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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 | ||
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| + | |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] | |
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| − | [Introduction] | + | |
# [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter1-0.php The Triumph of Technology] | # [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter1-0.php The Triumph of Technology] | ||
| − | #* [Gee Whiz—The Future!] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter1-1.php Gee Whiz—The Future!] [[461]] |
| − | #* [Utopia Postponed] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter1-2.php Utopia Postponed] [[462]] |
| − | #* [The Addiction to Control] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter1-3.php The Addiction to Control] [[463]] |
| − | #* [From Separation to Boredom] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter1-4.php From Separation to Boredom] [[463]] |
| − | #* [From Affluence to Anxiety] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter1-5.php From Affluence to Anxiety] [[463]] |
# [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter2-0.php The Origins of Separation] | # [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter2-0.php The Origins of Separation] | ||
| − | #* [The Biological Origins of Self] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter2-1.php The Biological Origins of Self] [[463]] |
| − | #* [Fire and Stone] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter2-2.php Fire and Stone] [[463]] |
| − | #* [Labeling the World] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter2-3.php Labeling the World] [[464]], [[673]] |
| − | #* [Mathematics and Measure] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter2-4.php Mathematics and Measure] [[464]] |
| − | #* [Keeping Time] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter2-5.php Keeping Time] [[464]] |
| − | #* [Images of Images] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter2-6.php Images of Images] [[464]] |
| − | #* [The Marvelous Piraha] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter2-7.php The Marvelous Piraha] [[465]] |
| − | #* [Cultivation and Culture] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter2-8.php Cultivation and Culture] [[465]] |
| − | #* [The Machine] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter2-9.php The Machine] [[465]] |
| − | #* [Religion and Ritual] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter2-10.php Religion and Ritual] [[465]] |
| − | #* [The Playful Universe] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter2-11.php The Playful Universe] [[465]] |
# [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter3-0.php The Way of the World] | # [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter3-0.php The Way of the World] | ||
| − | #* [The Scientific Method] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter3-1.php The Scientific Method] [[466]] |
| − | #* [My Personal Age of Reason] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter3-2.php My Personal Age of Reason] [[466]] |
| − | #* [Masters of the Universe] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter3-3.php Masters of the Universe] [[466]] |
| − | #* [The Quest for Certainty] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter3-4.php The Quest for Certainty] [[466]] |
| − | #* [Reducing Reality] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter3-5.php Reducing Reality] [[467]] |
| − | #* [The Ghost in the Machine] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter3-6.php The Ghost in the Machine] [[467]] |
| − | #* [The Origin of Life] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter3-7.php The Origin of Life] [[467]] |
| − | #* [Alone in the Universe] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter3-8.php Alone in the Universe] [[467]] |
# [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter4-0.php Money and Property] | # [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter4-0.php Money and Property] | ||
| − | #* [The Realm of Me and Mine] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter4-1.php The Realm of Me and Mine] [[468]] |
| − | #* [Alone in a Crowd] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter4-2.php Alone in a Crowd] [[468]] |
| − | #* [The Anonymous Power] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter4-3.php The Anonymous Power] [[469]] |
| − | #* [Social Capital] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter4-4.php Social Capital] [[469]] |
| − | #* [Cultural Capital] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter4-5.php Cultural Capital] [[469]] |
| − | #* [Natural Capital] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter4-6.php Natural Capital] [[469]] |
| − | #* [Spiritual Capital] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter4-7.php Spiritual Capital] [[469]] |
| − | #* [Time, Money, and The Good] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter4-8.php Time, Money, and The Good] [[469]] |
| − | #* [The Economics of Other] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter4-9.php The Economics of Other] [[470]] |
| − | #* [Interest and Self-Interest] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter4-10.php Interest and Self-Interest] [[470]] |
| − | #* [The Crisis of Capital] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter4-11.php The Crisis of Capital] [[470]] |
# [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter5-0.php The World under Control] | # [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter5-0.php The World under Control] | ||
| − | #* [The Total Depravity of Man] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter5-1.php The Total Depravity of Man] [[470]] |
| − | #* [The Winners and the Losers] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter5-2.php The Winners and the Losers] [[470]] |
| − | #* [Life and Death] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter5-3.php Life and Death] [[471]] |
| − | #* [Yes and No] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter5-4.php Yes and No] [[471]] |
