All memos tagged #charles-eisenstein

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 —...

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...

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...

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...

https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/extinction-and-the-revolution-of-love/ Contexts charles-eisenstein reading-list

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Contexts How It Is Going to Be charles-eisenstein

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...

The Harmonic Convergence 2020 - Day 4: Move With Nature ft. Charles Eisenstein https://www.facebook.com/unify/videos/610790463177741 Contexts charles_eisenstein, Charles Eisenstein

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...