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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 | |