A New Republic of the Heart by Patten, Terry -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Praise for A New Republic of the Heart Copyright Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction

What’s Really Happening? Boom or Doom? What We Can Do Let’s Talk A Brief Tour through the Book

Part One: Fragmentation and Wholeness

1: Our Wicked Predicament and the Consensus Trance

A Global Tipping Point A Life-Support System Is Not Optional Why Is Addressing This Problem So Difficult? Wicked Problems and Black Swan Events Data Smog and Aperspectival Madness Cornucopians, Malthusians, and a Growth Economy Ultimate Hope Versus False Hope The Seduction—and Power—of Hope The Elephant in the Room—the Hidden Fear Agenda Consensus Trance: How We Perceive (and Deny) Reality The Challenge and the Opportunity

2: Translating Heartbreak into Action

Gratitude, Grief, and Spiritual Activism Grief as Gateway Finding Your “Yes” The Hit Is a Gift Good and Evil The Highest Calling of Our Character The Soul of Activism The Shadow Side of Activism The Outer Work Implies the Inner Work

3: Wholeness and Fragmentation

Facets of Wholeness Wholeness, Science, and Spirituality Contracting from Wholeness Challenges to Living a Life of Wholeness Care for the Whole: Integrating Activism and Awakening Cultivating Wholeness: A Practice, a Project, and an Evolutionary Imperative

4: The Evolutionary Perspective

The Evolutionary Impulse The Evolution of the Evolutionary Worldview Evolution’s Inherent Optimism Evolution’s Method: Differentiation and Integration Inspired by Contact with the Impulse of Evolution An Evolutionary Leap

5: The Integral Revolution

The Integral Flavor Integral Attitudes and Altitudes Three Competing Worldviews and Four Quadrants Traditionalism Today Modern Rationality Postmodern Consciousness Integral Consciousness Radical Integral Ecology Creating an Integral Culture A 10 Percent Tipping Point?

Part Two: Being the Change

6: Life as Practice

Wholeness and Practice From Seeker to Practitioner Life as Practice Choosing to Practice in Every Moment The Heart of the Matter The “How” and “What” of Practice The Five M’s Integral Cross-Training Core Modules of Individual Practice Relational “We-Space” Practices Relational Practices and Activism Four Ways of Being a Leader Our Great Shared Work—Transforming Human Culture The Potentials of Practice

7: The New Stories of Our Souls

Purpose and Soul From the Transcendent to the Subtle The Subtle Realm of Practice The Role of the Transcendent in Subtle Soul Work The Hidden Narratives of Our Lives Stories of Transition The Power of Archetypes My Own Soul Work Wild Old Stories From Yin to Yang Discovering and Transforming Your Archetype Collective Trauma and Subtle Activism Death and Rebirth

8: Awakening into Evolutionary Activism

Inner and Outer Work Are Inseparable The Integral Heart in Action Three Domains of Evolutionary Activism The Holistic Synergies of Evolutionary Activism Four Examples of Innovative Integral Initiatives Evolutionary Activism and Leadership Integral Politics The USA’s Red/Blue Divide The Transpartisan Movement and Integral Political Initiatives What Should You Do? Follow Your Heartbreak—and Your Genius—with Your Friends The Active Joy of Interbeing

9: A New Tribalism and a New Republic of the Heart

“We” Is the One We Are Waiting For A New Global Tribalism What Is “We-Space”? Paradise Means “Walled Garden” Forming Your We Tribe Self-Responsibility and Adequacy Shared Agreements We-Space Practices Principles of Evolutionary Dialogue A New Republic of the Heart

10: Conversations That Matter

The Context of Our Conversations Obstacles to Essential Conversation Our Most Serious Conversations and the Walls around Them Conversing across Our Bubbles: Who Aren’t You Listening To? Innovators, Ecologists, and Evolutionaries Who Really Owns the Future? Where Is an Integral Revolution?

11: It’s Not Too Late, and It Never Will Be

It Is Never Too Late Getting over Our Postmodern Selves A PostIronic Relationship to Power The Ancient Strategy Opportunities for Synergy Let’s Get on with It!

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