Brief History of Everything

Name: Brief History of Everything
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ISBN: 9781570621871

ISBN-10: 157062187X

ISBN-13: 9781570621871

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Authors: Ken Wilber, Tony Schwartz, Steve Grad

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A Brief History of Everythingpresents Ken Wilber's accessible and entertaining account of men and women's place in a universe of sex, soul, and spirit. He examines the course of evolution as the unfolding manifestation of Spirit, from matter of life to mind, including the higher stages of spiritual development where Spirit becomes conscious of itself. Wilber offers striking and original views on many topics of continuing interest and controversy: gender wars, multiculturalism, ecology and environmental ethics among them.

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List price: $15.95
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/16/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.96" wide x 8.97" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Foreword	p. xi
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xv
A Note to the Reader	p. xix
Introduction	p. 1
Spirit-in-Action	p. 13
The Pattern That Connects	p. 15
The Kosmos	p. 16
Twenty Tenets: The Patterns That Connect	p. 17
Agency and Communion	p. 19
Transcendence and Dissolution	p. 19
Four Drives of All Holons	p. 21
Creative Emergence	p. 21
Holarchy	p. 24
The Way of All Embrace	p. 26
The Secret Impulse	p. 28
Higher and Lower	p. 28
Depth and Span	p. 30
Kosmic Consciousness	p. 33
The Spectrum of Consciousness	p. 36
All Too Human	p. 40
Foraging	p. 41
Horticultural	p. 43
Agrarian	p. 45
Industrial	p. 48
The Great Postmodern Revolution	p. 52
The Postmodern Watershed	p. 52
Two Paths in Postmodernity	p. 56
On the Edge of Tomorrow	p. 58
Transcendence and Repression	p. 60
The Four Corners of the Kosmos	p. 63
The Four Quadrants	p. 64
Intentional and Behavioral	p. 68
Cultural and Social	p. 70
An Example	p. 72
The Shape of Things to Come	p. 74
The Two Hands of God	p. 76
Mind and Brain	p. 77
The Left- and Right-Hand Paths	p. 79
The Monological Gaze: The Key to the Right-Hand Paths	p. 79
Interpretation: The Key to the Left-Hand Paths	p. 81
What Does That Dream Mean?	p. 83
Social Science versus Cultural Understanding	p. 86
Hermeneutics	p. 87
All Interpretation Is Context-Bound	p. 89
Nonhuman Interpretation	p. 90
Spiritual Interpretation	p. 91
Attuned to the Kosmos	p. 96
Propositional Truth	p. 97
Truthfulness	p. 98
Justness	p. 102
Functional Fit	p. 104
Conclusion: The Four Faces of Spirit	p. 108
The Good, the True, and the Beautiful	p. 110
The Big Three	p. 110
The Good News: Differentiation of the Big Three	p. 113
The Bad News: Dissociation of the Big Three	p. 115
The Task of Postmodernity: Integration of the Big Three	p. 119
The Spiritual Big Three	p. 120
The Further Reaches of Spirit-in-Action	p. 123
The Evolution of Consciousness	p. 125
Higher Stages of Development	p. 126
Ladder, Climber, View	p. 128
Basic Levels: The Ladder	p. 129
The Self: The Climber	p. 130
A Fulcrum	p. 131
New Worlds Emerge: Changing Views	p. 132
Pathology	p. 135
States and Stages	p. 137
Flatland Religion	p. 138
Freud and Buddha	p. 140
On the Way to Global: Part 1	p. 143
The Primary Matrix	p. 144
Birth Trauma	p. 145
The False Self	p. 146
The Hatching of the Physical Self	p. 147
The Birth of the Emotional Self	p. 148
The Birth of the Conceptual Self	p. 153
Every Neurosis Is an Ecological Crisis	p. 154
Early Worldviews: Archaic, Magic, Mythic	p. 156
The Birth of the Role Self	p. 158
Paradigm Shifts	p. 159
Satanic Abuse and UFOs	p. 160
On the Way to Global: Part 2	p. 164
Evolution versus Egocentrism	p. 164
Life's Social Scripts	p. 165
The Worldcentric or Mature Ego	p. 169
Diversity and Multiculturalism	p. 171
The Bodymind Integration of the Centaur	p. 173
Aperspectival Madness	p. 175
On the Brink of the Transpersonal	p. 176
Realms of the Superconscious: Part 1	p. 179
Where the Mind Leaves Off	p. 179
The Transpersonal Stages	p. 181
The Psychic	p. 183
Deep Ecology and Ecofeminism	p. 186
The Enneagram and the Basic Skeleton	p. 188
The Subtle	p. 191
Jung and the Archetypes	p. 193
Realms of the Superconscious: Part 2	p. 198
The Causal	p. 199
The Nondual	p. 205
The Immediacy of Pure Presence	p. 210
Enlightenment	p. 213
Beyond Flatland	p. 219
Ascending and Descending	p. 221
A Brief Summary	p. 221
The Great Holarchy	p. 224
This-Worldly versus Otherworldly	p. 227
Wisdom and Compassion	p. 231
God and Goddess	p. 232
Two Different Gods	p. 233
The Descended Grid	p. 235
The Collapse of the Kosmos	p. 236
The Dignity of Modernity	p. 237
The Disaster of Modernity	p. 240
Instrumental Rationality: A World of Its	p. 241
The Fundamental Enlightenment Paradigm	p. 244
No Spirit, No Mind, Only Nature	p. 245
The Voice of the Industrial Grid	p. 250
The Ego and the Eco	p. 255
Ego versus Eco	p. 255
The Flatland Twins	p. 256
The Ego's Truth	p. 258
The Ego's Problem	p. 259
The Ego and Repression	p. 260
The Re-enchantment of the World	p. 261
Back to Nature	p. 262
The Eco and Regression	p. 263
Paradise Lost	p. 265
The Way Back Machine	p. 269
The Great Battle of Modernity: Fichte versus Spinoza	p. 270
The Dominance of the Descenders	p. 273
Evolution: The Great Holarchy Unfolds in Time	p. 274
Evolution: Spirit-in-Action	p. 276
Glimmers of the Nondual	p. 278
Always Already	p. 279
The Fading of the Vision	p. 280
The Dominance of the Descenders	p. 282
The Internet	p. 283
The Religion of Gaia	p. 285
An Integral Vision	p. 286
The Writing on the Wall	p. 286
The Superman Self	p. 288
The Great-Web Gaia Self	p. 291
Beyond the Postmodern Mind	p. 293
World Transformation and the Culture Gap	p. 296
Environmental Ethics: Holonic Ecology	p. 300
The Basic Moral Intuition	p. 306
An Integral Vision	p. 307
The Twenty Tenets	p. 313
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