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Adams, Douglas, 304
Afghanistan, 229
aging, 147–49
agreements, 174–75, 178, 184
anger, in literature, 203–4
anthropocentrism, 69, 308, 314
Aquinas, Thomas, 357–58
archaic consciousness, 198, 200, 218
Archimedes, 239
art, 199, 201
perspective in, 199, 203
Arthur, W. Brian, 144
Artilect War, The (de Garis), 150
Arya, 328
atheism, 223, 267, 268, 339, 355
Augustine, Saint, 358
Aurobindo, Sri, 148–49, 208, 236–37, 245, 272–73, 275–78, 280, 282, 300, 322, 326–32, 336, 349–50, 362, 371
beginning of religious career, 326–27
Cohen and, 331–32, 333, 334, 336
“gnostic being” idea of, 330
The Life Divine, 40, 233, 276, 328
political activities of, 326, 327, 328
The Synthesis of Yoga, 328
Teilhard compared with, 328–29
upbringing of, 326
Axial Age, 140, 176, 204, 311
Aztec civilization, 206–7
bacteria, 13, 50–54, 56–59, 64, 65, 69, 70, 73, 82
Baldwin, James Mark, 27, 192–95, 198, 214, 245, 371
Baldwin effect, 192–93
Barlow, Connie, 291
Barnett, Thomas, 96
basketball, 49–50
Beck, Don, 211–13, 215–21, 224–28, 230, 267
beetles, 92
Behe, Michael, 120–22
Ben-Jacob, Eshel, 54
Bergson, Henri, 12, 28–29, 42, 74, 122, 157–58, 275, 282, 306, 335, 342, 371
Berry, Thomas, 307–11
Better Angels of Our Nature, The (Pinker), 97
Between Reason and History (Owen), 181
Beyond God (Kardong), 265
Big Bang, 253, 335
Biocosm (Gardner), 115
biology, 26–27, 190, 194, 353
technology and, 144–45
Bloom, Howard, 57, 63, 105–12, 114, 117
body, scientific exploration of, 171, 172, 173
Borg, Björn, 45
brain, 128, 141, 147, 211
brain (cont.)
consciousness and, 159, 160, 165, 166, 169, 172, 182, 183, 242, 288
plasticity of, 27–28, 211, 254–55
size of, 241–42
Brand, Stewart, 102
Brief History of Everything, A (Wilber), 234
Brooks, David, 16–17
Bruteau, Beatrice, 99
Buckle, Henry Thomas, 365
Buddhism, 159, 208, 275, 279–80, 319
Bush, George W., 21–22
California Institute of Integral Studies, 305, 331
Cambrian period, 139
capacities, new, 302, 303
carbon, 63
categorical imperative, 259
Catholicism, 223, 267, 269–71, 273–75, 328, 339
cellular automata, 116–17
Center for Consciousness Studies, 71–72
Center for Process Studies, 341
Center Leo Apostel, 22, 81n
Chalice and the Blade, The (Eisler), 98–99
Chalmers, David, 145–46
Chang Tzu, 200
Chaudri, Haridus, 331
chimpanzees, 60–61, 353
China, 197
Civil War, 225
Claremont School of Theology, 340–41
Clayton, Philip, 341, 345–51, 354–56, 359–62
Cohen, Andrew, 158, 318–22, 331–36, 362
Aurobindo and, 331–32, 333, 334, 336
Teilhard and, 333, 334
Wilber and, 333–34
Collected Works of Ken Wilber, The (Wilber), 238
“Coming Technological Singularity, The” (Vinge), 132
competition and selfishness, 62–63, 82, 86
complex adaptive systems, 112
complexity, 37–38, 104, 113–21, 172, 187–88, 237, 349, 353, 356
consciousness and, 165–66, 172
compound interest, 133–34
Congo, 224
conscious evolution, 285–315, 336
Conscious Evolution (Hubbard), 289
consciousness, 35, 55, 71, 101, 155–79, 243, 244
archaic, 198, 200, 218
birth of, 166–68, 183–84, 314
brain and, 159, 160, 165, 166, 169, 172, 182, 183, 242, 288
collective, 160–61, 163, 165–66, 168, 174, 184–92, 195–98
