All memos tagged #ascent-of-humanity

The Ascent of Humanity is a 2007 book by Charles Eisenstein that traces the converging crises of modern civilization — ecological, economic, medical, and spiritual — to a single root: the illusion of...

Natural capital is the wealth of the living world — the earth's land, water, soil, and ecosystems — everything of value not created by human beings. Natural capital is nature itself: minerals, land,...

Intellectual capital is the wealth of knowledge, insight, skill, and method held by individuals and groups — the intangible expertise that turns experience into capability. Intellectual capital...

Social capital is the wealth held in human relationships — the bonds, trust, access, and advocacy that sustain a community and let it act together. Social capital spans the full range of human...

Cultural capital is the shared wealth of human creative and intellectual life — language, art, stories, music, and ideas — and the representation that carries them into the world. Cultural capital...

Spiritual capital is the wealth of intangible human capacities — imagination, creativity, attention, presence, and playfulness — that generate meaning and aliveness yet resist being priced. The term...

Financial capital is wealth held as money — a medium of exchange, unit of account, and store of value — and the most liquid and abstract of the six Types of Capital. Financial capital is the form of...

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...

A potlatch is a gift-giving feast and an economic system in which status in a community comes from how much one contributes, not how much one owns. It was a primary economic institution among the...

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...

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...

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,...

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 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...

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....