A brief history of everything

A brief history of everything

Ken Wilber

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Subjects
Spirit.
Cosmology.
Evolution > Philosophy.
Published
Boston : [New York] : Shambhala ; Distributed in the United States by Random House 2000.
Language
English
Main Author
Ken Wilber (-)
Edition
2nd ed
Physical Description
548 p.
Bibliography
Includes index.
ISBN
9781570627408
9781590304501
  • Foreword
  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • A Note to the Reader
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Spirit-in-Action
  • 1.. The Pattern That Connects
  • The Kosmos
  • Twenty Tenets: The Patterns That Connect
  • Agency and Communion
  • Transcendence and Dissolution
  • Four Drives of All Holons
  • Creative Emergence
  • Holarchy
  • The Way of All Embrace
  • 2.. The Secret Impulse
  • Higher and Lower
  • Depth and Span
  • Kosmic Consciousness
  • The Spectrum of Consciousness
  • 3.. All Too Human
  • Foraging
  • Horticultural
  • Agrarian
  • Industrial
  • 4.. The Great Postmodern Revolution
  • The Postmodern Watershed
  • Two Paths in Postmodernity
  • On the Edge of Tomorrow
  • Transcendence and Repression
  • 5.. The Four Corners of the Kosmos
  • The Four Quadrants
  • Intentional and Behavioral
  • Cultural and Social
  • An Example
  • The Shape of Things to Come
  • 6.. The Two Hands of God
  • Mind and Brain
  • The Left- and Right-Hand Paths
  • The Monological Gaze: The Key to the Right-Hand Paths
  • Interpretation: The Key to the Left-Hand Paths
  • What Does That Dream Mean?
  • Social Science versus Cultural Understanding
  • Hermeneutics
  • All Interpretation Is Context-Bound
  • Nonhuman Interpretation
  • Spiritual Interpretation
  • 7.. Attuned to the Kosmos
  • Propositional Truth
  • Truthfulness
  • Justness
  • Functional Fit
  • Conclusion: The Four Faces of Spirit
  • 8.. The Good, the True, and the Beautiful
  • The Big Three
  • The Good News: Differentiation of the Big Three
  • The Bad News: Dissociation of the Big Three
  • The Task of Postmodernity: Integration of the Big Three
  • The Spiritual Big Three
  • Part 2. The Further Reaches of Spirit-in-Action
  • 9.. The Evolution of Consciousness
  • Higher Stages of Development
  • Ladder, Climber, View
  • Basic Levels: The Ladder
  • The Self: The Climber
  • A Fulcrum
  • New Worlds Emerge: Changing Views
  • Pathology
  • States and Stages
  • Flatland Religion
  • Freud and Buddha
  • 10.. On the Way to Global: Part 1
  • The Primary Matrix
  • Birth Trauma
  • The False Self
  • Fulcrum-1. The Hatching of the Physical Self
  • Fulcrum-2. The Birth of the Emotional Self
  • Fulcrum-3. The Birth of the Conceptual Self
  • Every Neurosis Is an Ecological Crisis
  • Early Worldviews: Archaic, Magic, Mythic
  • Fulcrum-4. The Birth of the Role Self
  • Paradigm Shifts
  • Satanic Abuse and UFOs
  • 11.. On the Way to Global: Part 2
  • Evolution versus Egocentrism
  • Fulcrum-4 (Continued). Life's Social Scripts
  • Fulcrum-5. The Worldcentric or Mature Ego
  • Diversity and Multiculturalism
  • Fulcrum-6. The Bodymind Integration of the Centaur
  • Aperspectival Madness
  • On the Brink of the Transpersonal
  • 12.. Realms of the Superconscious: Part 1
  • Where the Mind Leaves Off
  • The Transpersonal Stages
  • Fulcrum-7. The Psychic
  • Deep Ecology and Ecofeminism
  • The Enneagram and the Basic Skeleton
  • Fulcrum-8. The Subtle
  • Jung and the Archetypes
  • 13.. Realms of the Superconscious: Part 2
  • Fulcrum-9. The Causal
  • The Nondual
  • The Immediacy of Pure Presence
  • Enlightenment
  • Part 3. Beyond Flatland
  • 14.. Ascending and Descending
  • A Brief Summary
  • The Great Holarchy
  • This-Worldly versus Otherworldly
  • Wisdom and Compassion
  • God and Goddess
  • Two Different Gods
  • The Descended Grid
  • 15.. The Collapse of the Kosmos
  • The Dignity of Modernity
  • The Disaster of Modernity
  • Instrumental Rationality: A World of Its
  • The Fundamental Enlightenment Paradigm
  • No Spirit, No Mind, Only Nature
  • The Voice of the Industrial Grid
  • 16.. The Ego and the Eco
  • Ego versus Eco
  • The Flatland Twins
  • The Ego's Truth
  • The Ego's Problem
  • The Ego and Repression
  • The Re-enchantment of the World
  • Back to Nature
  • The Eco and Regression
  • Paradise Lost
  • The Way Back Machine
  • The Great Battle of Modernity: Fichte versus Spinoza
  • 17.. The Dominance of the Descenders
  • Evolution: The Great Holarchy Unfolds in Time
  • Evolution: Spirit-in-Action
  • Glimmers of the Nondual
  • Always Already
  • The Fading of the Vision
  • The Dominance of the Descenders
  • The Internet
  • The Religion of Gaia
  • 18.. An Integral Vision
  • The Writing on the Wall
  • The Superman Self
  • The Great-Web Gaia Self
  • Beyond the Postmodern Mind
  • World Transformation and the Culture Gap
  • Environmental Ethics: Holonic Ecology
  • The Basic Moral Intuition
  • An Integral Vision
  • Appendix. The Twenty Tenets

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