A Brief History of Everything · Revised Edition by Wilber, Ken -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Foreword by Tony Schwartz Preface to the Second Edition A Note to the Reader Introduction P ART O NE : S PIRIT-IN -A CTION 1. The Pattern That Connects

The Kosmos Twenty Tenets: The Patterns That Connect Agency and Communion Transcendence and Dissolution Four Drives of All Holons Creative Emergence Holarchy The Way of All Embrace

2. The Secret Impulse

Higher and Lower Depth and Span Kosmic Consciousness The Spectrum of Consciousness

3. All Too Human

Foraging Horticultural Agrarian Industrial

4. The Great Postmodern Revolution

The Postmodern Watershed Two Paths in Postmodernity On the Edge of Tomorrow Transcendence and Repression

5. The Four Corners of the Kosmos

The Four Quadrants Intentional and Behavioral Cultural and Social An Example The Shape of Things to Come

6. The Two Hands of God

Mind and Brain The Left- and Right-Hand Paths The Monological Gaze: The Key to the Right-Hand Paths Interpretation: The Key to the Left-Hand Paths What Does That Dream Mean ? Social Science versus Cultural Understanding Hermeneutics All Interpretation Is Context-Bound Nonhuman Interpretation Spiritual Interpretation

7. Attuned to the Kosmos

Propositional Truth Truthfulness Justness Functional Fit Conclusion: The Four Faces of Spirit

8. The Good, the True, and the Beautiful

The Big Three The Good News: Differentiation of the Big Three The Bad News: Dissociation of the Big Three The Task of Postmodernity: Integration of the Big Three The Spiritual Big Three

P ART T WO : T HE F URTHER R EACHES OF S PIRIT-IN -A CTION 9. The Evolution of Consciousness

Higher Stages of Development Ladder, Climber, View Basic Levels: The Ladder The Self: The Climber A Fulcrum New Worlds Emerge: Changing Views Pathology States and Stages Flatland Religion Freud and Buddha

10. On the Way to Global: Part 1

The Primary Matrix Birth Trauma The False Self Fulcrum-1: The Hatching of the Physical Self Fulcrum-2: The Birth of the Emotional Self Fulcrum-3: The Birth of the Conceptual Self Every Neurosis Is an Ecological Crisis Early Worldviews: Archaic, Magic, Mythic Fulcrum-4: The Birth of the Role Self Paradigm Shifts Satanic Abuse and UFOs

11. On the Way to Global: Part 2

Evolution versus Egocentrism Fulcrum-4 (Continued): Life’s Social Scripts Fulcrum-5: The Worldcentric or Mature Ego Diversity and Multiculturalism Fulcrum-6: The Bodymind Integration of the Centaur Aperspectival Madness On the Brink of the Transpersonal

12. Realms of the Superconscious: Part 1

Where the Mind Leaves Off The Transpersonal Stages Fulcrum-7: The Psychic Deep Ecology and Ecofeminism The Enneagram and the Basic Skeleton Fulcrum-8: The Subtle Jung and the Archetypes

13. Realms of the Superconscious: Part 2

Fulcrum-9: The Causal The Nondual The Immediacy of Pure Presence Enlightenment

P ART T HREE : B EYOND F LATLAND 14. Ascending and Descending

A Brief Summary The Great Holarchy This-Worldly versus Otherworldly Wisdom and Compassion God and Goddess Two Different Gods The Descended Grid

15. The Collapse of the Kosmos

The Dignity of Modernity The Disaster of Modernity Instrumental Rationality: A World of Its The Fundamental Enlightenment Paradigm No Spirit, No Mind, Only Nature The Voice of the Industrial Grid

16. The Ego and the Eco

Ego versus Eco The Flatland Twins The Ego’s Truth The Ego’s Problem The Ego and Repression The Re-enchantment of the World Back to Nature The Eco and Regression Paradise Lost The Way Back Machine The Great Battle of Modernity: Fichte versus Spinoza

17. The Dominance of the Descenders

Evolution: The Great Holarchy Unfolds in Time Evolution: Spirit-in-Action Glimmers of the Nondual Always Already The Fading of the Vision The Dominance of the Descenders The Internet The Religion of Gaia

18. An Integral Vision

The Writing on the Wall The Superman Self The Great-Web Gaia Self Beyond the Postmodern Mind World Transformation and the Culture Gap Environmental Ethics: Holonic Ecology The Basic Moral Intuition An Integral Vision

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