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Foreword | |
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Preface to the Second Edition | |
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A Note to the Reader | |
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Introduction | |
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Spirit-in-Action | |
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The Pattern That Connects | |
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The Kosmos | |
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Twenty Tenets: The Patterns That Connect | |
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Agency and Communion | |
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Transcendence and Dissolution | |
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Four Drives of All Holons | |
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Creative Emergence | |
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Holarchy | |
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The Way of All Embrace | |
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The Secret Impulse | |
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Higher and Lower | |
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Depth and Span | |
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Kosmic Consciousness | |
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The Spectrum of Consciousness | |
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All Too Human | |
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Foraging | |
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Horticultural | |
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Agrarian | |
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Industrial | |
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The Great Postmodern Revolution | |
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The Postmodern Watershed | |
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Two Paths in Postmodernity | |
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On the Edge of Tomorrow | |
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Transcendence and Repression | |
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The Four Corners of the Kosmos | |
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The Four Quadrants | |
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Intentional and Behavioral | |
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Cultural and Social | |
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An Example | |
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The Shape of Things to Come | |
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The Two Hands of God | |
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Mind and Brain | |
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The Left- and Right-Hand Paths | |
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The Monological Gaze: The Key to the Right-Hand Paths | |
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Interpretation: The Key to the Left-Hand Paths | |
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What Does That Dream Mean? | |
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Social Science versus Cultural Understanding | |
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Hermeneutics | |
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All Interpretation Is Context-Bound | |
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Nonhuman Interpretation | |
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Spiritual Interpretation | |
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Attuned to the Kosmos | |
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Propositional Truth | |
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Truthfulness | |
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Justness | |
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Functional Fit | |
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Conclusion: The Four Faces of Spirit | |
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The Good, the True, and the Beautiful | |
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The Big Three | |
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The Good News: Differentiation of the Big Three | |
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The Bad News: Dissociation of the Big Three | |
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The Task of Postmodernity: Integration of the Big Three | |
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The Spiritual Big Three | |
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The Further Reaches of Spirit-in-Action | |
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The Evolution of Consciousness | |
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Higher Stages of Development | |
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Ladder, Climber, View | |
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Basic Levels: The Ladder | |
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The Self: The Climber | |
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A Fulcrum | |
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New Worlds Emerge: Changing Views | |
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Pathology | |
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States and Stages | |
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Flatland Religion | |
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Freud and Buddha | |
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On the Way to Global: Part 1 | |
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The Primary Matrix | |
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Birth Trauma | |
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The False Self | |
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The Hatching of the Physical Self | |
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The Birth of the Emotional Self | |
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The Birth of the Conceptual Self | |
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Every Neurosis Is an Ecological Crisis | |
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Early Worldviews: Archaic, Magic, Mythic | |
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The Birth of the Role Self | |
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Paradigm Shifts | |
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Satanic Abuse and UFOs | |
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On the Way to Global: Part 2 | |
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Evolution versus Egocentrism | |
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Life's Social Scripts | |
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The Worldcentric or Mature Ego | |
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Diversity and Multiculturalism | |
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The Bodymind Integration of the Centaur | |
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Aperspectival Madness | |
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On the Brink of the Transpersonal | |
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Realms of the Superconscious: Part 1 | |
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Where the Mind Leaves Off | |
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The Transpersonal Stages | |
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The Psychic | |
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Deep Ecology and Ecofeminism | |
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The Enneagram and the Basic Skeleton | |
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The Subtle | |
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Jung and the Archetypes | |
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Realms of the Superconscious: Part 2 | |
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The Causal | |
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The Nondual | |
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The Immediacy of Pure Presence | |
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Enlightenment | |
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Beyond Flatland | |
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Ascending and Descending | |
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A Brief Summary | |
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The Great Holarchy | |
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This-Worldly versus Otherworldly | |
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Wisdom and Compassion | |
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God and Goddess | |
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Two Different Gods | |
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The Descended Grid | |
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The Collapse of the Kosmos | |
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The Dignity of Modernity | |
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The Disaster of Modernity | |
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Instrumental Rationality: A World of Its | |
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The Fundamental Enlightenment Paradigm | |
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No Spirit, No Mind, Only Nature | |
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The Voice of the Industrial Grid | |
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The Ego and the Eco | |
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Ego versus Eco | |
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The Flatland Twins | |
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The Ego's Truth | |
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The Ego's Problem | |
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The Ego and Repression | |
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The Re-enchantment of the World | |
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Back to Nature | |
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The Eco and Regression | |
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Paradise Lost | |
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The Way Back Machine | |
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The Great Battle of Modernity: Fichte versus Spinoza | |
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The Dominance of the Descenders | |
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Evolution: The Great Holarchy Unfolds in Time | |
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Evolution: Spirit-in-Action | |
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Glimmers of the Nondual | |
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Always Already | |
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The Fading of the Vision | |
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The Dominance of the Descenders | |
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The Internet | |
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The Religion of Gaia | |
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An Integral Vision | |
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The Writing on the Wall | |
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The Superman Self | |
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The Great-Web Gaia Self | |
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Beyond the Postmodern Mind | |
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World Transformation and the Culture Gap | |
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Environmental Ethics: Holonic Ecology | |
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The Basic Moral Intuition | |
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An Integral Vision | |
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The Twenty Tenets | |