After the Clockwork Universe

by Goerner, Sally J.

• ISBN13: 9780863152900
• ISBN10: 0863152902
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: Floris Books

Table of Contents

Foreword	11	(4)
Preface	15	(3)
Web world	18	(14)
I A BIT OF HISTORY
Big Change, Past and Present	32	(54)
Once upon a Time	34	(7)
`The Tapestry of God's Design	41	(18)
The Turning Point	59	(12)
The Dark Side of the Enlightenment Dream	71	(10)
Once upon a Time Revisited	81	(5)
II WEB WORLD
Crumbling and Emerging	86	(46)
How Much could change?	88	(8)
Chaos!	96	(12)
Unveiling the Invisible Hand	108	(12)
Complexity!	120	(4)
Intricacy and the Unexplored Realm:	124	(5)
Crumbling, but Still Emerging	129	(3)
Energy and Basic Principles of Change	132	(19)
What happens when there's Heat?	133	(4)
Energy-driven Organization in the Real World	137	(3)
Principles of Organization and Change	140	(9)
Rules for Rising and Falling	149	(2)
The Creative Cosmos	151	(52)
Another Dark Side of Science	153	(2)
Web Dynamics and the Shape of Life	155	(8)
The Dynamics of Life and the Greater Whole	163	(10)
Gaia and the New Biology	173	(8)
Another Set of Copernicans	181	(15)
The Web of Life and Energy	196	(4)
What Difference does Web Thinking make?	200	(3)
The Mind of God, Many and One	203	(39)
The Enigma of Mind	204	(10)
The Learning Universe	214	(2)
The Evolution of Humanity's Society of Mind	216	(9)
The Evolution of Human Consciousness	225	(14)
A New Look at the Learning Universe	239	(3)
III THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT
The Nature of Humanity and the World	242	(30)
Deep Ecology	243	(5)
Rethinking Human Nature	248	(9)
Intricacy and our Two Deep Cultures	257	(9)
The Integral Challenge	266	(4)
Life in the Learning Universe	270	(2)
The Cycles of Civilization	272	(51)
Civilization's Big Bang	273	(15)
The Return of the Dominator Ethos	288	(7)
The Causes of Social Distress	295	(5)
Domination and the Human Ecology	300	(13)
The Corruption of Head, Heart and Soul	313	(6)
Cycles, ever Cycles	319	(4)
The Economic Debate	323	(49)
Economics and the Madness of Method	326	(12)
Web or Machine?	338	(17)
Why we have a Crisis in Ideology	355	(6)
High-value and a Glimmer of Hope	361	(11)
IV INTEGRAL SOCIETY
Seeds of a New Way	372	(42)
The Challenge	373	(5)
How Human Eco-systems Self-organize	378	(11)
Searching for Synergy - and Peace	389	(2)
Healing Human Ecologies	391	(21)
Networked mutualism	412	(2)
The Awakening	414	(43)
Past, Present and Future Societies	415	(3)
Head, Heart and Soul	418	(8)
A Union of Dreams	426	(1)
On the Edge	427	(8)
Appendices
A: Copernicus Again!	435	(9)
B: Contrasts in Scientific and Cultural Visions	444	(8)
C: Oneness and the Perennial Philosophy	452	(5)
Endnotes	457	(6)
Bibliography	463	(8)
Index	471