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.

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, including A Brief History of Everything, A Theory of Everything, Integral Spirituality, No Boundary, Grace and Grit, and 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