# #charles-eisenstein > Memos about Charles Eisenstein. ## Links - [Tag Page](https://mythos.one/tag/charles-eisenstein) - [MCP Server](https://mythos.one/api/mcp) ## Memos - [The Ascent of Humanity](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/579f5f): '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... - [Becoming Attuned](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/e684cb): 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... - [Omnipresent Anxiety and Insecurity](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/a3f13b): 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... - [Extinction and the Revolution of Love](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/212745): https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/extinction-and-the-revolution-of-love/ Contexts charles-eisenstein reading-list - [Unlearning For Change Agents](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/19e8bd): Unlearning For Change Agents is a self-paced, online course from Charles Eisenstein. The four-session series of “unlearnings” and assignments lay out concepts to assist the transition from a story of... - [Spiritual Capital](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/a9bd69): 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... - [Charles Eisenstein](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/515314): Charles Eisenstein is a public speaker, gift economy advocate, and the author of several books including The Ascent of Humanity (2007), Sacred Economics (2011), and The More Beautiful World Our... - [Gaian Birthing](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/d707ea): 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.... - [The Ascent of Humanity // Table of Contents](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/d90432): 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... - [intimacy](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/aae851): 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,... - [Trusted Disclosure Agreement](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/816826): A Trusted Disclosure Agreement is a non-legal, values-based alternative to a traditional Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). Instead of relying on the enforcement power of state-backed legal systems, it... - [separate self](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/7ea98c): 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... - [attune](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/6001f3): 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... - [Collective Transformation](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/fc2eda): 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... - [Currency of Cooperation](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/3254b1): "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... - [Restorative Economy](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/4d6b8b): 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... - [Water Mind](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/7c4064): 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... - [Stage Four: Emergence](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/72789b): 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... - [Age of Fire](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/ddac26): 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... - [Spirit of the Gift](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/9c4bba): 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... - [Demurrage-Based Money System](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/0e51e3): "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... - [Prophetic Speech](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/bac860): Contexts How It Is Going to Be charles-eisenstein - [ownership](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/fbb015): Ownership subordinates a thing to a human being and makes what was at large and wild into a possession, something of ourselves. [1] Reflections "Early ownership of land was probably more akin to a... - [Move With Nature](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/a274e1): The Harmonic Convergence 2020 - Day 4: Move With Nature ft. Charles Eisenstein https://www.facebook.com/unify/videos/610790463177741 Contexts charles_eisenstein, Charles Eisenstein - [News Fast](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/b85121): A News Fast is a temporary absence from news consumption. Reflections "A news fast is a profound deprogramming. The very choice of what gets into the news and what doesn't, reinforces a certain world...