All memos tagged #charles-eisenstein

Storyteller Consciousness is (1) the conscious awareness that the stories we tell create the reality we see, (2) presence in the acknowledgment that we are the authors of our own stories, (3) and...

Charles Eisenstein is an American author and public speaker whose work spans economics, ecology, spirituality, and the history of civilization. Born in 1967 and educated at Yale in mathematics and...

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...

A restorative economy is an economy intended to bring about what Charles Eisenstein called the Age of Reunion. One Inc's manifesting of this began with the creation of its Currency of Cooperation and...

The spirit of the gift is the understanding that life itself is a gift, and that the way to honor a gift is to pass it on. The phrase comes from The Ascent of Humanity, where Charles Eisenstein folds...

A restorative currency is a currency designed to repair relationships — between people, and between people and the living world — rather than simply price transactions. The concept emerged from The...

The Perinatal Matrix is a model of the psychology of birth, developed by the psychiatrist Stanislav Grof and borrowed by Charles Eisenstein in The Ascent of Humanity to read the present moment in...

The Age of Water is Charles Eisenstein's name, in The Ascent of Humanity, for the era that follows the Age of Fire — a civilization whose dominant technologies and ways of thinking are based not on...

The Age of Fire is Charles Eisenstein's name, in The Ascent of Humanity, for the era of civilization defined by separation and domination — the technological face of the Age of Separation. Fire is...

A water mind is the frame of thinking native to the Age of Water — the consciousness of the Age of Reunion, in which the self is felt as continuous with the world rather than divided from it. It is...

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...

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...