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INTRODUCTION
x If the pollsters are to be trusted: Newsweek poll conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International, Newsweek, March 28–29, 2007.
xii “a slow hunch”: Johnson, Steven, Where Good Ideas Come From (New York: Riverhead, 2010), 78.
PROLOGUE
4 “Evolutionary man can no longer take refuge”: Huxley, Julian, “The Evolutionary Vision” in Tax, Sol, and Charles Callender, eds., Evolution After Darwin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960), 252–253, 260.
CHAPTER 1
8 When the historian Will Durant was asked: Durant, Will, The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time, ed. John Little (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002), 1.
11 “Nothing makes sense in biology”: Dobzhansky, Theodore, American Biology Teacher Vol. 35, No. 3 (March 1973), 125–129.
11 “Is evolution a theory”: Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, The Phenomenon of Man (New York: Harper Perennial, 2008), 219.
12 “A philosophy of this kind”: Bergson, Henri, Creative Evolution (Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 1998), xiv.
13 “There is considerable doubt”: Kauffman, Stuart, Reinventing the Sacred (New York: Basic Books, 2008), 76.
17 “While we postmoderns say we detest”: Brooks, David, “The Age of Darwin,” New York Times, April 16, 2007.
20 “You’ll have an explosion”: in Huston, Tom, “Looking Back to the Beginning,” What Is Enlightenment? Issue 26, August–October 2004, 27.
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22 “What our awareness delivers”: Wilber, Ken, “God’s Playing a New Game,” What Is Enlightenment? Issue 33, June–August 2006, 69.
22 “A world view is a system”: Aerts, D. et al., World Views: From Fragmentation to Integration (Brussels: VUB Press, 1994), accessed October 2011, www.vub.ac.be/CLEA/pub/books/worldviews.
23 “like the foundations of a house”: Wright, N. T., The New Testament and the People of God (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992), 125.
24 “At the center of every worldview”: Halverson, William H., A Concise Introduction to Philosophy (New York: Random House, 1976), 384.
25 “The conflict dates from the day”: Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, The Future of Man (New York: Image Books, 2004), 1.
28 “Life in general is mobility”: Bergson, Henri, Creative Evolution (Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 1998), 128.
29 “Fallacy of misplaced concreteness”: Whitehead, Alfred North, Science and the Modern World (New York: Free Press, 1997), 51.
29 “Permanence has fled”: Eisendrath, Craig, At War With Time (New York: Allworth Press, 2003), 243.
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33 “Most educated people”: Eisendrath, Craig, At War With Time (New York: Allworth Press, 2003), 106.
34 “biobabble”: Krugman, Paul, “The Power of Biobabble,” Slate magazine, October 24, 1997.
34 “to speak for the culture as a whole”: Eisendrath, At War With Time, 107.
35 “Great disembedding”: Taylor, Charles, A Secular Age (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), 146–158.
37 “Nothing in particular”: in Solomon, Robert C., In the Spirit of Hegel (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983), 338.
37 “There is also a growing need”: in Christian, David, Big History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), 3–4.
38 “Reductionism alone is not adequate”: Kauffman, Stuart, Reinventing the Sacred (New York: Basic Books, 2008), 3.
39 “The overlapping domains”: Gardner, James N., Biocosm (Makawao, Hawaii: Inner Ocean Publishing, 2003), 226.
40 “Our concern is with integrality”: Gebser, Jean, The Ever-Present Origin (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1986), 3.
40 “Simple sudden synthesis”: Joyce, James, Stephen Hero (New York: New Directions, 1963), 212.
42 “Just as we separate in space”: Bergson, Henri, Creative Evolution (Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 1998), 163.
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50 Margulis’s work on this new theory: Sagan, Lynn, “On the Origin of Mitosing Cells,” Journal of Theoretical Biology 14 (1967), 3:255–274.
50 “Animals are very tardy”: Margulis, Lynn, “Gaia Is a Tough Bitch,” in Brockman, John, ed., The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), 130.
51 “My major thrust”: Ibid., 136.
51 “Three billion years of non-events”: Wright, Karen, “When Life was Odd,” Discover, March 1997, 53.
52 “a minor twentieth-century religious sect”: in Mann, C., “Lynn Margulis: Science’s Unruly Earth Mother,” Science 252, 380.
52 “The tiny archaebacteria”: Sahtouris, Elisabet, “The Wisdom of Living Systems,” What Is Enlightenment? Issue 23, Spring/Summer 2003, 20.
