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Episode #466 - The Ideology of Reduction (Ascent of Humanity #6) |
| ⌚ Mon 8 June 2009 ☻Charles Eisenstein (reading) |
 Download Hour1 Download Hour2This week we continue with Charles Eisenstein's Ascent of Humanity, a wide ranging tour de force that examines the ideology that underlies the pathological behavior that has caused the human species to bring a planet that was indeed the Garden of Eden to the brink of destruction. |
 Like its most iconic achievement, space travel, science has taken us on flights of intellect to a cold, barren, alien realm, reducing life to a collection of forces and masses. And yet, this new vantage point has revealed a previously unsuspected splendor. Gazing through the lens of accumulated scientific knowledge at a body or a cell, when we really get its complexity and orchestration, its order and its beauty, the perfect mesh of levels and systems, then we know we are in the presence of a miracle. Awe is the only authentic response.
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Music: Ethan Miller and Kate Boverman
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