complexity and, 165–66, 172
Flintstones fallacy and, 181–82, 199, 266
integral, 198–99, 207, 208, 217, 220
magic, 198, 200–203, 205, 206, 208, 218–19, 225–26
matter and, 157–59
mental-rational, 198, 204–5, 206
mythic, 198, 202–5, 206, 208, 267
plasticity of, 195
power over matter through, 148
pure, 159
consciousness, evolution of, 160–61, 163, 181–209
psychological development, 27, 185–87, 192–97
stages of, 184–91, 195–97, 212
see also cultural evolution
Constant Battles: Why We Fight (LeBlanc), 97
Conway Morris, Simon, 74, 78
Cook-Greuter, Susanne, 245
cooperation, 49–70, 81–83, 86, 89–90
governance and, 83–85
Corning, Peter A., 49
corporations, 170
cosmology, new, 302–3
Cosmos, xii, 104
countercultural movement, 176–77
Cowan, Chris, 216, 218
Coyne, Jerry, 91
creatheism, 294
creation myths, 19, 102
Creative Evolution (Bergson), 12, 275
creativity and novelty, 101–24, 349–54, 357
crises, new, 302–3
Crucible of Consciousness, The (Torey), 288
cultural evolution, 15–16, 87–88, 92–99, 139, 161, 164, 168, 170–71, 174, 176, 178, 179, 184–92, 195–98
moral, 94–96, 259
Spiral Dynamics and, see Spiral Dynamics
see also consciousness, evolution of
culture, 160–61, 170, 197
brain evolution and, 242
corporate, 170
worldviews and, see worldviews
culture wars, 223
Cuomo, Mario, 269–71
Dark Ages, 92–93, 95
Darwin, Charles, 8–9, 61, 73–74, 172, 330, 368
dancing ritual witnessed by, 263–64
On the Origin of Species, 3, 5, 17, 21, 42, 275
Darwin’s Black Box (Behe), 120–21
Davies, Paul, 253
Dawkins, Richard, 62, 220, 222–23
Deacon, Terrence, 101
de Garis, Hugo, 131, 149–50
de Grey, Aubrey, 147
Delbanco, Andrew, 282
Dembski, William, 121
democracy, 229–30
Dennett, Daniel, 347, 355
depth perception, 42
Descartes, René, 34–36, 159
determinism, 110–11, 349–50, 352
Dewey, John, 74
The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, 21
directionality, 71–100
diversity, 20, 55, 114n, 117
Divine Milieu, The (Teilhard de Chardin), 270
DNA, 115, 123, 139, 187
Dobzhansky, Theodore, 3, 5, 10–11, 73, 190
Donald, Merlin, 211
Dowd, Michael, 93, 289–96
Durant, Will, 8–9
dust devils, 28–29
Earth, picture from space, 248
earthquakes, 26
economic structures, 243, 244
Eddington, Arthur, 119
Einstein, Albert, 133, 239–40, 360
Eisendrath, Craig, 29, 33, 34
Eisler, Riane, 98–99
embryonic development, 123
emergence, 355–57
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 246, 263
empathy, 311
energy crisis, 137
Enlightenment, European, 8, 35, 162, 164, 176, 178, 185, 188, 189, 204, 258, 370
enlightenment, evolutionary, 317–37
EnlightenNext (formerly What Is Enlightenment?), xiii, xv, 123, 213, 258, 278, 318, 321, 332–34
Enríquez, Juan, 330
Esalen Institute, 331
eugenics, 14, 61
eukaryotes, 50, 56–59
Ever-Present Origin, The (Gebser), 199, 208
evolution, 7–20
conscious, 285–315, 336
of consciousness, see consciousness, evolution of
as context for examining human nature and culture, 13–14, 18
of culture, see cultural evolution
cycle of, 55–56
debate over, xi–xii, xiv–xv, 8
edges and, 56
evolution of, 139
geological, 184
importance of discovery of, 8–9
as metaconcept, 368
evolution (cont.)