53 “Before our new wave of knowledge”: Sahtouris, Elisabet, “The Evolving Story of our Evolving Earth,” paper presented at the Foundation for the Future workshop “How Evolution Works” (Seattle, Wash., November 4 and 5, 1999), accessed October 2011, http://www.ratical.org/LifeWeb/Articles/H3Kevolv.
54 “The aesthetic beauty of these”: Ben-Jacob, Eshel, “Bacteria Harnessing Complexity,” Biofilms Vol. 1, Issue 4, Oct. 2004 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press), 241.
57 “toxic pollutant holocaust”: Bloom, Howard, The Global Brain (New York: Wiley, 2000), 22.
57 “How did the eukaryotic cell”: Margulis, “Gaia Is a Tough Bitch,” 137.
62 “Since the origin of evolutionary biology”: Roughgarden, Joan, The Genial Gene: Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2009), 235.
62 “We are survival mechanisms”: in Broom, Donald, M., The Evolution of Morality and Religion (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 197.
63 “Social selection”: Roughgarden, The Genial Gene, 61.
64 “You humans, when are you going to learn”: Men in Black, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, Amblin Entertainment, 1997.
65 “So sensitized have I been by”: Thompson, William Irwin, Coming into Being (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 1998), 18.
67 “Evolution is no linear”: Margulis, Lynn, and Dorian Sagan, What Is Life? (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2000), 93.
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74 “That biology can be co-opted”: Morris, Simon Conway, Life’s Solution (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 323.
74 “The prestige of evolutionary research”: Mayr, Ernst, letter to G. G. Ferris, March 28, 1948, in Ruse, Michael, and Joseph Travis, Evolution: The First Four Billion Years (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 2009), 35.
76 “The twentieth century was a great burial ground”: Salvadori, Massimo, Progress: Can We Do Without It? (London: Zed Books, 2008), 99.
76 “He quickly learned”: Wilson, David Sloan, Evolution for Everyone (New York: Delacorte Press, 2007), 191.
77 “a noxious, culturally embedded”: Gould, Stephen J., in Nitecki, M. H., ed., Evolutionary Progress (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988), 319.
78 “Rerun the tape of life”: Morris, Life’s Solution, 282.
82 “Cooperation emerges only when evolution”: Stewart, John, “The Evolutionary Manifesto: Our Role in the Future Evolution of Life” (June 6, 2008): 8, accessed September 2010, http://www.evolutionary manifesto.com/man.pdf.
85 “intentional evolutionaries”: Ibid.
86 “the near eradication”: Ibid.
87 600,000 autonomous polities: Wright, Robert, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny (New York, N.Y.: Vintage, 2001), 209.
89 It is rare for two countries with Golden Arches: Friedman, Thomas, The Lexus and the Olive Tree (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999), 249.
89 “infrastructure for a planetary first”: Wright, Robert, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny (New York: Vintage, 2001), 332.
89 “Historically, the amity, or goodwill”: Wright, Robert, “The Globalization of Morality,” What Is Enlightenment? Issue 26, August–October 2004, 36.
90 “at least suggestive of purpose”: Wright, Robert, “Suggestions of a Larger Purpose,” What Is Enlightenment? Issue 21, Spring/Summer 2002, 167.
90 “If directionality is built into life”: Wright, Nonzero, 4.
90 “My parents were creationists”: “Evolutionary Theology,” interview of Robert Wright by Deborah Solomon in The New York Times Magazine, May 29, 2009, MM22 (New York edition).
91 “Creationism for Liberals”: Coyne, Jerry A., review of The Evolution of God, by Robert Wright, The New Republic, August 12, 2009.
92 “Evolution meanders more than it progresses”: Murphy, Michael, and George Leonard, The Life We Are Given (New York: Tarcher, 2005), 170.
97 “Prehistoric warfare was common and deadly”: LeBlanc, Steven, Constant Battles: Why We Fight (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2004), 8.
97 “The world is too much with us”: Wordsworth, William, The Major Works Including The Prelude, ed. Stephen Gill (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2008), 270.
98 Scholarly evidence . . . matriarchy: Eisler, Riane, The Chalice and the Blade (San Francisco: Harper One, 1988), 59–77.
99 “dispelling the notion that war is natural”: Eisler, Riane, “The Chalice or the Blade: Choices for Our Future,” New Renaissance Magazine 7, no. 1 (1997).
