Up from Eden: A Transpersonal View of Human EvolutionThis 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 - LibraryThingUp 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 ... Read full review
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User Review - KatieBrugger - LibraryThingThis 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. Read full review
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 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 |
The Mythology of Murder | 157 |
Polis and Praxis | 167 |
Something Unheard Of | 187 |
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