of morality, 94–96, 259
natural selection in, 8, 12–13, 91, 115, 116, 120, 156–57, 193, 313
random mutation in, 8, 12–13
reality of, 7–8
spirituality and, see spirituality
stress as creator of, 59, 93, 112–13
of worldviews, 175–76
Evolution, 75
Evolution, Complexity, and Cognition Group (ECCO), 81
Evolutionaries, 10, 30, 31–46, 247, 283, 318, 321, 336, 341, 367, 368, 371
as generalists, 32–41
optimism of, 32, 43–46, 354
time as viewed by, 32, 41–43
evolutionary enlightenment, 317–37
Evolutionary Enlightenment: A New Path to Spiritual Awakening (Cohen), 334
evolutionary impulse, 318, 332, 335
“Evolutionary Manifesto, The: Our Role in the Future Evolution of Life” (Stewart), 85
evolutionary psychology, 17–18
evolutionary worldview, new, 6, 13, 15, 16, 20, 24–30, 237–38, 336, 369–71
Evolution for Everyone (Wilson), 7, 76–77
evolutionists, 31–32
Evolution of God, The (Wright), 78, 91
Evolution of the Notion of God in Modern Thought, The (Clayton), 348
Evolution’s Arrow: The Direction of Evolution and the Future of Humanity (Stewart), 72
Evolution’s Purpose (McIntosh), 192
Evolving Self, The (Kegan), 195
exponential growth, 133–39
extinctions, 93, 312
eyesight, 312
Faith Instinct, The (Wade), 264
fascism, 14–15, 74, 191
fetal development, 196
Fichte, Johann, 188–89, 191
fishermen, 81, 82
flex flow, 220
Flintstones fallacy, 181–82, 199, 266
food, 137–38
football, 213–14
Foucault, Michel, 249
Foundation for Conscious Evolution, 303
Foundation for the Future, 303
four quadrants, 240–46
Fowler, James W., 267
Free University of Brussels, 22, 81
Friedman, Thomas, 89
Freud, Sigmund, 16
Freudian psychology, 18
Fuller, Buckminster, 297, 300, 330
fundamentalism, 246
Future of Man, The (Teilhard de Chardin), 25
Future of the Body, The (Murphy), 149
futurism, 297, 303
Futurist, 215
Galileo, 110
game theory, 88
Gandhi, Mohandas K., 222, 322, 326
Garden of Eden myth, 96–98
Gardner, James N., 39, 115, 117, 123, 124, 253
Gebser, Jean, 39–40, 186, 198–209, 212, 214, 218, 228, 236–37, 245, 246, 267, 371
Gell-Mann, Murray, 37
generalists, 32–41
Genial Gene, The: Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness (Roughgarden), 62
Genius of the Beast, The (Bloom), 105
genome, 192–93
Human Genome Project, 138
geological evolution, 184
German idealists, 186, 188–91, 330
Gibson, William, 126–27, 130, 133, 141
Gilligan, Carol, 194, 245
Global Brain, The (Bloom), 105
glucose gradients, 56, 57
gnostic being, 330
God, 362–63
evolution of, 339–63
nature and, 360, 362, 363
panentheism and, 359–60
perfection of, 358–59
see also religion; spirituality
God Problem, The (Bloom), 108, 109
Godwin, Robert, 19, 166, 167, 222
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 93, 188
Goodall, Jane, 60–61, 63
Gould, Stephen Jay, 77
governance, 83–85
Grassie, William, 355
Graves, Clare, 212–13, 215–22, 224–26, 246, 267
Greece, ancient, 164, 204
ground, 360
Gurdjieff, George, 79, 285
Habermas, Jürgen, 174, 194, 196–97, 228, 245
habits, 252–59
brain plasticity and, 254–55
moral imperative and, 257–59
