Metaphors of ConciousnessRonald S. Valle, Rolf von Eckartsberg As we move into the 1980s, there is an increasing awareness that our civilization is going through a profound cultural transformation. At the heart of this transformation lies what is often called a "paradigm shift"-a dramatic change in the thoughts, perceptions, and values which form a particular vision of reality. The paradigm that is now shifting comprises a large number of ideas and values that have dominated our society for several hundred years; values that have been associated with various streams of Western culture, among them the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century, The Enlightenment, and the Industrial Revolution. They include the belief in the scientific method as the only valid approach to knowledge, the split between mind and matter, the view of nature as a mechanical system, the view of life in society as a competitive struggle for survival, and the belief in unlimited material progress to be achieved through economic and technological growth. All these ideas and values are now found to be severely limited and in need of radical revision. |
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Metaphors and Maps | 1 |
The Cartography of Consciousness | 21 |
Psychological Approaches | 95 |
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Anaïs Nin analysis android approach archetype artificial consciousness aspects atomic awareness basic become behavior behavioristic Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction body Bohm brain Buddhist called Chapter chemical Christian cognitive maps concepts create creative Dasein described discussion divine dualism Eckartsberg energy everyday example existence existential existential-phenomenological experience experienced experiential external feeling feminine consciousness Figure Freud Freudian function god-consciousness Heidegger holomovement human consciousness individual interaction involved isolation tank Johannes Tauler Jung Jung's Jungian language Lao Tsu living M/L system masculine meaning meditation Merleau-Ponty metaphor mind mystical nature ness object observer one's organism oscillations Paramahansa Yogananda particle patterns person phenomena phenomenology philosophy physical present Pribram psychology Pyramid Texts reaction reality realm relationship religious robot science fiction scientific sciousness sense space spiritual structure Swami Rama symbols Tauler theory things thinking thought tion tradition transcendence transformation transpersonal truth unconscious understanding Valle vision wave York