Up from Eden: A Transpersonal View of Human Evolution

Ken Wilber

Quest Books, May 16, 2007 - Science - 421 pages

This book chronicles humanity's cultural and psychospiritual evolutionary journey over some six million years from its primal past into its dazzling cosmic future.

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User Review  - CenterPointMN - LibraryThing

Up from Eden portrays the saga of human evolution in several major stages. Beginning with the archaic world, primitive in its beliefs and practices, it moves to the stage of magic--rituals, totems ...

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User Review  - KatieBrugger - LibraryThing

This book completely reframed my understanding of humanity in a wonderful way. Drawing on mythology and psychology, as well as his deep understanding of eastern metaphysics, Mr. Wilber explains how to understand human history as the evolution of consciousness.

Contents

• Introduction: 3
• The Mysterious Serpent: 25
• The Ancient Magicians: 43
• The Twilight Dawn of Death: 61
• Voyage into the Superconscious: 75
• Future Shock: 93
• The Great Mother: 119
• The Great Goddess: 141
• The Mythology of Murder: 157
• Polis and Praxis: 167
• Something Unheard Of: 187
• The Slaying of the Typhon: 199
• A New Time A New Body: 211
• Solarization: 227
• On Becoming a Person: 273
• The Dawn of Misery: 303
• Original Sin: 313
• The Future: 339
• Republicans Democrats and Mystics: 351
• Bibliography: 363
• Index: 381

About the author

KEN WILBER is the founder of Integral Institute and the cofounder of Integral Life. He is an internationally acknowledged leader and the preeminent scholar of the Integral stage of human development. He is the author of more than twenty books, includingnbsp;A Brief History of Everything,nbsp;A Theory of Everything,nbsp;Integral Spirituality,nbsp;No Boundary,nbsp;Grace and Grit, andnbsp;Sex, Ecology, Spirituality.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Up from Eden: A Transpersonal View of Human Evolution
• Author: Ken Wilber
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Quest Books, 2007
• ISBN: 0835607313, 9780835607315
• Length: 421 pages
• Subjects: Body, Mind & Spirit / General; Philosophy / Mind & Body; Philosophy / Movements / Humanism; Science / Life Sciences / Evolution