morphic fields, 254–55, 257
Haeckel, Ernst, 196
Haldane, J. S., 75, 92
Halverson, William H., 24
Hartshorne, Charles, 341, 343–44
Haught, John, 122, 146, 358, 361–63
Making Sense of Evolution, 71
Heehs, Peter, 327
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 9, 14, 37, 181, 186, 188–91, 193, 212, 223, 228, 342, 348–49
Heidegger, Martin, 101
Heraclitus, 343
heroic system, 217, 219
Hidden Heart of the Cosmos, The (Swimme), 167–68
“Hierarchic Logic of Emergence, The” (Deacon), 101
hierarchies, 65–69, 84, 85, 238–40
four quadrants and, 240–46
Hinduism, 102, 148, 271–72, 273, 275, 328–29
Vedanta, 319, 323
history, 214, 230
recorded, 202–3
History of Civilization in England (Buckle), 365
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The (Adams), 304
Hitler, Adolf, 14, 74, 76
Horgan, John, 353
horizontal gene transfer, 13
Houston, Jean, 160, 365–66
Hubbard, Barbara Marx, 289, 297–304, 330
Hubbard, Earl, 298–99
Human Genome Project, 138
“Human Nature Prepares for Momentous Leap” (Graves), 215
Huxley, Julian, 3–6, 73, 126, 371
Transhumanism, 31, 125, 126
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 3–4
“Hymn to Matter” (Teilhard de Chardin), 274
idealism, 230, 278, 351, 354
Iliad (Homer), 183, 204
immortality, 148–49
India, 197
Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, The (Dewey), 21
information, 144–47
In Over Our Heads (Kegan), 195
integral consciousness, 198–99, 207, 208, 217, 220
Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (McIntosh), 162
Integral Institute, 176
integral philosophy, 233–59
four quadrants in, 240–46
Integral Spirituality (Wilber), 170
integral yoga, 237, 329
integration, 22, 37–41, 114n
intelligence, 68, 73, 77, 94, 109, 141–44, 304
artificial, 128–30, 132, 150
intelligent design, 121
Internet, 141
intersubjectivity, 164, 168–72, 178, 249
Investigations (Kauffman), 313–14
Iraq, 229
Iron Age, 176
Islamic fundamentalism, 208
James, William, 251, 282, 341
Jaynes, Julian, 155, 183–84
Jefferson, Thomas, 162, 164
John XXIII, Pope, 270
Johnson, Steven, xiv
Joyce, James, 40
Judaism, 271
Jung, Carl, 168, 173, 323
Kant, Immanuel, 181, 259
Kardong, Kenneth V., 265
Kashmir Shaivism, 271–72
Kauffman, Stuart, 13, 38, 115–16, 119, 313–14, 360
Kegan, Robert, 188, 195, 196
Kelly, Kevin, 113, 128, 140
knowledge, 311, 312
Kohlberg, Lawrence, 194, 196, 216, 245, 267
Kosmos, 240, 244
Krugman, Paul, 34
Kurzweil, Ray, 132–40, 142–43, 145–48, 151
Lachman, Gary, 197–98
lactose intolerance, 193
language, 175, 201, 203
Laplace, Pierre-Simon, 110–11, 349
LeBlanc, Steven, 96–97
Letter to Ouspensky (Gurdjieff), 285
life, 313–14
Life Divine, The (Aurobindo), 40, 233, 276, 328
life expectancy, 147–49
Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe (Conway Morris), 78
Live Long Enough to Live Forever (Kurzweil), 147
Loevinger, Jane, 194, 216, 245
Lucifer Principle, The (Bloom), 105
Lyotard, Jean-François, 234
magic consciousness, 198, 200–203, 205, 206, 208, 217–19, 225–26
Maharshi, Ramana, 320, 322–26, 331
Making Sense of Evolution (Haught), 71