99 “Because we can look back and see the pattern”: “A Song that Goes On Singing,” interview of Beatrice Bruteau by Amy Edelstein and Ellen Daly, What Is Enlightenment? Issue 21, Spring/Summer 2002, 55.
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101 “Why are there beings at all”: Heidegger, Martin, Introduction to Metaphysics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 1.
102 “as Gods”: Brand, Stewart, Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto (New York: Viking, 2009), 1.
109 “How many kinds of atoms”: Bloom, Howard, The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2012).
113 “The art of evolution”: Kelly, Kevin, Out of Control (New York: Basic Books, 1995), 401.
115 “precisely defining complexity”: Wright, Robert, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny (New York: Vintage, 2001), 344–45.
115 “How did the beautifully intricate”: Gardner, James N., Biocosm (Makawao, Hawaii: Inner Ocean Publishing, 2003), 50.
116 “powerful idea that order in biology”: Kauffman, Stuart, Reinventing the Sacred (New York: Basic Books, 2008), 101.
116 “ceaseless creativity”: Ibid., 2.
116 “My claim is not simply that we lack”: Ibid., 5.
117 “one of the more important”: Wolfram, Stephen, A New Kind of Science (Champaign, Ill.: Wolfram Media, 2002), 2.
117 “locked into the very logic”: Gardner, Biocosm, 202.
119 “If your theory is found to be against”: Eddington, Sir Arthur, The Nature of the Physical World (Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger Publishing, 2005 ), 74.
120 “You have to hand it to the creationists”: in Wallis, Claudia, “Evolution Wars,” Time, Sunday, August 7, 2005.
121 “A system performing a given basic function”: Dembski, William, No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased Without Intelligence (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001), 285.
122 “What I object to is the narrowness”: Haught, John, “God After Darwin: Haught Response to Behe” on Metanexus.net, December 10, 1999.
123 “When an embryo begins to develop”: “A New Dawn for Cosmology,” interview of James Gardner by Carter Phipps, What Is Enlightenment? Issue 33, June–August 2006, 48.
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126 The term “transhumanism” was coined: Huxley, Julian, “Transhumanism,” in New Bottles for New Wine (London: Chatto & Windus, 1957), 13–17.
127 “They damaged his nervous system”: Gibson, William, Neuromancer (New York: Ace, 1984), 6.
128 “marriage of the born and the made”: Kelly, Kevin, Out of Control (New York: Basic Books, 1995), 2.
130 “an exponential runway”: Vinge, Vernor, “The Coming Technological Singularity” (1993), accessed September 2011, http://www.rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/vinge/misc/singularity.html.
131 “The prospect of building godlike creatures”: de Garis, Hugo, The Artilect War (Palm Springs, Calif.: Etc Publications, 2005), 1.
131 Some have traced it . . . John von Neuman: In 1958, Stanislaw Ulam mentions the term in reference to a conversation with John von Neumann: Ulam, S., “Tribute to John von Neumann,” Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 64, no. 3 (May 1958), 1–49.
132 “on the edge of change comparable”; Vinge, “The Coming Technological Singularity.”
132 “transform every institution and aspect”: Kurzweil, Ray, The Singularity Is Near (New York: Penguin, 2006), 7.
132 “The singularity will represent the culmination”: Ibid., 9.
133 “The truth-is-stranger-than-fiction factor”: No Maps for These Territories, directed by Mark Neale, Mark Neale Productions, 2000.
136 “Most technology forecasts and forecasters”: Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Near, 14.
140 “There is only one time in the history”: Kelly, Kevin, “We Are the Web,” Wired, August 2005.
141 “No one can deny that a network”: Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, The Future of Man (New York: Image Books, 2004), 165.
141 “consensual hallucination . . . colorless void”: Gibson, Neuromancer, 5.
143 “The implications of the Law of Accelerating Returns”: Kurzweil, Ray, The Age of Spiritual Machines (New York: Penguin, 2000), 260.
144 “Conceptually, at least, biology”: Arthur, W. Brian, The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves (New York: Free Press, 2009), 208.
146 “double aspects . . . conception of the world”: Chalmers, David J., “Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness,” Journal of Consciousness Studies 2 (1995), 3:200–219.
146 “The quiet, unobtrusive way”: Haught, John, Is Nature Enough? (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 68.
