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Ascent of Humanity
The Evolution of the Human Sense of Self, by Charles Eisenstein
'''Read by Lyn Gerry from episodes 461-485, made into an audiobook by Robin Upton. List of Episodes
* http://www.ascentofhumanity.com, the full text on line, with other writings in different languages
- The entire audiobook (806MB ZIP file)
- Browse the audiobook by chapter or subsection
This is a large book about the evolution of life as a process of separation from ones environment. Tracing modern alienation a looong way back (before protozoa!) he 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 things/life. 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 |