Margulis, Lynn, 13, 50–52, 57–58, 59, 62, 65, 67, 68, 82
marriage, 17
Marx, Karl, 8–9, 14, 16, 243, 266, 298
Marxism, 14, 74, 244
Maslow, Abraham, 213, 299
Mathematica Principia (Whitehead and Russell), 341
matter, 205
consciousness and, 157–59
Maugham, W. Somerset, 323
Mayr, Ernst, 3, 5, 74–75
McCracken, Grant, 170
McEnroe, John, 45
McIntosh, Steve, 162–65, 169–71, 174, 176–78, 189, 192, 196, 236
McLuhan, Marshall, 245
Mead, Margaret, 299
meaning, 15
medicine, 138
meditation, 156, 158–60, 179, 280
Meeker, Tobias, 293
Melville, Herman, 301
Men in Black, 64
mental-rational consciousness, 198, 204–5, 206
Merton, Thomas, 300
Metanexus, 355
Michelangelo, 171
Mid-West Quarterly, 252
mind, 182
see also consciousness
Mind So Rare, A (Donald), 211
modernism, 24, 162, 197, 204, 217, 219, 222–24, 229–30, 231, 267
monkeys/typewriter metaphor, 108–9
Montezuma, 206
Moore, Gordon, 137
Moore’s Law, 136–37
Moral Animal, The (Wright), 78
morality:
categorical imperative and, 259
evolution of, 94–96, 259
grooves and, 257–59
morphic fields, 254–55, 257
movement, 25–30, 182–83, 342–43, 367, 368
Muir, John, 67–68
Murphy, Michael, 92, 149, 331
mythic consciousness, 198, 202–5, 206, 208, 267
Nash, Steve, 49–50
National Center for Science Education, 120
Native Americans, 226
naturalism, 267, 268, 363
nature, 67–68, 204, 207, 310
God and, 360, 362, 363
laws of, 252–53
Nature of Technology, The: What It Is and How It Evolves (Arthur), 144
Neuromancer (Gibson), 126–27, 141
neuroscience, 27–28
New Orleans, La., 56, 226
New Republic, 91
New Science of Life, A (Sheldrake), 254, 255
Newton, Isaac, 110, 171, 239
New York Times, 16, 34, 264, 340
New York Times Magazine, 90
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 301
9/11 attacks, 21–22, 69, 229
No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased Without Intelligence (Dembski), 121
No Maps for These Territories, 133
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny (Wright), 78, 87, 95
non-zero-sum interactions, 88–90, 95
noosphere, 164–66, 168, 169, 172, 174, 178–79, 255
Norse mythology, 19
novelty and creativity, 101–24, 349–54, 357
Obitts, Stanley, 346
objectivity, 250
Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes (Hartshorne), 344
“On the Origin of Mitosing Cells” (Margulis), 51–52
On the Origin of Species (Darwin), 3, 5, 17, 21, 42, 275
optimism, 32, 43–46, 76, 130, 148, 354
Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, The (Jaynes), 155, 183–84
origin stories, 19, 102
Out of Darkness (Torey), 285–86
Owen, David, 181, 185
oxygen, 57, 58
panentheism, 359–60
Pannenberg, Wolfhart, 347–48, 351
pantheism, 294, 360, 363
Parliament of the World’s Religions, 87–88
Pascal, Blaise, 118
Patten, Terry, 237
Paul, Saint, 301
Peirce, Charles Sanders, 251–53, 351
perspectives, 247–51
Phenomenology of Spirit, The (Hegel), 189
Phenomenon of Man, The (Teilhard de Chardin), 4, 167, 275, 299–300, 307, 366
Philosophical Inquiries into the Nature of Human Freedom (Schelling), 339
photosynthesis, 57
physics, 353
