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Recomedia: Ascent of Humanity

Charles Eisenstein's Ascent of Humanity came up in conversation today. Again. It seems to come up frequently, perhaps because this is one of those books that the world sorely needs. How many books can you say that about?

This is a book about the world of separation we have created, both within and without, from the infamous mind-body split to the increasingly unsustainable results of our science and technology. Eisenstein traces the history of this sense of separation, its negative consequences so far, and predicts some of the disastrous results it could wreak in the future.

This is not some backward looking Luddism, though. Eisenstein also looks forward to ask (and offer some possible answers to) the question, what would science and technology look like in a world healed of our illusion of separation?

Along the way he debunks our oft-cherished beliefs about separation and, perhaps most importantly in a world full of people convinced that the right technological fix to all our problems is just around the corner, uses science to show not just why science won't save us, but why it can't.

The entire text is online for free, or you can purchase a paper copy if you prefer.

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