The Ascent of Humanity

<b>The author of <i>The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible</i> explores the history and potential future of civilization tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self</b><br>&#160;<br>Our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science religion money technology economics medicine and education as we know them. It has fired our near-pathological pursuit of technological Utopias even as we push ourselves and our planet to the brink of collapse.<br>&#160;<br>Fortunately an Age of Reunion is emerging out of the birth pangs of an earth in crisis. Our journey of separation hasn't been a terrible mistake but an evolutionary process and an adventure in self-discovery.<br><br>Even in our darkest hour Eisenstein sees the possibility of a more beautiful world&#151;not through the extension of&#160;millennia-old methods of management and control but by fundamentally&#160;reimagining&#160;ourselves and our systems. We must shift away from our&#160;Babelian&#160;efforts to build ever-higher towers to heaven and instead turn out attention to creating a new kind of civilization&#151;one designed for beauty rather than height.