laws of, 252–53
quantum, 34, 113, 349, 351
Piaget, Jean, 192, 194–96, 245
Picasso, Pablo, 199
Pinker, Steven, 97
Plato, 279, 359
Plotkin, Henry, 193
Plutarch, xv
Poonja, H.W.L., 320
Pope, Alexander, 61
Popper, Karl, 79, 191
postmodernism, 76, 217, 219, 221–24, 231, 234, 267
Power of Now, The (Tolle), 278–79
predictability, 110–11, 116, 130, 349–50
process philosophy, 342
Progress: Can We Do Without It? (Salvadori), 76
progress and directionality, 71–100
psychology, 173
developmental, 27, 185–87, 192–97
evolutionary, 17–18
Freudian, 18
Spiral Dynamics and, see Spiral Dynamics
quadrants, four, 240–46
quantum physics, 34, 113, 349, 351
Ray, Paul, 245
Razor’s Edge, The (Maugham), 323
Real American Dream, The (Delbanco), 282
“Recent Changes in the Structure of Consciousness” (Sleutels), 181–82
reductionism, 36, 38, 60–61, 67, 77, 116, 244
Reinventing the Sacred (Kauffman), 13, 116
relationships, 169–70
religion, 223–24, 264–68, 281–82, 337
antiworld bias in, 270–71, 277, 279–81
Axial Age and, 140, 176, 204, 311
Buddhism, 159, 208, 275, 279–80, 319
Cartesian revolution and, 36
Catholicism, 223, 267, 269–71, 273–75, 328, 339
conversion and, 242–43, 291–92
diversity of practice in, 266–68
evolutionary theology, 339–63
evolution debate and, xi–xii, xiv–xv, 8
Hinduism, see Hinduism
see also spirituality
Renaissance, 258
artistic perspective and, 199
and scientific exploration of body, 171, 172, 173
revelations, 295
Richard, Mirra, 330
Richards, Robert, 189, 198
Rolston, Holmes, III, 313, 314
Roman Empire, 56, 93, 95
Romantics, 67, 273, 310, 360
Roughgarden, Joan, 62
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 97
Ruse, Michael, 62
Russell, Bertrand, 251, 298, 341–42
Rwanda, 224
Sagan, Carl, xii, 50, 104–5, 306, 360
Sahtouris, Elisabet, 52–55, 58–59, 62, 65, 82
Salamon, Anna, 125
Salk, Jonas, 300
Salvadori, Massimo, 76
Santa Fe Institute, 37
Schelling, Friedrich, 188–89, 191, 348–49, 360
Philosophical Inquiries into the Nature of Human Freedom, 339
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 191
science, 250, 268, 367–68
Scott, Eugenie, 120
second law of thermodynamics, 118–20
Secret, The, 278
self, 35
selfishness and competition, 62–63, 82, 86
Sex, Ecology, Spirituality (Wilber), 238
Shankara, 319
Sheldrake, Rupert, 253–55, 351
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 310
Sherif, Muzafer, 225
singularity, 129–32
Singularity Is Near, The (Kurzweil), 132, 136
Singularity Summit, 125–26, 127–28, 130
Skinner, B. F., 105
Skunk Works, 56
Sleutels, Jan, 181–83
Smith, Huston, 279
social Darwinism, 14, 61, 187
solar energy, 137
solidity, 9, 21–30, 46, 174, 182–83, 189, 195, 252, 253, 266, 342–43, 363, 368, 369
Sorokin, Pitirim, 236
South Africa, 225–28
“Sovereignty of Ethics, The” (Emerson), 263
specialization, 33–38
Spectrum of Consciousness, The (Wilber), 234
Spinoza, Baruch, 360
Spiral Dynamics, 194, 211–31, 245
healthy and unhealthy expressions of systems in, 221, 230
levels of, 217–22
South African culture and, 225–28
spirituality, 16, 139–40, 172–73, 305, 325, 336–37
