The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self Audiobook (Free)

Charles Eisenstein explores the annals and potential potential of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age group to the illusion of the separate self. In this limited hardcover edition of Eisenstein’s landmark reserve, he argues our disconnection from one another as well as the natural world provides mislaid the foundations of science, religion, cash, technology, economics, medication, and education as we know them. They have terminated our near-pathological quest for technological Utopias once we force about The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self ourselves and our planet towards the brink of collapse.

Luckily, an Age of Reunion is emerging out of the birth pangs of an earth in crisis. Our journey of separation was not a terrible mistake but an evolutionary process and an experience in self-discovery. Also in our darkest hour, Eisenstein views the possibility of a more beautiful world–not through the extension of millennia-old ways of administration and control but by fundamentally reimagining ourselves and our systems. We must shift from our Babelian efforts to construct ever-higher towers to heaven and instead turn out focus on creating a new kind of civilization–one designed for beauty instead of height. Breathtaking in its range and intelligence, The Ascent of Humanity is certainly a landmark publication displaying what it really means to end up being human.

‘A tour-de-force filled with astounding understanding, wit, intelligence and center.’ –Christopher Uhl, writer of Developing Ecological Awareness: Paths to a Sustainable Future

‘Quite marvelous, a greatly important work. This book is actually needed in this time of deepening turmoil.’ –John Zerzan, author of Potential Primitive and Components of Refusal