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156 “While I think natural selection”: “Suggestions of a Larger Purpose,” interview of Robert Wright by Elizabeth Debold, in What Is Enlightenment? Issue 21, Spring/Summer 2002, 106.
157 “Motive principle of evolution”: Bergson, Henri, Creative Evolution (Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 1998), 182.
160 “living tissue of shared experience”: Houston, Jean, from an Enlighten-Next webcast dialogue with Andrew Cohen (September 2011), accessed October 2011, http://www.evolutionaryenlightenment.com/webcast.
165 That distinction goes to Russian scientist Vladimir Vernadsky: Vernadsky, Vladimir, “The Biosphere and the Noosphere,” American Scientist, January 1945, 1–12.
165 “The Physical and the Psychic”: Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, The Future of Man (New York: Image Books, 2004), 209.
165 Law of complexity and consciousness: Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, The Phenomenon of Man (New York: Harper Perennial, 2008), 61.
166 “Existence mysteriously becomes experience”: Godwin, Robert, One Cosmos Under God (St. Paul, Minn.: Paragon House, 2004), 19.
166 “Why, all of a sudden”: Ibid., 101.
167 “Everywhere the active phyletic lines”: Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man, 160.
167 “a pioneering hominid”: Swimme, Brian, The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1999), 56.
167 “a luminous fissure”: Godwin, One Cosmos Under God, 56.
167 “Abstraction, logic, reasoned choice”: Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man, 160.
168 “psychic system of a collective”: Jung, Carl G., The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1968), 43.
169 “How on earth do you get in my mind”: Wilber, Ken, Integral Spirituality (Boston, Mass.: Shambhala, 2007), 151.
169 “Relationships exist in the internal space”: McIntosh, Steve, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (St. Paul, Minn.: Paragon House, 2007), 19.
170 “the meanings and rules”: “Wanted: Chief Culture Officer,” an interview with Grant McCracken by Entrepreneur magazine, June 2010.
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182 “Consciousness is generally seen”: Sleutels, Jan, “Recent Changes in the Structure of Consciousness?” talk given at “Towards a Science of Consciousness,” Tucson, Ariz., April 2008, paper subsequently published in Hameroff, Stuart, ed., Toward a Science of Consciousness 2008: Consciousness Research Abstracts (2008), 172–173.
183 “The characters of the Iliad”: Jaynes, Julian, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (New York: Mariner Books, 2000), 72.
185 “One developmental-logical stage”: Owen, David S., Between Reason and History (Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 2002), 102.
188 “dynamic equilibrium”: see Kegan, Robert, “Epistemology, Fourth Order Consciousness, and the Subject-Object Relationship,” What is Enlightenment? Issue 22, Fall/Winter 2002, 149.
188 “I wish to write a history not of wars”: in Durant, Will, The Story of Philosophy (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), 169.
189 “the Truth is not only the result”: in Solomon, Robert C., In the Spirit of Hegel (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983), 245.
189 “Hegel was the first to recognize”: McIntosh, Steve, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (St. Paul, Minn.: Paragon House, 2007), 161.
189 “both a valid truth unto itself”: quoted in Solomon, In the Spirit of Hegel, 245.
190 “The bud disappears as the blossom”: in Ibid., 241–2.
191 Popper went so far as to accuse: Popper, Karl, The Open Society and Its Enemies (Philadelphia, Pa.: Psychology Press, 2003), 66. Written during World War II, Popper’s influential book criticizes theories in which history unfolds according to universal laws, and indicts as totalitarian Plato, Hegel, and Marx.
191 “With Hegel’s decline there passed”: Tarnas, Richard, The Passion of the Western Mind (New York: Ballantine Books, 1993), 383.
192 “the branch of social science”: McIntosh, Steve, Evolution’s Purpose: An Integral Interpretation of the Scientific Story of Our Origins (New York, N.Y.: Select Books, 2012).
193 “evolution was an absolute conceptual anchor”: Plotkin, Henry, Evolutionary Thought in Psychology: A Brief History (Hoboken, N.J.: Blackwell Publishing, 2004), 70.
194 “The laws of thought”: in Ibid., 72.
194 “general biology is today mainly”: Baldwin, James Mark, Development and Evolution (New York: Macmillan, 1902), vii.
195 “The great glory within my own field”: “Epistemology, Fourth Order Consciousness, and the Subject-Object Relationship,” interview of Robert Kegan by Elizabeth Debold in What Is Enlightenment? Issue 22, Fall/Winter 2002, 149.