evolutionary, 263–83, 355, 363
evolutionary enlightenment, 317–37
transcendence and, 272, 278, 282
see also religion
Stages of Faith (Fowler), 267
steady-state cosmos, 27
Steiner, Rudolf, 74
Stewart, John, 72, 73, 75, 77–86, 91, 95, 99
stress, 59, 93, 112–13
survivalist system, 217, 218, 225
Swimme, Brian, 20, 167–68, 289, 290, 305–6, 360
Cohen and, 333, 334
symbiogenesis, 50–51
Synergism Hypothesis, The (Corning), 49
Synthesis of Yoga, The (Aurobindo), 328
systems science, 37–38
Tao Te Ching, 19
Tarnas, Richard, 191
Taylor, Charles, 35
technology, 15, 303
biology and, 144–45
singularity and, 129–32
transhumanism and, 125–51
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, 11, 42, 79, 82, 84, 88, 118, 141, 164–66, 168, 208, 272–75, 282, 299–300, 307–9, 330, 344, 349–50, 361–62, 370, 371
Aurobindo compared with, 328–29
Cohen and, 333, 334
The Divine Milieu, 270
The Future of Man, 25
Houston and, 365–66
“Hymn to Matter,” 274
life of, 273–74
The Phenomenon of Man, 4, 167, 275, 299–300, 307, 366
teleology (directionality), 71–100
theology, 339–40
evolutionary, 339–63
see also religion
Theory of Everything, A (Wilber), 234
thermodynamics, second law of, 118–20
Thompson, William Irwin, 65, 198
Thoreau, Henry David, 67–68
Tillich, Paul, 159, 258, 360
time, 203
evolutionary, 32, 41–43
Tolle, Eckhart, 278–79
Torey, Zoltan, 285–89
“Toward a Science of Consciousness” conference, 71–72, 77, 145–46, 181
traditionalism, 217, 219, 222–24, 231, 267
transcendence, 272, 278, 282
transhumanism, 125–51, 309
“Transhumanism” (Huxley), 31, 125, 126
truth, 37, 189–90
Turner, Fred, 189n
Tyson, Neil deGrasse, 306–7
universe, 311
deterministic view of, 110–11, 349–50, 352
Universe Is a Green Dragon, The (Swimme), 310
Universe Story, The (Swimme and Berry), 310
values, 215
Spiral Dynamics and, see Spiral Dynamics
Vedanta, 319, 323
vegetarianism, 65–67
Vernadsky, Vladimir, 165
Vinge, Vernor, 130, 132
Voltaire, 31, 188, 223
von Neumann, John, 88, 131–32
Wade, Nicholas, 264
Walter, Chip, 330
war and violence, 96–99
world wars, 74, 75–76, 79, 94, 95
water, 356
Watts, Alan, 66
Wharton, Edith, 301
What Is Enlightenment?, see EnlightenNext
White, John, 330
Whitehead, Alfred North, 29, 251, 252, 282, 325, 341–44, 351–52, 354, 371
Wilber, Ken, 22, 38, 62, 169, 170, 176–77, 190, 220–21, 228, 234–48, 251, 254–59, 267, 317, 331, 351
Cohen and, 333–34
Wilson, David Sloan, 7, 76–77
Winfrey, Oprah, 278
Wired, 113
Wolfram, Stephen, 116–17
Wordsworth, William, 97–98, 310
World Future Society, 303
worldviews, 16, 21–24, 69–70, 161, 163, 174–78, 184–87, 189–90, 195–96, 212, 249
agreements in, 174–75, 178, 184
evolution of, 175–76
evolutionary, new, 6, 13, 15, 16, 20, 24–30, 237–38, 336, 369–71
in Spiral Dynamics, see Spiral Dynamics
touchstone propositions of, 24–25
World War I, 74, 75–76, 79, 94, 95, 204, 273–74
World War II, 74, 75–76, 79, 94, 95, 204, 229, 297–98
Wright, N. T., 23
Wright, Robert, 78, 87–91, 93–94, 95, 99, 115, 137, 156–57
zero-sum interactions, 88
Zulus, 225–26