| − | #* [The Pressure to Break Free] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter5-5.php The Pressure to Break Free] [[471]] |
| − | #* [Molding Minds] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter5-6.php Molding Minds] [[471]] |
| − | #* [The Great Indoors] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter5-7.php The Great Indoors] [[471]] |
| − | #* [Life under Contract] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter5-8.php Life under Contract] [[472]] |
| − | #* [The War on Germs] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter5-9.php The War on Germs] [[472]] |
| − | #* [The War on Suffering] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter5-10.php The War on Suffering] [[472]] |
| − | #* [Life in a Playpen] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter5-11.php Life in a Playpen] [[472]] |
# [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter6-0.php The Crumbling of Certainty] | # [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter6-0.php The Crumbling of Certainty] | ||
| − | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter6-1.php The End of Objectivity] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter6-1.php The End of Objectivity] [[473]] |
| − | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter6-2.php Truth without Certainty] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter6-2.php Truth without Certainty] [[473]] |
| − | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter6-3.php Order without Design] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter6-3.php Order without Design] [[473]] |
| − | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter6-4.php The Nature of Purpose] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter6-4.php The Nature of Purpose] [[473]] |
| − | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter6-5.php The Purpose of Nature] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter6-5.php The Purpose of Nature] [[474]] |
| − | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter6-6.php Life without a Replicator] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter6-6.php Life without a Replicator] [[474]] |
| − | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter6-7.php The Community of Life] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter6-7.php The Community of Life] [[474]] |
| − | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter6-8.php The Genetic Plenum] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter6-8.php The Genetic Plenum] [[474]] |
# [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-0.php The Age of Reunion] | # [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-0.php The Age of Reunion] | ||
| − | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-1.php The Convergence of Crises] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-1.php The Convergence of Crises] [[475]] |
| − | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-2.php The Currency of Cooperation | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-2.php The Currency of Cooperation] [[476]] |
| − | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-3.php The Restorative | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-3.php The Restorative Economy] [[477]] |
| − | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-4.php The Age of Water] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-4.php The Age of Water] [[478]] |
| − | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-5.php Technologies of Reunion] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-5.php Technologies of Reunion] [[478]] |
| − | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-6.php Work and Art United] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-6.php Work and Art United] [[478]] |
| − | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-7.php Back to Play] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-7.php Back to Play] [[478]] |
| − | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-8.php The Medicine of Interbeingness] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-8.php The Medicine of Interbeingness] [[479]] |
| − | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-9.php The Spirit of the Gift] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-9.php The Spirit of the Gift] [[479]] |
| − | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-10.php Storyteller Consciousness] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-10.php Storyteller Consciousness] [[480]] |
| − | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-11.php In Love with the World] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-11.php In Love with the World] [[481]] |
# [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter8-0.php Self and Cosmos] | # [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter8-0.php Self and Cosmos] | ||
| − | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter8-1.php Human Nature Restored | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter8-1.php Human Nature Restored] [[674]] |
| − | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter8-2.php The Fall] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter8-2.php The Fall] [[482]] |
| − | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter8-3.php The Perinatal Matrix] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter8-3.php The Perinatal Matrix] [[482]] |
| − | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter8-4.php The Gaian Birthing] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter8-4.php The Gaian Birthing] [[483]] |
| − | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter8-5.php Eulogy and Redemption] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter8-5.php Eulogy and Redemption] [[483]] |
| − | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter8-6.php At Play Beside The Tower] | + | #* [http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter8-6.php At Play Beside The Tower] [[485]] |
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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 |