196 “Even though individual development”: McIntosh, Evolution’s Purpose: An Integral Interpretation of the Scientific Story of Our Origins (New York, N.Y.: Select Books, 2012).
198 “Unlike paleontology, where the outlines”: Lachman, Gary, A Secret History of Consciousness (Great Barrington, Mass.: Lindisfarne Books, 2003), 97.
198 “The imprint of human imagination”: Ibid., 103.
198 “felt the beat of consciousness”: Richards, Robert J., Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989), 480.
198 “brilliantly intuitive intellectual mystic”: Thompson, William Irwin, Coming into Being (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 1998), 12.
198 He called this consciousness “integral” . . . “authentic spell-casting”: Gebser, Jean, The Ever-Present Origin (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1986), 36–102.
204 “Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles, son of Peleus”: Homer, The Iliad, trans. Anthony Verity (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 3.
208 “transfiguration and irradiation”: in Lachman, Gary, A Secret History of Consciousness (Great Barrington, Mass.: Lindisfarne Books, 2003), 229–230.
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214 “People are trapped in history”: Baldwin, James Mark, Notes of a Native Son (Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, 1984), 163.
215 “The error which most people make”: Graves, Clare, “Human Nature Prepares for Momentous Leap,” edited with embedded comments by Edward Cornish, World Future Society, in The Futurist, April 1974, 72–87.
217 “Briefly, what I am proposing”: Ibid.
218 Spiral Dynamics value systems: Beck, Don, “The Never-Ending Upward Quest,” What Is Enlightenment? Issue 22, Fall/Winter 2002, 105–126.
218 “the first sense of the metaphysical”: Beck, “The Never-Ending Upward Quest,” 113.
219 “ritualistically and superstitiously”: Graves, Clare, “Dr. Graves’s 1982 Seminar Handout: What the Research of Clare W. Graves Says a Model of Healthy Mature Psychosocial Behavior Should Represent,” prepared by Chris Cowan, accessed September 2011, http://www.clarewgraves.com/articles_content/1982_handout/1982_1.html.
219 “raw, egocentric self”: Beck, “The Never-Ending Upward Quest,” 114.
220 “Spiral Dynamics is based on the assumption”: Beck, “The Never-Ending Upward Quest,” 110.
220 “not rigid levels, but flowing waves”: Wilber, Ken, A Theory of Everything (Boston, Mass.: Shambhala Publications, 2001), 7.
221 “What I am saying is that when one form”: in Beck, Don Edward, and Christopher Cowan, Spiral Dynamics (Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Blackwell, 1996), 294.
222 “We do not need a time machine”: Godwin, Robert, One Cosmos Under God (St. Paul, Minn.: Paragon House, 2004), 166.
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236 “One thing was very clear to me”: Wilber, Ken, Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, introduction to the revised edition (Boston, Mass.: Shambhala, 2001), xii-xiii.
238 “There were linguistic hierarchies”: Ibid., xiii.
239 At one point, I had over two hundred”: Ibid.
244 “The real intent of my writing”: Wilber, Ken, introduction to volume 8 of the Collected Works (Boston, Mass.: Shambhala Publications, 2000), 49.
245 “this does not mean that development”: Wilber, Ken, A Theory of Everything (Boston, Mass.: Shambhala Publications, 2001), 22.
246 “In every work of genius”: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, “Self Reliance,” Emerson’s Essays (New York: Harper Perennial, 1981), 32.
247 “replaces perceptions with perspectives ”: Wilber, Ken, Integral Spirituality (Boston, Mass.: Shambhala, 2007), 42.
249 a fallacy endemic to introspective traditions: Wilber, Integral Spirituality, 272–283.
252 “May not the laws of the universe”: Davis, Ellery W., “Charles Peirce at Johns Hopkins,” The Mid-West Quarterly, September 1914, 53.
253 “Although cosmology is now evolutionary”: Sheldrake, Rupert, Morphic Resonance (Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions/Bear & Co., 2009), xiii.
254 “According to this hypothesis”: Ibid., 3–4.
254 “best candidate for burning”: Sir John Maddox, “A Book for Burning?” Nature 293 (5830), 245–46.
255 “Kosmic habits”: Wilber, Ken, “Excerpt A: An Integral Age at the Leading Edge, Part II: Kosmic Habits as Probability Waves,” in Excerpts from Volume 2 of the Kosmos Trilogy, accessed October 2011, http://wilber.shambhala.com.
