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

• TALES OF DIM EDEN: 23
• The Mysterious Serpent: 35
• TIMES OF THE TYPHON: 41
• The Ancient Magicians: 43
• The Twilight Dawn of Death: 61
• Voyage into the Superconscious: 75
• MYTHICMEMBERSHIP: 91
• Future Shock: 93
• The Great Mother: 119
• The Great Goddess: 126
• The Mythology of Murder: 157
• Polis and Praxis: 167
• THE SOLAR: 185
• Something Unheard: 187
• The Slaying of the Typhon: 199
• A New Time A New Body: 211
• Solarization: 227
• and the Father Are: 253
• On Becoming a Person: 273
• The Dawn of Misery: 303
• THE CONTEXT: 311
• Original: 313
• The Future: 339
• Republicans Democrats and Mystics: 351
• Bibliography Index vii xix: 363
• 43: 364
• 61: 365
• 93: 366
• 119: 367
• 141: 368
• 167: 369
• 187: 370
• 211: 371
• 227: 372
• 253: 373
• 273: 374
• 313: 375
• 339: 376
• 351: 377

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