All memos tagged #ascent-of-humanity

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...

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...

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 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....

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...

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...

"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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...