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| − | + | |title=Ascent of Humanity | |
| + | |subtitle=The Evolution of the Human Sense of Self | ||
| + | |image=ascent of humanity cover.jpg | ||
| + | |author=Charles Eisenstein | ||
| + | |published= | ||
| + | |read=Read by [[Lyn Gerry]] from episodes [[461]] - [[485]] and by [[Robin Upton]] for episode [[674]] | ||
| + | |wholetext=http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/ | ||
| + | |seealso=* [http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/archive/audiobooks/Ascent%20of%20Humanity/Ascent%20Of%20Humanity%20(Audiobook).zip The entire audiobook] (806MB ZIP file) | ||
| + | * [http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/archive.php?url=audiobooks/Ascent%20of%20Humanity/ Browse the audiobook by chapter or subsection] | ||
| + | |description=This is a large book which tackles today's social and environmental troubles on a fundamental level. It addresses the evolution of life as a process of incremental separation from ones environment. Eisenstein traces the modern alienation a looong way back (before protozoa!) and takes a detailed look at what is happening around the world, putting forward an animist view of spirituality that emphasises the fundamental connectedness of all life. | ||
| − | + | Eisenstein uses a Biblical parallel, likening the human effort to conquer nature to the building of the Tower of Babel. The psychology of previous investment makes it increasingly hard to give up the effort to reach heaven, even as it becomes ever more painful to continue the effort. He looks forward to what he refers to as "the age of {{cat|reunion}}", in which {{cat|technology}} and human ingenuity is turned to the task of nurturing life and celebrating its difference, spontaneity and chaos, rather than attempting to separate and dissociate ideas and events and thus to bring them under human control. | |
| − | + | |contents=0. [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/introduction.php Introduction] | |
| − | + | # [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter1-0.php The Triumph of Technology] | |
| − | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter1-1.php Gee Whiz—The Future!] [[461]] | |
| − | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter1-2.php Utopia Postponed] [[462]] | |
| − | # The Triumph of Technology | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter1-3.php The Addiction to Control] [[463]] |
| − | #* Gee Whiz—The Future! | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter1-4.php From Separation to Boredom] [[463]] |
| − | #* Utopia Postponed | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter1-5.php From Affluence to Anxiety] [[463]] |
| − | #* The Addiction to Control | + | # [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter2-0.php The Origins of Separation] |
| − | #* From Separation to Boredom | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter2-1.php The Biological Origins of Self] [[463]] |
| − | #* From Affluence to Anxiety | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter2-2.php Fire and Stone] [[463]] |
| − | # The Origins of Separation | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter2-3.php Labeling the World] [[464]], [[673]] |
| − | #* The Biological Origins of Self | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter2-4.php Mathematics and Measure] [[464]] |
| − | #* Fire and Stone | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter2-5.php Keeping Time] [[464]] |
| − | #* Labeling the World | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter2-6.php Images of Images] [[464]] |
| − | #* Mathematics and Measure | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter2-7.php The Marvelous Piraha] [[465]] |
| − | #* Keeping Time | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter2-8.php Cultivation and Culture] [[465]] |
| − | #* Images of Images | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter2-9.php The Machine] [[465]] |
| − | #* The Marvelous Piraha | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter2-10.php Religion and Ritual] [[465]] |
| − | #* Cultivation and Culture | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter2-11.php The Playful Universe] [[465]] |
| − | #* The Machine | + | # [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter3-0.php The Way of the World] |
| − | #* Religion and Ritual | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter3-1.php The Scientific Method] [[466]] |
| − | #* The Playful Universe | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter3-2.php My Personal Age of Reason] [[466]] |
| − | # The Way of the World | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter3-3.php Masters of the Universe] [[466]] |
| − | #* The Scientific Method | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter3-4.php The Quest for Certainty] [[466]] |
| − | #* My Personal Age of Reason | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter3-5.php Reducing Reality] [[467]] |
| − | #* Masters of the Universe | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter3-6.php The Ghost in the Machine] [[467]] |
| − | #* The Quest for Certainty | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter3-7.php The Origin of Life] [[467]] |
| − | #* Reducing Reality | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter3-8.php Alone in the Universe] [[467]] |
| − | #* The Ghost in the Machine | + | # [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter4-0.php Money and Property] |
| − | #* The Origin of Life | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter4-1.php The Realm of Me and Mine] [[468]] |
| − | #* Alone in the Universe | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter4-2.php Alone in a Crowd] [[468]] |
| − | # | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter4-3.php The Anonymous Power] [[469]] |
| − | #* The Realm of Me and Mine | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter4-4.php Social Capital] [[469]] |
| − | #* Alone in a Crowd | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter4-5.php Cultural Capital] [[469]] |
| − | #* The Anonymous Power | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter4-6.php Natural Capital] [[469]] |
| − | #* Social Capital | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter4-7.php Spiritual Capital] [[469]] |
| − | #* Cultural Capital | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter4-8.php Time, Money, and The Good] [[469]] |
| − | #* Natural Capital | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter4-9.php The Economics of Other] [[470]] |
