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The Ascent of Humanity — Chuck's book is out!

As we look to make sense of the current state of human life on the planet and to understand the many crises in our society, environment and culture — as our actions seem to result in threatening to destroy what we are all working toward, Charles Eisenstein offers a compelling framework to comprehend our journey as he guides us in visualizing a bright and life-affirming future.

Chuck suggests that our single-minded obsession with technical mastery of our material world has displaced our sublime knowledge that we are of nature itself as we have become addicted to a self-destructive ethos of control over our world. We have lost site of the rich potential of our relationship with nature. Chuck calls this state Separation.

Chuck suggests that the mounting crises seeming to threaten us from all sides are not the sound of our approaching doom but rather the inevitable alarm drawing us back to reintegration with the rest of creation, our origin and our future, in the Age of Reunion.

Chuck's latest book not only offers important and timely ways of thinking about our world, but presents these ideas with writing and imagery inspired by and embodying the beauty it presents as he reviews human exploration in science, medicine and education. His years of work as a teacher echo in his clear and compassionate prose. You can find more reviews of The Ascent of Humanity at Amazon or browse the whole text on line at the The Ascent of Humanity website.

Projects

• Partner (with Tammy Turner) and CTO of Pristine Communications - Greater China's leading multilingual marketing and business communications solutions provider.
• Taiwan Indigenous Peoples web site - advisor for Taipei Multicultural Arts Group - bringing together the different indigenous tribes of Taiwan to present their art and cultures to the modern world.
• Chairman of the Technology Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei.
• Taiwan Pristine Media Scan - Today's headline coverage of different industries from local Chinese Internet media with keywords translated into English
• Information Director for the IFPEOC - a non-profit organization working with the Wa people of north-eastern Myanmar to support them in freeing themselves of their dependence on opium production for survival.

Latest Adventures

• Penghu 澎湖
• Dalu Forest Road 大鹿林道
• Nanhu Mountain 南湖大山
• Trip to Taoshan 桃山
• Juming Museum 朱銘美術館
• Visit to Orchid Island

Latest Projects

• Fixed: Taiwan geotagged Flickr photo sets over Google Maps
• New version of Mediawatch
• Ajax interface to Pristine Lexicon. Try entering a query in the box above and clicking outside the box.
• New version of the Taiwan Tribes web site launched. Design improved by Russ. Fully automatic multilingual site, including dynamic navigation and menus generated from file structure.

One degree

• Chuck Eisenstein's Panenthea, The Ascent of Humanity and The Yoga of Eating
• Bananas Don't Travel Well - Chris and Nicole's travel blog
• Wild at Heart
• Andrew Leonard's How the World Works
• Muddy Basin Ramblers
• The Taiphoon
• Russ McClay's Tao Lodge
• Joshua Samuel Brown's Stinky Tofu, Vignettes of Taiwan
• New Garden City
• Craig Raskin Photography
• Claire Hung
• Rob Bageant's Floating Leaves Tea
• Jimmie Wing's World Wide Ambient Vigil For Aceh
• Dignity Films
• Annette Chamberlin's Sunshine In A Shady Place
• Trees Music & Art

Readables

• Life After the Oil Crash
  Civilization as we know it is coming to an end soon. This is not the wacky proclamation of a doomsday cult, apocalypse bible prophecy sect, or conspiracy theory society. Rather, it is the scientific conclusion of the best paid, most widely-respected geologists, physicists, and investment bankers in the world.
• The Long Emergency - What's going to happen as we start running out of cheap gas to guzzle? By James Howard Kunstler Adapted from The Long Emergency, 2005, by James Howard Kunstler, and reprinted with permission of the publisher, Grove/Atlantic, Inc. (Posted Mar 24, 2005, Rolling Stone)
• America and Taiwan, 1943-2004 by Michael Falick, Colorado Springs, CO, michael.falick@mci.com, April 12, 2004
• ...and books

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