The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness

by Grof, Stanislav

• ISBN13: 9780791438763
• ISBN10: 0791438767
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-03-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

The Cosmic Game discusses the broadest philosophical, metaphysical and spiritual insights gleaned in Grof's research concerning human nature and reality, addressing the most fundamental questions human beings have asked about the nature of existence since time immemorial. Insights from research into nonordinary states of consciousness portray existence as an astonishing play of the cosmic creative principle that transcends time, space, linear causality; and polarities of every kind and suggest an identity of the individual psyche in its furthest reaches with the universal creative principle and the totality of existence. This identity of the human being with the Divine is the ultimate secret that lies at the core of all great spiritual traditions.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Cosmos, Consciousness, and Spirit	p. 13
The Cosmic Creative Principle	p. 25
The Process of Creation	p. 41
The Ways to Reunion with the Cosmic Source	p. 77
The Problem of Good and Evil	p. 105
Birth, Sex, and Death: The Cosmic Connection	p. 135
The Mystery of Karma and Reincarnation	p. 159
The Taboo against Knowing Who You Are	p. 185
Playing the Cosmic Game	p. 199
The Sacred and the Profane	p. 227
Bibliography	p. 269
Index	p. 275
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