| − | #* Spiritual Capital | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter4-10.php Interest and Self-Interest] [[470]] |
| − | #* Time, Money, and The Good | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter4-11.php The Crisis of Capital] [[470]] |
| − | #* The Economics of Other | + | # [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter5-0.php The World under Control] |
| − | #* Interest and Self-Interest | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter5-1.php The Total Depravity of Man] [[470]] |
| − | #* The Crisis of Capital | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter5-2.php The Winners and the Losers] [[470]] |
| − | # The World under Control | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter5-3.php Life and Death] [[471]] |
| − | #* The Total Depravity of Man | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter5-4.php Yes and No] [[471]] |
| − | #* The Winners and the Losers | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter5-5.php The Pressure to Break Free] [[471]] |
| − | #* Life and Death | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter5-6.php Molding Minds] [[471]] |
| − | #* Yes and No | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter5-7.php The Great Indoors] [[471]] |
| − | #* The Pressure to Break Free | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter5-8.php Life under Contract] [[472]] |
| − | #* Molding Minds | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter5-9.php The War on Germs] [[472]] |
| − | #* The Great Indoors | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter5-10.php The War on Suffering] [[472]] |
| − | #* Life under Contract | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter5-11.php Life in a Playpen] [[472]] |
| − | #* The War on Germs | + | # [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter6-0.php The Crumbling of Certainty] |
| − | #* The War on Suffering | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter6-1.php The End of Objectivity] [[473]] |
| − | #* Life in a Playpen | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter6-2.php Truth without Certainty] [[473]] |
| − | # The Crumbling of Certainty | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter6-3.php Order without Design] [[473]] |
| − | #* The End of Objectivity | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter6-4.php The Nature of Purpose] [[473]] |
| − | #* Truth without Certainty | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter6-5.php The Purpose of Nature] [[474]] |
| − | #* Order without Design | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter6-6.php Life without a Replicator] [[474]] |
| − | #* The Nature of Purpose | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter6-7.php The Community of Life] [[474]] |
| − | #* The Purpose of Nature | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter6-8.php The Genetic Plenum] [[474]] |
| − | #* Life without a Replicator | + | # [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-0.php The Age of Reunion] |
| − | #* The Community of Life | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-1.php The Convergence of Crises] [[475]] |
| − | #* The Genetic Plenum | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-2.php The Currency of Cooperation] [[476]] |
| − | # The Age of Reunion | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-3.php The Restorative Economy] [[477]] |
| − | #* The Convergence of Crises | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-4.php The Age of Water] [[478]] |
| − | #* The Currency of Cooperation | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-5.php Technologies of Reunion] [[478]] |
| − | #* The Restorative Economy | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-6.php Work and Art United] [[478]] |
| − | #* The Age of Water | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-7.php Back to Play] [[478]] |
| − | #* Technologies of Reunion | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-8.php The Medicine of Interbeingness] [[479]] |
| − | #* Work and Art United | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-9.php The Spirit of the Gift] [[479]] |
| − | #* Back to Play | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-10.php Storyteller Consciousness] [[480]] |
| − | #* The Medicine of Interbeingness | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-11.php In Love with the World] [[481]] |
| − | #* The Spirit of the Gift | + | # [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter8-0.php Self and Cosmos] |
| − | #* Storyteller Consciousness | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter8-1.php Human Nature Restored] [[674]] |
| − | #* In Love with the World | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter8-2.php The Fall] [[482]] |
| − | # Self and Cosmos | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter8-3.php The Perinatal Matrix] [[482]] |
| − | #* Human Nature Restored | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter8-4.php The Gaian Birthing] [[483]] |
| − | #* The Fall | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter8-5.php Eulogy and Redemption] [[483]] |
| − | #* The Perinatal Matrix | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter8-6.php At Play Beside The Tower] [[485]] |
| − | #* The Gaian Birthing | + | }} |
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Latest revision as of 22:22, 15 November 2013
Ascent of Humanity
The Evolution of the Human Sense of Self, by Charles Eisenstein
Read by Lyn Gerry from episodes 461 - 485 and by Robin Upton for episode 674 List of Episodes
* Whole text online
* The entire audiobook (806MB ZIP file)
This is a large book which tackles today's social and environmental troubles on a fundamental level. It addresses the evolution of life as a process of incremental separation from ones environment. Eisenstein traces the modern alienation a looong way back (before protozoa!) and takes a detailed look at what is happening around the world, putting forward an animist view of spirituality that emphasises the fundamental connectedness of all life.
Eisenstein uses a Biblical parallel, likening the human effort to conquer nature to the building of the Tower of Babel. The psychology of previous investment makes it increasingly hard to give up the effort to reach heaven, even as it becomes ever more painful to continue the effort. He looks forward to what he refers to as "the age of reunion", in which technology and human ingenuity is turned to the task of nurturing life and celebrating its difference, spontaneity and chaos, rather than attempting to separate and dissociate ideas and events and thus to bring them under human control.
| 0. Introduction |