The Way of the World is the third chapter of The Ascent of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein. It examines how the scientific worldview completed the project of separation, turning a living cosmos into a...

The Origins of Separation is the second chapter of The Ascent of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein. It asks how the separate self — the sense of a self divided from world and others — first took hold,...