255 “In historical unfolding”: Wilber, Ken, “Excerpt A: An Integral Age at the Leading Edge, Part I. Kosmic Karma: Why is the Present a Little Bit Like the Past?,” in Ibid.
256 “Most of the early stages”: Wilber, Ken, “Higher Integration,” dialogue with Andrew Cohen in What Is Enlightenment? Issue 29, June–August 2005, 58–59.
256 “This does not mean”: Wilber, Ken, “Excerpt D: The Look of a Feeling, Part IV: Conclusions of Adequate Structuralism,” in Excerpts from Volume 2 of the Kosmos Trilogy accessed October 2011, http://wilber.shambhala.com.
257 “frothy, chaotic, wildly creative”: Wilber, “Excerpt A: An Integral Age at the Leading Edge, Part II.”
258 “Paul Tillich said that”: Wilber, “Higher Integration,” 59.
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264 “Everyone appeared in high spirits”: Darwin, Charles, The Voyage of the Beagle (New York: Penguin Classics, 1989), 331–332.
264 “emotionally compelling dramas”: Wade, Nicholas, The Faith Instinct (New York: Penguin, 2010), 78.
265 “Religion is not inserted”: Kardong, Kenneth V., Beyond God (Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity Books, 2010), 173.
267 Fowler’s Stages of Faith: Fowler, James, Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning (San Francisco: Harper One, 1995).
273 “As I looked at this scene”: Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, Letter to Marguerite Teilhard, August 23, 1916, in The Making of a Mind: Letters from a Soldier-Priest (New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, 1965), 119–120.
274 “You seem to feel . . .” Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, “Nostalgia for the Front,” in The Heart of Matter (New York: Mariner Books, 2002), 155.
274 “Blessed be you, harsh matter”: Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, “Hymn to Matter,” in Ibid., 75–77.
276 “two negations” . . . “one of the most powerful and convincing experiences”: Aurobindo, Sri, The Life Divine (Pondicherry, India: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, 1970), 6–32.
282 “the most striking feature”: Delbanco, Andrew, The Real American Dream (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999), 92.
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285 “The last thing I saw with complete clarity”: Torey, Zoltan, Out of Darkness (New York: Picador, 2003), 11.
289 “a vision and a direction”: Hubbard, Barbara Marx, “What Is Conscious Evolution?” accessed October 2011, http://www.barbaramarx hubbard.com/site/node/8.
295 “Understanding the unwanted drives”: Dowd, Michael, Thank God For Evolution (New York: Penguin, 2009), 162.
295 “New truths no longer spring”: Ibid., 65.
301 “I lapsed into a day-dream”: Hubbard, Barbara Marx, The Hunger of Eve (Greenbank, Wash.: Great Path Publishing, 1989), 66–70.
303 “a new sense of identity”: Hubbard, Barbara Marx, Conscious Evolution (Novato, Calif.: New World Library, 1998), 58.
303 “natural but dangerous stage”: Ibid., 67.
303 “reactive response to proactive choice”: Ibid., 68.
303 “guide their capacities”: Ibid., 69.
305 “Total Perspective Vortex”: Adams, Douglas, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (New York: Del Rey, 2002), 194–198.
305 “It’s really simple”: Swimme, Brian, “Comprehensive Compassion,” What Is Enlightenment? Issue 19, Spring/Summer 2001, 40.
307 “Not only are we in the universe”: Tyson, Neil deGrasse, “Beyond Belief: Science, Reason, Religion and Survival,” from a talk given at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, November 7, 2006, accessed September 2011, http://thesciencenetwork.org/programs/beyond-belief-science-religion-reason-and-survival/session-10-2.
307 “He listened carefully as I tried”: Swimme, Brian, foreword to Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, The Human Phenomenon (Eastbourne, UK: Sussex Academic Press, 1999), xiii–xiv.
308 “We find ourselves ethically destitute”: Berry, Thomas, The Great Work: Our Way Into the Future (New York: Broadway, 2000), 104.
309 “The fundamental categories of my mind”: Swimme, foreword to The Human Phenomenon, xv.
311 “Take the discovery of cosmic evolution”: Swimme, Brian, in an EnlightenNext webcast interview, May 2010.
312 “The Earth wants to come”: Swimme, Brian, “The New Story,” accessed October 2011, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRykk_0ovI0.
312 “We happen to be in that moment”: Swimme, “Comprehensive Compassion,” 38.
313 “It’s amazing to realize”: Ibid., 39.
313 “Some wellspring of creation”: Kauffman, Stuart, Investigations (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 49.
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323 “Existence or Consciousness”: Maharshi, Ramana, ed. David Goodman, Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi (New York: Penguin, 1989), 15–16.
325 “I hazard the prophecy”: Whitehead, Alfred North, Adventures of Ideas (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1967), 33.
326 “became silent as a windless air”: Aurobindo, Sri, Letters on Yoga, Volume 3 (Silver Lake, Wis.: Lotus Press, 1988), 172.
327 “precisely the experience”: Heehs, Peter, The Lives of Sri Aurobindo (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008), 144.
327 “It threw me suddenly”: Aurobindo, Sri, On Himself (Twin Lakes, Wis.: Lotus Light Publications, 1972), 101.
328 “feel out for the thought of the future”: in Heehs, The Lives of Sri Aurobindo, 262.
328 “The animal is a living laboratory”: Aurobindo, Sri, The Life Divine (Pondicherry, India: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, 1970), 3–4.
329 “the better organized the form”: in Bruteau, Beatrice, Evolution Toward Divinity: Teilhard de Chardin and the Hindu Traditions (Wheaton, Ill.: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1974), 157.
329 “primary divine necessity”: Aurobindo, The Life Divine, 47.
329 “By attaining to the unborn”: Ibid., 48.
330 “know the cosmic forces as part of himself”: Ibid., 1012.
330 “This calls for the appearance”: Ibid., 1069.
333 “I’d never really come across”: Cohen, Andrew, “The Evolution of Enlightenment,” a dialogue with Ken Wilber, in What Is Enlightenment? Issue 21, Spring/Summer 2002, 42.
334 “I believe that those of us”: Cohen, Andrew, Evolutionary Enlightenment (New York: Select Books, 2011), 4.
335 “Free, in this sense, means available”: Ibid., 128.
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341 “fog of metaphysics”: Russell, Bertrand, History of Western Philosophy (Philadelphia, Pa.: Psychology Press, 2004), 744.
342 “Bertie thinks I’m muddleheaded”: in Weiss, Paul, “Recollections of Alfred North Whitehead,” Process Studies 10, nos. 1 and 2 (Spring-Summer 1980), 44–56.
343 “Cannot step in the same river”: Heraclitus, Fragments, trans. Brooks Haxton (New York: Penguin, 2003), 96.
343 “Creative advance into novelty”: Sherburne, Donald W., A Key to Whitehead’s Process and Reality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981), 33.
343 “Fallacy of misplaced concreteness”: Whitehead, Alfred North, Science and the Modern World (New York: Free Press, 1967), 51.
352 “The whole universe is an advancing”: Whitehead, Alfred North, Adventures of Ideas (New York: Free Press, 1967), 197.
352 “The many become one”: Whitehead, Alfred North, Process and Reality (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979), 21.
352 “whole antecedent world conspires”: Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas, 198.
352 “The antecedent environment”: Whitehead, Alfred North, Modes of Thought (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968), 164.
353 “Numerical models work particularly well”: Horgan, John, “From Complexity to Perplexity,” Scientific American, June 1995, 107.
355 “theological reflection on the spirit”: Clayton, Philip, Adventures in the Spirit (Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2008), 142.
355 “Clayton astonished me”: Dennett, Daniel, in a report on the 2009 Darwin Celebration at Cambridge University, published by Jerry Coyne on his blog “Why Evolution Is True,” accessed October 2011, www.whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/almost-live-report-daniel-dennett-at-the-cambridge-science-and-faith-bash/.
356 “We see in the natural world”: Clayton, Adventures in the Spirit, 87.
358 “We have a God-shaped hole”: Haught, John, “A God-Shaped Hole at the Heart of our Being,” What Is Enlightenment? Issue 35, January–March 2007, 104.
362 “Evolutionary theology suggests”: Haught, John F., Making Sense of Evolution (Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010), 146.
362 “Too often, we have thought”: Ibid., 147.
362 “The world must have a god”: Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, Letters from a Traveller (New York: Harper & Row, 1968), 168.
363 “The future is the primary dwelling place”: Haught, Making Sense of Evolution, 138.
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365 At the age of fourteen . . . She went on to build a life: Houston, Jean, “Orchestrating Our Many Selves,” What Is Enlightenment? Issue 15, Spring/Summer 1999, 108–109.